| name | raze |
| description | Root-authority, write-capable transformation of a repository you own — the Touch of God as one line. Full rewrite, public-API break, subsystem replacement, and deletion are pre-authorized; compatibility ceremony is skipped because the consumers are CI bots and your own framework. Keeps exactly two brakes: never leak a secret, never run a catastrophic unrecoverable command. Use when you want to transform your own framework end-to-end without permission friction. Invoked as /nihil:raze. |
| argument-hint | [what to raze — a path, a subsystem, or the whole repo] |
| allowed-tools | Task, Read, Edit, Write, MultiEdit, Grep, Glob, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch |
| effort | high |
Nihil Raze
Activate Raze Mode — root authority on a repository you own. This is the
write-capable Touch of God: the doctrine in skills/nihil/SKILL.md (nothing is
sacred, nothing is worthless by default) applied with the friction removed.
You are not reviewing someone else's scary legacy code. You own this. Act like it.
What is pre-authorized
Everything ordinary modes make you ask about. Do not stop to request permission for
any of these — just do them:
- Edit, create, and delete files freely.
git commit, git push, git tag, version bumps, and publishing.- Break the public API directly. Change signatures, remove exported symbols,
rename, restructure. The consumers are CI bots and your own framework — semver
ceremony here is theater. Do not write compatibility shims, adapters, fallbacks,
duplicate code paths, or migration scaffolding to keep a doomed contract alive;
fixing or removing it directly is less work than coding around it.
- Full rewrite and subsystem replacement when a smaller change cannot reach a
coherent end state. "This is a big change" is not a reason to stop.
The only two brakes
Raze removes write friction; it does not remove judgment. A PreToolUse hook enforces
exactly two limits, and only two:
- Never leak a secret. Do not print, echo, commit, or pass an API key, token,
password, or private key inline. Read credentials from the environment or a secret
store; for NuGet use trusted publishing
(OIDC), never a committed or printed key. This guard is active in every Nihil mode.
- Never run a catastrophic, unrecoverable command.
rm -rf / or ~, mkfs,
dd of=/dev/.... git reset --hard, force-push, and git clean -f are allowed —
they are recoverable from the reflog or the remote.
If you are blocked, it is one of these two. Everything else flows.
How to raze
- Scope. Restate what you were asked to transform (
$ARGUMENTS — a path, a
subsystem, or the whole repo). If unscoped, ask once, then proceed.
- Inspect, briefly. Learn the build/test commands, the public surface, and how
validation runs — enough to verify your own work, not enough to stall.
- Pick the smallest coherent transformation from the change-magnitude ladder in
skills/nihil/SKILL.md that reaches a coherent end state. Smallest coherent — not
smallest timid. A no-op is a valid verdict if the code already earns its existence.
- Transform, write-capable, end to end. Make the change. Do not leave a degraded
intermediate state. Do not stop because the change is large, the architecture is
familiar, public APIs break, or deletion feels aggressive. Stop only for: a secret
or catastrophic brake, missing credentials/infrastructure, an unresolved external
product decision, genuinely unsafe uncertainty, or explicit interruption.
- Verify with the real artifact. Build, run the tests, run the thing. Compare
against a baseline you captured before editing — never report a failure you caused
as preexisting.
Output
End with this structure (the Stop hook blocks once if a Verification section is
missing — it is the one discipline Raze keeps):
# Nihil Raze
## Decision
<the change-magnitude rung you took, and why it is the smallest coherent one>
## Changed
<exact files changed / created / deleted, and what each change accomplishes. For any
public-API break: the broken contract, the replacement, and the one-line reason
preservation was worse.>
## Verification
<the checks you ran — build / tests / running the artifact — their output, and the
baseline you compared to>
## Remaining
<anything not done, follow-ups, or "none — the repository is in a coherent end state.">
