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Gabe Suite
Development suite for Claude Code
Skills, commands, and hooks for understanding, reviewing, deciding, and shipping — with a knowledge system (KDBP) that tracks values, decisions, and deferred work across sessions.
Not a prompt template. Built from empirical self-observation.
Name note. The project/suite is Gabe Suite. One of the skills inside it is called Gabe Lens (invoked via
/gabe-lens) — the cognitive-translation layer. They're different things: the suite contains the skill. Previous name for the suite was "Gabe Lens" — this repo was renamed to avoid collision.
The Suite
Skills (9)
| Skill | Command | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Gabe Lens | /gabe-lens | Cognitive translation — analogies, spatial maps, constraint boxes, one-line handles |
| Gabe Align | /gabe-align | Values enforcement — pre-flight checks + auto-checkpoint at commit/PR |
| Gabe Review | /gabe-review | Code review — risk pricing, confidence scoring, interactive triage, deferred items, tier drift |
| Gabe Roast | /gabe-roast | Adversarial gap review — stress-tests from a required perspective |
| Gabe Assess | /gabe-assess | Change impact — blast radius, maturity scope, prerequisites, alternatives |
| Gabe Health | /gabe-health | Codebase health — god files, churn hotspots, coupling, deferred items, maintenance |
| Gabe Help | /gabe-help | Context-aware guide — scans environment, suggests the right tool |
| Gabe Docs | (consulted) | Documentation house style — CommonMark, Mermaid library, per-well diagram recommendations (used by /gabe-teach, /gabe-init, /gabe-commit) |
| Gabe Arch | (consulted) | Architecture curriculum — concept library organized by tier × specialization (used by /gabe-teach) |
Commands (11)
Commands that don't map 1:1 to a skill — the full KDBP lifecycle from project init through ship:
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/gabe-init | Project setup — creates .kdbp/, installs hooks, selects project type + maturity |
/gabe-scope | Authors SCOPE.md (stable premise) + ROADMAP.md (phase plan). Multi-step, checkpoint-gated, Opus-heavy |
/gabe-scope-change | Scope-change router. Classifies your intended change → routes to -addition or -pivot |
/gabe-scope-addition | Additive scope change — inserts new REQs / phases / refs without changing premise |
/gabe-scope-pivot | Scope pivot — direction change, archives v{N} and creates v{N+1} |
/gabe-plan | KDBP-aware planning + per-phase tier decision (MVP / Enterprise / Scale) with trade-off matrix |
/gabe-execute | Phase execution — tier-cap task breakdown, mid-phase escalation gate, auto-ticks Exec column |
/gabe-next | Zero-logic router — reads PLAN.md and dispatches to the next gabe command (Exec → Review → Commit → Push) |
/gabe-commit | Commit quality gate — deterministic checks, interactive triage, defer/accept/fix per finding |
/gabe-push | Push, create PR, watch CI, promote branches — the post-commit shipping workflow |
/gabe-teach | Human knowledge consolidation — tracks WHY/WHEN/WHERE topics from recent commits with Socratic verification |
KDBP System
The Knowledge, Decisions, Behavior, and Pending system tracks project state across sessions:
.kdbp/
├── BEHAVIOR.md # Project name, domain, maturity, tech stack
├── VALUES.md # 3-7 project-specific values (checked at commit)
├── DECISIONS.md # Append-only architecture decision table
├── PENDING.md # Deferred items with priority and escalation
├── LEDGER.md # Session checkpoint history (auto-appended)
├── MAINTENANCE.md # Quarterly human checklist
├── PLAN.md # Active plan (written by /gabe-plan)
├── KNOWLEDGE.md # Human knowledge map (managed by /gabe-teach)
└── archive/ # Archived plans (completed_, defer_, cancelled_)
User-level values at ~/.kdbp/VALUES.md apply across all projects.
