Show HN: Curated Claude Code – a small agent harness with an intake gate

A developer released Curated Claude Code, a small agent harness for Claude Code that prioritizes safety and self-evolution over bloated skill collections. The system features an intake gate (/vet) that blocks unverified tools, a four-layer learning loop (corrections → memory → skills → gated intake), and no auto-running hooks to prevent unauthorized mutations. The repository includes a curated set of skills and agents designed to compound improvements over time without context bloat.

A small, vetted, self-evolving harness for Claude Code — curated, not dumped. 🇷🇺 Кратко на русском Небольшой курированный харнесс для Claude Code — не свалка из сотен блоков, а горстка скиллов, которые заслужили место, плюс каркас безопасности и главное цикл самоулучшения : правки пользователя становятся памятью, находки — скиллами, вход нового инструмента идёт через гейт /vet безопасность — блокирующий шаг . Никаких авто-хуков, которые мутируют что-то без спроса. Подробности — в docs/EVOLUTION.md /Sanexxxx777/curated-claude-code/blob/main/docs/EVOLUTION.md . Полный текст ниже на английском. Most "everything for Claude Code" collections optimize for count — hundreds of agents, skills, rules, and event hooks that auto-run on your tool calls. It looks impressive and fails quietly: bloated context, overlapping triggers fighting to activate, and hooks that mutate things without asking. This repo optimizes for the opposite. A handful of skills that earn their place, a spine of safety guards, and — the actual product — a system that improves itself over time, safely. A harness that grows is worth more than a harness that's big.The thing that compounds isn't the block count — it's the intake gate, the hygiene loop, and the learning machinery. →is the heart of this repo; start there. docs/EVOLUTION.md - ✅ A curated set of executable skills + always-on principles you can drop into ~/.claude/ . - ✅ A method /vet for deciding what to adopt, and a registry so you never evaluate the same tool twice. - ✅ A self-evolution loop — corrections become memory, findings become skills, the stack stays clean. - ✅ Safety by design — no surprise autonomous actions. - ❌ Not a 500-block mega-bundle. Not a framework you fork. No auto-running hooks. Single-skill self-learning harvesters are trending, and the good ones are genuinely good. This repo is the system that pattern lives in : four learning layers corrections → memory → skills → gated intake instead of one harvest step, a promotion gate so unverified guesses never become authoritative skills, an intake gate /vet so the stack doesn't bloat as it learns, and a hygiene loop system-health so it doesn't rot. If you only want the harvest step, Kulaxyz/self-learning-skills https://github.com/Kulaxyz/self-learning-skills does it well — we credit and cherry-pick it in . If you want learning as an /Sanexxxx777/curated-claude-code/blob/main/docs/EVOLUTION.md docs/EVOLUTION.md operating discipline , start here. Vet before adopt. Nothing enters on hype. Every incoming tool runs through one pipeline — relevance → security as a blocking gate → duplication → real ROI → verdict. The security phase reads a skill's body as a behavioral instruction and checks the agentic risks hidden instructions, prompt injection, trigger abuse, excessive agency a code-only scan misses. It evolves. A user correction is the strongest learning signal; a finding is captured at discovery; a 5+-iteration procedure becomes a skill — but only past a promotion gate verified check + named failure pattern + a ruled-out dead-end , so confident guesses never get enshrined as truth. The system compounds instead of going stale. → docs/EVOLUTION.md Cherry-pick over giant. A good idea inside a huge framework doesn't justify installing the framework. Extract the technique, leave the bloat. No auto-hooks. Auto-mutation without confirmation is exactly the failure mode to avoid. → rules/safety-guards.md Full rationale: docs/METHODOLOGY.md /Sanexxxx777/curated-claude-code/blob/main/docs/METHODOLOGY.md . | Skill | What it does | |---|---| vet | workflow-upgrade goal konsilium ship-secure pre-push system-health teach longread Two by design, not sixty — each reflects the verify-before-trust stance, not filler. | Agent | What it does | |---|---| adversarial-verifier | tool-scout /vet — reads a tool's repo/docs and returns a structured security report; never installs or runs.| Rule | What it covers | |---|---| code-principles.md | safety-guards.md root-cause-discipline.md new-project.md detective-mindset.md — docs/EVOLUTION.md how the harness improves itself start here .— why curated, not dumped. docs/METHODOLOGY.md — a file-based, self-learning memory pattern. docs/MEMORY SYSTEM.md — task → tool routing, proactively. docs/TOOL ROUTING.md — backup → surgical → verify → record. docs/CHANGE DISCIPLINE.md — a registry template and a worked examples/ /vet verdict. | I want to… | Use | |---|---| | Decide whether to adopt a new tool/skill/MCP | vet | | Run a deliberate pass to improve my whole setup | workflow-upgrade | | Hand a goal to the agent and get back a finished, verified result | goal | | Pressure-test a high-stakes decision go/no-go | konsilium | | Make sure a web app is safe before launch/handoff | ship-secure | | Make sure nothing junk leaves on push/deploy | pre-push | | Keep my Claude Code config from rotting | system-health | | Actually understand a session/article/concept | teach | | Write an analytical longform piece | longread | Install manually — copy only what you want. No curl | bash : this harness practices what it preaches. git clone https://github.com/Sanexxxx777/curated-claude-code cd curated-claude-code install the skills you want cp -r skills/vet ~/.claude/skills/ cp -r skills/ship-secure ~/.claude/skills/ …repeat for the rest agents → ~/.claude/agents/ ; rules → append into your CLAUDE.md or ~/.claude/rules/ cp agents/ .md ~/.claude/agents/ Restart Claude Code, then invoke a skill by its name e.g. /vet . This harness was built the way it tells you to build — by cherry-picking techniques and crediting them: konsilium adapts Andrej Karpathy's independent opinions → anonymized peer review → chairman synthesis . llm-council ship-secure adapts Prajwal Tomar's "Vibe Coders Are Getting Sued" launch playbook. code-principles is derived from Karpathy's widely-shared CLAUDE.md principles. goal 's design phase cherry-picks loop-design ideas from. ksimback/looper teach adapts Anthropic's guided-learning prompt.- The skill promotion gate in EVOLUTION.md cherry-picks the verification bar from. Kulaxyz/self-learning-skills I build and harden Claude Code workflows, agentic setups, and web apps — and I do managed hosting and site builds. If these patterns are useful to your team, or you want help applying them, reach out: GitHub: open an issue, or @Sanexxxx777 https://github.com/Sanexxxx777 Email: sanexxx777@gmail.com mailto:sanexxx777@gmail.com PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md /Sanexxxx777/curated-claude-code/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md . The bar: it must pass its own /vet , ship no auto-hooks, contain no secrets, and stay surgical. Curation is the point; volume isn't.If this saved you time, a ⭐ helps others find it. MIT /Sanexxxx777/curated-claude-code/blob/main/LICENSE © Aleksandr Shulgin @Aleksandr NFA https://t.me/Aleksandr NFA · @Sanexxxx777 https://github.com/Sanexxxx777