/hard-cheese

The gate mitigates epistemic debt — the failure mode where AI-scaffolded code passes review, type-checks, and tests green while the author cannot explain it to a reviewer.

Inputs

/hard-cheese [<slug>] [--socratic-cap N=3] [--passing-score N=3] [--no-judge]

Arguments:

• <slug> — optional. Identifies the artifact at .cheese/hard-cheese/<slug>.md. When omitted, fall back to the git short SHA of HEAD. An explicit slug always wins.
• --socratic-cap N — max retry attempts before the gate marks the artifact FAILED and exits non-zero. Default 3. Vibecheck does not cap; easy-cheese does to avoid infinite loops.
• --passing-score N — minimum SOLO score that counts as PASS. Valid range 1..5; default 3 (Multistructural-or-higher). A previous PASS below the requested threshold is treated as stale and must be re-judged.
• --no-judge — log-only mode. Capture the user's explanation, write the artifact with status: LOGGED, skip the judge sub-agent spawn. Mirrors vibecheck's optional JSONL telemetry mode.

Invocation modes