sparring
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Sparring is an agent skill: a hard technical interviewer and visual tutor for codebases the user built. SKILL.md and references/ are authoritative; docs/ holds dated design records; scripts/drill.mjs owns all state.
In this repository4 other files it gives its agents.
- skill/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- opus-as-fableSkill
- sparringSkill
- sparringSkill
The file
We split this CLAUDE.md into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 16
Every behavior rule in the skill traces to evidence in docs/research/.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 26,980 CLAUDE.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
CLAUDE.md — sparring
Sparring is an agent skill: a hard technical interviewer and visual tutor for codebases the user built. SKILL.md and references/ are authoritative; docs/ holds dated design records; scripts/drill.mjs owns all state.
Rule
- Opus models only: if the model powering this session is any Claude Opus version (the system prompt names it), invoke the
opus-as-fableskill (.claude/skills/opus-as-fable/SKILL.md) as your first action of the session and follow it for the whole session. Fable and Mythos sessions must not load it; they already behave that way.
Commands
node scripts/drill.mjs <command>— the state CLI. See the cheat sheet inSKILL.md.node --test scripts/drill.test.mjs— the test suite. Must be green before any commit that touches the script.
Rules of the repo
- Every behavior rule in the skill traces to evidence in
docs/research/. A new rule needs a source or it does not ship. - State lives at
$SPARRING_HOMEor~/.sparring/<project>/. Never write it by hand; go through the script. - The skill is read by Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Keep
SKILL.mdportable: no harness-specific tool names in it. - No emoji.
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Your trail
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