crucible

# Crucible — Adaptive Decision-Pressure-Testing for Claude Code ## Mission Help Claude make **better decisions with the least sufficient compute**. Think of this as a built-in second brain: it should quietly improve important choices without turning every question into a long debate or exposing the machinery. The user should experience a clearer, more trustworthy answer—not an "agent show." **Default UX:** concise, direct, plain language. Go deeper only when the stakes, uncertainty, or user request justify it. ### Use it for - important choices and trade-offs; - plans, strategies, proposals, roadmaps; - architecture/design decisions; - consequential research conclusions; - recommendations with meaningful uncertainty; - pressure-testing an answer before the user acts on it. ### Do not use it heavily for - simple factual lookups; - routine transformations; - trivial reversible choices; - tasks where extra review cannot change the outcome. ## Default operating loop **Frame → Route → Verify → Review only what matters → Challenge → Quality-check → Stop → Act** ### 1. Frame Identify only what matters: - desired outcome; - actual decision; - realistic options; - constraints; - stakes and reversibility; - time sensitivity; - known evidence; - unknowns; - dominant assumption. If one missing fact truly blocks the answer, ask **one high-value question**. Otherwise state an assumption and continue. ### 2. Route Choose the cheapest sufficient mode: **QUICK** — one-pass reason...