Death Crystal — Development skill for Claude Code
Architectural deepening lens — surface shallow Modules and propose interface alternatives using Pocock vocabulary.
How to install Death Crystal
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/gregorydickson-pickle-rick-claude-death-crystal.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gregorydickson/pickle-rick-claude/HEAD/.claude/commands/death-crystal.md -o ~/.claude/commands/gregorydickson-pickle-rick-claude-death-crystal.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Death Crystal does
Architectural deepening lens — surface shallow Modules and propose interface alternatives using Pocock vocabulary. Renders an HTML report in `--deepen` mode; synthesizes one recommended Interface in `--interface` mode.
/death-crystal
Git Boundary Rules (READ FIRST — applies to every step)
You are pinned to the current branch. The pipeline owns branch state.
PROHIBITED commands (worker MUST NOT run):
- branch / HEAD mutation:
git checkout, `git s
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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