mhawthorne

Gza — AI skill for Claude Code

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AI coding assistant task and workflow manager.

How to install Gza

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open mhawthorne/gza and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Gza does

AI coding assistant task and workflow manager.

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README

GZA

![Gza - Liquid Swords](/docs/assets/gza-liquid-swords-400w.jpg)

A personal software factory - queues coding tasks for background agents to plan, implement, review, and test in parallel, then auto-merge what passes.

Key dependencies

uv — for installing GZA and its Python dependencies
A LLM provider CLI (at least one required):
- Claude Code
- Codex
Docker (optional) — runs each task in an isolated container
- optional, but there are likely more bugs in the non-Docker path as I rarely use it.

Workflow overview

**Add tasks** — any of:

gza add "..." on the CLI (--tag to group tasks by horizon)
the /gza-task-add skill
conversationally with Claude or Codex, once you've installed the skills (gza skills-install)

**Run them** — two modes:

Hands-on: gza iterate --max-iterations N drives one task through its review/improve loop; gza merge when it's good.
Async: gza watch --tag implements, reviews, and merges matching tasks in a loop.