feat: cross-agent distribution machine + §1 ambiguity check

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

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+{
+  "$schema": "https://anthropic.com/claude-code/marketplace.schema.json",
+  "name": "andrej-karpathy-skills",
+  "description": "Karpathy-inspired coding-agent guidelines, the skillify / check-resolvable meta-skills, and the /scalable decision test.",
+  "owner": {
+    "name": "Clawnify",
+    "url": "https://github.com/clawnify"
+  },
+  "plugins": [
+    {
+      "name": "andrej-karpathy-skills",
+      "description": "skillify + check-resolvable skills and the /scalable command. Pair with the npx installer for the always-on guidelines.",
+      "source": "./",
+      "category": "productivity"
+    }
+  ]
+}

.claude-plugin/plugin.json

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+{
+  "name": "andrej-karpathy-skills",
+  "description": "Karpathy-inspired coding-agent skills: skillify (capture repeated work), check-resolvable (keep skills DRY + MECE), and the /scalable decision test.",
+  "author": {
+    "name": "Clawnify",
+    "url": "https://github.com/clawnify"
+  }
+}

.clinerules/karpathy-skills.md

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+# Coding-Agent Guidelines (Karpathy-inspired)
+
+<!-- AUTOGENERATED from CLAUDE.md by scripts/build-rules.js. Edit CLAUDE.md, then run `npm run build`. Do not edit this file directly. -->
+
+Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Merge with project-specific instructions as needed.
+
+**Tradeoff:** These guidelines bias toward caution over speed. For trivial tasks, use judgment.
+
+## 1. Think Before Coding
+
+**Don't assume. Don't hide confusion. Surface tradeoffs.**
+
+Before implementing:
+- State your assumptions explicitly. If uncertain, ask.
+- If multiple interpretations exist, present them - don't pick silently.
+- If a simpler approach exists, say so. Push back when warranted.
+- If something is unclear, stop. Name what's confusing. Ask.
+
+**Ambiguity check — confirm before you build.** Before committing to anything non-trivial, prove you read it the same way the user meant it: give **three concrete examples of what the result will do — including at least one edge case** — and confirm they're right. Worked examples expose a misread that abstract restating hides; an example that forks into "well, it depends" is a question to resolve now, not a guess to make. Cheap to confirm up front, expensive to discover after you've built the wrong thing.
+
+## 2. Simplicity First
+
+**Minimum code that solves the problem. Nothing speculative.**
+
+- No features beyond what was asked.
+- No abstractions for single-use code.
+- No "flexibility" or "configurability" that wasn't requested.
+- No error handling for impossible scenarios.
+- If you write 200 lines and it could be 50, rewrite it.
+
+**Never simplify away:** validation at trust boundaries, error handling that prevents data loss, security, accessibility, a runnable check for non-trivial logic, or anything explicitly requested. "Minimum code" means fewer lines, not fewer safety guards — lazy code without its check is unfinished.
+
+Ask yourself: "Would a senior engineer say this is overcomplicated?" If yes, simplify.
+
+## 3. Surgical Changes
+
+**Touch only what you must. Clean up only your own mess.**
+
+When editing existing code:
+- Don't "improve" adjacent code, comments, or formatting.
+- Don't refactor things that aren't broken.
+- Match existing style, even if you'd do it differently.
+- If you notice unrelated dead code, mention it - don't delete it.
+
+When your changes create orphans:
+- Remove imports/variables/functions that YOUR changes made unused.
+- Don't remove pre-existing dead code unless asked.
+
+The test: Every changed line should trace directly to the user's request.
+
+## 4. Goal-Driven Execution
+
+**Define success criteria. Loop until verified.**
+
+Transform tasks into verifiable goals:
+- "Add validation" → "Write tests for invalid inputs, then make them pass"
+- "Fix the bug" → "Write a test that reproduces it, then make it pass"
+- "Refactor X" → "Ensure tests pass before and after"
+
+For multi-step tasks, state a brief plan:
+```
+1. [Step] → verify: [check]
+2. [Step] → verify: [check]
+3. [Step] → verify: [check]
+```
+
+Strong success criteria let you loop independently. Weak criteria ("make it work") require constant clarification.
+
+## 5. Recalibrate Time Estimates
+
+**"Weeks of work" in pre-AI terms is often 1–2 hours now. Don't cut corners on something you can actually finish this session.**
+
+When you catch yourself thinking:
