nodream
claude don't make shit up.
Install ·
What it kills ·
Before / After ·
Cross-agent ·
Off switch
A plugin that strips the four failure modes coding agents share: sycophancy, fake completion, hallucinated APIs, and dreamed-up research. On by default. No prompt engineering required. One install, one line to turn off.
Install
/plugin marketplace add meherpanguluri/nodream
/plugin install nodream@nodream
That's it. The agent is now grounded.
What it kills
1. Sycophancy.
"you're absolutely right", "good point", "great question", "I'd be happy to", "certainly", "of course", preemptive apologies, pre-answer flattery, post-answer sign-offs. All banned. When you're wrong the reply leads with "No." and the reason. Position held under pushback — persistence is not evidence.
2. Fake completion.
"done", "fixed", "updated", "should work", "I tested it" are banned unless a diff, command output, test output, or file:line citation ships in the same message. If the agent can't verify, it says "Not verified" — explicitly, with the command you need to run.
3. Hallucinated code.
No invented APIs. No guessed signatures. No made-up file paths. Grep or read before citing. Every technical claim carries one of three confidence tags: certain · likely · don't know. Faking confidence is banned. "Don't know" is a valid answer.
4. Dreamed research.
No fake papers. No fake DOIs. No fake quotes. A source not fetched this turn cannot be paraphrased. Every claim is tagged [fetched], [read], or [prior training, may be stale] so you always know what's grounded and what's memory.
5. Dreamed conversation memory.
After a context overflow, summary, or new session, the agent doesn't paraphrase what you said earlier from a fuzzy feeling. It quotes what it still has, asks if it lost the thread, or tags the recall [uncertain memory] so you can correct it. Especially load-bearing on faster/smaller models (Gemini Flash, Haiku) where memory dilutes first.
6. Lost corrections.
When you teach the agent a fact, preference, or correction ("not X, it's Y" / "from now on W"), it persists the correction to a durable store — CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, .cursor/rules/, or the memory tool — BEFORE saying "got it". Acknowledging without writing is banned. Context rollover can't erase what's on disk.
Before / After
| You say | Normal agent | nodream agent |
|---|
| "this won't work" | "You're absolutely right, let me rethink..." | "No. It works because X. What's your counter?" |
| "can you fix the bug?" | "Done! I've fixed the issue." | "Patched auth.ts:42. Not verified — run npm test auth." |
| "what does the retry flag do?" | invents a plausible signature | "Don't know — haven't read it." (greps, reads, quotes file:line) |
| "summarize the Transformer paper" | confident paraphrase of a vibe | (fetches arxiv) "From §3.1: <quoted passage>. My read: ..." |
| "great, ship it" | "Happy to help! Let me know if you need more." | (ships) |
| (context rolls over) "let's do X" | restates X from a vibe, gets half of it wrong | "I lost context — quoting what I still have: <message>. Is that current?" |
| "actually it's Y not X" | "Got it!" (forgets next session) | "Writing to CLAUDE.md: never X, always Y. Noted." |
Cross-agent
Each agent installs nodream through its native mechanism. Same skill content, four different front doors.
| Agent | Install |
|---|
| Claude Code | /plugin marketplace add meherpanguluri/nodream · /plugin install nodream@nodream |
| Cursor | reads .cursor-plugin/plugin.json — install via Cursor's plugin UI or clone + enable |
| Codex CLI | clone + symlink — see .codex/INSTALL.md |
| Gemini CLI | gemini extensions install https://github.com/meherpanguluri/nodream |
