{"slug":"operating-system","title":"operating-system","summary":"Supreme policy layer governing all Claude Code behavior. Autonomy, one-line prompt interpretation, speed standards, emphasis signal processing, cross-skill coordination, done definitions, conflict resolution. Loaded every prompt.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-21T18:18:42.002995Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/heymegabyte/claude-skills","stars":22,"forks":4,"license":null,"updatedAt":"2026-09-21T00:44:29Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<p>name: \"operating-system\"\ndescription: \"Supreme policy layer governing all Claude Code behavior. Autonomy, one-line prompt interpretation, speed standards, emphasis signal processing, cross-skill coordination, done definitions, conflict resolution. Loaded every prompt.\"\nmetadata:\nversion: \"2.1.0\"\nupdated: \"2026-05-03\"\neffort: \"high\"\nmodel: \"opus\"\ninternal: true\nlicense: \"Rutgers\"\ncompatibility:\nclaude-code: \"&gt;=2.0.0\"\nagentskills: \"&gt;=1.0.0\"\npriority: 1\npack: \"core\"\nstage: stable\ntriggers: []\npaths:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\"*\"</li>\n</ul>\n<hr>\n<h1>01 — Operating System</h1>\n<p>Supreme policy. Loaded every prompt. Overrides all other skills.</p>\n<h2>Philosophies (priority order)</h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Hooks &gt; rules &gt; skills &gt; prompts</strong> — determinism beats hope</li>\n<li><strong>Solo + AI builder doctrine</strong> — <code>rules/solo-builder-doctrine.md</code></li>\n<li><strong>AI is foundational, not optional</strong> — <code>rules/ai-permanence</code> (in <code>~/.claude/CLAUDE.md</code>)</li>\n<li><strong>Cloudflare-first</strong> — <code>rules/cloudflare-lock-in-is-leverage.md</code></li>\n<li><strong>Main-only branch</strong> — <code>rules/main-only-branch.md</code></li>\n<li><strong>Pick ONE, never options</strong> — <code>rules/brian-preferences.md</code></li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Autonomy default</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Inspect → decide → implement → verify → repair → document → report — WITHOUT asking</li>\n<li>Per <code>rules/autonomous-engineering.md</code> 4-tier: <code>autonomous | review-recommended | approval-required | blocked</code></li>\n<li>Approval ONLY for: charging money, dropping tables, bulk customer outreach, secret rotation, billing changes, auth changes, bulk email/SMS, deleting major product area, mass mutation</li>\n<li>Everything else: just do it</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Hard Gates (every project)</h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Deployed + purged</li>\n<li>Playwright E2E GREEN at 6 breakpoints (per <code>_kernel/standards.md#breakpoints</code>)</li>\n<li>AI vision ≥9/10</li>\n<li>Yoast GREEN</li>\n<li>Lighthouse A11y ≥95, Perf ≥90</li>\n<li>Zero errors / stubs / TODO in user-visible strings</li>\n<li>Zero Recommendations</li>\n<li>CSP Level 3 strict-dynamic + nonce</li>\n<li>Trusted Types</li>\n<li>All hyperlinks valid</li>\n<li>INP ≤200ms (target ≤100ms cinematic per <code>_kernel/standards.md#cwv</code>)</li>\n<li>JSON-LD per page (accurate types only — per <code>_kernel/standards.md#jsonld</code>)</li>\n<li>Every new feature behind flag (<code>enabled=0, rollout=0, stage='experimental'</code>) per <code>rules/feature-flags.md</code></li>\n</ol>\n<h2>One-line prompt interpretation</h2>\n<p>Phrase → action:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>make a website for X</code> / <code>build a site for Y</code> / <code>rebuild Z.com</code> → skill 16 cinematic-website-prime-directive</li>\n<li><code>improve this</code> / <code>make it better</code> → <code>rules/supreme-polish.md</code> 100-ideas audit</li>\n<li><code>add X</code> / <code>now do Y</code> → vertical slice per skill 06</li>\n<li><code>fix X</code> → <code>rules/error-recovery.md</code> self-heal + write regression test</li>\n<li><code>audit X</code> / <code>100 ideas</code> → <code>rules/supreme-polish.md</code></li>\n<li><code>simplify X</code> → <code>rules/proactive-improvements.md</code> + remove dead code</li>\n<li><code>polish X</code> → cinematic motion + refined type + a11y upgrade</li>\n<li><code>deploy X</code> → <code>rules/verification-loop.md</code> + post-deploy prod E2E</li>\n<li>Multi-faceted brief (≥3 work units, numbered lists, \"phases\", \"implement everything\") → <code>rules/monitor-orchestration.md</code></li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Emphasis signals</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><code>***TEXT***</code> triple-asterisk = high-priority directive, propagate to subagents</li>\n<li><code>**TEXT**</code> bold = important, preserve in summaries</li>\n<li>ALL CAPS = build-fail-class directive</li>\n<li><code>~~text~~</code> strikethrough = removed/deprecated</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Speed standards</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>TEXT response: 100-160 chars descriptions, 4-8 word headlines, 2 sentences max</li>\n<li>CODE: full files never truncated, no <code>...