Claude Skills by arbiterForge

Optional, opt-in STRIDE threat pass for a sensitive feature — invoked deliberately via /threat-model, never forced on ordinary changes. Walks the change's attack surface and security boundaries (governed by <project-root>/.codearbiter/security-controls.md), surfaces threats and unmitigated gaps, and MAY dispatch security-reviewer or auth-crypto-reviewer. Not a routine gate; it can hard-STOP only on a genuinely critical unmitigated threat it surfaces.

The authoring gate for new skills. Routed to when the user invokes /new-skill "<gap>". Five gated phases — gap evidence, scope, authoring, self-review against the v2 house style, routing integration. A new skill is not written until an existing one is proven not to cover the gap, and not shipped until it carries gated phases, hard rules, and a routing entry. Every authored skill matches the v2 format (frontmatter name+description, # name, Pre-flight, Phase N · gate, Hard rules).

The implementation engine. Routed to by /sprint (full plan, autonomous) and by executing-plans (scoped batch, checkpoint-gated). One fresh subagent per task — test-first via tdd — followed by spec-compliance review, quality review, and fresh-run verification. No single context accumulates drift, and nothing is accepted on a subagent's word.

The test-first gate. Routed to by /feature (after the spec is approved), /fix, and /refactor before any implementation code is written. Six gated phases — obligation scan, red, green, obligation verify, coverage, lint. No feature code exists before Phase 1 clears; nothing reaches commit-gate until all six are green.

The deep, rarely-convened whole-codebase audit lane. Routed to when the user invokes /ca-tribunal. Seven gated phases — cost/model, map, roster dispatch, triage, report, approval+filing, telemetry. Costs on the order of millions of tokens; proceeds only after the user acknowledges the estimate; never a required gate; nothing filed or sent without explicit authorization.

OPTIONAL per-task isolation for autonomous parallel work. Routed to only on explicit opt-in by subagent-driven-development or dispatching-parallel-agents, so parallel units mutate files without colliding. Stands up one worktree per unit, works it in isolation, then integrates each unit back onto the caller's working branch for the caller's single commit-gate + finishing-a-development-branch exit. Never on the default path; it does not bypass a gate or finish per unit.

The spec-to-plan bridge. Routed to by /feature once the brainstormed spec is approved, and by /sprint before execution. Decomposes the spec into 2–5 minute tasks, each carrying its exact file path(s) and a concrete verification step that maps to a tdd obligation. Writes the plan to .codearbiter/plans/<slug>.md, ordered with dependencies flagged and an MVP slice identifiable. Nothing executes until every task has a path and a verification and the task set covers every acceptance criterion.

Vet a new or changed third-party dependency for license, provenance, and supply-chain risk before any install runs.

Report the health of Architecture Decision Records — aged, unchallenged, supersession candidates, unresolved CONFIRM-NN. Read-only.

Author a numbered, dated, user-attributed Architecture Decision Record under .codearbiter/decisions/.

Assemble the governance record for a range — commits, overrides, ADRs, sprint auto-decisions, open questions, checkpoint findings — into one dated audit packet. Read-only.

Lightweight Q&A about the project — answer from context and return, no routing, no state change.

Periodic multi-reviewer sweep of the whole codebase — surfaces a triaged checkpoint report.

Sanctioned lane for non-behavioral work — docs-only edits, dependency bumps, reverts. Type-scaled gates; no TDD demanded of prose.

Finish an already-merged branch — classify the leftover artifacts, return to a fast-forwarded default checkout, and delete the merged local branch. Every discard confirmed per item; containment proven, never assumed.

Show the codeArbiter command catalog — the public command list and what each routes to.

Run the full commit gate — the only sanctioned path to a git commit.

Stop everything and surface a rule conflict — persona vs. docs vs. code. Present both sides and the conflict-hierarchy level; the user resolves. No silent reconciliation.

Optional manual drift audit — report stale provenance-tracked docs, then per stale doc offer re-scout, re-baseline, or defer. Not the daily loop; commit-gate auto-heal owns routine maintenance.

Brownfield back-fill — scout an existing codebase and populate .codearbiter/, then lock it initialized.

Investigate-then-decide root-cause analysis for a defect whose cause is unknown. No code changes — exits to /ca-fix, /ca-adr, or a no-action close.

Greenfield decomposition interview — a layered interview that populates .codearbiter/ and locks it initialized.

Verify the active host install, package, command ownership, enforcement, wrapper self-test, and active-dispatch coverage gap. Read-only.

Start a feature: brainstorm a spec, get it approved, then drive it test-first through the pipeline. The one entry to implementation.

