RC

Orchestrate AI coding agents from idea to shipped code — one structured pipeline, shipped as a plugin.

RC is an agent plugin — skills, commands, agents, and hooks — that drives the full lifecycle of AI-assisted development: optional ideation → PRD → TechSpec → tasks → execution → review → remediation. It runs inside your agent host (Claude Code, OpenCode, and other tools); every artifact is plain markdown under a project's .rc/. No binary, no daemon, no lock-in.

✨ Highlights

Idea to code in a structured pipeline. Each phase produces plain-markdown artifacts that feed the next: idea (optional) → PRD → TechSpec → tasks → execution → review. Start from an idea for full research and debate, or jump straight to a PRD if the scope is clear.
Runs in your host. Claude Code, OpenCode, and other agent tools load the same skills, commands, agents, and hooks — auto-discovered from the plugin.
Cost-tiered specialists. Bundled leaf-worker agents route work to the right model: recon on a cheap/fast tier (rc-explorer, rc-librarian on haiku), hard reasoning/review on the strong tier (rc-oracle on opus), bounded implementation mid-tier (rc-fixer on sonnet).
Codebase-aware. Tasks aren't generic prompts — RC explores your codebase to discover patterns and grounds each task in real project context.
Memory & instincts between runs. Curated per-project memory, cross-task workflow memory, and an observe→distill instincts loop keep context fresh without manual bookkeeping.
Multi-perspective review. rc-review-round (multi-lens) and rc-review-workflow (automated review→fix loop) find and remediate issues.
Markdown everywhere. PRDs, specs, tasks, reviews, and ADRs are human-readable, diffable markdown.
Resilience hooks. Guardrails (git/commit/gate/db), formatting, observability, and a repair-guidance hook that helps the agent recover from a failed edit or delegation.
Local-first. All state lives in .rc/ — nothing leaves your machine.

📦 Installation

RC installs through your host's plugin/marketplace mechanism; skills, commands, agents, and hooks are auto-discovered.

Claude Code:

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/plugin marketplace add rodolfochicone/rc-project
/plugin install rc@rc-project

Commands are namespaced /rc:rc-*; update with /plugin marketplace update. The marketplace add clones the private repo, so GitHub read access is required (gh auth login or GH_TOKEN).

OpenCode and other hosts: clone this repo and symlink its asset directories — skills into the cross-tool ~/.agents/skills path and the OpenCode-specific agents/commands/plugin (under opencode/) into ~/.config/opencode/; update with git pull. Step-by-step in docs/claude-code-plugin.md.

After installing or updating, validate the environment with the release checklist in docs/smoke-test.md.

Recommended companion: Serena MCP. When Serena is connected, the code-touching skills (analyze, create-tasks/techspec/prd, execute-task, fix-analysis, fix-reviews, review-round, code-review) prefer its LSP-backed symbolic tools for more accurate, token-efficient navigation and editing, falling back to Grep/Glob when unavailable. Install it with uv per Serena's docs.

🔄 How It Works

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PRD → TechSpec → tasks → execution → review → remediation → ship
   /rc-create-*         rc-tasks-workflow /        /rc-git
                        rc-execute-task

Each phase is a skill. Artifacts land under .rc/tasks/<slug>/ (_prd.md, _techspec.md, task files, adrs/, reviews-NNN/) and are consumed by the next phase. See skills/rc/SKILL.md for the full reference and skills/rc/references/workflow-guide.md for a step-by-step walkthrough.

🧩 Skill catalog

Skills run inside your AI agent — no context switching. Every skill is namespaced under the plugin: the host auto-routes to a skill by its description, or you can invoke one explicitly as /rc:<skill> (e.g. /rc:rc-analyze). The catalog below is grouped by job; "Use when" tells the agent (and you) exactly when each one fires.

Meta — start here

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc`	Explains RC itself — pipeline, artifacts, agents, hooks, config.	You want to know what exists or how the workflow fits together (not to run a step).
`rc-enrichment-prompt`	Rewrites a rough request into a structured, execution-ready prompt (Objective / Context / Requirements / Acceptance criteria), resolves its open questions, and optionally saves it to `.rc/prompts/`.	A request is vague/underspecified, or you ask to "enhance/enrich this prompt" before work starts.
`rc-council`	Multi-advisor debate (3–5 archetypes) with opening statements, tensions, and synthesis.	High-impact architecture/tech/product trade-offs; stress-testing a PRD or spec. Not for yes/no lookups.

