Holds a project's refused assumptions in Claude's system prompt, flags edits and answers that re-impose them, and pauses on the step where it happens

Part of my portfolio.
Mods for Claude Code that change what it does and what it shows. Each one is a hooks module: it runs inside Claude Code, hooks prompts, tool calls and turns, and draws a line above the prompt or a pane beside the transcript. The five here are deviation-kernel, cache-meter, goal-board, file-tree and idea-agents. All five ship with tests that run without a live session.
| Mod | What it does | Costs anything? |
|---|---|---|
| deviation-kernel | Keeps the assumptions your project refuses in Claude's system prompt on every request, and catches an edit that brings one back at the step where it lands. | One small Haiku call after each long answer (can be switched off) |
| cache-meter | Shows how long the prompt cache stays warm, what a miss would cost to rewrite, how full the context is, and the session's cost at API rates. | No |
| goal-board | Shows each session's goal, task progress and ETA, and /goals lists every running session on the machine. | No |
| file-tree | Shows the working directory as a file tree in a pane on the right, with folders you open and close and the files Claude just changed marked. | No |
| idea-agents | Gives a project six exploration agents (three that explore ideas, a lazy "trogg" for each) and one ideas/ folder per run, and tells Claude how to run a round. | Only when you run a round: the agents' own model use (the troggs run on Haiku) |
Install any one of them on its own.
Paste this into Claude Code, in a terminal session:
Set up mods from the GitHub repo Spendry/claude-code-mods for me. Work through these steps and stop where a step says to ask me.
1. Run `claude --version`. The mods need 2.1.287 or later; if it's older, tell me how to update and stop.
2. Show me the table of mods from the repo README (https://github.com/Spendry/claude-code-mods) and ask which ones I want. Don't pick for me.
3. Clone https://github.com/Spendry/claude-code-mods into a temporary folder. For each mod I chose, run `claude plugin validate <that folder>/<mod>`, read its `hooks/register.ts`, and tell me in plain words what it can touch (the `calls:` line lists it). Ask me whether to go ahead.
4. Run `claude plugin marketplace add Spendry/claude-code-mods`, then install each mod I approved with `claude plugin install <mod>@claude-code-mods --scope user`. A note that options are not yet set is expected; the defaults apply until I change them. Delete the temporary clone.
5. Run `claude plugin list` and confirm each one shows as enabled.
6. If I chose deviation-kernel: ask which project it's for, and interview me there for the assumptions that project refuses on purpose. Do not suggest refusals of your own; the point of the kernel is that they come from me. For each one I give you, help me word it, propose tells (words or /regex/ that would show up when it's broken) and an "instead:", then show me the KERNEL.md and write it to the project root only when I say so. Then ask which mode I want (ask, warn or block), explain the difference in one line each, and tell me to type `/kernel mode <mode>` in that project's session to set it.
7. If I chose cache-meter: ask whether I pay API rates or use a subscription, and explain that on a subscription its dollar figures are the API-equivalent, not my bill.
8. Finish with a short list of what I still have to do myself (from the "What only you can do" section of the README).
Claude runs the install. It can't decide your project's refusals or see the bands for you; that part stays yours.
KERNEL.md. Claude can help you word a refusal and suggest tells, but which assumptions to refuse is your design decision. Start with two or three. You can add more later with /kernel add.## Exempt in KERNEL.md (for example - ideas/**) so the guard skips them; code everywhere else stays checked./kernel log shows what tripped and what you decided./goals and /cache answer in text instead.cache-meter/hooks/register.ts with the date they were checked. A model not in the table is priced at the first row's rates and shown with ≈.At the prompt of a Claude Code terminal session, one line per mod:
/plugin install deviation-kernel --marketplace Spendry/claude-code-mods
/plugin install cache-meter --marketplace Spendry/claude-code-mods
/plugin install goal-board --marketplace Spendry/claude-code-mods
/plugin install file-tree --marketplace Spendry/claude-code-mods
/plugin install idea-agents --marketplace Spendry/claude-code-mods
Answer y to add the marketplace, then pick the user scope so the mod loads in every session. A mod with options shows a screen to set them. /plugin lists what's active.
To turn every mod off for one session: claude --safe-mode. To update: claude plugin update <mod>@claude-code-mods, then /reload-plugins.
Built and tested against Claude Code 2.1.296; needs 2.1.287 or later.
What it guarantees: the project's refused assumptions are in Claude's system prompt on every request, with nothing to paste and nothing lost to compaction. An edit that brings one back is caught at that step.
The problem it answers: a design that refuses a standard assumption tends to lose that refusal while the ordinary parts get filled in. Claude reaches for the conventional component in each slot, and the conventional component carries the assumption the design rejected.
