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Gabe Lens
Cognitive toolkit for Claude Code
A growing collection of skills that transform how you understand, review, and decide — built from reverse-engineering how one brain actually learns.
Not a prompt template. Built from empirical self-observation.
Skills
| Skill | Command | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Gabe Lens | /gabe-lens | Cognitive translation — transforms concepts into analogies, spatial maps, constraint boxes, and one-line handles |
| Gabe Lens Calibrate | /gabe-lens-calibrate | Discover your cognitive suit — same concept in 4 styles, pick the one that clicks |
| Gabe Roast | /gabe-roast | Adversarial gap review — stress-tests any target from a required perspective, classified by maturity and importance |
| Gabe Assess | /gabe-assess | Change impact assessment — blast radius, maturity scope, prerequisites, and alternatives before committing |
Gabe Lens
See it in action
Ask /gabe-lens enforcement tiers and get this:
┌─── GABE BLOCK: Enforcement Tiers ──────────────────────┐
│ │
│ THE PROBLEM │
│ Rules written in docs get ignored under fatigue and │
│ context loss. 19 files exceeded the 800-line limit │
│ despite the limit being documented everywhere. │
│ │
│ THE ANALOGY │
│ Think of it as gravity vs. posted speed limits. │
│ Gravity (Tier 1 hooks) works whether you're paying │
│ attention or not — drop a ball, it falls. Speed │
│ limits (Tier 3 docs) only work if the driver reads │
│ the sign AND chooses to comply. Tier 2 (workflows) │
│ is like a speed bump — it slows you down IF you │
│ drive over it, but you can take a different road. │
│ │
│ THE MAP │
│ │
│ Tier 1: GRAVITY ══════════════════► Always works │
│ (hooks) PreToolUse ─→ fires every edit │
│ pre-commit ─→ fires every commit │
│ │
│ Tier 2: SPEED BUMPS ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─► Works if used │
│ (workflows) /review ─→ only if invoked │
│ │
│ Tier 3: POSTED SIGNS · · · · · · ·► Often ignored │
│ (docs) CLAUDE.md rules ─→ lost after compaction │
│ │
│ CONSTRAINT BOX │
│ IS: A reliability classification for rules │
│ IS NOT: A quality judgment (Tier 3 rules aren't │
│ bad rules — they're just badly placed) │
│ DECIDES: Where to invest enforcement effort — │
│ convert Tier 3 lessons into Tier 1 hooks │
│ │
│ ONE-LINE HANDLE │
│ "Hooks are gravity — docs are speed limit signs" │
│ │
│ SIGNAL: Quick check ✓ │
│ (The concept is intuitive once you see the tiers. │
│ Don't overthink — the tier system IS the insight.) │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
That one-line handle — "Hooks are gravity — docs are speed limit signs" — stuck for weeks. The original 3-paragraph explanation didn't last a day.
Install
Inside Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add khujta/gabe-lens
/plugin install gabe-lens@khujta-gabe-lens
Or clone locally:
git clone https://github.com/khujta/gabe-lens.git
Then point Claude Code at the local directory with --plugin-dir ./gabe_lens or add it via your project settings.
Usage
Full block (default)
/gabe-lens [concept or question]