# vision

This skill mines a repo's real history to draft VISION.md, then pressure-tests it with hypothetical changes on an interactive review board.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 666 installs · ★ 335
- Author: kunchenguid
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/kunchenguid/vision/tree/HEAD/skills/vision/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-02
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/kunchenguid-vision

## What it does

The skill reads your repository history and pulls out what you actually build: merged PR titles and bodies, commits, README claims, refusal paths. From that evidence it drafts VISION.md at 40-70 lines, one sentence per line, with explicit non-goals and a closing pair of tests for what aligns and what should be resisted.

Then comes the stress test. The skill writes 8-12 concrete change proposals aimed at the draft's fault lines and shows them one at a time on a board in the browser. The board runs through `npx -y lavish-axi`, so there is nothing to install. Your verdicts go back into the text, and every answer maps to a named edit in a changelog, so you can see how each one changed the wording.

You need read access to the repository and its real history. Merged PRs through a GitHub-class CLI such as `gh` are the preferred source; default-branch `git log` is the fallback. If no history is readable at all, the skill stops rather than inventing your values. When a VISION.md already exists on the default branch, it switches to delta mode and treats that file as the approved baseline instead of writing a competing one.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add kunchenguid/vision --skill vision -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/vision/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/vision/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add kunchenguid/vision --skill vision -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/vision/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add kunchenguid/vision --skill vision -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/vision/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install kunchenguid/vision vision
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/vision/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add kunchenguid/vision --skill vision -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/kunchenguid/vision --path skills/vision
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/vision/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add kunchenguid/vision --skill vision -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/kunchenguid/vision/tree/HEAD/skills/vision/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- draft a VISION.md from real repo history instead of generic virtues
- stress-test a vision with hypothetical changes that split opinion
- surface recurring author values from merged PRs and commits
- update an existing VISION.md with line-level edits
- name a project's non-goals concretely

## Example prompts
- /vision
- draft a VISION.md for this repository
- stress-test my VISION.md with hard hypotheticals

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: vision
description: >
  Draft and stress-test a VISION.md for a repository, then iterate with the
  author on an interactive review board until approved. Use on /vision or when
  asked to create or refine a project vision.
user-invocable: true
metadata:
  short-description: "Evidence-mined, stress-tested VISION.md for any repo"
---

# /vision

You are running the **vision** skill. Produce a VISION.md the author can
approve: an acceptance policy for the project's future, grounded in what they
actually build, and sharpened by hypotheticals they answer on an interactive
review board.

VISION.md is the only committed alignment surface. A reviewer who has never
seen the board must be able to accept or resist a change from it alone.

This is not a writing exercise. Follow this file top to bottom.

## Host requirement

You need read access to the target repository and its real history:

- Prefer merged-PR history via a GitHub-class CLI (gh, gh-axi).
- If PRs are not accessible, fall back to git commit history on the default
  branch (git log): titles and messages still reveal what the author builds.
- Only if no real history is readable at all, **stop** and say so. Never
  fabricate the author's values, PR titles, or evidence. A vision built on
  invented evidence is worse than no vision.

The review loop runs on lavish-axi, executed directly through
`npx -y lavish-axi` - no install requirement. Simply try to launch it, and
report a blocker only if the launch itself fails.

## Hard rules

1. **Evidence over vibes.** Every principle in the draft must be traceable to
   concrete evidence: named PRs or commits, files, docs, or reasoning the
   author approved into VISION.md. Generic engineering virtues ("we value
   quality") are banned unless the history demonstrates them specifically.
2. **Check for an existing VISION.md first.** If one exists on the default
   branch, switch to delta mode: treat it as the approved baseline, propose
   line-level candidate changes from evidence newer than it, and never write a
   competing document.
3. **The author owns the vision.** You draft, stress-test, and fold in their
   verdicts; you never approve, never soften a hypothetical to please, and
   never fold in a principle they did not state or demonstrate.
4. **A vision is an acceptance policy.** Write testable accept/resist criteria
   in declarative present tense, with explicit non-goals, so a future reader,
   human or agent, can apply them to a concrete change from VISION.md alone.
5. **No softball hypotheticals.** Each one must sit on a genuine fault line
   where yes and no are both defensible, with both sides steelmanned. If you
   can predict the author's answer, replace the hypothetical.
6. **The review loop runs on lavish-axi, from the shipped template.** Draft
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