Setup. Put a KERNEL.md at the project root (or .claude/KERNEL.md). /kernel init writes a template; KERNEL.example.md shows a filled-in one. Each refusal is one line:
- R1: one global clock paces every stage | tells: global clock, clock tree, /clk_?en/ | instead: each stage hands off by local request/acknowledge
In a folder with no kernel, the first prompt you type there asks whether Claude should help you write one: now, after that message, not this session, or never in that folder. Mid-project, Claude reads the project's own record first so its questions point at what you set out to do, then asks you for the refusals (it proposes none of its own) and writes KERNEL.md only when you say so. Your home folder is never asked. Turn the offer off with the offerKernel option.
What happens.
ask (default): holds the edit and asks you. Refusing sends Claude the refusal and its instead:.warn: lets it through and flags it to Claude with your next prompt.block: refuses the edit outright.drop in the band if a flag is wrong. Turn this off with the semanticCheck option if you don't want the extra calls.Commands. /kernel opens the kernel and recent trips · /kernel init · /kernel add <text> | tells: a, b | instead: ... · /kernel mode ask|warn|block · /kernel check (a full audit of the conversation so far, served mostly from cache) · /kernel log · /kernel reload.
Limits. Tells are matched as whole words or regexes, so a tell also fires on a line that rejects the assumption ("no central scheduler"). The semantic check tells the two apart; the keyword check does not. The kernel file is never edited by Claude unless you ask.
What it guarantees: you can see how long the cached prefix has left, what a miss would cost to rewrite, context fill and session cost, without asking.
cache ▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱ 2:41 · miss $0.50 · ctx 84k/200k 42% · session $4.10 API
/cache gives the full breakdown, including the hit and miss price of the next request.cacheTtl option defaults to auto. It assumes the 5-minute cache until a request reads from cache after more than five idle minutes, which only the 1-hour cache can serve. It then switches to 1h, toasts once, and remembers that for later sessions. The rewrite price changes with it (1.25x input for 5m, 2x for 1h). Set 5m or 1h to fix it.hooks/register.ts. On a subscription the dollar figures are what the same work would cost at API rates, not what you're billed.What it guarantees: each session shows its goal, task progress and ETA, and one command shows every running session on this machine.
/goal <text>. /goal clear resets it./goals opens the board of all sessions: working, idle or done, the current task, and the ETA.What it guarantees: you can see the project's files while Claude works on them, and which ones it has changed this session.
╭──────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ work ‹ up home refresh collapse │
│ ──────────────────────────────────────── │
│ ├─ ▸ notes │
│ └─ ▾ relay · here │
│ ├─ ▾ src │
│ │ ├─ ● main.ts │
│ │ └─ util.ts │
│ └─ README.md │
│ │
│ 1 changed · 1 up from relay │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────╯
/files opens it (above the prompt on the main screen). /files again closes it.r refreshes and c collapses every folder.‹ up (or u) moves the tree's root up one folder per press, like cd .., until it reaches the drive or filesystem root. The working folder stays open under its parent and is marked · here. home (or h) puts the root back on the working folder. Only the view moves; Claude's working directory stays where it was.background is the hex color painted behind the tree; the default #0f0f0f is half of Windows Terminal's Dark+ background. Set it to half of your own terminal's background, or leave it empty to keep the terminal's. coverFrame (on by default) draws the orange border over Claude Code's own square pane frame, so the side facing the conversation is orange; Claude Code still shows its thin grey line along the top. Turn it off to draw the border just inside the frame instead.…: a file or folder name keeps its start, the path in the footer keeps its end.●. A folder holding one has its name in green, so a change inside a closed folder still shows.duel option..git, node_modules, __pycache__, .venv, venv and .next are left out. A tree is cut at 1,500 rows; close a folder to see the rest.What it guarantees: a project can get a second set of eyes on a stuck problem, from agents that propose and size ideas but never touch its code, with every run kept in its own folder you can read later.
premise-breaker lists the assumptions under a problem and flips each one. field-crosser brings mechanisms from other fields, at least half outside computing. idea-sizer checks the ideas against numbers the project already measured and gives each a kill test. Each has a lazy helper on Haiku, a "trogg": Skip asks "why do it at all?", Borrow "what already does this?", Poke "what's the dumbest quick try?". The upper agents read their trogg's note and say in one line what they took..claude/agents/. It never overwrites an agent the project already has. Then it asks whether Claude should tailor them to the project (its building blocks, gates, results files); Claude shows each change and writes it only when you say so. Home folders and folders you said never for are skipped./ideas new <topic> makes ideas/<date>-<nn>-<topic>/ (or under research/ideas/ if the project keeps research apart, or .claude/agents/ideas/ if that folder exists, to keep runs beside the agents) with a run card (README.md: question, read order, outcome, decisions) and 0-data.md to fill. The agents write 1-premises.md, 2-fields.md, 3-sizing.md and their lazy notes next to it; the main session writes 4-result.md./ideas shows what's installed and the latest run. /ideas install adds missing agents. /ideas tailor starts the tailoring.Each mod is a folder with .claude-plugin/plugin.json, hooks/hooks.json, hooks/register.ts (or .tsx for a mod that draws a pane) and tests/. The marketplace file at .claude-plugin/marketplace.json lists them.
claude plugin validate <mod folder> reports what the mod hooks and calls, and anything the engine would refuse.claude plugin test <mod folder> runs its tests without a session.claude plugin marketplace add <path to clone>) and install from it. A folder marketplace is read from the folder itself, so after an edit /reload-plugins picks up the change with no reinstall.A new mod is a new folder plus one entry in marketplace.json.
