Anvil Protocol — Development agent for Claude Code
The Anvil — 7-Tier Agent-Handoff Gate Protocol (A0–A6).
How to install Anvil Protocol
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/samibs-skillfoundry-_anvil-protocol.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samibs/skillfoundry/HEAD/agents/_anvil-protocol.md -o ~/.claude/agents/samibs-skillfoundry-_anvil-protocol.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Anvil Protocol does
The Anvil — 7-Tier Agent-Handoff Gate Protocol (A0–A6)
**Version**: 1.1 **Status**: ACTIVE **Applies To**: All Agents in the Story Execution Pipeline
Purpose
The Anvil is a 7-tier validation system that runs between every agent phase in the story execution pipeline. It catches issues at the source — before they cascade through the chain and require expensive re-runs.
**Core insight**: LLMs generate code optimistically (forward, single-pass) but debug analytically (backwards from ev
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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