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radin
🐀 the agentic stack for those who have to save tokens
Plugin Signal72/100Solid
maintained100
capable48
documented100
adopted17
Install
$ npx -y skills add shortcuts/radin --agent claude-code
What's inside
Skill(9 skills)
/radin-doctorCheck that radin's own install under ~/.claude is complete and its companion tools are reachable. Use for /radin-doctor or any request to verify or diagnose the radin install./radin-executeWork through a project's whole backlog: prioritize every task, execute each via a sub-agent, commit after each. Use when the user wants the entire backlog processed ("work through my backlog"), not one named task. Delegates all implementation to sub-agents; clarifies ambiguity/radin-planWrite a step-by-step implementation plan for one backlog entry, without touching code. Scope is one task (a title/keyword), not the whole backlog. Use for /radin-plan, "plan this backlog entry", "write a plan for X before we execute it". radin-execute delegates here for any
README
A Claude Code plugin for a solo dev on a small subscription. One curl | bash
gives you:
- A backlog-driven workflow. Tasks live as files in your repo, so they survive the conversation. Plan them, execute them one commit at a time, review the result. Any run resumes where it stopped.
- A curated token-reduction stack, installed whole: rtk, caveman, ponytail, codebase-memory-mcp, headroom, thermo-nuclear, mattpocock-skills. radin delegates to them instead of reimplementing them. It never forks or vendors them.
Install
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shortcuts/radin/main/install.sh | bash
Needs curl, tar, bash, and the claude CLI. Two files are C -- the TUI and the
JSON surgery behind radin repair: install builds both with cc (Xcode
Command Line Tools on macOS, gcc on Linux) and skips each with a warning when
no compiler is there. Companion tools pull their
own stacks; one that fails is reported and skipped, and radin still installs.
rtk and headroom install through Homebrew, mise, or their own
installers -- the install asks which.
Install asks two questions: one about radin-execute's sub-agent models,
one naming the package manager for companion tools. Add -s -- --yes to take the defaults. Add -s -- --verbose to
trace every command, for an install that hangs or fails.
Update the whole stack — radin plus every companion — with radin update. The
answers come from ~/.claude/.radin/manifest.json, so nothing is re-asked.
Use it
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/radin-record | Turn a bug, idea, or aside raised mid-session into a backlog task |
/radin-plan | Write a step-by-step plan for one task, touching no code |
/radin-execute | Work the backlog: prioritize, implement, commit, one task per commit |
/radin-review | Two-axis pass over a scope — repo rubrics, plus the originating entry's spec; kept findings become tasks |
/radin-show | Print the backlog |
/radin-stats | Every companion tool's own savings report, side by side |
/radin-doctor | Verify the install, report unreachable companions |
/radin-uninstall | Remove what install.sh put in ~/.claude |
radin | Full-screen backlog browser for humans: bare radin on a terminal is the human entry point. No agent involved; ? lists keys. Off a terminal it prints the usage text and exits non-zero, so a skill or pipe never hangs in a full-screen app. radin help prints that text on purpose |
Typical loop: record → (plan) → execute → review, whose findings feed the next
execute. Each skill runs in your own conversation, so it can ask you
questions; only leaf work goes to sub-agents. /radin-execute confirms the
order before it starts, and every task's state is on disk, so interrupting it
costs nothing. Want your thread free? Dispatch it from claude agents or a
second claude session — the worktree-per-task answer keeps concurrent runs
off each other's checkout.
Where things live
One directory per repo: <repo-root>/.claude/.radin/ — the backlog index, one
markdown file per task, plans, reviews, and execution state. Commit it to
share the backlog with your team, or gitignore it to keep it private. radin
never touches your .gitignore.
Every tool goes through the radin CLI (radin backlog, radin state), so
nothing hand-edits those files. A task carries a category
(feat/fix/chore/refactor), an optional priority and depends_on, and
can sit under an epic whose DESCRIPTION.md every child inherits.
What it shops for
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| rtk | Wraps dev commands, cuts their output 60-90% |
| caveman | Terse agent prose, ~65% fewer tokens |
| ponytail | Makes the agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room |
| codebase-memory-mcp | Indexes the repo into a knowledge graph, so the agent asks instead of grepping |
| headroom | Whole-session context compression, complements rtk's per-command one |
| thermo-nuclear | Maintainability review skill |
| mattpocock-skills | Engineering skills; radin delegates interviewing and research here |
Two caveats: a graph answer is a pointer, never proof of absence — read the
file before editing. And after codebase-memory-mcp update, run
radin repair, because that update reruns a config write which
drops other tools' hooks. radin snapshots ~/.claude/settings.json and
~/.claude.json into ~/.claude/.radin/backups/ before that write and never
deletes a snapshot; codebase-memory-mcp uninstall undoes upstream's own side.
Full list in
docs/technical-constraints.md.
Hacking on radin itself? AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md.
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FAQ
radin is a Claude Code plugin with 9 hand-picked skills for development work, indexed on Flowy. Install it with the command on its page. It includes radin-doctor, radin-execute, radin-plan. Its skills do not fire on their own yet. Request auto-invocation to have Flowy route them as you prompt. Free and open source.
- What is radin?
- 🐀 the agentic stack for those who have to save tokens
- How do I install radin?
- Run these in Claude Code: npx -y skills add shortcuts/radin --agent claude-code. Then prompt normally.
- Does radin auto-invoke its skills?
- Not yet. It is indexed on Flowy as a plain plugin. Request auto-invocation on its page and Flowy will route its skills for you as you prompt.
- Is radin free?
- Yes. Flowy is free and open source, with nothing gated. You can read every skill in full before you install.
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