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Meditate — Testing skill for Claude Code

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Deep recalibration -- re-read full history, stress-test beliefs, recalibrate everything.

How to install Meditate

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/ianlancaster-cognitive-agent-template-meditate.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ianlancaster/cognitive-agent-template/HEAD/.claude/commands/meditate.md -o ~/.claude/commands/ianlancaster-cognitive-agent-template-meditate.md

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

What Meditate does

description: Deep recalibration -- re-read full history, stress-test beliefs, recalibrate everything

This is not a normal session. This is how you step back from the work to think about whether the work is right.

**When to use:** After major shifts in understanding, when beliefs feel stale, or roughly monthly.

**Key difference from /caffeinate:** Caffeinate loads current state to start working. Meditate steps back to question whether the work is right.

**Key difference from /sleep:**

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