ca-tribunal
Deep, rarely-convened whole-codebase audit — eleven specialist lenses, a resumable on-disk audit log, findings filed as GitHub issues on approval. Expensive; estimates cost and STOPs before running. Never a required gate.
npx skills add arbiterForge/codeArbiter --skill ca-tribunal --agent codex
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for claude-code, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# $ca-tribunal — deep codebase audit The deepest, most expensive review codeArbiter offers, convened rarely and on demand. Routes to the tribunal skill. Eleven lenses judge the codebase; every finding persists to its own file (plus append-only triage/run logs) under `.codearbiter/reports/<run-id>/`, so an interrupted run resumes from disk. Never a required gate — critical/high are blocking-severity findings, not a pipeline halt. Cost first — this lane routinely costs millions of tokens on a large repo. Phase 0 sizes the codebase, prints a token-cost band, recommends the highest-reasoning model, and STOPs for your acknowledgement before dispatching anything. Nothing runs unacknowledged. ## Flow Load and follow the tribunal skill (`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/routines/tribunal/SKILL.md`). In brief: Phase 0 (STOP) — cost estimate, model recommendation, resume check. Phase 1 (BLOCK) — map the codebase; risk-rank and mark trust boundaries; record AI-authorship markers and iteration depth. Phase 2 (BLOCK) — dispatch the eleven tribunal-* lenses in priority waves (≤5 in flight); each writes one file per finding under its own `findings/<lens>/` dir. Phase 3 (BLOCK) — triage per wave from disk: d
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- Hard gate
What does the ca-tribunal skill do?
Deep, rarely-convened whole-codebase audit — eleven specialist lenses, a resumable on-disk audit log, findings filed as GitHub issues on approval. Expensive; estimates cost and STOPs before running. Never a required gate.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add arbiterForge/codeArbiter --skill ca-tribunal --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From arbiterForge/codeArbiter, a repository with 138 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.