MIT. See LICENSE.
hooks/register.ts 583 lines1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import type { Register } from 'claude-code'
3
4import type { Flag, Mode, Refusal } from '../types'
5
6// The kernel lives at the project root, or under .claude/ if you'd rather keep the root clean.
7const KERNEL_PATHS = ['KERNEL.md', '.claude/KERNEL.md']
8const PANE = 'deviation-kernel'
9
10const pending = atom({ plugin: 'deviation-kernel', key: 'pending' } as const, [] as Flag[])
11const summary = atom({ plugin: 'deviation-kernel', key: 'summary' } as const, null)
12
13const TEMPLATE = `# Kernel: <project name>
14
15What this project refuses on purpose. Everything not listed here is allowed to be conventional.
16
17## Refuses
18- R1: <an assumption the standard approach makes that this design rejects> | tells: <word>, <phrase>, /<regex>/ | instead: <what this design does in its place>
19- R2: <another refused assumption> | tells: <word> | instead: <...>
20
21## Keeps conventional
22- <parts you are happy to build the normal way: build system, logging, test harness, file formats>
23
24## Exempt
25- <optional: paths where notes name refused assumptions to weigh them, e.g. ideas/**; edits there skip the tell check>
26`
27
28// ---------- parsing ----------
29
30// exempt: paths where notes may name refused assumptions in order to weigh them
31// (idea notes, design reviews). Edits there skip the tell check.
32type Parsed = { project: string; refusals: Refusal[]; keeps: string[]; exempt: string[] }
33
34function parseKernel(text: string): Parsed {
35 let project = 'project'
36 let section = ''
37 const refusals: Refusal[] = []
38 const keeps: string[] = []
39 const exempt: string[] = []
40
41 for (const raw of text.split('\n')) {
42 const line = raw.trim()
43 const title = line.match(/^#\s*kernel\s*[:\-–—]\s*(.+)$/i)
44 if (title) {
45 project = (title[1] ?? '').trim()
46 continue
47 }
48 if (/^#+\s*refuse/i.test(line)) {
49 section = 'refuses'
50 continue
51 }
52 if (/^#+\s*keep/i.test(line)) {
53 section = 'keeps'
54 continue
55 }
56 if (/^#+\s*exempt/i.test(line)) {
57 section = 'exempt'
58 continue
59 }
60 if (/^#+\s/.test(line)) {
61 section = ''
62 continue
63 }
64
65 const r = line.match(/^[-*]\s*(R\d+)\s*[:.)\-–]\s*(.+)$/i)
66 if (r) {
67 const parts = (r[2] ?? '').split('|').map(p => p.trim())
68 const refusal: Refusal = { id: (r[1] ?? '').toUpperCase(), assumption: parts[0] ?? '', tells: [], instead: '' }
69 for (const part of parts.slice(1)) {
70 const tells = part.match(/^tells?\s*:\s*(.*)$/i)
71 const instead = part.match(/^instead\s*:\s*(.*)$/i)
72 if (tells) refusal.tells = (tells[1] ?? '').split(',').map(t => t.trim()).filter(Boolean)
73 if (instead) refusal.instead = instead[1] ?? ''
74 }
75 refusals.push(refusal)
76 continue
77 }
78 if (section === 'keeps' && /^[-*]\s+/.test(line)) keeps.push(line.replace(/^[-*]\s+/, ''))
79 if (section === 'exempt' && /^[-*]\s+/.test(line)) {
80 // the path pattern is the line's first token, `backticks` optional; the rest is a reason
81 const glob = line.replace(/^[-*]\s+/, '').trim().split(/\s+/)[0]!.replace(/^`|`$/g, '')
82 if (glob && !glob.startsWith('<')) exempt.push(glob)
83 }
84 }
85
86 return { project, refusals, keeps, exempt }
87}
88
89// A path pattern, relative to the project: ** any depth, * within one folder, ? one character.
90// A pattern ending in / covers everything under it.
91function globPattern(glob: string): RegExp {
92 let g = glob.replaceAll('\\', '/').replace(/^\.\//, '')
93 if (g.endsWith('/')) g += '**'
94 let re = ''
95 for (let i = 0; i < g.length; i++) {
96 const c = g[i]!
