# sip

An orchestrator skill: right after the agent creates or changes something, it runs the repo's other skills over the result instead of trusting its own in-session judgement.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1300 installs · ★ 1342
- Author: LilMGenius
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin/tree/HEAD/skills/depth/sip/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/sip

## What it does

\`sip` fires on a trigger: you just created or changed an artifact or skill and are about to call it done, commit, or hand it off. At that point it runs the result through a set of checks shipped in the same repo. It doesn't verify anything itself — it routes findings back to the author session to fix.

The order goes like this. First `shower`, a cold read of the artifact for fresh-eyes comprehension. Then `factchk` if the artifact asserts a reality-grounded claim, or `mandela` if it defines an eval, metric, or experiment. Next `ssotize` in audit mode sweeps the repo for anything the change duplicated or contradicted, and its consolidation plan runs only after approval. `detool` joins in when the artifact claims portability or tool-neutrality. `re0` finishes the pass by making changed docs read as a clean v0.

Checks that plainly don't apply get skipped, and the skill asks you to state what was skipped and why. A skill that isn't installed won't run either. `sip` never touches git and makes no commits. It also won't call skills marked `disable-model-invocation` — those are a human's to fire. Worth remembering if you're building a check chain on your own skill set.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill sip -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill sip -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill sip -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install LilMGenius/paperthin sip
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill sip -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin --path skills/depth/sip
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill sip -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/LilMGenius/paperthin/tree/HEAD/skills/depth/sip/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- check a fresh artifact before calling it done
- catch duplicates and contradictions the change introduced across the repo
- separate reality-grounded claims from the author's guesses
- turn changed docs into a clean v0 instead of a patch over a draft
- test a claimed portability across tools

## Example prompts
- I just finished the README, run sip on it
- taste-test this skill with sip before I commit
- run sip over the changed docs

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: sip
description: "After you create or change an artifact or skill, taste-test it with our own skills instead of trusting your in-session judgment — recursive self-improvement, made automatic. Use right after writing or editing anything, before calling it done, committing, or handing it off."
---

Taste your own cooking: the moment you finish making something, check it with the very skills this repo ships before you serve it.

## Goal

A reminder buried in docs ("remember to verify") won't reliably fire in a fresh session. `sip` makes the recursive self-improvement loop a triggered habit: right after any create or change, run our own skills on the result — the clean checks and the true ones — so quality doesn't ride on the author's biased in-session judgment.

## Workflow

1. Spot the trigger: you just created or changed an artifact or skill and are about to call it done, commit, or hand it off.
2. **Cold-read it** — run `shower` on the artifact (fresh-eyes comprehension / handoff check).
3. **Verify it's true** — if the artifact asserts a reality-grounded claim, run `factchk`; if it defines an eval, metric, or experiment, run `mandela`. Skip when it has neither.
4. **Check consistency** — run `ssotize` in audit mode across the repo for anything the change duplicated or contradicted; execute its consolidation plan only after approval.
5. **Detool portability claims** — run `detool` only when the artifact claims portability, tool-neutrality, stack-agnostic durability, or cross-agent reuse. Skip when it is provenance, operational notes, a tool-targeted runbook, or does not claim portability.
6. **Tidy** — `re0` the changed docs so the result reads as a clean v0, not a patch over a draft.
7. Apply the findings here, then serve it.

## Rules

- Trigger on your OWN output, right after making it — that's when bias is highest and a check is cheapest.
- Use the skills; don't re-implement them — `shower` for clarity, `factchk`/`mandela` for truth, `ssotize` for SSOT, `detool` for portability claims, `re0` for cleanup. `sip` orchestrates and routes findings back to the author session to fix; the skills do the work.
- Skip what plainly doesn't apply, or any check whose skill isn't installed — run only what's present. `factchk`/`mandela` fire only when there is a claim or an eval; `detool` fires only when the artifact claims portability, tool-neutrality, stack-agnostic durability, or cross-agent reuse; a one-line prose tweak may need only a consistency check. Say what you skipped and why.
- Stop at the artifact — `sip` never touches git or makes commits.
```
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