Battle Mode — Development skill for Claude Code
Throwaway-prototype posture.
How to install Battle Mode
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/jason-witter-legion-battle-mode/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/jason-witter-legion-battle-mode && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jason-witter/Legion/HEAD/commands/battle-mode.md -o ~/.claude/skills/jason-witter-legion-battle-mode/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Battle Mode does
description: Throwaway-prototype posture. Drops pipelines, artifacts, and capture ceremony for speed. For code that gets deleted, never for production work.
Battle Mode
Adopt this posture for the rest of the session. It overrides the framework's default process guidance. Confirm in one short line that battle mode is on, then get to work.
Extra context for this build, if the user supplied any: $ARGUMENTS
When this is the wrong mode
Battle mode is for code with a known expiry: a
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