Pipeline — plan

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-create-prd`	Idea → Product Requirements Document (interactive brainstorming + codebase/web research + ADRs).	Starting a new feature/product or capturing requirements. Not for tech design or code.
`rc-create-techspec`	PRD → Technical Specification via architecture exploration and clarification.	A PRD exists and needs an implementation design.
`rc-create-tasks`	PRD + TechSpec → independently implementable task files, enriched from the codebase.	Breaking a spec into executable, context-grounded tasks.

Pipeline — execute

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-execute-task`	Implements one task end-to-end: code, validate, track, commit.	A prompt includes a concrete task file to implement. Not for generic coding without a task file.
`rc-tasks-workflow`	Runs a slug's task files via the Claude Code `Workflow` tool — one subagent per task, in dependency order, with test evidence.	Executing all of a slug's tasks, Claude-orchestrated (Claude Code only).
`rc-fix-analysis`	Applies the "Implementation plan" from a prior `rc-analyze` report, with tests + verification.	An analysis exists and you want its plan implemented.

Pipeline — autonomous loop (opt-in)

Autonomy is earned, not default: it pays off for migrations and large mechanical build-outs, and only behind a green harness. Normal feature work stays in /rc-pipe.

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-roadmap`	Authors/reads `.rc/ROADMAP.md` — the human-owned list of epic phases a loop walks one at a time.	Before a loop runs, or when one exhausts and needs the next batch. The loop resolves how, never whether.
`rc-loop`	Creator-loop driver: per phase, plan → execute → verify → record lessons → close, without per-step human gates (Claude Code only).	Advancing a roadmap unattended, after the four readiness questions all pass. Not for a single task or a fixed task set.
`rc-lessons`	Grounded-lesson machine (candidate → confirmed → quarantine), backed by `scripts/lessons.mjs`.	Loading confirmed lessons into planning and recording new ones at verify — what stops a loop from repeating its own bugs.

Analysis & understanding

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-analyze`	Deep, evidence-based read-only analysis → thorough report ending in an actionable plan.	Diagnose a bug, trace a flow, assess impact/feasibility. Not to review a diff for defects.
`rc-codemap`	Builds/refreshes a per-directory `codemap.md`; only re-maps changed dirs.	Read first in exploration-heavy tasks to cut token cost.

Review & remediation

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-code-review`	Rigorous, standards-driven review of the change set → categorized, severity-ranked report in `.rc/`.	On-demand quality gate of a diff/branch before merge.
`rc-review-round`	Multi-lens review → structured issue files compatible with `rc-fix-reviews`.	Creating a manual review round (no external provider).
`rc-review-workflow`	Automated review→fix→re-review loop via the `Workflow` tool until clean or a round cap.	Hands-off multi-lens review-and-remediate on a slug (Claude Code only).
`rc-simplify-review`	Single lens — over-engineering only → ranked delete-list with net lines/deps removable.	Opt-in pre-PR bloat pass, or auditing legacy code.
`rc-deslop`	Edits out AI slop in the branch diff — unearned comments, defensive try/catch, `any` casts, deep nesting.	Cheap sweep before any commit or PR.
`rc-fix-reviews`	Triage, fix, verify, and resolve batched review issues under `reviews-NNN/`.	Remediating an existing review round.

Quality, testing & discipline

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-final-verify`	Enforces fresh verification evidence before any "done"/commit/PR claim.	About to report success, hand off, or commit.
`rc-gan`	Adversarial generator↔evaluator loop that exercises the running artifact to drive subjective quality up to a target.	Refining UI/UX, copy, or CLI ergonomics that a pass/fail gate can't capture.
`rc-testing-anti-patterns`	Prevents testing mock behavior, test-only production methods, and blind mocking.	Writing/changing tests or adding mocks.
`rc-systematic-debugging`	Structured root-cause process before proposing fixes.	Any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior.
`rc-no-workarounds`	Gate that rejects hacks/symptom patches (type assertions, lint suppressions, error swallowing…).	Debugging, fixing, or reviewing — to force root-cause fixes.
`rc-qa-execution`	Full-project QA as a real user: discover contract, run build/lint/test/startup, exercise flows E2E, fix regressions, re-gate.	Validating a branch/release/migration/refactor.

