taste-calibrationlisted
Install: claude install-skill 0merUfuk/the-matrix
**Version**: 1.0
**Created**: 2026-05-11
**Last Updated**: 2026-05-11
**Authors:** Ömer Ufuk
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# /taste-calibration — Monthly Taste Calibration
**Usage**: `/taste-calibration`
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## What This Skill Does
Walks the founder through the monthly taste-anchor update ritual — the R1 mitigation
mechanism for Goodhart drift. The self-improvement loop can pass every metric while
silently degrading the product; this ritual is the irreducible founder judgment that
keeps the optimization target honest.
At the end of a successful run, `taste-anchor.md` has an updated canonical SHA and a
new calibration-log row. The founder has explicitly answered: "Is the current codebase
at or above the quality bar I set last time?"
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## Execution Steps
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### Step 1 — Show recent activity since last calibration
Read `.claude/baselines/taste-anchor.md` to find the last calibration date and
canonical SHA from the calibration log.
Then run in parallel:
```bash
# Commits since last canonical SHA
git log {last_sha}..HEAD --oneline --no-merges
# Autonomous PRs merged since last calibration date
gh pr list --state merged --label autonomous --json number,title,mergedAt \
--jq '.[] | "\(.number)\t\(.mergedAt)\t\(.title)"'
# What files changed most in autonomous PRs
git log {last_sha}..HEAD --oneline --no-merges --diff-filter=M \
--name-only -- '.claude/**' 'internal/**' 'cmd/**'
```
Print a summary:
```
ACTIVITY SINCE {last_calibration_date}
Commits since canonical SHA ({last_sha}): {N