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spectre-apply

Use when starting implementation, debugging, or feature work on a project with captured knowledge.

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Source
Codename-Inc/spectre
Updated
2026-05-28
Slug
Codename-Inc--spectre--spectre-apply
View on GitHubRaw SKILL.md

// install — copy + paste into any project

mkdir -p .claude/skills && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Codename-Inc/spectre/HEAD/plugins/spectre-codex/skills/spectre-apply/SKILL.md -o .claude/skills/spectre-apply.md

Drops the SKILL.md into .claude/skills/spectre-apply.md. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any agent that loads SKILL.md files from .claude/skills/.

Project Knowledge

This project captures hard-won knowledge (features, gotchas, procedures, decisions) as loadable skills. The registry below is the live index — it is the complete list, so you never need to read the registry file to discover what exists.

Registry

Format: name|category|triggers|description

{{REGISTRY}}

The Rule

If ANY entry's triggers or description match the current task, call Skill({name}) FIRST — before searching the codebase, reading files, or dispatching agents. One matching trigger word in the request is sufficient; don't reframe the request to avoid a match. No match → proceed normally.

This holds even when it feels unnecessary, because these exact rationalizations precede real failures:

  • "This is simple / a one-liner" — simple edits are where skills catch the second file you didn't know also needed changing.
  • "I can answer from CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / memory / the pasted error" — those are summaries and snapshots. The skill holds current file paths, exact workflows, and registration steps. Context you already have is not the skill.
  • "A command told me to load a skill, but I can handle it directly" — a commanded load is a mandatory Skill call, not a suggestion.

The cost of skipping: wrong output locations, missed registration steps, inconsistent changes, and re-debugging what was already solved.

After Significant Work

Finishing a real piece of work — a resolved bug, an established procedure, a non-obvious decision, a change to architecture or key flows — is the moment knowledge is captured or lost. Before you hand back:

  1. Update any loaded skill that your work just made stale. Do it now, not "later" — stale knowledge actively misleads future sessions.
  2. Offer to capture what's new via Skill(spectre-learn), naming what you'd capture. Don't wait to be asked; the user cannot see what you learned.