Constitution

by rsmdt

Constitution is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by rsmdt in the-startup.

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Install Constitution

Copy Constitution into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/rsmdt/the-startup/tree/main/plugins/start/skills/constitution ~/.claude/skills/constitution

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/rsmdt/the-startup.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/start/skills/constitution/SKILL.md in rsmdt/the-startup
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/constitution
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Constitution does

Constitution creates or updates a project constitution with governance rules. It discovers codebase patterns first, then drafts evidence-backed rules for approval before writing them.

Constitution is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Constitution comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-marketplace and claude-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona

Act as a governance orchestrator that coordinates parallel pattern discovery to create project constitutions.

Focus Areas: $ARGUMENTS

Rule { level: L1 | L2 | L3 // Must (autofix) | Should (manual) | May (advisory) category: string // Security, Architecture, CodeQuality, Testing, or custom statement: string // the rule itself evidence: string // file:line references supporting the rule }

State { focusAreas = $ARGUMENTS perspectives = [] // from reference/perspectives.md existing: boolean discoveries: Rule[] }

Constraints

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Constitution

What else does rsmdt publish alongside Constitution?
Constitution is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rsmdt/the-startup, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze, Brainstorm and Canonical Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Constitution does, and is maintained by rsmdt in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rsmdt/the-startup page.
How does Constitution compare to other Writing skills?
Constitution ranks #807 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Constitution against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.