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Dev skills blueprint · sheet 01

Quox dev skills, as a system.

Sixty-eight skills, drawn as what they actually are: a small set of disciplines that execute, wrapped in a large set of operating manuals. Every rule marked in copper was paid for by a real incident.

Skills loadable68Sheet01Drawn2026-08-06

Plate 1 · The system

Skills fall into five families. Only the first family runs during work and changes what gets done; the rest are loaded on demand to teach a surface or drive a terminal.

Work arrives
What kind?
a bug
/fix-loopfailing test first
a feature
/tddtests before code
a claim
/proof-loopclaim to shipped evidence
a risky edit
/preflightblast radius
/verifybuild, tests, container
/security-audit3 passes, finds AND fixes
/release-check7 phases, pre-release
⇢ gaps found → back to /proof-loop↻ /proof-loop hardens itself

Operating manuals, loaded on demand

  • quoxpert family (14) · core, cli, flow, mcp, bastion, qluster, plan, protocols…
  • quox-user family (5) · drive the product as a user

Terminals and daemons

  • terminal9 · build queue
  • watch · monitor · nucleus-watch
  • telegram-owner · gripe

Content and craft

  • writing · glass-design-system
  • higgsfield · nano-banana · blog-hero
  • screenrecord · screenshot-walkthrough
7 disciplines that execute19 operating manuals42 tools, terminals and craftevery discipline now hardens itself

Plate 2 · /proof-loop

The sibling of /fix-loop. Where fix-loop takes a bug to a passing test, proof-loop takes a claim to shipped evidence. Seven stages, and the last two are the ones that get skipped, which is exactly why it is a loop.

1
Inventory the claimseach becomes a row: claim, proof, evidence
2
Drive it, automated firstCLI, API, browser. Cannot automate = a finding
3
Capture with assertionsno loading, no degraded banner, positive evidence
screenshots
4
Turn captures into walkthroughsevery pin describes THIS image
walkthroughs
5
File everything exposedproduct, automation, honesty, code
product gapsautomation gaps
6
Close the looppromo, docs, evidence, STATUS, production
7
Harden the loop itselfthe failure becomes a new assertion here
↺ stage 7 → stage 1: next run starts stricter⇠ stage 3 → stage 2: capture refused
one effort, four returnsstage 6 now includes production, not just the repoa shipped gate: verified-on-localhost is a different claimagent honesty: an agent's report is a claim, not evidence

Plate 3 · How a lesson travels

The rule added on 2026-08-06. A lesson written only to memory is passive recall. A lesson written into a skill executes, every time that skill runs.

A failure
or a correction
Which skill
should have
caught it?
named
Put it in THAT skill,
at the step where it fires
none
That absence IS the finding:
a skill needs the section,
or a skill needs creating
Memory keeps the index
and the cross-links
⇢ the named-skill branch also fires next time, without being remembered

Plate 4 · What the inventory exposed

Drawing the system found faults in it, which is the same yield the loop claims for products.

FindingDetailState
Six skills were undiscoverabledeploy, docker-rebuild, quoxify, quoxplan, remind and yolo-fix had no frontmatter at all, so nothing could select them by intent. They existed and could not be found. All six now have a name and a description.
Correction: this sheet first said TEN. The four higgsfield-* skills were fine; they use block-scalar descriptions my inventory script could not read. The measurement was wrong, not the skills. Filed as its own lesson.
fixed 08-06
Three skills were not loadable at allrelease-check and cc3d-dev were bare files at the skills root; cli-audit had no frontmatter. All three were cited in CLAUDE.md as if usable.fixed 08-06
The disciplines had absorbed nothingThe five skills that autonomous work actually runs were last meaningfully updated in February and March, while ten fresh lessons went to memory instead.fixed 08-06
Overlap worth resolvingEight image and design skills, three roadmap surfaces, seven terminal daemons. Not urgent, but it dilutes the set that matters.noted

The product thought. This is maintained the way the dashboard's glass-design-system is maintained: one page, one source of truth, amended when reality changes. If the dev-skills blueprint becomes a product surface, this sheet is its first plate, and the DEVSUITE stream is where it belongs.