Start HERE when unsure which ripwire skill fits, or asked 'how do I use ripwire / where do I start'. A moment→skill map, cold start to handoff, plus the two reflexes that leak most: --exemplar before you write, --quality-delta before you call it done. One hop…
Architecture HEALTH and ENFORCEMENT — 'is this a dependency mess / does the UI reach into the database / enforce module boundaries in CI?': cycles, the godfile, propagation cost (how far a touch ripples), --arch rules with a baseline gate. Overview without…
Wire ripwire into an agent as an MCP server — `ripwire wrap AGENT` (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini…) — and choose the server verb mid-task. Also tool HEALTH: a symbol you expected is missing from the ranked output, the index feels stale after a rebase,…
Landing COLD in an unfamiliar repo or subsystem, or about to open several files for one question: map first, read only what it ranks highest — main subsystems, entry points, 'how does X work / where is Y'. Also recover context after compaction, retrieve saved…
You can NAME the symbol: who calls it, what it calls, the path from A to B, its full body, or an exact literal/regex match. 'Safe to change or rename X — what breaks downstream?' = the transitive blast radius, not 1-hop callers. Three or more symbols →…
Merge-SAFETY of an existing diff — yours before you push, or a PR you review: blast radius, tests to run, a broken contract (--edit-check=SYM), branch conflicts and landing order, unmerged work stranded on old branches, which ref defines it. Code QUALITY →…
Code QUALITY of what YOU just wrote, before commit or 'done', or a cleanup: --quality-delta lists what got WORSE in 12 kinds, exit 2 if old code got worse (new-symbol rows never gate, except defect-shape format-arity); the fix a measured shape (humps/deep,…
Brief someone ELSE on a subsystem — 'hand this area off' to a successor, teammate or fresh session: purpose, the 2-3 entry points with bodies, the design docs that say WHY, hotspot/bus-factor risk — a compact pasteable brief, not a wall of source.…