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Gauntlet Loop — Development skill for Claude Code

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Fast path for a throwaway proof of concept — set a named outside bar, run a builder against a separate blind critic per piece, and loop until the critic picks ours.

How to install Gauntlet Loop

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/celestialdust-achilles-skills-gauntlet-loop/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/celestialdust-achilles-skills-gauntlet-loop && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/celestialdust/achilles-skills/HEAD/commands/gauntlet-loop.md -o ~/.claude/skills/celestialdust-achilles-skills-gauntlet-loop/SKILL.md

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

What Gauntlet Loop does

description: Fast path for a throwaway proof of concept — set a named outside bar, run a builder against a separate blind critic per piece, and loop until the critic picks ours. Production work uses the lifecycle commands.

Gauntlet loop — standalone, for throwaway work: a spike, a demo, a bake-off. Anything that ships goes through `/ideate` … `/ship` instead, so this one is offered and never picked on your behalf.

Run `gauntlet-loop`. It fixes one named, fetchable outside reference as

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