asm0dey

Precedent Check — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Show what was decided before on a topic, and flag conflicts with a proposed choice.

How to install Precedent Check

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/asm0dey-precedent-precedent-check/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/asm0dey-precedent-precedent-check && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asm0dey/precedent/HEAD/commands/precedent-check.md -o ~/.claude/skills/asm0dey-precedent-precedent-check/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Precedent Check does

description: Show what was decided before on a topic, and flag conflicts with a proposed choice argument-hint: " [option you are leaning toward]"

uv run ~/.claude/skills/precedent/scripts/precedent.py check --topic "$1" --chose "$2"

Lead with what it returns before offering your own opinion.

`CONFLICT` means this option was explicitly rejected before — quote the recorded reason. `DIVERGENCE` means the user chose differently in comparable projects.

Both are informat

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