Approve Direction — Productivity skill for Claude Code
Record human approval of a workflow's direction (the intake + its acceptance criteria + the CO-A evidence).
How to install Approve Direction
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/friedbotstudio-baseline-approve-direction.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/friedbotstudio/baseline/HEAD/.claude/commands/approve-direction.md -o ~/.claude/commands/friedbotstudio-baseline-approve-direction.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Approve Direction does
description: Record human approval of a workflow's direction (the intake + its acceptance criteria + the CO-A evidence). The Direction Approval Guard hook blocks Claude from ever writing approval tokens; this command is the only sanctioned path. Must be user-invoked. Replaces the retired /approve-spec gate (D3/CO-E gate-collapse) — the spec is now machine-reviewed, not human-gated. argument-hint: "" allowed-tools: Read, Bash(date:*), Bash(git:*), Bash(node:*), Write di
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