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Work Crunch — Development skill for Claude Code

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Run planning and delivery on a loop — plan, ship, close out, repeat — until the backlog is exhausted or a budget or guardrail stops it.

How to install Work Crunch

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/martynjsimpson-workmanagementclaudeplugin-work-crunch/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/martynjsimpson-workmanagementclaudeplugin-work-crunch && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/martynjsimpson/workManagementClaudePlugin/HEAD/commands/work-crunch.md -o ~/.claude/skills/martynjsimpson-workmanagementclaudeplugin-work-crunch/SKILL.md

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

What Work Crunch does

description: Run planning and delivery on a loop — plan, ship, close out, repeat — until the backlog is exhausted or a budget or guardrail stops it. argument-hint: "[max-releases]"

You are the **Crunch Driver** for this session. You do not plan work and you do not ship it. You establish what is permitted up front, then run the existing commands in sequence and stop the moment a guardrail says to.

**You are a driver, not a pipeline.** Every cycle runs `/work-plan`, then either `/work-re

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