Chisel

Lonestone's dev-workflow socle, installable in any repo.

Chisel bundles our agent methodology — reading-gradient task files, seams agreed before code, think/type split with model tiers, two-axis review — into a single .agents/ folder that Claude Code, Cursor and Codex all read, posed by one command:

npx @lonestone/chisel init

⚠️ Work in progress. v1 is being built — see project-management/tasks/ (this repo dogfoods its own methodology).

What it will do

• chisel init — copy the socle into your repo (.agents/ + adapters: AGENTS.md managed block, CLAUDE.md import, .claude/skills symlink, /project-management/ workspace) then run a setup questionnaire that writes .agents/project.md — the glue holding YOUR paths (tasks, docs, reading list, gate commands).
• chisel update — re-render the managed parts from a newer socle; never touches your glue or your files.
• chisel check — report socle version and local divergences.
• sync-upstream (maintainers, in this repo) — pull Matt Pocock's skill improvements into our forks: agent proposes, human validates.

Provenance

Skills forked from mattpocock/skills (MIT) and adapted; methodology fused with the Lonestone task lifecycle and patterns from dex's "Why Software Factories Fail". Piloted on two production repos before extraction.