97 if (c === '*' && g[i + 1] === '*') {
98 if (g[i + 2] === '/') {
99 re += '(?:.*/)?' // "**/" : zero or more folders
100 i += 2
101 } else {
102 re += '.*'
103 i += 1
104 }
105 } else if (c === '*') re += '[^/]*'
106 else if (c === '?') re += '[^/]'
107 else re += c.replace(/[.+^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&')
108 }
109 return new RegExp(`^${re}$`, 'i')
110}
111
112function isExempt(path: string, cwd: string): boolean {
113 if (!parsed.exempt.length) return false
114 const p = path.replaceAll('\\', '/')
115 const root = cwd.replaceAll('\\', '/').replace(/\/+$/, '') + '/'
116 const rel = p.toLowerCase().startsWith(root.toLowerCase()) ? p.slice(root.length) : p.replace(/^\.\//, '')
117 return parsed.exempt.some(g => globPattern(g).test(rel))
118}
119
120function tellPattern(tell: string): RegExp | null {
121 try {
122 const slash = tell.lastIndexOf('/')
123 if (tell.startsWith('/') && slash > 0) return new RegExp(tell.slice(1, slash), tell.slice(slash + 1) || 'i')
124 const escaped = tell.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&')
125 return new RegExp(`\\b${escaped}\\b`, 'i')
126 } catch {
127 return null
128 }
129}
130
131// ---------- explaining a trip: how the matched text goes against the kernel ----------
132
133const bare = (s: string) => s.trim().replace(/[.;:,\s]+$/, '')
134const firstSentence = (s: string) => bare(s.split(/(?<=[.!?])\s+/)[0] ?? s)
135
136// The words around the match, on its own line, so the reader sees what tripped and where.
137function snippet(text: string, re: RegExp): string {
138 const m = new RegExp(re.source, re.flags.replace('g', '')).exec(text)
139 if (!m) return ''
140 const start = text.lastIndexOf('\n', m.index) + 1
141 const end = text.indexOf('\n', m.index + m[0].length)
142 let line = text.slice(start, end < 0 ? undefined : end).trim().replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
143 if (line.length > 90) {
144 const at = Math.max(0, line.toLowerCase().indexOf(m[0].toLowerCase()) - 30)
145 line = (at > 0 ? '…' : '') + line.slice(at, at + 90) + (at + 90 < line.length ? '…' : '')
146 }
147 return line
148}
149
150/** Two sentences at most: what the edit adds and which refused assumption it marks, then what the design does instead. */
151function explain(refusal: Refusal, tell: string, text: string, re: RegExp): string {
152 const s = snippet(text, re)
153 const one = `The edit adds ${s ? `"${s}", where ` : ''}"${tell}" marks ${refusal.id}'s refused assumption: ${bare(refusal.assumption)}.`
154 return refusal.instead ? `${one} This design does otherwise: ${firstSentence(refusal.instead)}.` : one
155}
156
157// ---------- module state (rebuilt from disk on every reload) ----------
158
159let kernelPath = ''
160let mtime = -1
161let parsed: Parsed = { project: 'project', refusals: [], keeps: [], exempt: [] }
162let patterns: { refusal: Refusal; tell: string; re: RegExp }[] = []
163let section = ''
164let modeOverride: Mode | undefined
165let loaded = false
166// Trips are logged per project folder, so two kernels with the same title keep separate logs.
167let logKey = 'log:'
168
169function renderSection(p: Parsed): string {
170 const refusals = p.refusals
171 .map(r => {
172 const tells = r.tells.length ? ` (tells: ${r.tells.join(', ')})` : ''
173 const instead = r.instead ? ` Instead: ${r.instead}` : ''
174 return `- ${r.id}: ${r.assumption}${tells}.${instead}`
175 })
176 .join('\n')
177 const keeps = p.keeps.length ? `\nKept conventional on purpose: ${p.keeps.join('; ')}.` : ''
178 const exempt = p.exempt.length ? `\nExempt from the edit check (notes there may name refused assumptions to weigh them): ${p.exempt.join(', ')}. Code there is still held to the kernel.` : ''
179
180 return `<deviation_kernel project="${p.project}">
181This project carries a deviation kernel: assumptions it refuses on purpose. Its value depends on these refusals holding while the build fills in ordinary parts, and the usual failure is quiet: a standard component slips in and brings a refused assumption with it.
182
183Refuses:
184${refusals}${keeps}${exempt}
185
186How to work under it:
187- Name each slot by what it must guarantee and what crosses its boundary before naming its category. A category name pulls in its standard filler before any search runs.
188- Take the conventional answer wherever the kernel is not touched, and say in one line when you take it on purpose.
189- Before filling a slot, check the filler against each refusal. When a standard component would re-impose a refused assumption, stop at that step, name the refusal it touches, and hold two or more alternatives open instead of defaulting to the standard one.
190- When an existing library or pattern touches a refusal, go one level into its assumptions before accepting it. It is a candidate, not a stopping point.
191- The result still has to run and hold up in reality. An unconventional part needs a stated mechanism and a way it could fail, not only novelty.
192- The kernel file is the user's. Do not edit it unless asked.
