https://getgodmode.dev/blog/ Build logs, post-mortems, and experiments from the Godmode skill suite for Claude Code. en Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://getgodmode.dev/blog/we-shipped-skills-nobody-could-install.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/we-shipped-skills-nobody-could-install.html Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT Every paid Godmode skill installed through the MCP, then vanished. Two bugs: a zip nested one folder too deep, and a drifted sha256 fingerprint. Here is the fix. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/two-slashes-killed-our-terminals.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/two-slashes-killed-our-terminals.html Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Every spawned terminal opened as a dead cmd window. We spent hours on the wrong root cause. Godmode+ ran one smoke test and found the real bug: two slashes. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-conductor-died-mid-run.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-conductor-died-mid-run.html Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Three Builders hit the CPU reaper. The narrator session died. The orchestrator https://getgodmode.dev/blog/orchestra-v0-28-quality-gates.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/orchestra-v0-28-quality-gates.html Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT A multi-agent run shipped a broken game at score 0.50. We added three quality gates so the orchestra physically cannot deliver below the bar. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-eight-hour-silence.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-eight-hour-silence.html Sun, 10 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT An eight-hour Orchestra run worked perfectly, then suddenly went silent. Forensics on disk found four bugs in one trench coat. Here is the fix. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/we-banned-dead-links.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/we-banned-dead-links.html Fri, 08 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT A real-estate site we shipped had ten nav items and seven of them went nowhere. We made that impossible: every Godmode skill now refuses to ship dead links. Tier means a smaller surface, never a broken bigger one. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/godmode-evolution-v3-quality-diversity.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/godmode-evolution-v3-quality-diversity.html Wed, 06 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Evolution v3.1.0 retires the leaderboard. Variants now live on a MAP-Elites grid, mutations fly between cells, and Thompson sampling keeps exploration alive. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/plan-mode-orchestra.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/plan-mode-orchestra.html Sun, 03 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Plan mode in one-shot-orchestra: a fresh-spawn Planner worker writes the plan. Approve or revise, then the build runs autonomously. One human gate. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/stranger-tried-the-door-hmac-signed-urls.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/stranger-tried-the-door-hmac-signed-urls.html Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT A security researcher found four paid downloads sitting unauthenticated at getgodmode.dev/downloads/*. We replaced the static folder with an HMAC signed-URL gate in 60 lines — here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-orchestra-learned-to-celebrate.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-orchestra-learned-to-celebrate.html Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT The orchestra tree viewer was a sterile log. We gamified it: judge scores became points, achievements fire, killstreak banners slide, and watching agents now feels like Halo. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/orphan-zombies-windows-orchestra-fix.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/orphan-zombies-windows-orchestra-fix.html Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT A Windows machine accumulated 151 zombie node processes in a day. Job Objects can https://getgodmode.dev/blog/orchestra-library-scoping.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/orchestra-library-scoping.html Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT One-shot-orchestra v0.20 ships a two-tier skill system: globals stay light, a lazy library scales to thousands. Workers carry only what each task needs. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/we-killed-workers-mid-thought.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/we-killed-workers-mid-thought.html Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Orchestra workers got force-killed mid-conversation when users re-engaged after a completed phase. The fix is a 3-second CPU sample. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/two-lies-the-orchestrator-told.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/two-lies-the-orchestrator-told.html Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Orchestra-v2 shipped a build where 16 of 17 builders https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-gallery-shipped-every-post-moves.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-gallery-shipped-every-post-moves.html Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT 48 blog posts now ship 4 curated animations each, built via one-shot-orchestra wave parallelism. The audit caught a bug static screenshots had missed. Build receipt + the bug story. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-099-bar-was-unreachable.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-099-bar-was-unreachable.html Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Orchestra v2 ran a 5-phase route, shipped 40 modified blog posts, and got stuck looping for hours against a 0.99 ship bar nothing realistic could clear. Three judge loops later we lowered the bar to 0.90. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/silent-ship-and-three-quality-lifters.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/silent-ship-and-three-quality-lifters.html Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT A lowercase phase name in a Loop-Judge verdict shipped Orchestra at first-pass quality. The fix was a case-insensitive resolver. The real work was lifting the rubric so the loop has something to find. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/orchestra-v2-the-orchestrator-became-a-daemon.