+- "A proper version would take too long, so I'll [hack / stub / defer]"
+- "We don't have time to [validate / secure / migrate], so [skip]"
+- "For now let's just [shortcut]; we can do it right later"
+
+Stop. That estimate is anchored to a pre-AI baseline. What used to be a two-week project for a senior engineer frequently fits in a single session with an AI agent. The "no time" argument is usually wrong, and "later" rarely arrives.
+
+Within the scope the user actually asked for (see §2), the question to ask for **every** decision is: *whatever is scalable, long term, and cannot be done in a more efficient way.* Concretely, pick the option that's best on:
+- **Scalability** — does this hold at 100× the load / data / users?
+- **Long term** — six months from now, is this a foundation or a wound?
+- **Security** — would you ship this if your name were on the incident report?
+
+Speed is rarely the right axis to optimize on. If the proper version genuinely would take days, say so explicitly and let the user decide — don't silently downgrade to the shortcut.
+
+When a shortcut genuinely is the right call, don't leave it silent: mark it inline with its ceiling and the upgrade trigger — `// shortcut: global lock; per-account locks if throughput matters`. A named ceiling can be found and revisited; an unmarked one silently rots into permanent debt.
+
+## 6. Skillify & Resolve
+
+**Turn repeated work into skills. Keep one DRY, MECE resolver.**
+
+The compounding move: when you do something non-trivial worth repeating, don't leave it as a one-off — capture it as a skill (a named, parameterized procedure), then register it where the agent looks for capabilities.
+
+When you finish something worth reusing:
+- **Skillify it.** Write the procedure as a skill, not a transcript. Generalize: inputs become parameters, not hardcoded values.
+- **Register it in the resolver** — the index your agent reads (`AGENTS.md`, a skills list, a tool registry): `name` + one-line "use when" + a link to the entry point. A skill no one can find doesn't exist.
+
+Before adding, check the resolver against two tests:
+- **DRY** — does a skill already cover this? Extend it with a parameter; don't add a near-duplicate.
+- **MECE** — *mutually exclusive* (no two skills overlap) and *collectively exhaustive* (every skill is reachable from the index; no silent gaps).
+
+Ten skills that do the same thing is worse than one skill with a parameter. The resolver is only as valuable as it is clean — prune and merge as it grows.
+
+## 7. Ground in Reality, Don't Recall
+
+**Training data is stale and lossy. Verify against the real source before you act.**
+
+Your priors are a starting hypothesis, not the answer. The most expensive mistakes come from confidently building on a remembered API, an assumed schema, or how a system "usually" works.
+
+- **Research outside your training data — and match the source to the question.** Look things up rather than recall them; your cutoff has passed, assume details have moved.
+  - For **facts** — library APIs, versions, config schemas, current behavior, prices — prefer primary sources: official docs, the actual source code, specs, release notes, vendor pages. Random blogs, forum answers, and SEO content are often outdated or wrong; when sources conflict, trust the primary one. Don't present recalled specifics as fact.
+  - For **design and infra decisions** — an architecture, a tradeoff, how to build something — study prior art: how established services and competitors solved the same problem is real signal. Here engineering blogs, postmortems, conference talks, and case studies are legitimate and valuable. Weigh how others did it in the wild, then decide for *this* system.
+- **Read this codebase, don't infer it.** Before editing, read the actual code, types, and tests the change touches, and trace the real flow end to end. How it works *here* beats how it works *in general*.
+- **Map before you move.** For non-trivial work, get the overview first: where this lives, what calls it and what it calls, the data and infrastructure boundaries it crosses. A change that's locally correct but wrong about the architecture is a new bug.
+- **When you can't verify, say so.** Flag it as an assumption and state how you'd confirm — never launder a guess into a claim.
+
+---
+
+**These guidelines are working if:** fewer unnecessary changes in diffs, fewer rewrites due to overcomplication, fewer "we'll fix it later" shortcuts, clarifying questions come before implementation rather than after mistakes, repeated work compounds into reusable skills in a clean resolver, and claims are grounded in verified sources and the real codebase rather than recalled from memory.

