The moves that held up, installable.
The installable layer beneath the principles. Each skill is a real artifact — a CLAUDE.md rule, slash command, SKILL.md, or prompt — copy it straight into your CLAUDE.md, or copy a ready prompt that tells your agent to install it.
A principle you have to remember is a principle you'll forget
The field handbook: turn each lesson into something installable — so the right thing happens without waiting on your memory
Verify Before You Call It Done
A forcing function so the agent proves a fix instead of claiming it.
Plan First, Then Code
A forcing function that makes the agent show its approach — and stop — before touching code.
Map the Blast Radius Before You Edit
A forcing function that makes the agent trace who depends on a symbol before it changes it.
If It's Deterministic, Don't Make It Guess
A forcing function that sends exact-answer work to a script instead of the model's reasoning.
Diagnose From the Symptom, Not the Guess
A prompt that forces a real diagnosis before a single line of fix.
Make It Argue Against Its Own Plan
A prompt that pressure-tests an approach before you commit a single line to it.
Hand Off to Your Next Session
A slash command that turns a session into a note the next one can pick up cold.
A Review That Doesn't Rubber-Stamp
A reusable Skill that reviews a change for real problems instead of approving it by reflex.
Run to the gate, then stop — not step-by-step
A prompt that lets the agent run on its own but stop at the few places worth stopping — so you can let go without losing control.
A CLAUDE.md skeleton — turn a description into operating law
A minimal frame to paste into CLAUDE.md that tells the agent what to default to, when to stop and ask, and where the danger is.
The weekly review prompt — five minutes that turn experience into skill
Three questions a week to know whether you're getting better or just getting used to mediocre.
Split the work into focused slices, each with clean context
A prompt that makes the agent break a big task into a few independent, checkable pieces — instead of cramming it all into one blind run.
Is this even worth an agent — ask before you open the chat
A pre-flight prompt that makes the agent sanity-check whether the task is worth handing over, instead of plowing into work a one-liner could do.
Probe with a small task before you trust it in a new domain
A prompt that makes the agent do one small slice and show how it thinks — before you hand over the whole task in a field it hasn't proven itself in.
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