193</deviation_kernel>`
194}
195
196let configuredMode: Mode = 'ask'
197let semantic = true
198
199function mode(): Mode {
200 return modeOverride ?? configuredMode
201}
202
203async function loadKernel($: any, force = false): Promise<boolean> {
204 loaded = true
205 let found = ''
206 for (const path of KERNEL_PATHS) {
207 if (await $.fs.exists(path)) {
208 found = path
209 break
210 }
211 }
212 if (!found) {
213 kernelPath = ''
214 parsed = { project: 'project', refusals: [], keeps: [], exempt: [] }
215 patterns = []
216 section = ''
217 await update($, summary, () => null)
218 return false
219 }
220
221 const stat = await $.fs.stat(found)
222 if (!force && found === kernelPath && stat.mtimeMs === mtime) return true
223
224 kernelPath = found
225 mtime = stat.mtimeMs
226 logKey = `log:${await $.session.cwd()}`
227 parsed = parseKernel(await $.fs.read(found))
228 patterns = []
229 for (const refusal of parsed.refusals) {
230 for (const tell of refusal.tells) {
231 const re = tellPattern(tell)
232 if (re) patterns.push({ refusal, tell, re })
233 }
234 }
235 section = parsed.refusals.length ? renderSection(parsed) : ''
236 await update($, summary, () => ({ project: parsed.project, refusals: parsed.refusals.length, mode: mode() }))
237 return true
238}
239
240async function logFlag($: any, flag: Flag, decision: string) {
241 const log = ((await $.store.get(logKey)) as unknown[] | undefined) ?? []
242 await $.store.set(logKey, [...log, { ...flag, decision }].slice(-50))
243}
244
245async function addPending($: any, flags: Flag[]) {
246 if (!flags.length) return
247 await update($, pending, list => [...list, ...flags].slice(-8))
248}
249
250// ---------- no kernel here: offer, once per folder, to help write one ----------
251
252const OFFER = { now: 'Yes, now', after: 'After this message', later: 'Not this session', never: 'Never in this folder' }
253
254let offer = true
255// Folders already offered this session. A reload asks again; /clear does not.
256const offered = new Set<string>()
257
258function folderKey(path: string): string {
259 return path.replaceAll('\\', '/').replace(/\/+$/, '').toLowerCase()
260}
261
262function interview(lead: string): string {
263 return `[deviation-kernel] ${lead}
264
265How to run it:
266- The folder may already hold work. If it does, read its own record first (README, design notes, the earliest docs or commits) so your questions can point at what the project set out to do. Use what you find to ask, not to answer.
267- Ask the user, one question at a time, which assumptions this project refuses on purpose: ones the standard approach makes and this design rejects. The refusals come from them. Do not propose any of your own.
268- For each refusal they give, help word it, propose tells (words, phrases or /regex/ that would show up in an edit that brings the assumption back) and an "instead:" (what the design does in its place). Two or three refusals are enough to start; /kernel add takes more later.
269- Ask what the project keeps conventional on purpose.
270- Show the whole file in this form, and write it as KERNEL.md at the folder root only when the user says so:
271
272${TEMPLATE}
273- Once it is written, say in one line each what the modes do (ask holds a tripped edit for their decision, warn lets it through and flags it, block refuses it), that the mode is ${mode()}, and that /kernel mode changes it. Say too that tells only check what an edit brings in, not what the files already hold, and offer to read the existing work against the new refusals.`
274}
275
276// Resolves to a note for Claude when the user takes the offer, or undefined.
277async function kernelOffer($: any, e: { command?: unknown; isMeta?: true; origin: { kind: string } }): Promise<string | undefined> {
278 // Only a prompt the user typed; a slash command (/kernel init among them) runs as asked.
279 if (!offer || e.command || e.isMeta || (e.origin.kind !== 'composer' && e.origin.kind !== 'bridge')) return undefined
280 const cwd = await $.session.cwd()
281 const key = folderKey(cwd)
282 if (offered.has(key)) return undefined
283 offered.add(key)
284 // A home folder is where sessions start, not a project.
