What are Failure Modes in this context?

Failure Modes are living tables that capture symptoms, causes, and fixes for bugs encountered during development. This prevents the AI from rediscovering known bugs or repeating past mistakes.

What is a project constitution in this framework?

A constitution is a concise (1-2 page) document containing core conventions, tech stack details, and build commands that Claude reads at the start of every session to ensure architectural consistency.

When should I create a subsystem spec?

If a specific part of your code takes more than a few sentences to explain or has complex internal logic, it deserves a dedicated spec document in the 'Cold Memory' tier.

How do Trigger Tables improve AI performance?

They map specific file patterns to relevant documentation, allowing the AI to selectively load only the context it needs for a specific task, which preserves the context window and reduces hallucinations.

Codified Context Patterns

Name: Codified Context Patterns
Author: pwarnock

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学习与文档

Implements a structured three-tier context framework to provide AI coding agents with persistent, session-spanning codebase knowledge.

Codified Context Patterns provides a systematic approach to managing AI agent knowledge using the Vasilopoulos (2025) 'Codified Context' framework. By organizing information into Hot Memory (Constitutions), Routing Intelligence (Trigger Tables), and Cold Memory (Subsystem Specs), it ensures Claude has the right context at the right time without bloating the conversation. This skill helps developers maintain architectural standards, capture debugging insights in real-time, and scale AI-assisted development to large, complex codebases where simple prompting often falls short.

主要功能

01Constitution-driven sessions to enforce core tech stack and architectural conventions.

02Real-time failure mode capture to prevent recurring bugs and agent errors.

030 GitHub stars

04Selective context loading via Trigger Tables to prevent AI memory bloat and noise.

05Subsystem mapping for clear domain boundaries and documentation routing.

06Incremental framework growth that evolves naturally alongside codebase complexity.

使用场景

01Onboarding an AI agent to a large codebase with non-obvious conventions and legacy constraints.

02Capturing tribal knowledge and debugging breakthroughs into a persistent failure-modes database.

03Scaling AI-assisted development across multiple specialized subsystems without hitting context limits.

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add pwarnock/pwarnock-cc-plugins codified-context-patterns

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

主要功能

01Constitution-driven sessions to enforce core tech stack and architectural conventions.

02Real-time failure mode capture to prevent recurring bugs and agent errors.

030 GitHub stars

04Selective context loading via Trigger Tables to prevent AI memory bloat and noise.

05Subsystem mapping for clear domain boundaries and documentation routing.

06Incremental framework growth that evolves naturally alongside codebase complexity.

使用场景

01Onboarding an AI agent to a large codebase with non-obvious conventions and legacy constraints.

02Capturing tribal knowledge and debugging breakthroughs into a persistent failure-modes database.

03Scaling AI-assisted development across multiple specialized subsystems without hitting context limits.