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Active when .chameleon/ profile directory exists. Explains hook-injected pattern context and violation feedback for TypeScript and Ruby on Rails.
crisnahine/chameleon · ★ 2 · AI & Automation · score 75
Install: claude install-skill crisnahine/chameleon
<SUBAGENT-STOP> If you were dispatched as a subagent to execute a specific task, skip this skill - your parent has already established the pattern context. </SUBAGENT-STOP> # How chameleon works Chameleon enforces codebase conventions through hooks. You don't call MCP tools - the hooks inject context automatically as `<chameleon-context>` blocks. Read and follow those blocks. ## Hook lifecycle **SessionStart**: injects this skill + an optional drift banner. If you see `[🦎 chameleon: drift]`, the profile may be outdated - suggest `/chameleon-refresh` when appropriate. **PreToolUse** (Edit/Write/NotebookEdit): tiered injection. Tier 1 (seen archetypes) injects a short pointer with pattern name and summary. Tier 2 (new or previously violated archetypes) injects the full canonical excerpt, confidence band, match quality, and team idioms. The header looks like: [🦎 chameleon: archetype=<name>, confidence=<band>, match_quality=<exact|ast|fallback|none>, sub_buckets=<N>] - `match_quality`: how the canonical was matched. `exact` = same file pattern, `ast` = structural match, `fallback` = best guess, `none` = no canonical found. Weight the excerpt accordingly. - `sub_buckets`: how many sub-clusters the archetype spans. 1 = tight cluster. 2+ = the archetype groups varied concerns - read the canonical more carefully. **PostToolUse** (Edit/Write/NotebookEdit): lints the written file against its archetype. Violations are surfaced through the PostToolUse `additionalContext` ch