/ratchet
Enforces a measured complexity budget on coding work. Reaches for the standard library, native platform features and code that already exists in the repository before writing anything new, and treats every added dependency, file and line as a cost that has to be justified. A
$ npx -y skills add 0xwilliamortiz/ratchet --skill ratchet --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/ratchet
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Enforces a measured complexity budget on coding work. Reaches for the standard library, native platform features and code that already exists in the repository before writing anything new, and treats every added dependency, file and line as a cost that has to be justified. A
Your agent reads the rules. This checks whether it followed them. A ratchet turns one way. Complexity in your codebase goes down or stays flat, unless someone deliberately turns it the other way and writes down why.
Repo: 0xwilliamortiz/ratchet
Other skills on ratchet.
- /ratchet-ledger
Reports what the ratchet actually measured in this repository: the session ledger at .ratchet/ledger.jsonl, the accepted complexity mark, and every `ratchet:` shortcut comment left in the code with its ceiling and its upgrade trigger. Use when the user says "ratchet ledger",
Open skill - /ratchet-review
Reviews a diff or a whole repository for over-engineering only, and returns a delete list rather than prose. Finds reinvented standard library calls, dependencies the platform already covers, abstractions with one implementation, wrappers that only forward, configuration nothing
Open skill