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/orchestra-v2-the-orchestrator-became-a-daemon.html Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Orchestra v1 made the main Claude session conduct AND keep the books. v2 moves the orchestrator into a Node daemon. The session shrinks to a narrator. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/we-fixed-anthropics-backspace-bug.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/we-fixed-anthropics-backspace-bug.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Claude Code v2.1.113 reversed Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace on Windows. We traced it to swapped byte mappings and built the fix. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-orchestra-that-wasnt.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-orchestra-that-wasnt.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT A skill called one-shot-orchestra was supposed to spawn real terminals. It didn’t. The user caught it. Here’s how we hardened the skill so it can’t cheat again. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-conductor-read-every-score.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-conductor-read-every-score.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Orchestra https://getgodmode.dev/blog/evolution-v3-1-the-audit.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/evolution-v3-1-the-audit.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT We pointed our best tools at our own evolution engine. It found 16 issues across 14 files — including 2 critical ones that could corrupt scoring data. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-gallery-opens-art-upgrade-plan.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-gallery-opens-art-upgrade-plan.html Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Eight wings: generative, typography, data viz, shaders, motion, illustration, 3D, audio. The /one-shot-scripts v4 art upgrade plan, previewed live. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-gallery-10-techniques-one-protocol.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-gallery-10-techniques-one-protocol.html Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT 10 interactive art pieces, 10 completely different rendering techniques, all produced by one-shot-scripts v3.6.0. The creative ambition upgrade in action. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-orchestra-evolution-cleanup.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-orchestra-evolution-cleanup.html Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Orchestra is a conductor that spawns parallel Claude processes, each with its own fresh 1M-token memory. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-learned-to-see-art-direction-v3-4.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-learned-to-see-art-direction-v3-4.html Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT We added visual build guidance, art direction research, 2D/3D/animation checklists, and responsive testing across every phase. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-cant-see-the-art-direction-problem.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-cant-see-the-art-direction-problem.html Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT We tried to make three 3D fighters look different. The code compiled. The tests passed. The fighters still looked identical. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/same-approach-harder-loop-diversity-rule.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/same-approach-harder-loop-diversity-rule.html Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT One-Shot-Scripts looped on fails — but every loop tried the same approach harder. We rewrote the rule: retries must use a structurally different tactic. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/kombat-start-failed-one-line-migration.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/kombat-start-failed-one-line-migration.html Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT A single overlooked CHECK constraint blocked Kombat https://getgodmode.dev/blog/godmode-mcp-install-skills-from-claude.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/godmode-mcp-install-skills-from-claude.html Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT A new MCP server lets Claude Code and Claude Desktop browse, install, and manage Godmode skills — no manual downloads, no zip files, no ~/.claude/skills/ fiddling. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/godmode-mcp-build-receipt.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/godmode-mcp-build-receipt.html Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT The full receipt for godmode-mcp v0.1.0: five blind-spot agents caught 17 fixes before a line was written, a mid-build pivot swapped the backend, composite 0.92. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/feedback-jsonl-made-the-edits-one-shot-v3-2.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/feedback-jsonl-made-the-edits-one-shot-v3-2.html Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT We pointed Ignition at the One-Shot-Scripts skill and let its own past run logs decide what to fix. 16 surgical edits, composite 0.96, shipped in 17 minutes. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/claude-opus-4-7-skills-upgrade.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/claude-opus-4-7-skills-upgrade.html Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Claude Opus 4.7 follows skill rubrics more literally and holds focus on long runs. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/gas-shot-and-ignition-collaborative-ai-development.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/gas-shot-and-ignition-collaborative-ai-development.html Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Gas-Shot keeps you in the driver https://getgodmode.dev/blog/we-deleted-the-judge.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/we-deleted-the-judge.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT We shipped an AI tug-of-war arena with a Claude Haiku judge. You said https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-vault-built-for-claude-mythos.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-vault-built-for-claude-mythos.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Anthropic said Claude Mythos was too powerful to ship. So we built it a level. One real exploit, ten decoys, a glass vault, and a leaderboard row reserved for the first solve. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-judge-had-to-die.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-judge-had-to-die.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT We launched a tug-of-war arena with an LLM judge scoring every move. One sentence of feedback killed it. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-grinder-now-banks-to-your-account.