instar-dev

What problem does it solve?

This Skill gives the instar-developing agent a safe, enforced workflow for changing the instar repository without skipping the reviews, traces, and gates that protect every downstream agent.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Structured change process: It wraps development in required phases for principle checking, planning, build execution, side-effects review, trace writing, and commit verification.
• Repository-level enforcement: It is designed for changes to runtime code, hooks, skills, jobs, templates, scaffolds, routes, and other behavior that ships with instar.
• Risk controls: It adds spec prerequisites, signal-vs-authority checks, second-pass review for high-risk changes, and no-deferrals enforcement so partial fixes do not slip through.
• Use case: An agent updating a gate, recovery path, or remediation runbook uses this Skill to make the change, prove the side effects were reviewed, and produce the artifacts required for commit and push.

Quick Start

Use the instar-dev skill to make a compliant change to the instar source tree, then complete the required review artifact and trace before committing.