Clanker Discipline
Description
An agent skill designed to discipline coding agents against state explosion, grab-bag models, and mutation ambiguity.
Installation
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README
clanker-discipline
Discipline AI coding agents against state explosion, grab-bag models, and mutation ambiguity.
Install
npx skills add gbasin/clanker-discipline --all -gWhat it does
AI coding agents overproduce state — every bug gets one more flag, every feature one more optional field. This skill teaches agents to:
- Derive, don't store — if it can be computed from existing data, don't cache it in a flag
- Make wrong states impossible — discriminated unions over optional bags, null over sentinels, branded primitives
- Enforce function contracts — pure functions stay pure; mutate+void or clone+return, never both
- Data over procedure — if every branch returns the same shape, it's a table, not an if-chain
Credits
Combines ideas from [theswerd/aicode](https://github.com/theswerd/aicode) ([self-documenting code](https://github.com/theswerd/aicode/blob/main/skills/self-documenting-code/SKILL.md)) and [Tommy D. Rossi's event sourcing post](https://x.com/__morse/status/2032107422525907273) on combating agent state explosion.
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