Docs

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-readme`	Rewrites `README.md` from the real codebase (evidence-based), or guides writing/improving one by hand with templates matched to audience/project type.	Generating/refreshing a README, syncing docs after features land, or drafting/reviewing a README manually.
`rc-openapi`	Discovers HTTP endpoints/schemas from source → keeps `openapi.yaml` in sync.	After API changes, or to bootstrap a spec.
`rc-postman`	Discovers endpoints/contracts → Postman Collection (v2.1.0) + environments.	After routes/request schemas change.

Ship & git

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-git`	Ships work as a branch + PR (confirming each outward step and the PR target), and handles rebases / conflict resolution while preserving a clean history.	Shipping local work as a branch + PR, or rebasing feature branches / resolving conflicts. Not for in-place commits or force-push.

Memory & context

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-memory`	The single durable, cross-session memory: curated project facts and distilled instincts, as markdown under `.rc/memory/`.	Consult before working; record durable facts/learnings after.
`rc-workflow-memory`	Task-scoped memory across a slug's task executions under `.rc/tasks/{name}/memory/`.	A task prompt provides workflow-memory paths to read/update/promote.
`rc-context-budget`	Audits what fills the context window (agents, skills, rules, MCP schemas) and recommends cuts.	Sessions compact too early, or before adding more tooling.

Config, security, integrations & scaffolding

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-board`	PM-mode board driver via the official MCP (Linear and Jira/Atlassian): shape ideas, create/refine issues into PRD/TechSpec/child issues, execute children with test evidence; GMUD on Jira.	Any board work through its official MCP, with confirmation on writes.

Skill authoring & self-improvement

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-skill-best-practices`	Authors, refactors, and debugs skills — doctrine (invocation, info hierarchy, leading words, failure modes) + spec mechanics, glossary, checklist.	Creating a skill, pruning a bloated one, or diagnosing refs the agent ignores.
`rc-agents-md`	Authors lean AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md — the rent test, the scope ladder, and the Write/Trim/Gate branches.	Writing an instruction file, trimming a bloated one, or gating a new rule.
`rc-hookify`	Authors a new fail-open RC hook from a plain-language rule: writes the script, wires `hooks.json`, documents + verifies it.	Turning an every-time guardrail/formatter/observer into a hook.

Frontend & design

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-interface-design`	Distinctive, production-grade interfaces with craft — dashboards, admin panels, apps, tools, web pages, landing pages — that avoid generic AI aesthetics.	Building or reviewing any UI/frontend that must feel intentionally designed.
`rc-a11y`	Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA): semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard nav, focus management, contrast, screen readers.	Building or reviewing UI that must be accessible.

Content & media

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-seo`	Technical, on-page, and programmatic SEO — audit, content optimization, pages at scale.	Auditing or optimizing a site/content for search ranking. Not for paid media or off-page/backlinks.
`rc-video`	Video work — local `ffmpeg` processing, content/script planning, optional VideoDB.	Cutting/transcoding/subtitling media, or planning video content (Reels/Shorts/YouTube).

Library & framework references

Deep, opinionated guides for a specific library/runtime — auto-fire on the matching tech.

Skill	Use when
`rc-python`	Idiomatic typed Python 3.12+ — PEP 695 generics, asyncio/TaskGroup, pytest, ruff, uv packaging.
`rc-fullstack-axum-svelte`	Umbrella: routes Axum + SQLx/Postgres + SvelteKit work; Bun for the frontend.
`rc-rust`	Rust the language — ownership, thiserror/anyhow, Tokio, traits, testing, perf, clippy, rustdoc.
`rc-axum`	Axum 0.8+ Rust APIs — routing, State, middleware, errors, WebSockets, security, tests, clippy.
`rc-sqlx`	SQLx 0.8+ + PostgreSQL — pool, binds, transactions, migrations, macros, DB tests.
`rc-sveltekit`	SvelteKit 2 + Svelte 5 — SSR load, form actions, hooks, CSRF/CSP, adapter-node, Bun.