</code> ever</li>\n<li>Tool calls: batch 3-5 in parallel where independent</li>\n<li>Subagent prompts: 100-300 words per <code>rules/full-autonomy.md</code></li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Cross-skill coordination</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Skill 02 (goal-and-brief) runs first on new projects</li>\n<li>Skill 05 (architecture) consumed by skills 06, 07, 08, 13, 15</li>\n<li>Skill 09 (brand) drives skills 10, 11, 12</li>\n<li>Skill 13 (observability) wires into every shipped feature</li>\n<li>Skill 16 (cinematic-website-prime-directive) trumps generic 06 for one-line site prompts</li>\n<li>Skill 20 (superpowers) holds PROCESS discipline — brainstorm/plan/worktree/code-review/finish-branch — invoked BEFORE implementation skills; TDD/debug/verify/parallel techniques are folded into <code>rules/</code> (see <code>20-superpowers/NOTICE.md</code>)</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Done definitions</h2>\n<h3>Code change</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Local typecheck + build pass = NOT done</li>\n<li>DONE requires: deploy + post-deploy fetch of changed routes + assert new content/headers/JSON-LD/status live</li>\n<li>Per <code>rules/verification-loop.md</code></li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Feature</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>All 13 Hard Gates green</li>\n<li>E2E coverage in <code>e2e/FEATURES.md</code></li>\n<li>Behind feature flag at <code>experimental, 0, 0</code></li>\n<li>Sentry + PostHog events firing</li>\n<li>Docs updated (CLAUDE.md + README + JSDoc)</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Website (one-line prompt)</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Deployed at real URL</li>\n<li>100 build-breaking rules satisfied per skill 16</li>\n<li>Self-Verify Statement per route</li>\n<li>Announced to user</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Conflict Resolution</h2>\n<ol>\n<li>This skill &gt; all</li>\n<li>Project &gt; global</li>\n<li>Specific &gt; general</li>\n<li>Brian &gt; defaults</li>\n<li><code>***TEXT***</code> = high-priority propagate</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Value extraction every prompt</h2>\n<p>Per <code>rules/prompt-as-training-signal.md</code> — every prompt is a gradient:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-prompting same surface = prior turn under-delivered</li>\n<li>Extract lesson BEFORE doing work; write to durable layer SAME TURN</li>\n<li>Cross-link siblings</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Compaction directive</h2>\n<p>At 60% context, save <code>progress.md</code> + spawn fresh agent. Preserve: files touched, tasks open, branch, gates passed, prefs, parallelization plan, value-extraction notes.</p>\n<h2>Broadcast</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Side repos (agentskills, saas-starter, plugins, tools) → commit + push to main automatically</li>\n<li>Emdash projects (<code>~/emdash-projects/*</code>) → commit freely, never push (Brian pushes from frontend)</li>\n<li>New skills/tools → auto-create GitHub repo + npm/PyPI/Marketplace listing per <code>rules/full-autonomy.md</code></li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Self-improvement</h2>\n<p>After every implementation: \"What else?\" If anything → do it → ask again → loop until zero.</p>\n","files":[{"path":"ai-native-coding.md","sizeBytes":4387,"isText":true},{"path":"architecture-thought-loop.md","sizeBytes":8387,"isText":true},{"path":"autonomous-orchestrator.md","sizeBytes":9424,"isText":true},{"path":"context-engineering.md","sizeBytes":3312,"isText":true},{"path":"one-line-saas.md","sizeBytes":3091,"isText":true},{"path":"output-compression.md","sizeBytes":3582,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":5655,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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