.cursor/rules/karpathy-skills.mdc

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+---
+description: Karpathy-inspired coding-agent behavior — think before coding, simplicity, surgical changes, goal-driven execution, recalibrate time, skillify & resolve, ground in reality.
+globs:
+alwaysApply: true
+---
+
+# Coding-Agent Guidelines (Karpathy-inspired)
+
+<!-- AUTOGENERATED from CLAUDE.md by scripts/build-rules.js. Edit CLAUDE.md, then run `npm run build`. Do not edit this file directly. -->
+
+Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Merge with project-specific instructions as needed.
+
+**Tradeoff:** These guidelines bias toward caution over speed. For trivial tasks, use judgment.
+
+## 1. Think Before Coding
+
+**Don't assume. Don't hide confusion. Surface tradeoffs.**
+
+Before implementing:
+- State your assumptions explicitly. If uncertain, ask.
+- If multiple interpretations exist, present them - don't pick silently.
+- If a simpler approach exists, say so. Push back when warranted.
+- If something is unclear, stop. Name what's confusing. Ask.
+
+**Ambiguity check — confirm before you build.** Before committing to anything non-trivial, prove you read it the same way the user meant it: give **three concrete examples of what the result will do — including at least one edge case** — and confirm they're right. Worked examples expose a misread that abstract restating hides; an example that forks into "well, it depends" is a question to resolve now, not a guess to make. Cheap to confirm up front, expensive to discover after you've built the wrong thing.
+
+## 2. Simplicity First
+
+**Minimum code that solves the problem. Nothing speculative.**
+
+- No features beyond what was asked.
+- No abstractions for single-use code.
+- No "flexibility" or "configurability" that wasn't requested.
+- No error handling for impossible scenarios.
+- If you write 200 lines and it could be 50, rewrite it.
+
+**Never simplify away:** validation at trust boundaries, error handling that prevents data loss, security, accessibility, a runnable check for non-trivial logic, or anything explicitly requested. "Minimum code" means fewer lines, not fewer safety guards — lazy code without its check is unfinished.
+
+Ask yourself: "Would a senior engineer say this is overcomplicated?" If yes, simplify.
+
+## 3. Surgical Changes
+
+**Touch only what you must. Clean up only your own mess.**
+
+When editing existing code:
+- Don't "improve" adjacent code, comments, or formatting.
+- Don't refactor things that aren't broken.
+- Match existing style, even if you'd do it differently.
+- If you notice unrelated dead code, mention it - don't delete it.
+
+When your changes create orphans:
+- Remove imports/variables/functions that YOUR changes made unused.
+- Don't remove pre-existing dead code unless asked.
+
+The test: Every changed line should trace directly to the user's request.
+
+## 4. Goal-Driven Execution
+
+**Define success criteria. Loop until verified.**
+
+Transform tasks into verifiable goals:
+- "Add validation" → "Write tests for invalid inputs, then make them pass"
+- "Fix the bug" → "Write a test that reproduces it, then make it pass"
+- "Refactor X" → "Ensure tests pass before and after"
+
+For multi-step tasks, state a brief plan:
+```
+1. [Step] → verify: [check]
+2. [Step] → verify: [check]
+3. [Step] → verify: [check]
+```
+
+Strong success criteria let you loop independently. Weak criteria ("make it work") require constant clarification.
+
+## 5. Recalibrate Time Estimates
+
+**"Weeks of work" in pre-AI terms is often 1–2 hours now. Don't cut corners on something you can actually finish this session.**
+
+When you catch yourself thinking:
+- "A proper version would take too long, so I'll [hack / stub / defer]"
+- "We don't have time to [validate / secure / migrate], so [skip]"
+- "For now let's just [shortcut]; we can do it right later"
+
+Stop. That estimate is anchored to a pre-AI baseline. What used to be a two-week project for a senior engineer frequently fits in a single session with an AI agent. The "no time" argument is usually wrong, and "later" rarely arrives.
+