Backend, data & operations

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-sql`	Relational DB — query optimization (EXPLAIN, indexes, N+1), schema design; read-only by default.	Writing/reviewing queries or modeling schema. Not for repo-specific migrations or NoSQL.
`rc-observability`	Logs, metrics, traces, and incident response — instrumentation, SLOs, postmortems.	Instrumenting a service, defining alerts, or running root-cause analysis.
`rc-resilience`	Event-driven resilience — idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQ, poison messages, timeouts, circuit breaker.	Designing/reviewing message producers/consumers (EventBridge, SQS) or cross-service calls.

⌨️ Commands

Commands are explicit entry points (/rc:<command>) that chain skills for a whole phase. Skills auto-fire from context; commands are what you type to drive a stage on purpose.

Command	What it does
`/rc-plan`	Planning pipeline — PRD → TechSpec → task breakdown, in sequence.
`/rc-exec`	Executes a feature's implemented tasks via `rc-execute-task`.
`/rc-review`	Review-and-fix loop — one simplify pass, then up to 3 rounds of review-round + fix-reviews.
`/rc-pipe`	The full pipeline end to end — plan → execute → review → docs → PR.
`/rc-loop`	Autonomous loop — readiness gate → roadmap → walk the phases unattended (migrations, large build-outs).
`/rc-gan`	Adversarial quality loop for subjective quality (UI/UX, CLI, copy) against a target score.
`/rc-git`	Ships current work as a branch + PR (`rc-git`), then distills session learnings (`rc-memory`).
`/rc-docs`	Generates/refreshes project docs — README, Postman, OpenAPI.
`/rc-commit-msg`	Generates a Conventional Commit message from the staged diff (does not commit).
`/rc-plano`	Lightweight Explore→Plan flow — investigate first, deliver a plan for approval, no code yet.

🤖 Bundled specialist agents

Leaf-worker subagents (under agents/, discovered as rc:<name>) you delegate to, each on a cost-appropriate model tier. They carry no Task/Agent tool, so they cannot spawn further subagents (the recursion cap). See skills/rc/references/delegation-contract.md.

Agent	Lane	Model	Use when
`rc-explorer`	Read-only codebase recon — returns a compressed map, not file dumps.	haiku	Start of any non-trivial task, to discover what exists.
`rc-librarian`	External docs / web / library research.	haiku	The task hinges on current, version-specific library or API behavior.
`rc-fixer`	Bounded implementation of well-scoped, mechanical work.	sonnet	Objective, files, and constraints are known — execution, not discovery.
`rc-oracle`	Strategic advisor & read-only reviewer for high-stakes calls.	opus	Major architectural decisions or hard debugging with an unclear root cause.

Council archetypes (dispatched by the rc-council skill for multi-perspective debate, not called directly): architect-advisor (systems & long-horizon), pragmatic-engineer (execution reality), security-advocate (assume-breach), product-mind (user value & opportunity cost), devils-advocate (informed skeptic), the-thinker (reframing).

🧠 Memory & instincts

Project memory — .rc/memory/ (INDEX.md + one file per durable fact), curated by rc-memory.
Workflow memory — .rc/tasks/<slug>/memory/ (shared MEMORY.md + per-task files), maintained by rc-workflow-memory so each agent inherits context from previous tasks.
Instincts — the observe hook appends tool observations to .rc/memory/observations.jsonl; rc-memory distills recurring patterns into confidence-scored learnings.

🪝 Hooks

Harness-only guardrails (no model-context cost), wired in hooks/hooks.json:

git-guard — blocks destructive/history-rewriting git commands.
commit-guard — gates commits behind verification.
db-guard — enforces read-only database access by default (blocks write/DDL SQL without approval).
gateguard — forces investigation before risky edits.
observe — feeds the instincts loop. repair-guidance — helps the agent recover from a failed edit/delegation. notify — Stop/Notification signals.
memory-load — SessionStart warm-start: surfaces a bounded summary of .rc/memory/ (facts + learnings) and nudges distillation when observations pile up. Silent outside RC projects.

🖥️ Supported hosts

RC ships for Claude Code, OpenCode, and other agent tools. Skills, commands, agents, and hooks are auto-discovered when the plugin is installed; OpenCode-specific variants live under opencode/. Output styles under output-styles/ are versioned here but applied per-host (Claude Code loads them from ~/.claude/output-styles/).

