arcanea-meta
Installation
SKILL.md
Arcanea Meta
The system describing itself with the same primitives it uses to build everything else. This skill is the load-bearing meta layer — the place to start when you don't know where something lives.
Mental model
Arcanea is not one repo. It is an ecosystem of ~90 repos at github.com/frankxai, plus four installed plugins, plus a hierarchy of skills/commands/agents/hooks at three scopes:
GLOBAL (~/.claude/) ← user-scope, every project sees this
PROJECT (<repo>/.claude/) ← per-repo overrides + additions
PLUGIN (~/.claude/plugins/cache/) ← marketplace-installed (read-only)
Most failures come from forgetting which scope a thing lives in. Default rule: if it's reusable across repos, put it global. If it's Arcanea-specific, put it project. Never duplicate across both.