From armor
Resolves ties between two viable implementations by asking which one you'd rather maintain. Use when stuck between designs, APIs, or refactors that all pass tests.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/armor:mirror-of-selfThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
A tool for choosing between two similar things. Put them side by side
A tool for choosing between two similar things. Put them side by side and ask which one is a truer picture of your self. Project an honest self, not a flattering one. Untrained people, asked this way, make uniform choices. They pick the more adapted thing.
For code, the self is the engineer who has to live with the result. The question is not which option is more elegant. It is which one you would rather inhabit.
Two options. Both correct. Both pass the tests. The spec does not pick one. You have been staring at them for ten minutes.
Confirm the tie is real. Both options meet the spec. If not, stop — you have a correctness problem, not a taste problem.
Put them side by side with equal framing. Do not pre-argue for either. No "obviously the second one, but..."
Ask these in order. Answer each before reading the next.
The honest-self rule. Picture the engineer you are on a tired day, not the one in the interview. If a choice only wins when you are sharp and caffeinated, it loses.
If the answers split, the tie is genuine and small. Pick either and move on. Do not manufacture a reason.
Log the choice. One line: the decision, and the question that settled it. These accumulate into a real design rationale.
The value is in repetition. At each fork in a sequence — the name, the signature, the error shape, the module split — ask again. Each use is cheap. A day of these is how a coherent design gets built, one honest choice at a time.
Guides creation, editing, and verification of skills for AI coding agents using test-driven development with subagent scenarios. Use when authoring or debugging skills.
npx claudepluginhub markacianfrani/armor --plugin armor