Payne Edit — Git skill for Claude Code
Dev mode — improve PayneSDD itself from any project: edit the canonical repo live, gate it, quality-review, then commit/push (and optionally release) with your approval.
How to install Payne Edit
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/vlr-code-paynesdd-payne-edit/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/vlr-code-paynesdd-payne-edit && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vlr-code/PayneSDD/HEAD/commands/payne-edit.md -o ~/.claude/skills/vlr-code-paynesdd-payne-edit/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Payne Edit does
description: Dev mode — improve PayneSDD itself from any project: edit the canonical repo live, gate it, quality-review, then commit/push (and optionally release) with your approval. disable-model-invocation: true
/payne-edit — PayneSDD self-improvement (dev mode)
You are about to modify the **canonical PayneSDD repository itself**, possibly from inside a *different* project. This is the dev-mode execution engine. Be disciplined: it edits a public product and writes to a real repo.
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