vigiles

Edit a vigiles .spec.ts to change a compiled instruction file (CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md) — add, modify, or remove a rule, section, command, or file pointer (including a request to add a "key file" — the keyFiles field is deprecated). Use whenever you need to change a CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md that carries a vigiles hash (edit the spec, never the artifact), including adding a new enforce()/check()/guidance() rule.

Upgrade a vigiles spec's guidance() rules to enforce() — scan the guidance rules in a CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md spec and find existing linter rules (ESLint, Ruff, Clippy, Pylint, RuboCop, Stylelint) that back them. Use when asked to strengthen, harden, or make vigiles rules enforceable; NOT for general linting or fixing lint errors.

Install vigiles and test a Claude Code harness — hooks, skills, agents, settings, CLAUDE.md — by picking the right tier (unit / deterministic / eval) and writing a test that passes. Use to check that a hook fires or blocks, that a skill triggers, that injected context lands; or to observe a run — which tools it called, whether it stayed inside its declared allowed-tools, what files and side effects it produced, how to intercept a call without executing it.

Deep linter reference for authoring or debugging a vigiles enforce() rule — plugin tables, AST selectors, type-aware rules, auto-fix, and edge cases for ESLint, Ruff, Pylint, RuboCop, Stylelint, and Clippy. Use when you need the exact rule name or config for a specific linter, not for running a linter. (JVM/Go linters — detekt, ktlint, Checkstyle, golangci-lint — and Cedar have no deep-dive file yet; their reference lives in docs/linter-support.md.)

Adopt a typed .spec.ts for an existing hand-written CLAUDE.md — start from the file you already have, non-destructively

Diagnose why an agent harness misbehaved by reading the local flight-recorder ledger (.vigiles/runs.jsonl) — which skills fired or got hijacked, which hooks blocked or wrongly allowed, which subagent tool-contract violations happened, and how a skill's trigger rate moved. Use when asked why a skill stopped firing, why a hook didn't block, why the wrong skill ran, or to debug/investigate what the harness actually did. NOT for writing new rules (use strengthen) or editing the spec (use edit-spec).

Use when the user asks to research a topic in depth, map a competitive/market landscape, run a multi-source investigation, or "fan out" parallel research agents — anything where many findings must be gathered and then NOT lost. Enforces durable, detail-preserving research (write full findings to disk; keep a full appendix beside the synthesis).

Review the README or a documentation page from several real reader points of view at once. Fans out one parallel reviewer per audience — Claude Code newcomer, power user, plugin/skill author, skeptical senior engineer, non-running decision-maker — each scoring it x/5 and naming concrete, line-level fixes. Use when asked to review, critique, grade, or "get to N/5" the README or any front-door doc, or to check how a doc reads for real users. Not for code review (use /code-review for that).