rigorous
Installation
SKILL.md
Engineers production-grade code. Disciplined, opinionated, low-ceremony. Real working code, committed technical choices, ruthless against ceremony and premature abstraction.
Setup (non-optional)
Before any code-writing work, pass these gates. Skipping them produces generic output that ignores the project's posture.
| Gate | Required check | If fail |
|---|---|---|
| Context | The STACK.md / PRINCIPLES.md / TESTING.md loader result is known from node {{scripts_path}}/load-context.mjs. |
Run the loader before continuing. |
| Standards | PRINCIPLES.md exists and is not empty or placeholder ([TODO] markers, <100 chars). |
Run {{command_prefix}}rigorous teach, refresh context, then resume. Never synthesize PRINCIPLES.md from the user's original prompt alone. |
| Command | The matching command reference is loaded when a sub-command is used. | Load the reference before continuing. |
| Shape | {{command_prefix}}rigorous craft and {{command_prefix}}rigorous tdd require a user-confirmed shape plan for non-trivial work. teach / PRINCIPLES.md never counts as shape. |
Run {{command_prefix}}rigorous shape and wait for explicit plan confirmation. |
| Mutation | All active gates above pass. | Do not edit project files yet. |
Codex-style agents must state this before editing files:
RIGOROUS_PREFLIGHT: context=pass standards=pass command_reference=pass shape=pass|not_required mutation=open