grace

GRACE Plugin

GRACE is a methodology for disciplined AI-assisted software development. This repository is the Claude Code plugin that distributes the methodology to consuming projects: skills, slash commands, methodology rules, and the templates each stage uses.

Status: under development. GRACE is being actively designed and refined. The methodology, skill set, and plugin layout may change without notice. Anyone who picks this up before a stable release should expect breaking changes — including renamed skills, restructured rule files, and altered install behavior. There is no commitment to backwards compatibility at this stage and no obligation to early users.

What this plugin ships

• 15 skills surfaced as /grace:* slash commands in Claude Code: project-start, project-setup, project-definition, business-analysis, change-assessment, design-review, testing-strategy, implementation, validation, operations, retirement, release-planning, risk-management, feedback, and install.
• Methodology rules (GRACE.md and six rule files) that the /grace:install skill writes into a consuming project so they load into every conversation.
• Templates bundled with the skills that produce artifacts (business analysis, design review, implementation, etc.).
• Version and freshness metadata so consuming projects can tell which methodology version they're running.

Install

Add the marketplace, then install:

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/grace-method/grace-marketplace.git
/plugin install grace@grace-marketplace

After installation, run /grace:install once in any project where you want the methodology rules loaded into every conversation. The skill writes GRACE.md, the rule files, and ensures a single @.claude/GRACE.md anchor line in the project's .claude/CLAUDE.md.

Update

/plugin marketplace update grace-marketplace

After updating, re-run /grace:install in any project where you want the latest rules.

File ownership

After /grace:install:

Path in your project	Owner	Update behavior
.claude/GRACE.md	GRACE	Overwritten on every /grace:install.
.claude/rules/*.md	GRACE	Overwritten on every /grace:install.
.claude/CLAUDE.md	You	Only the anchor line is managed; everything else is yours.

Send feedback

Run /grace:feedback in any project where the plugin is installed. It walks you through articulating what's unclear, missing, or working poorly, applies a quick data-sensitivity check, and drafts an email to the methodology author. You review and send. Use it for anything about GRACE itself — a confusing rule, a skill that asks the wrong questions, a missing capability, or just an idea.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Source

The plugin source is built from the GRACE development repository. This repository contains only the built plugin contents; methodology development happens elsewhere.