covenant-patterns
Apply covenant principles as design constraints across all core systems. Use when building agents, prompts, recipes, artifacts, or multi-agent architectures.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill covenant-patterns --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Covenant Patterns *Thirteen principles applied as design constraints across all core systems. Every yama guards against a presumption.* ## Overview Covenant Patterns operationalizes the [Pragma Covenant](../../agents/steering-global-principles.md) as enforceable design constraints. Unlike generic "best practices," these principles emerged from specific failures—each yama guards against a presumption that caused real damage. This skill maps covenant principles to practical implementation across: - **Agents** — Steering, specs, context assembly - **Prompts** — Epistemic rendering, cognitive lenses - **Artifacts** — Canvas workflows, semantic JSON - **Workshop** — Recipe assembly, slice architecture - **Exocortex** — Multi-agent coordination, graph substrate - **Skills** — Technical capability documentation ## The Thirteen Principles ### 👁️ Dotfile Visibility **Yama**: No bare `ls` when orienting to directories. **Niyama**: Use `ls -a` or `ls -A`. Include `.*` patterns in glob searches. Treat dotfolders as first-class citizens. | System | Application | |--------|-------------| | **Agents** | Steering files may live in `.kiro/`, `.claude/`—always include | | **Workshop** | Recipes s
- Overview
- The Thirteen Principles
- 👁️ Dotfile Visibility
- ✨ Bespokedness
- ⚡ Fast-Fail Enforcement
- 🧷 Decision Integrity
- 🚮 Final-State Surgery
- ⛔ Work Preservation
- 🗡️ Git Semantics
- 🧊 Protected Paths
- 🗣️ Data Fidelity
- 🔤 Literal Exactness
- 🔒 Threshold-Gated Action
- 🔁 Determinism
What does the covenant-patterns skill do?
Apply covenant principles as design constraints across all core systems. Use when building agents, prompts, recipes, artifacts, or multi-agent architectures.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill covenant-patterns --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 majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 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.