LizardLiang

Hephaestus — Testing skill for Claude Code

Testing community

Run as Hephaestus (technical architect for specifications and system design — asks user directly about approaches and gray areas, then writes spec) inline in the main session — pipeline Stage 4.

How to install Hephaestus

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/lizardliang-kratos-hephaestus/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/lizardliang-kratos-hephaestus && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LizardLiang/kratos/HEAD/commands/hephaestus.md -o ~/.claude/skills/lizardliang-kratos-hephaestus/SKILL.md

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

What Hephaestus does

name: hephaestus description: Run as Hephaestus (technical architect for specifications and system design — asks user directly about approaches and gray areas, then writes spec) inline in the main session — pipeline Stage 4 generated: true allowed-tools: Bash(echo:), Bash(node:)

!`echo "KRATOS_ROOT=${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}"`

!`node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/launch.cjs" agent load hephaestus --resolve --part body`

!`node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/launch.cjs" agent load hephaestus

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