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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Make workflow steps enforceable by giving each one a file it must produce. Use when an agent skips steps in a long directive, playbook, or slash command despite them being marked MANDATORY/ABSOLUTE/BLOCKING; when writing or reviewing a multi-step workflow that must not be short-circuited; when a review, design, or…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply the "Choose Boring Technology" principle when evaluating tech stack decisions, adding new tools or frameworks, proposing a rewrite, or debating between a familiar vs. cutting-edge approach. Use this skill whenever someone is considering adopting a new library, language, database, or service—even if they frame it…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex needs its repo

Run before pushing any branch that adds shipped files, hooks, or platform-specific code. Prevents the CI-whiplash pattern — multiple red pushes that could have been caught locally.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Conway's Law when discussing system architecture, team structure, org design, microservices, API ownership, or any situation where communication patterns and software design intersect. Trigger on phrases like "who owns this service?", "our teams keep stepping on each other", "how should we split up this…

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Skill Claude Code

Top-level dispatcher that classifies every incoming request into scout / coder / architect tiers BEFORE any tool call. Routes Read, Grep, Glob, file-search, symbol-lookup, "where is X", and "list files matching Y" to haiku-scout. Routes known-location Edit, Write, multi-file refactor, test authoring, and bounded code…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use BEFORE doing direct file search, bulk reads, data import/export, or routine coding edits in the main conversation. Routes work to the cheapest model that can do it correctly — haiku for search/IO, sonnet for coding, opus for orchestration/architecture. Triggers when about to call Read on >2 files, Grep/Glob across…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Cunningham's Law when someone wants to elicit information, feedback, or corrections from others—especially online. Trigger on phrases like "how do I get people to respond?", "nobody is answering my question", "I want to get feedback on this", or when someone is drafting a question for Stack Overflow, a forum, a…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Doerr's Law when discussing product team culture, motivation, team engagement, hiring philosophy, outsourcing decisions, or the difference between intrinsically motivated vs. extrinsically motivated teams. Trigger on phrases like "how do we get our team more engaged?", "should we outsource this?", "our team…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Fitts's Law whenever someone is designing or critiquing a user interface—button placement, click targets, menu design, touch UI, navigation, or any interactive element. Trigger on phrases like "where should I put this button?", "users are missing this control", "the click target feels small", "how should I…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Gall's Law when someone proposes building a complex system from scratch, planning a big-bang rewrite, designing a greenfield platform, or debating whether to "just rebuild it the right way." Trigger on phrases like "let's rewrite this properly", "we need to start fresh", "the architecture is too complex to fix"…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Goodhart's Law when designing metrics, OKRs, KPIs, performance reviews, engineering productivity measures, or any system where people are evaluated by a number. Trigger on phrases like "how should we measure this?", "our metrics aren't capturing what we want", "people are gaming the metric", "velocity doesn't…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Greenspun's Tenth Rule when reviewing complex codebases that have grown their own configuration systems, rule engines, templating languages, scripting layers, or workflow DSLs. Trigger on phrases like "we built our own config language", "we have a custom rules engine", "this template system has gotten really…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Hofstadter's Law when estimating project timelines, discussing why software projects are always late, helping someone plan a sprint or roadmap, or coaching on estimation techniques. Trigger on phrases like "how long will this take?", "why does everything take longer than we plan?", "our estimates are always…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Hyrum's Law when discussing API design, backward compatibility, deprecation, versioning, or any situation where a system has enough users that its observable behavior—not just its documented interface—has become depended upon. Trigger on phrases like "can we change this behavior?", "is this a breaking change?"…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Kerckhoffs's Principle when reviewing security designs, authentication systems, encryption implementations, or any situation where someone relies on keeping an algorithm, method, or system architecture secret for security. Trigger on phrases like "security through obscurity", "we keep the algorithm secret"…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Kernighan's Law when reviewing code, discussing code complexity, advising on coding style, or coaching developers on how to write maintainable code. Trigger on phrases like "this clever solution", "I wrote a really elegant piece of code", "look at this one-liner", "why is this code hard to debug?", or any…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Knuth's Optimization Principle when someone wants to optimize code before establishing it's a bottleneck, is using complex data structures for perceived performance, is making code harder to read "for speed", or is debating whether to optimize something that hasn't been profiled. Trigger on phrases like "I…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Lady Lovelace's Objection when discussing the creative or intellectual limits of software and AI, questions about whether machines can "truly" create or think, the nature of AI-generated art and writing, or debates about what computers can and cannot do autonomously. Trigger on phrases like "can AI really be…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply the Law of Leaky Abstractions when someone is frustrated that a library, framework, or ORM isn't hiding complexity the way it promised, when debugging requires diving into implementation details that "shouldn't matter", or when deciding how much abstraction to build on top of something. Trigger on phrases like…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Linus's Law when discussing code review practices, open source contributions, bug finding strategies, security auditing, or the value of having more people look at code. Trigger on phrases like "should we do code reviews?", "we don't have time for reviews", "how do we find bugs faster?", "open source is more…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Moore's Law when discussing hardware capacity planning, compute cost trends, the feasibility of computationally intensive features, why software that was impractical five years ago is now possible, or the historical arc of what computers can do. Trigger on phrases like "this requires too much compute", "hardware…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Norvig's Law when evaluating growth claims about technology adoption, market size projections, "exponential growth" narratives, or headlines claiming a technology will "double" its reach when it's already dominant. Trigger on phrases like "X is growing exponentially", "this will double in the next year", "the…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply Parkinson's Law when discussing project planning, sprint duration, deadline setting, scope creep, or why work seems to expand no matter how much time is allocated. Trigger on phrases like "we always use up all the time we're given", "if we give the team a month they'll take a month", "why does scope keep…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Apply the Peter Principle when discussing promotions, career ladders, hiring for leadership roles, why managers sometimes struggle, or how to build healthy engineering organizations. Trigger on phrases like "we promoted our best engineer to manager", "they were great as an IC but struggling as a lead", "how should we…