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<a href="LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-22c55e.svg" alt="MIT License"></a>
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<b>Forge your Claude Code projects — pass them through, they come out faster.</b><br>
A practitioner's meta-harness: it raises each project's <b>floor</b> (harness-ify the setup)<br>and <b>ceiling</b> (accelerate the work), then compounds the gains across your whole portfolio.
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<b>Quality is the lever; speed is the result.</b> Every change earns its way through the gates —<br>adversarial · phantom · regression — and <i>that</i> is what makes the next change faster.
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<i>Fork it. Rename it. Make it yours.</i>
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<a href="docs/ETHOS.md"><b>The principles</b></a> ·
<a href="docs/WHY.md"><b>Why it exists</b></a> ·
<a href="docs/OUTPUT_EVIDENCE.md"><b>The evidence</b></a> ·
<a href="CHEATSHEET.md"><b>How to use it</b></a>
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