285 const homes = [await $.env.get('HOME'), await $.env.get('USERPROFILE')].filter(Boolean).map(folderKey)
286 if (homes.includes(key) || (await $.store.get(`never:${key}`))) return undefined
287
288 const folder = cwd.split(/[\\/]/).filter(Boolean).pop() ?? cwd
289 let answer = OFFER.later
290 try {
291 answer = await $.ui.ask(`There's no KERNEL.md in ${folder}. Want Claude to help you write one?`, {
292 header: 'Kernel',
293 options: [OFFER.now, OFFER.after, OFFER.later, OFFER.never],
294 })
295 } catch {
296 // dismissed, or nobody to ask (claude -p): leave it for this session
297 }
298
299 if (answer === OFFER.now)
300 return interview(`This folder has no KERNEL.md, and the user just chose to have you help write one. Do that before working on their message, and come back to the message once the file is written or they stop.`)
301 if (answer === OFFER.after)
302 return interview(`This folder has no KERNEL.md, and the user chose to have you help write one after this message. Answer their message first, then start.`)
303 if (answer === OFFER.never) {
304 await $.store.set(`never:${key}`, true)
305 $.ui.toast(`kernel: no more offers in ${folder}. /kernel init still works.`)
306 return undefined
307 }
308 if (answer !== OFFER.later && answer.trim())
309 return interview(`This folder has no KERNEL.md. Offered help writing one, the user answered: "${answer.trim()}". Go by that answer; if it asks for the help, run it as below.`)
310 return undefined
311}
312
313
314export const register: Register = (on, options) => {
315 const configured = (options as { mode?: Mode; semanticCheck?: boolean; offerKernel?: boolean }) ?? {}
316 configuredMode = configured.mode ?? 'ask'
317 semantic = configured.semanticCheck !== false
318 offer = configured.offerKernel !== false
319
320 // ---------- session ----------
321
322 on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
323 const stored = (await $.store.get('mode')) as Mode | undefined
324 if (stored === 'ask' || stored === 'warn' || stored === 'block') modeOverride = stored
325 await loadKernel($, true)
326 try {
327 await $.command.register({
328 name: 'kernel',
329 description: 'Deviation kernel: show, init, add, mode, check, log, reload',
330 argumentHint: '[init | add <refusal> | mode ask|warn|block | check | log | reload]',
331 immediate: true,
332 })
333 } catch {
334 // name taken: the rest of the mod still works
335 }
336 return next(e)
337 })
338
339 // /clear, /resume and /branch reset $.state, so rebuild the summary
340 on('classic.SessionStart', { source: ['clear', 'resume', 'fork'] }, async ($, e, next) => {
341 await loadKernel($, true)
342 return next(e)
343 })
344
345 // ---------- the standing seed: the kernel rides in the system prompt ----------
346
347 on('prompt.compose', async ($, e, next) => {
348 if (!loaded) await loadKernel($, true)
349 const composed = await next(e)
350 if (!section) return composed
351 return { sections: [...composed.sections, { id: 'deviation-kernel:kernel', text: section, scope: 'session' as const }] }
352 })
353
354 // ---------- your prompt: refresh the kernel, deliver flagged drift, or offer one ----------
355
356 on('prompt.submit', async ($, e, next) => {
357 if (!(await loadKernel($))) {
358 const note = await kernelOffer($, e)
359 return next(note ? { ...e, context: [...(e.context ?? []), note] } : e)
360 }
361 const flags = await read($, pending)
362 if (!flags.length) return next(e)
363
364 const lines = flags.map(f => {
365 const r = parsed.refusals.find(x => x.id === f.id)
366 return `- ${f.id}${r ? ` (refuses: ${r.assumption})` : ''}: "${f.term}" in ${f.where}${f.why ? ` — ${f.why}` : ''}`
367 })
368 await update($, pending, () => [])
369
370 const note = `[deviation-kernel] A check of the work since your last answer found places that may re-impose refused assumptions:\n${lines.join('\n')}\nDeal with these before building further on that work. If a flag is wrong, say so in one line and continue.`
371 return next({ ...e, context: [...(e.context ?? []), note] })
372 }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e)) // a failed check or offer never holds up the prompt
373
374 // ---------- edits: the step where the conventional filler actually lands ----------
375
376 on('tool.call', { tool: ['Edit', 'Write', 'NotebookEdit'] }, async ($, e, next) => {
377 if (!loaded) await loadKernel($, true)
378
379 // Checked before the tells, so a kernel written where there was none takes hold from the next request.
380 const path = e.tool === 'NotebookEdit' ? e.notebook_path : e.file_path
381 if (/(^|[\\/])KERNEL\.md$/i.test(path)) {
382 const ran = await next(e)
383 await loadKernel($, true)
384 return ran
385 }
386 if (!patterns.length) return next(e)
387 if (isExempt(path, await $.session.cwd())) return next(e)
388
389 let added = ''
390 let before = ''
391 if (e.tool === 'Edit') {
392 added = e.new_string
393 before = e.old_string
394 } else if (e.tool === 'Write') {
395 added = e.content
396 // A Write replaces the whole file, so what the file held is the replaced text.
397 try {
398 if (await $.fs.exists(path)) before = await $.fs.read(path)
399 } catch {
400 // unreadable: judge the new content on its own
401 }
402 } else if (e.tool === 'NotebookEdit') {
403 added = e.new_source
404 }
405
406 // Only tells this edit introduces; one already in the replaced text is not new drift.