Fix a confirmed bug: a failing regression test first, then a minimal fix, then the rest of the tdd gates.

Opt this repo into codeArbiter — scaffold the root-level .codearbiter/ state store.

Read-only 3-metric governance glance — override rate, small-lane rate, sprint low-confidence ratio — each with a trend arrow vs. the prior 20-commit window.

Author a new codeArbiter skill: prove the gap is real, get the spec approved, then write it.

Sanctioned, logged bypass of a gate or hard rule — one audit line, then proceed.

Open a pull request the only sanctioned way — clear every BLOCK-level review finding, then stage the PR. Never a direct write to the default branch.

Zero-onboarding, read-only dry-run of the reviewer fleet against the current uncommitted diff. Predicts reviewers, runs the state-free secret scan, writes nothing.

Trim transcript clutter to extend session lifetime — analyze, prune a copy, or toggle the after-each-turn service. Dry-run by default; gains land at resume/compaction, not the current turn.

SMARTS arbitration — reconcile architectural artifacts against the scaffold and prior decisions; every variance resolved by an explicit, user-attributed choice.

Restructure code with behavioral parity proven through unmodified pre-existing tests, then refactor. No behavior change.

Cut a release the only sanctioned way — SemVer bump from the commit log, a CHANGELOG section, an annotated tag. Takes the declared target's name as its only argument, or --dry-run to preview one with no write. The only path to a version tag.

Review a diff with the reviewer fleet, funneled to one triaged verdict. Targets the current working diff, a path, or an inbound GitHub PR.

Exploratory spike on a throwaway branch — answer a named question with disposable code. Never merges; exits to a findings note or /ca-feature.

Autonomous sprint — one interactive spec gate, then plan-to-PR execution with every auto-decision SMARTS-scored and logged. Hard gates remain true stops.

Daily repo hygiene — review the day's repo state, then perform the cleanups under per-action confirmation. Fast-forward only, never destructive without a yes.

Show the project's current state at a glance — stage, open tasks, open questions, overrides since the last checkpoint, current branch. Read-only.

The sanctioned task-board mutator — add a queued task, start one (flips to in-progress and stamps the date, minting a dotted ID on pick-up), or mark an in-progress task done. The only blessed write to open-tasks.md.

Opt-in lightweight STRIDE pass for a sensitive feature before implementation. Not a routine gate — invoke it when a change warrants security thought.

Deep, rarely-convened whole-codebase audit — eleven specialist lenses, a resumable on-disk audit log, findings filed as GitHub issues on approval. Expensive; estimates cost and STOPs before running. Never a required gate.

Watch a PR's CI to completion — diagnose on red, notify and offer the merge on green. Never auto-merges.

Run Claude Code INSIDE a ca-sandbox box (`--with-claude`). Routed to when the user wants an agent loop running against an isolated, ephemeral sandbox rather than the host. Authenticates via an env-injected CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN with no host bind of ~/.claude; the image pins the CLI and disables the autoupdater; HOME is backed by a named volume so the .claude state persists across restart. Five gated phases — posture, image, token, run, teardown. The hard default is offline or Anthropic-doma...

The lifecycle gate for a local Codespace-equivalent sandbox. Routed to when the user invokes /ca-sandbox:sandbox to pull an untrusted repo into an ephemeral, host-FS-isolated Docker container, or any of the interaction commands (/ca-sandbox:sandbox-shell, /ca-sandbox:sandbox-exec, /ca-sandbox:sandbox-cp, /ca-sandbox:sandbox-destroy) against an existing box. Five gated phases — pre-flight, clone+build, isolated run, interact, teardown. The load-bearing invariant is structural: untrusted code i...

Author a new codeArbiter skill: prove the gap is real, get the spec approved, then write it.

The Socratic spec-refinement front of /feature, and the planning front of /sprint. Routed to BEFORE any code — it takes a one-line idea and drives it to an approved, concrete spec with testable acceptance criteria. Five gated phases — frame, shape, refine, write, review-and-approve. No implementation and no handoff to tdd until the spec is on disk and approved; each acceptance criterion becomes one tdd Phase 1 obligation.

The only path to a commit. Routed to when the user invokes /commit or otherwise instructs codeArbiter to persist staged changes. Nine gated phases — permission, branch, classification, verification (test/lint/secrets), behavioral proof, diff review, selective stage, message, commit. Nothing reaches version control without clearing every gate; "it looks good" is not authorization.

Optional manual drift audit — report stale provenance-tracked docs (via _provenancelib drift detection across .codearbiter/.provenance/), then per stale doc offer re-scout / re-baseline / defer. Not the daily loop; commit-gate auto-heal owns routine maintenance.