/kernel
Use to change the claims catalog (add, amend, retire a claim, cut a catalog pass), to manage editions (add, retire, recompose), to measure an edition's conformance honestly (plant, prove, audit, lower a row), to clear accumulated decisions with the owner, or to check that the
$ npx -y skills add teklabsdigital/x2-method --skill kernel --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
/kernel
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Use to change the claims catalog (add, amend, retire a claim, cut a catalog pass), to manage editions (add, retire, recompose), to measure an edition's conformance honestly (plant, prove, audit, lower a row), to clear accumulated decisions with the owner, or to check that the
AI builds faster than anyone, with no skin in the game and no memory of yesterday. How do you govern that? With X2, decisions stay in files people own, unbreakable rules fail the build, code is disposable, and every human turn is counted. Done is an audited report, never the agent's word.
Repo: teklabsdigital/x2-method
Other skills on x2.
- /adopt
Use when an existing project that was not built with X2 must be migrated to run under it, with documentation sprawl to dissolve, stories to harvest at epic altitude, an as-built design to baseline, and existing enforcement to map and arm. Runs the migration on a dedicated branch
Open skill - /decompose
Use after the repo is seeded to run the D-000 five-lens decomposition, record persistent schema decisions, define slice one, and start the deltas file. Also use when a stays-ahead decision (decomposition, schema) must be revisited. Do not use for per-slice implementation
Open skill - /derive-tests
Use only after the lock (gate 2b) is on record for the slice portion, to derive the fidelity ledger and acceptance scenarios from the locked prototype. Triggers when a portion is newly locked or re-locked. Never use before the lock, and never use it to hand-author
Open skill - /design
Use when D-000 exists and the whole-product prototype does not, to run Claude Design in its own context and produce the prototype and design system. Also use when a later slice exposes a design gap that needs a spine revision. Requests gate 2a (prototype approved at Claude
Open skill - /extract
Use when an X2 project completes (or reaches a major milestone) to run the extraction loop, the quality feedback that folds the project's evidence back into the method. Reads the turn ledger and decision records, computes the metric and the per-decision churn table, distils
Open skill - /help
Use when someone asks what an X2 skill does, which skill to run next, how the gates work, or where an artifact lives. A quick in-flight reference; for the method's rationale, read X2.md at the method repo root.
Open skill