🤝 Contributing

There is no build step — components are markdown, JSON, and small Node/Bash scripts. Validate a change with node scripts/plugin-smoke.mjs (frontmatter + hook wiring) and, for task files, node scripts/validate-tasks.mjs --slug <slug>. See AGENTS.md for conventions and CONTRIBUTING.md.

📄 License

MIT — see LICENSE.

RC

Orchestrate AI coding agents from idea to shipped code — one structured pipeline, shipped as a plugin.

✨ Highlights

Idea to code in a structured pipeline. Each phase produces plain-markdown artifacts that feed the next: idea (optional) → PRD → TechSpec → tasks → execution → review. Start from an idea for full research and debate, or jump straight to a PRD if the scope is clear.
Runs in your host. Claude Code, OpenCode, and other agent tools load the same skills, commands, agents, and hooks — auto-discovered from the plugin.
Cost-tiered specialists. Bundled leaf-worker agents route work to the right model: recon on a cheap/fast tier (rc-explorer, rc-librarian on haiku), hard reasoning/review on the strong tier (rc-oracle on opus), bounded implementation mid-tier (rc-fixer on sonnet).
Codebase-aware. Tasks aren't generic prompts — RC explores your codebase to discover patterns and grounds each task in real project context.
Memory & instincts between runs. Curated per-project memory, cross-task workflow memory, and an observe→distill instincts loop keep context fresh without manual bookkeeping.
Multi-perspective review. rc-review-round (multi-lens) and rc-review-workflow (automated review→fix loop) find and remediate issues.
Markdown everywhere. PRDs, specs, tasks, reviews, and ADRs are human-readable, diffable markdown.
Resilience hooks. Guardrails (git/commit/gate/db), formatting, observability, and a repair-guidance hook that helps the agent recover from a failed edit or delegation.
Local-first. All state lives in .rc/ — nothing leaves your machine.

📦 Installation

RC installs through your host's plugin/marketplace mechanism; skills, commands, agents, and hooks are auto-discovered.

Claude Code:

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/plugin marketplace add rodolfochicone/rc-project
/plugin install rc@rc-project

Commands are namespaced /rc:rc-*; update with /plugin marketplace update. The marketplace add clones the private repo, so GitHub read access is required (gh auth login or GH_TOKEN).

After installing or updating, validate the environment with the release checklist in docs/smoke-test.md.

Recommended companion: Serena MCP. When Serena is connected, the code-touching skills (analyze, create-tasks/techspec/prd, execute-task, fix-analysis, fix-reviews, review-round, code-review) prefer its LSP-backed symbolic tools for more accurate, token-efficient navigation and editing, falling back to Grep/Glob when unavailable. Install it with uv per Serena's docs.

🔄 How It Works

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PRD → TechSpec → tasks → execution → review → remediation → ship
   /rc-create-*         rc-tasks-workflow /        /rc-git
                        rc-execute-task

🧩 Skill catalog

Meta — start here

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc`	Explains RC itself — pipeline, artifacts, agents, hooks, config.	You want to know what exists or how the workflow fits together (not to run a step).
`rc-enrichment-prompt`	Rewrites a rough request into a structured, execution-ready prompt (Objective / Context / Requirements / Acceptance criteria), resolves its open questions, and optionally saves it to `.rc/prompts/`.	A request is vague/underspecified, or you ask to "enhance/enrich this prompt" before work starts.
`rc-council`	Multi-advisor debate (3–5 archetypes) with opening statements, tensions, and synthesis.	High-impact architecture/tech/product trade-offs; stress-testing a PRD or spec. Not for yes/no lookups.

Pipeline — plan

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-create-prd`	Idea → Product Requirements Document (interactive brainstorming + codebase/web research + ADRs).	Starting a new feature/product or capturing requirements. Not for tech design or code.
`rc-create-techspec`	PRD → Technical Specification via architecture exploration and clarification.	A PRD exists and needs an implementation design.
`rc-create-tasks`	PRD + TechSpec → independently implementable task files, enriched from the codebase.	Breaking a spec into executable, context-grounded tasks.

