three-pillars-plugin CLAUDE.md

three-pillars-plugin CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin. It costs 2,442 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for a Claude Code plugin built around the Three Pillars framework for structured software development. The framework keeps living documents for the product vision, architecture, and roadmap.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides setup and development using project documentation, test-driven development, Claude Code skills, and the plugin’s required files and conventions.
Why use it?
It gives coding work a shared record of why the project exists, how it is built, and what should happen next, while connecting development practices to those decisions.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/curtisthe/three-pillars-plugin/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin

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Grade A, and why

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CLAUDE.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

⚠️ This file is generated — do not edit directly

This CLAUDE.md is shipped from a private dev repo via release.sh. Direct edits to this file (or any other file in this repo's allowlist: skills/, agents/, .claude-plugin/, settings.json, statusline.sh, LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING.md, etc.) will be overwritten on the next release.

To contribute: open an issue or PR describing the change. The maintainer will apply it upstream and re-release. See CONTRIBUTING.md.


Three Pillars Framework

This machine uses the three-pillars skill framework for structured software development with Claude Code.

Project Docs

Every project should maintain four living docs in three-pillars-docs/:

  • vision.md — Problem, users, principles, non-goals, success signals. Source of truth for why the project exists. Read first by every other TDD skill — it is the filter for what work matters and the tie-breaker when technical options are equivalent. Created by /tp-setup as its first conversational step.
  • architecture.md — System architecture, key decisions, constraints. Source of truth for how the system is built.
  • product_roadmap.md — Current state, design inventory, implementation sequence. Source of truth for what to build next. Links to vision.md rather than duplicating the why.
  • known_issues.md — Open bugs and limitations by severity. Source of truth for what's broken.

Use /tp-setup first to establish the vision. Then /tp-docs-init to scaffold architecture, roadmap, and known-issues from codebase analysis. Use /tp-docs-update to maintain them after milestones.

Getting Started

Fresh project setup follows a deliberate order — why before how, how before tests:

  1. /tp-setup — Draws out the project's "why" into three-pillars-docs/vision.md (conversational). Vision only; no test-runner decisions here. Run first on any new project.
  2. /tp-docs-init — Scaffolds architecture.md, product_roadmap.md, and known_issues.md from codebase analysis. Uses vision.md as context.
  3. /tp-test-setup — Configures test infrastructure (test runner, layout, permissions, starter test). Runs after architecture so test-runner and layout choices are informed by the documented structure, not guessed at before.

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 lines

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three-pillars-plugin CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,442 tokens to every session, about $0.0122 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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