# claude-launchpad

Audits your Claude Code configuration, gives it a quality score out of 100, and repairs broken hooks and permissions.

- plugin · `type=plugin` · Claude Code · ★ 6
- Author: mboss37
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mboss37/claude-launchpad
- Updated: 2026-09-03
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/plugins/claude-launchpad

## What it does

Launchpad evaluates your coding agent setup by scanning `CLAUDE.md`, local rules, and hooks. It targets clear failure points. When `CLAUDE.md` grows past roughly 200 lines, the agent frequently overlooks instructions near the bottom. The scanner detects instruction bloat, exposed secrets, and unprompted access to `~/.ssh` or `~/.aws`.

To prevent disorganized instructions, it applies a three-file structure: `CLAUDE.md`, `TASKS.md`, and `BACKLOG.md`. Running `claude-launchpad doctor --fix` scaffolds missing workflow rules, restores the `workflow-check.sh` hook, and protects `.env` files.

The doctor command runs offline. It evaluates project files locally without sending network requests or spending API credits.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install claude-launchpad@claude-community
```

## When to use it
- split bloated `CLAUDE.md` instructions into structured task and backlog files
- catch exposed credentials and broad Bash permissions before the agent runs
- configure auto-formatting hooks and guard the `.env` file
- repair broken MCP server transport configurations and command paths

## Example prompts
- Run /lp-enhance to inspect the codebase and update CLAUDE.md
- Check and fix my Claude Code setup with npx claude-launchpad doctor --fix
- Scaffold fresh project configs and hooks using npx claude-launchpad init

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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# Claude Launchpad

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**Claude follows CLAUDE.md ~80% of the time. Hooks run at 100%. Most setups have zero hooks.**

Launchpad scores your coding-agent config, fixes gaps with hooks and permissions, and runs scenarios to prove the agent follows your rules. Local Cursor Agent projects can be scaffolded, diagnosed, repaired, and evaluated with `--harness cursor`. Memory is the same local SQLite store and MCP server for both harnesses (`memory install --harness claude|cursor|both`). Cursor Cloud memory is not supported.

Cursor can also consume Claude Code files (`CLAUDE.md`, `.claude/skills/`, `.claude/agents/`, supported hooks) when [third-party configuration](https://cursor.com/docs/reference/third-party-hooks) is enabled. That is a migration bridge, not the native target. Launchpad generates native Cursor files (`AGENTS.md`, `.cursor/`) and certifies them with a live Agent canary. Verified against Cursor Agent `2026.08.25-3e8eec8` via `pnpm canary:cursor`. Eval through Cursor Agent is `pnpm canary:cursor:eval`.

For developers using Claude Code or Cursor Agent who want consistent results: solo devs, vibe coders, AI-first teams.

## Install and See Your Score

```bash
npx claude-launchpad
```

```
  Instruction Budget     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   100%
  CLAUDE.md Quality      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   100%
  Settings               ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   100%
  Hooks                  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   100%
  Rules                  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   100%
  Permissions            ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   100%
  MCP Servers            ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   100%

  Overall                ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   100%

  ✓ No issues found. Your configuration looks solid.
```

A typical unconfigured project scores ~31%. After `--fix`, it jumps to ~91%.

## Quick Start

**New project:**

```bash
npx claude-launchpad init
```

Detects your stack, generates config, hooks, and permissions. Start at ~93%.

**Existing project:**

```bash
npx claude-launchpad doctor --fix
```

Scores your config, auto-repairs everything it can.

## The Three-File System + Workflow Rules

Without structure, CLAUDE.md becomes a dumping ground:

- Future ideas bury active guidance
- Sprint notes push conventions off-screen  
- Past ~200 lines, Claude starts ignoring rules at the bottom

The three-file split keeps each concern where it belongs:

| File | Purpose | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `CLAUDE.md` | What Claude needs to know | Stack, commands, conventions, guardrails |
| `TASKS.md` | What we're doing now | Current sprint, session log (empty between sprints) |
| `BACKLOG.md` | What we're doing later | WP-NNN template, 7 mandatory fields, P0/P1/P2/P3 sections |
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