masondelan

Prior Attempts — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Was this change tried and reverted before.

How to install Prior Attempts

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/masondelan-selvedge-prior-attempts/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/masondelan-selvedge-prior-attempts && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/masondelan/selvedge/HEAD/commands/prior-attempts.md -o ~/.claude/skills/masondelan-selvedge-prior-attempts/SKILL.md

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

What Prior Attempts does

description: Was this change tried and reverted before? Check an entity's prior attempts, and why they were rejected, before editing it. argument-hint: [entity] allowed-tools: Bash(selvedge-cli:*)

Run `selvedge-cli prior-attempts "$ARGUMENTS"` and report whether the change was tried before and how it turned out. Read-only.

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