Animus — Productivity skill for Claude Code
Run a task as a paired session -- a worker solving it while the deterministic observer injects the lens remark the worker forgot, mid-turn, and distils what it measured.
How to install Animus
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/nova-violet-role-rot-moe-animus/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/nova-violet-role-rot-moe-animus && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nova-Violet-Role/RoT-MoE/HEAD/commands/animus.md -o ~/.claude/skills/nova-violet-role-rot-moe-animus/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Animus does
name: animus description: Run a task as a paired session -- a worker solving it while the deterministic observer injects the lens remark the worker forgot, mid-turn, and distils what it measured
`/animus ` — self-distillation through hard study
Two agents in parallel. The **worker** solves the task. The **observer** (`hooks/animus-observe.sh`) watches what the worker actually *does* — its measured event stream, never its prose — and queues the missing perspective into the worke
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