407 const hit = patterns.find(p => p.re.test(added) && !(before && p.re.test(before)))
408 if (!hit) return next(e)
409
410 const file = path.split(/[\\/]/).pop() ?? path
411 const why = explain(hit.refusal, hit.tell, added, hit.re)
412 const flag: Flag = { id: hit.refusal.id, term: hit.tell, where: file, why, at: await $.clock.now() }
413 const deny = {
414 deny: `Deviation kernel ${hit.refusal.id}, in ${file}. ${why} Rework this part against the refusal. If this use genuinely does not touch the refusal, say why in one line and ask the user before trying again.`,
415 }
416
417 const current = mode()
418 if (current === 'block') {
419 await logFlag($, flag, 'blocked')
420 $.ui.toast(`kernel ${flag.id}: blocked "${flag.term}" in ${file}`)
421 return deny
422 }
423
424 if (current === 'warn') {
425 await logFlag($, flag, 'warned')
426 await addPending($, [flag])
427 $.ui.toast(`kernel ${flag.id}: "${flag.term}" in ${file}`)
428 return next(e)
429 }
430
431 // ask: hold the edit until you decide
432 let answer = 'Refuse it'
433 try {
434 answer = await $.ui.ask(
435 `Kernel ${flag.id}, in ${file}. ${why} Let it through?`,
436 { header: 'Kernel', options: ['Refuse it', 'Allow, on purpose'] },
437 )
438 } catch {
439 // dismissed, or nobody to ask (claude -p): fall through to refuse
440 }
441 if (answer === 'Allow, on purpose') {
442 await logFlag($, flag, 'allowed')
443 return next(e)
444 }
445 await logFlag($, flag, 'refused')
446 return deny
447 }).catch(($, e, next) => (next.called ? next(e) : { deny: 'The deviation-kernel guard failed on this edit, so it was not applied. Ask the user before retrying.' }))
448
449 // ---------- answers: semantic drift the keyword tells miss ----------
450
451 on('turn.complete', async ($, e, next) => {
452 const done = await next(e)
453 if (!semantic || !section || e.agentId || e.isAborted || (e.answer ?? '').length < 300) return done
454
455 const answer = e.answer.slice(-12000)
456 $.clock.after(0, async () => {
457 const r = await $.model.complete({
458 model: 'haiku',
459 effort: 'low',
460 maxTokens: 600,
461 system:
462 'You audit an answer against a project\'s deviation kernel: assumptions the project refuses on purpose. Report only places where the answer adopts, assumes or builds on a refused assumption, including through a standard component that carries it implicitly. Do not report places that name a refused assumption in order to reject or contrast with it. Reply with JSON only: an array of {"id":"R#","quote":"<at most 12 words copied from the answer>","why":"<at most 20 words>"}. Reply [] when nothing trips.',
463 prompt: `${section}\n\nANSWER:\n${answer}`,
464 })
465 if (!r.isAnswered) return
466 const start = r.text.indexOf('[')
467 const end = r.text.lastIndexOf(']')
468 if (start < 0 || end <= start) return
469 let found: { id?: string; quote?: string; why?: string }[] = []
470 try {
471 found = JSON.parse(r.text.slice(start, end + 1))
472 } catch {
473 return
474 }
475 const ids = new Set(parsed.refusals.map(x => x.id))
476 const at = await $.clock.now()
477 const flags: Flag[] = found
478 .filter(f => f && typeof f.id === 'string' && ids.has(f.id.toUpperCase()))
479 .slice(0, 4)
480 .map(f => ({ id: f.id!.toUpperCase(), term: String(f.quote ?? '').slice(0, 120), where: 'last answer', why: String(f.why ?? '').slice(0, 160), at }))
481 if (!flags.length) return
482 await addPending($, flags)
483 for (const f of flags) await logFlag($, f, 'flagged')
484 $.ui.toast(`kernel: ${flags.map(f => f.id).join(', ')} drift in last answer`)
485 })
486 return done
487 })
488
489 // ---------- /kernel ----------
490
491 on('command.run', { command: 'kernel' }, async ($, e) => {
492 const [sub, ...rest] = (e.args ?? '').trim().split(/\s+/)
493 const arg = rest.join(' ').trim()
494 const asMode = (m: string): Mode | undefined => (m === 'ask' || m === 'warn' || m === 'block' ? m : undefined)
495
496 if (sub === 'init') {
497 if (await loadKernel($)) return { text: `A kernel already exists at ${kernelPath}.` }
498 await $.fs.write('KERNEL.md', TEMPLATE)
499 await loadKernel($, true)
500 return { text: 'Wrote KERNEL.md from the template. Fill in the refusals; the mod picks it up on your next prompt.' }
501 }
502
503 if (sub === 'add') {
504 if (!arg) return { text: 'Usage: /kernel add <refused assumption> | tells: a, b | instead: ...' }
505 if (!(await loadKernel($))) await $.fs.write('KERNEL.md', TEMPLATE.replace(/## Refuses[\s\S]*?\n\n/, '## Refuses\n\n'))
506 await loadKernel($, true)
507 const n = parsed.refusals.reduce((max, r) => Math.max(max, Number(r.id.slice(1)) || 0), 0) + 1
508 const text = await $.fs.read(kernelPath)
509 const line = `- R${n}: ${arg}`
510 const updated = /## Refuses\s*\n/i.test(text)