Pipeline — execute

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-execute-task`	Implements one task end-to-end: code, validate, track, commit.	A prompt includes a concrete task file to implement. Not for generic coding without a task file.
`rc-tasks-workflow`	Runs a slug's task files via the Claude Code `Workflow` tool — one subagent per task, in dependency order, with test evidence.	Executing all of a slug's tasks, Claude-orchestrated (Claude Code only).
`rc-fix-analysis`	Applies the "Implementation plan" from a prior `rc-analyze` report, with tests + verification.	An analysis exists and you want its plan implemented.

Pipeline — autonomous loop (opt-in)

Autonomy is earned, not default: it pays off for migrations and large mechanical build-outs, and only behind a green harness. Normal feature work stays in /rc-pipe.

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-roadmap`	Authors/reads `.rc/ROADMAP.md` — the human-owned list of epic phases a loop walks one at a time.	Before a loop runs, or when one exhausts and needs the next batch. The loop resolves how, never whether.
`rc-loop`	Creator-loop driver: per phase, plan → execute → verify → record lessons → close, without per-step human gates (Claude Code only).	Advancing a roadmap unattended, after the four readiness questions all pass. Not for a single task or a fixed task set.
`rc-lessons`	Grounded-lesson machine (candidate → confirmed → quarantine), backed by `scripts/lessons.mjs`.	Loading confirmed lessons into planning and recording new ones at verify — what stops a loop from repeating its own bugs.

Analysis & understanding

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-analyze`	Deep, evidence-based read-only analysis → thorough report ending in an actionable plan.	Diagnose a bug, trace a flow, assess impact/feasibility. Not to review a diff for defects.
`rc-codemap`	Builds/refreshes a per-directory `codemap.md`; only re-maps changed dirs.	Read first in exploration-heavy tasks to cut token cost.

Review & remediation

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-code-review`	Rigorous, standards-driven review of the change set → categorized, severity-ranked report in `.rc/`.	On-demand quality gate of a diff/branch before merge.
`rc-review-round`	Multi-lens review → structured issue files compatible with `rc-fix-reviews`.	Creating a manual review round (no external provider).
`rc-review-workflow`	Automated review→fix→re-review loop via the `Workflow` tool until clean or a round cap.	Hands-off multi-lens review-and-remediate on a slug (Claude Code only).
`rc-simplify-review`	Single lens — over-engineering only → ranked delete-list with net lines/deps removable.	Opt-in pre-PR bloat pass, or auditing legacy code.
`rc-deslop`	Edits out AI slop in the branch diff — unearned comments, defensive try/catch, `any` casts, deep nesting.	Cheap sweep before any commit or PR.
`rc-fix-reviews`	Triage, fix, verify, and resolve batched review issues under `reviews-NNN/`.	Remediating an existing review round.

Quality, testing & discipline

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-final-verify`	Enforces fresh verification evidence before any "done"/commit/PR claim.	About to report success, hand off, or commit.
`rc-gan`	Adversarial generator↔evaluator loop that exercises the running artifact to drive subjective quality up to a target.	Refining UI/UX, copy, or CLI ergonomics that a pass/fail gate can't capture.
`rc-testing-anti-patterns`	Prevents testing mock behavior, test-only production methods, and blind mocking.	Writing/changing tests or adding mocks.
`rc-systematic-debugging`	Structured root-cause process before proposing fixes.	Any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior.
`rc-no-workarounds`	Gate that rejects hacks/symptom patches (type assertions, lint suppressions, error swallowing…).	Debugging, fixing, or reviewing — to force root-cause fixes.
`rc-qa-execution`	Full-project QA as a real user: discover contract, run build/lint/test/startup, exercise flows E2E, fix regressions, re-gate.	Validating a branch/release/migration/refactor.

Docs

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-readme`	Rewrites `README.md` from the real codebase (evidence-based), or guides writing/improving one by hand with templates matched to audience/project type.	Generating/refreshing a README, syncing docs after features land, or drafting/reviewing a README manually.
`rc-openapi`	Discovers HTTP endpoints/schemas from source → keeps `openapi.yaml` in sync.	After API changes, or to bootstrap a spec.
`rc-postman`	Discovers endpoints/contracts → Postman Collection (v2.1.0) + environments.	After routes/request schemas change.

