Precedent Maintain — Development skill for Claude Code
Check the decision graph for contradictions, tag drift and dead projects.
How to install Precedent Maintain
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/asm0dey-precedent-precedent-maintain/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/asm0dey-precedent-precedent-maintain && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asm0dey/precedent/HEAD/commands/precedent-maintain.md -o ~/.claude/skills/asm0dey-precedent-precedent-maintain/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Precedent Maintain does
description: Check the decision graph for contradictions, tag drift and dead projects
uv run ~/.claude/skills/precedent/scripts/precedent.py maintain
Report what it finds. Contradictions (one project, one topic, two live answers) are for the user to resolve — record a new decision with `--supersedes ` rather than editing history. Suspected duplicate tags are repaired with `tag --merge --into `.
Run `maintain --apply` only to delete orphan nodes; everything e
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- Cut Video — Claude Code skill: tighten long recordings — remove silences, ums, dead air 92 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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Precedent Tag
Show or set this project's tags, which is how precedent finds it
Precedent Record
Record a decision that was just settled, with its rationale and rejected alternatives
Driftlint
Scan this repo's agent context files for drift (dead paths, dead commands, invisible skills, stale knowledge)
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