511 ? text.replace(/(## Refuses[^\n]*\n(?:[ \t]*[-*][^\n]*\n|[ \t]*\n)*?)(\n?## |\s*$)/i, (_m, body, tail) => `${body.replace(/\n*$/, '\n')}${line}\n${tail.startsWith('\n') || tail.trim() === '' ? tail : '\n' + tail}`)
512 : `${text.replace(/\n*$/, '\n')}\n## Refuses\n${line}\n`
513 await $.fs.write(kernelPath, updated)
514 await loadKernel($, true)
515 return { text: `Added R${n} to ${kernelPath}. Claude reads it from the next request.` }
516 }
517
518 if (sub === 'mode') {
519 const next = asMode(arg)
520 if (!next) return { text: `Mode is ${mode()}. Use /kernel mode ask|warn|block.` }
521 modeOverride = next
522 await $.store.set('mode', next)
523 await update($, summary, s => (s ? { ...s, mode: next } : s))
524 return { text: `Kernel mode: ${next}.` }
525 }
526
527 if (sub === 'reload') {
528 const ok = await loadKernel($, true)
529 return { text: ok ? `Reloaded ${kernelPath}: ${parsed.refusals.length} refusals.` : 'No KERNEL.md here. Run /kernel init.' }
530 }
531
532 if (sub === 'log') {
533 const log = ((await $.store.get(logKey)) as (Flag & { decision: string })[] | undefined) ?? []
534 if (!log.length) return { text: 'No kernel trips logged for this project yet.' }
535 return { text: log.slice(-15).map(f => `${f.id} ${f.decision}: "${f.term}" in ${f.where}${f.why ? ` (${f.why})` : ''}`).join('\n') }
536 }
537
538 if (sub === 'check') {
539 if (!section) return { text: 'No kernel loaded. Run /kernel init.' }
540 const r = await $.model.fork({
541 prompt: `${section}\n\nAudit the work in this conversation so far against the kernel above. For each refusal, say whether the design or code has quietly re-imposed it, quoting the place. Then list conventional choices made on purpose that do not touch the kernel. Be specific and short. If nothing trips, say so.`,
542 })
543 return { text: r.isAnswered ? `Kernel audit:\n${r.text}` : 'The kernel audit could not run just now.' }
544 }
545
546 // bare /kernel: show it
547 if (!(await loadKernel($))) return { text: 'No KERNEL.md in this project. Run /kernel init to write a template, or /kernel add <refusal>.' }
548 await $.ui.open({ id: PANE, title: `Kernel: ${parsed.project}`, focus: true, closeOnEscape: true })
549 return {}
550 })
551
552 // ---------- drawing ----------
553
554 on('ui.render', { component: 'AbovePrompt' }, async ($, e, next) => {
555 const s = await read($, summary)
556 if (!s || e.props.hasSurvey) return next(e)
557 const flags = await read($, pending)
558 const { Box, Text, Button } = $.ui.resolve(e)
559
560 const children: any[] = [Text({ dimColor: true, children: [`◆ kernel · ${s.project} · ${s.refusals} refusals · ${s.mode}`] })]
561 if (flags.length) {
562 children.push(Text({ color: 'yellow', children: [` · ⚠ ${flags.map(f => f.id).join(', ')} drift → goes to Claude with your next prompt `] }))
563 children.push(Button({ key: 'drop', label: 'drop', plain: true, dimColor: true, onPress: () => update($, pending, () => []) }))
564 }
565 const theirs = await next(e)
566 return Box({ flexDirection: 'column', children: [Box({ flexDirection: 'row', children }), ...(theirs ? [theirs] : [])] })
567 })
568
569 on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
570 const { Markdown } = $.ui.resolve(e)
571 const log = ((await $.store.get(logKey)) as (Flag & { decision: string })[] | undefined) ?? []
572 const refusals = parsed.refusals
573 .map(r => `**${r.id}** ${r.assumption}${r.tells.length ? ` \n tells: ${r.tells.join(', ')}` : ''}${r.instead ? ` \n instead: ${r.instead}` : ''}`)
574 .join('\n\n')
575 const keeps = parsed.keeps.length ? `\n\n**Kept conventional:** ${parsed.keeps.join('; ')}` : ''
576 const exempt = parsed.exempt.length ? `\n\n**Exempt from the edit check:** ${parsed.exempt.join(', ')}` : ''
577 const trips = log.length
578 ? `\n\n**Recent trips**\n\n${log.slice(-8).reverse().map(f => `- ${f.id} ${f.decision}: "${f.term}" in ${f.where}${f.why ? ` \n ${f.why}` : ''}`).join('\n')}`
579 : ''
580 return Markdown({ key: 'kernel', text: `Mode: **${mode()}** · file: \`${kernelPath}\`\n\n${refusals}${keeps}${exempt}${trips}` })
581 })
582}
583types/index.d.ts 31 lines1export type Mode = 'ask' | 'warn' | 'block'
2
3/** One refused assumption, parsed from KERNEL.md. */
4export type Refusal = {
5 id: string
6 assumption: string
7 tells: string[]
8 instead: string
9}
10
11/** A place where work re-imposed a refusal. */
12export type Flag = {
13 id: string
14 term: string
15 where: string
16 why: string
17 at: number
18}
19
20export type KernelSummary = {
21 project: string
22 refusals: number
23 mode: Mode
24} | null
25
26declare module 'claude-code' {
27 interface PluginState {
28 'deviation-kernel': { pending: Flag[]; summary: KernelSummary }
29 }
30}
31