Ship & git

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-git`	Ships work as a branch + PR (confirming each outward step and the PR target), and handles rebases / conflict resolution while preserving a clean history.	Shipping local work as a branch + PR, or rebasing feature branches / resolving conflicts. Not for in-place commits or force-push.

Memory & context

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-memory`	The single durable, cross-session memory: curated project facts and distilled instincts, as markdown under `.rc/memory/`.	Consult before working; record durable facts/learnings after.
`rc-workflow-memory`	Task-scoped memory across a slug's task executions under `.rc/tasks/{name}/memory/`.	A task prompt provides workflow-memory paths to read/update/promote.
`rc-context-budget`	Audits what fills the context window (agents, skills, rules, MCP schemas) and recommends cuts.	Sessions compact too early, or before adding more tooling.

Config, security, integrations & scaffolding

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-board`	PM-mode board driver via the official MCP (Linear and Jira/Atlassian): shape ideas, create/refine issues into PRD/TechSpec/child issues, execute children with test evidence; GMUD on Jira.	Any board work through its official MCP, with confirmation on writes.

Skill authoring & self-improvement

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-skill-best-practices`	Authors, refactors, and debugs skills — doctrine (invocation, info hierarchy, leading words, failure modes) + spec mechanics, glossary, checklist.	Creating a skill, pruning a bloated one, or diagnosing refs the agent ignores.
`rc-agents-md`	Authors lean AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md — the rent test, the scope ladder, and the Write/Trim/Gate branches.	Writing an instruction file, trimming a bloated one, or gating a new rule.
`rc-hookify`	Authors a new fail-open RC hook from a plain-language rule: writes the script, wires `hooks.json`, documents + verifies it.	Turning an every-time guardrail/formatter/observer into a hook.

Frontend & design

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-interface-design`	Distinctive, production-grade interfaces with craft — dashboards, admin panels, apps, tools, web pages, landing pages — that avoid generic AI aesthetics.	Building or reviewing any UI/frontend that must feel intentionally designed.
`rc-a11y`	Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA): semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard nav, focus management, contrast, screen readers.	Building or reviewing UI that must be accessible.

Content & media

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-seo`	Technical, on-page, and programmatic SEO — audit, content optimization, pages at scale.	Auditing or optimizing a site/content for search ranking. Not for paid media or off-page/backlinks.
`rc-video`	Video work — local `ffmpeg` processing, content/script planning, optional VideoDB.	Cutting/transcoding/subtitling media, or planning video content (Reels/Shorts/YouTube).

Library & framework references

Deep, opinionated guides for a specific library/runtime — auto-fire on the matching tech.

Skill	Use when
`rc-python`	Idiomatic typed Python 3.12+ — PEP 695 generics, asyncio/TaskGroup, pytest, ruff, uv packaging.
`rc-fullstack-axum-svelte`	Umbrella: routes Axum + SQLx/Postgres + SvelteKit work; Bun for the frontend.
`rc-rust`	Rust the language — ownership, thiserror/anyhow, Tokio, traits, testing, perf, clippy, rustdoc.
`rc-axum`	Axum 0.8+ Rust APIs — routing, State, middleware, errors, WebSockets, security, tests, clippy.
`rc-sqlx`	SQLx 0.8+ + PostgreSQL — pool, binds, transactions, migrations, macros, DB tests.
`rc-sveltekit`	SvelteKit 2 + Svelte 5 — SSR load, form actions, hooks, CSRF/CSP, adapter-node, Bun.

Backend, data & operations

Skill	Purpose	Use when
`rc-sql`	Relational DB — query optimization (EXPLAIN, indexes, N+1), schema design; read-only by default.	Writing/reviewing queries or modeling schema. Not for repo-specific migrations or NoSQL.
`rc-observability`	Logs, metrics, traces, and incident response — instrumentation, SLOs, postmortems.	Instrumenting a service, defining alerts, or running root-cause analysis.
`rc-resilience`	Event-driven resilience — idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQ, poison messages, timeouts, circuit breaker.	Designing/reviewing message producers/consumers (EventBridge, SQS) or cross-service calls.

