lets-workflow

🌱 LETS Workflow

A development workflow plugin for Claude Code

Stop babysitting your AI. Start shipping with it.

Claude Code is powerful, but without structure it drifts - forgets context between sessions, silently changes approach when something fails, reviews its own code with no outside perspective, and loses track of what was decided and why.

LETS fix this. You get a team of 15 specialized AI agents, a structured development workflow, and a PR review system that posts inline comments directly to GitHub - all from the terminal. Every session has a task. Every commit links to it. Context survives across sessions and conversation compaction.

Why LETS?

You don't just chat with AI. You run a process — /lets:* commands and 15 expert agents cover the whole development cycle, every change is reviewed by the right specialists, and every decision is made deliberately, with you in the loop.

• A complete workflow, not a chat box. One loop from start to ship — restore context and pick a task, plan the work, build it, review it, open a PR, close the task. The plugin keeps Claude on the rails the whole way; nothing falls through the cracks.
• Plan before you build. Pulse and clean up the backlog, design the architecture with real codebase exploration and expert review, then execute it - you approve the plan once, and nothing turns into code without /lets:execute. Choices are made on purpose, not improvised.
• Every change reviewed by the right experts. 15 specialized agents - the relevant ones select themselves based on what changed - security for auth code, database for migrations, architect for structure. Findings come tiered by severity, so you act on what matters. Plus an actor agent — point it at a senior iOS dev's profile, a UX designer's, anyone — and get their take.
• You decide what cannot be undone. Merging a PR, force-pushing, deleting, posting outside the repo, touching another project, releasing - these ask you first, unless your own words just asked for that action. Local, reversible work (a commit, a task note, a cost panel) runs and is reported in one line, and the command you typed is the approval for what it names. Pick the level in .lets/.env: strict (every step asks, as before), standard (the default) or minimal. The AI never silently switches approach and never writes code without an approved plan.
• Context that survives. Tasks, decisions, and discovery notes live in beads and outlast conversation compaction and new sessions - pick up exactly where you left off.
• Built for teams. Shared task database via Dolt, team runs that implement multiple tasks in parallel (each in its own worktree and its own visible session, gates pressed by you), and worktrees for hands-on parallel sessions.
• GitHub-native PR review. Agents analyze the PR, you discuss findings, they post inline comments to the exact lines, follow up on fixes, approve or request changes - without leaving the terminal.
• Built on the latest Claude Code features. Ultrathink for deep analysis, interactive UI for decisions, native plan mode for execution.

LETS statusline and /lets:review command in action

🚀 Quick Start

LETS is two pieces: a small lets CLI on your $PATH, and the plugin inside Claude Code. Install both, then initialize your project.

1. Install the CLI

macOS / Linux:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/restarter/lets-workflow/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

You also need beads (bd) on $PATH — LETS uses it for task tracking. You don't have to learn beads: the plugin drives bd entirely for you, so just get it installed. Its install guide has all the options; the quick one-liner:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/steveyegge/beads/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Manual download, Windows, source builds, troubleshooting → docs/installation.md.

2. Install the plugin

In Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add restarter/lets-workflow
/plugin install lets

Install scope: Claude Code will ask where to install — all three options work:

• "Install for all collaborators on this repository" (project scope) — recommended for shared repos; the choice lands in .claude/settings.json, so teammates inherit lets without re-installing.
• "Install for you, in this repo only" (local scope) — fine for a solo or throwaway project; not committed.
• "Install for yourself everywhere" (user scope) — one install for all your projects. After installing, /lets:init in any project offers lets init --user: global workflow rules land in ~/.claude/rules/lets-rules.md and your personal defaults (language, launcher) in ~/.lets/.env — every project gets LETS without per-project setup. Project rules override global on conflict. Details, precedence, and the opt-out limitation: docs/installation.md.

Stay current (do this once): in /plugin → Marketplaces → lets-workflow, Enable auto-update — the plugin then tracks every release on its own. Staying current then collapses to a single self-driving loop: run /lets:update, do the one thing it says, re-run until it prints ✓ Everything on vX.Y.Z — each run advances one step (binary → plugin → reload → done), the binary step offers to run the installer in-session, and rules never sync to a plugin that's still behind.

(Or install from a local clone — git clone https://github.com/restarter/lets-workflow, then /plugin marketplace add ./lets-workflow and /plugin install lets — handy for hacking on the plugin: edit the clone, then /reload-plugins to pick up your changes.)

3. Initialize your project

cd your-project
claude

Then, inside the Claude Code session:

/lets:init

/lets:init creates .lets/ (config + statusline) and runs bd init if beads is installed. From there, start each work session with /lets:start — the full loop is in Using LETS below.

📖 Commands

→ Full docs: docs/commands.md

Session & Task

Planning & Execution

Sessions & Agents

→ Full docs: docs/messaging.md

Review & Analysis

Init & Update

🤖 Expert Agents

→ Full docs: docs/agents.md

LETS ships 15 specialized agents. You don't have to pick them by hand — the commands that use agents (/lets:review, /lets:opinion, /lets:ask, /lets:plan, /lets:backlog, /lets:research, /lets:team) look at what you're doing and bring in only the ones that fit. When you want one specific colleague, /lets:ask <expert> <question> goes straight to them.