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Pickle Dot Patterns — Development skill for Claude Code

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Pickle-dot pattern reference.

How to install Pickle Dot Patterns

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/gregorydickson-pickle-rick-claude-pickle-dot-patterns.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gregorydickson/pickle-rick-claude/HEAD/.claude/commands/pickle-dot-patterns.md -o ~/.claude/commands/gregorydickson-pickle-rick-claude-pickle-dot-patterns.md

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

What Pickle Dot Patterns does

Pickle-dot pattern reference. Read by `/pickle-dot` on demand — do NOT load this file unless `/pickle-dot` instructs you to.

Recent Validator Changes (2026-04-14)

Three validator rules changed and one is new — read these BEFORE applying the pattern catalog. Skipping this section will cost you a validate-fix loop iteration on the very first run.

**1. NEW rule: `gate_self_retry_loop`** (ERROR severity)

Tool nodes with `reports_to_v=...` (i.e. a convergence gate inside an iterate body) MUST

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