⌨️ Commands

Commands are explicit entry points (/rc:<command>) that chain skills for a whole phase. Skills auto-fire from context; commands are what you type to drive a stage on purpose.

Command	What it does
`/rc-plan`	Planning pipeline — PRD → TechSpec → task breakdown, in sequence.
`/rc-exec`	Executes a feature's implemented tasks via `rc-execute-task`.
`/rc-review`	Review-and-fix loop — one simplify pass, then up to 3 rounds of review-round + fix-reviews.
`/rc-pipe`	The full pipeline end to end — plan → execute → review → docs → PR.
`/rc-loop`	Autonomous loop — readiness gate → roadmap → walk the phases unattended (migrations, large build-outs).
`/rc-gan`	Adversarial quality loop for subjective quality (UI/UX, CLI, copy) against a target score.
`/rc-git`	Ships current work as a branch + PR (`rc-git`), then distills session learnings (`rc-memory`).
`/rc-docs`	Generates/refreshes project docs — README, Postman, OpenAPI.
`/rc-commit-msg`	Generates a Conventional Commit message from the staged diff (does not commit).
`/rc-plano`	Lightweight Explore→Plan flow — investigate first, deliver a plan for approval, no code yet.

🤖 Bundled specialist agents

Agent	Lane	Model	Use when
`rc-explorer`	Read-only codebase recon — returns a compressed map, not file dumps.	haiku	Start of any non-trivial task, to discover what exists.
`rc-librarian`	External docs / web / library research.	haiku	The task hinges on current, version-specific library or API behavior.
`rc-fixer`	Bounded implementation of well-scoped, mechanical work.	sonnet	Objective, files, and constraints are known — execution, not discovery.
`rc-oracle`	Strategic advisor & read-only reviewer for high-stakes calls.	opus	Major architectural decisions or hard debugging with an unclear root cause.

🧠 Memory & instincts

Project memory — .rc/memory/ (INDEX.md + one file per durable fact), curated by rc-memory.
Workflow memory — .rc/tasks/<slug>/memory/ (shared MEMORY.md + per-task files), maintained by rc-workflow-memory so each agent inherits context from previous tasks.
Instincts — the observe hook appends tool observations to .rc/memory/observations.jsonl; rc-memory distills recurring patterns into confidence-scored learnings.

🪝 Hooks

Harness-only guardrails (no model-context cost), wired in hooks/hooks.json:

git-guard — blocks destructive/history-rewriting git commands.
commit-guard — gates commits behind verification.
db-guard — enforces read-only database access by default (blocks write/DDL SQL without approval).
gateguard — forces investigation before risky edits.
observe — feeds the instincts loop. repair-guidance — helps the agent recover from a failed edit/delegation. notify — Stop/Notification signals.
memory-load — SessionStart warm-start: surfaces a bounded summary of .rc/memory/ (facts + learnings) and nudges distillation when observations pile up. Silent outside RC projects.

🖥️ Supported hosts

🤝 Contributing

📄 License

MIT — see LICENSE.

rc-project

RC

✨ Highlights

📦 Installation

🔄 How It Works

🧩 Skill catalog

Meta — start here

Pipeline — plan

Pipeline — execute

Pipeline — autonomous loop (opt-in)

Analysis & understanding

Review & remediation

Quality, testing & discipline

Docs

Ship & git

Memory & context

Config, security, integrations & scaffolding

Skill authoring & self-improvement

Frontend & design

Content & media

Library & framework references

Backend, data & operations

⌨️ Commands

🤖 Bundled specialist agents

🧠 Memory & instincts

🪝 Hooks

🖥️ Supported hosts

🤝 Contributing

📄 License

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RC

✨ Highlights

📦 Installation

🔄 How It Works

🧩 Skill catalog

Meta — start here

Pipeline — plan

Pipeline — execute

Pipeline — autonomous loop (opt-in)

Analysis & understanding

Review & remediation

Quality, testing & discipline

Docs

Ship & git

Memory & context

Config, security, integrations & scaffolding

Skill authoring & self-improvement

Frontend & design

Content & media

Library & framework references

Backend, data & operations

⌨️ Commands

🤖 Bundled specialist agents

🧠 Memory & instincts

🪝 Hooks

🖥️ Supported hosts

🤝 Contributing

📄 License

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