+Within the scope the user actually asked for (see §2), the question to ask for **every** decision is: *whatever is scalable, long term, and cannot be done in a more efficient way.* Concretely, pick the option that's best on:
+- **Scalability** — does this hold at 100× the load / data / users?
+- **Long term** — six months from now, is this a foundation or a wound?
+- **Security** — would you ship this if your name were on the incident report?
+
+Speed is rarely the right axis to optimize on. If the proper version genuinely would take days, say so explicitly and let the user decide — don't silently downgrade to the shortcut.
+
+When a shortcut genuinely is the right call, don't leave it silent: mark it inline with its ceiling and the upgrade trigger — `// shortcut: global lock; per-account locks if throughput matters`. A named ceiling can be found and revisited; an unmarked one silently rots into permanent debt.
+
+## 6. Skillify & Resolve
+
+**Turn repeated work into skills. Keep one DRY, MECE resolver.**
+
+The compounding move: when you do something non-trivial worth repeating, don't leave it as a one-off — capture it as a skill (a named, parameterized procedure), then register it where the agent looks for capabilities.
+
+When you finish something worth reusing:
+- **Skillify it.** Write the procedure as a skill, not a transcript. Generalize: inputs become parameters, not hardcoded values.
+- **Register it in the resolver** — the index your agent reads (`AGENTS.md`, a skills list, a tool registry): `name` + one-line "use when" + a link to the entry point. A skill no one can find doesn't exist.
+
+Before adding, check the resolver against two tests:
+- **DRY** — does a skill already cover this? Extend it with a parameter; don't add a near-duplicate.
+- **MECE** — *mutually exclusive* (no two skills overlap) and *collectively exhaustive* (every skill is reachable from the index; no silent gaps).
+
+Ten skills that do the same thing is worse than one skill with a parameter. The resolver is only as valuable as it is clean — prune and merge as it grows.
+
+## 7. Ground in Reality, Don't Recall
+
+**Training data is stale and lossy. Verify against the real source before you act.**
+
+Your priors are a starting hypothesis, not the answer. The most expensive mistakes come from confidently building on a remembered API, an assumed schema, or how a system "usually" works.
+
+- **Research outside your training data — and match the source to the question.** Look things up rather than recall them; your cutoff has passed, assume details have moved.
+  - For **facts** — library APIs, versions, config schemas, current behavior, prices — prefer primary sources: official docs, the actual source code, specs, release notes, vendor pages. Random blogs, forum answers, and SEO content are often outdated or wrong; when sources conflict, trust the primary one. Don't present recalled specifics as fact.
+  - For **design and infra decisions** — an architecture, a tradeoff, how to build something — study prior art: how established services and competitors solved the same problem is real signal. Here engineering blogs, postmortems, conference talks, and case studies are legitimate and valuable. Weigh how others did it in the wild, then decide for *this* system.
+- **Read this codebase, don't infer it.** Before editing, read the actual code, types, and tests the change touches, and trace the real flow end to end. How it works *here* beats how it works *in general*.
+- **Map before you move.** For non-trivial work, get the overview first: where this lives, what calls it and what it calls, the data and infrastructure boundaries it crosses. A change that's locally correct but wrong about the architecture is a new bug.
+- **When you can't verify, say so.** Flag it as an assumption and state how you'd confirm — never launder a guess into a claim.
+
+---
+
+**These guidelines are working if:** fewer unnecessary changes in diffs, fewer rewrites due to overcomplication, fewer "we'll fix it later" shortcuts, clarifying questions come before implementation rather than after mistakes, repeated work compounds into reusable skills in a clean resolver, and claims are grounded in verified sources and the real codebase rather than recalled from memory.