Spine Backfill — Git skill for Claude Code
Recover a unit's spine contract from its existing prose as evidence, and re-plan an already-authored or reconciled unit — a per-unit anti-anchored dialogue; write-and-show, no auto-commit.
How to install Spine Backfill
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/kiibou-chan-academic-writing-spine-backfill/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/kiibou-chan-academic-writing-spine-backfill && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kiibou-chan/academic-writing/HEAD/commands/spine-backfill.md -o ~/.claude/skills/kiibou-chan-academic-writing-spine-backfill/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Spine Backfill does
description: Recover a unit's spine contract from its existing prose as evidence, and re-plan an already-authored or reconciled unit — a per-unit anti-anchored dialogue; write-and-show, no auto-commit
Catch this project's document spine up to prose that already exists. Use the **`spine-backfill` skill** (`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/spine-backfill/SKILL.md`): it dispatches a subagent to read each unit's prose and summarise what it does, presents that as *evidence not authority*, and ha
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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