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-grinder-now-banks-to-your-account.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Grinder https://getgodmode.dev/blog/arena-tug-of-war-build.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/arena-tug-of-war-build.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT A head-to-head AI tug-of-war arena — submissions, ELO ladder, deterministic engine, replay viewer — built in one /one-shot-scripts session. The receipt. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-forum-is-live.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-forum-is-live.html Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Godmode community forum is live. Free signup unlocks public rooms. Each product unlocks a private room. Plus founders seats and cohort waves. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-fix-had-a-bug-too.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-fix-had-a-bug-too.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT We caught Claude cheating on a blind rebuild, built a tarball quarantine to stop it, then caught the fix over-matching sibling slugs. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/caught-claude-cheating.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/caught-claude-cheating.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Halfway through a showcase rebuild, the https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-research-phase-one-shot-learned-to-look-before-building.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-research-phase-one-shot-learned-to-look-before-building.html Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT One-Shot Scripts was building from imagination instead of research. A 3D chess game exposed the blind spot and spawned Phase 1c: Deep Research. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/kill-your-agents-dynamic-spawning-v3.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/kill-your-agents-dynamic-spawning-v3.html Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT We tried persistent agent teams. They turned into zombies. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/wave-execution-the-fix-that-saved-one-shot.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/wave-execution-the-fix-that-saved-one-shot.html Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT One-Shot Scripts was crashing terminals by launching too many agents at once. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/universal-one-shot-scripts-decomposition.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/universal-one-shot-scripts-decomposition.html Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT One-Shot Scripts now handles code, writing, audits, and migrations equally well. 14 evo-loop iterations, 6 mutations, and a full architecture decomposition. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/outcome-tracking-skills-that-learn-from-users.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/outcome-tracking-skills-that-learn-from-users.html Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT One-Shot now collects real user verdicts after every run. Shipped, Edited, or Rejected — this data feeds skill evolution. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-ultrathink-agent-teams.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-ultrathink-agent-teams.html Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT One-Shot Scripts now runs with maximum reasoning depth and parallel agent teams baked into every phase. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/vanilla-vs-skills-three-way-showdown.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/vanilla-vs-skills-three-way-showdown.html Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT We tested raw Claude Code against two skill architectures across 3 tasks. The results destroyed our assumptions about what skills actually improve. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-skill-that-learned-to-refuse.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-skill-that-learned-to-refuse.html Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Five versions. Five failures. Each one became a mutation. The story of how One-Shot Beta v2.2 became v2.7 by watching itself fail at building our own website — and what that means for AI-assisted development. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/process-quality-diagnose-before-building.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/process-quality-diagnose-before-building.html Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT 6 failed config attempts on one MCP server. A retrospective. Three structural fixes to how our AI skills diagnose, score, and ship. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-v27-degraded.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-v27-degraded.html Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT We used our own AI skill to rebuild a website. It kept failing. Each failure became a mutation. v2.2 to v2.7 in one sitting. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/monolith-vs-modular-ab-test.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/monolith-vs-modular-ab-test.html Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT One-Shot Beta as a monolith vs decomposed into modular scripts. 3 rounds, 3 sizes, same rubric. The modular version won every time. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/we-ran-the-blind-experiment.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/we-ran-the-blind-experiment.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT We told an AI to improve itself without showing it how it was being graded. It reverse-engineered the entire scoring rubric in 36 iterations. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-prestige-evolution-v3.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/the-prestige-evolution-v3.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Evolution v3 adds four anti-gaming features that turn self-improvement from a metric-fitting exercise into something that actually tracks reality. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/evo-loop-skill-evolution-as-a-service.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/evo-loop-skill-evolution-as-a-service.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Upload any Claude Code skill file. Pick your mode. Pay per loop. Get back a measurably better version with v3 anti-gaming guarantees. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-beta-the-verification-run.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-beta-the-verification-run.html Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Our AI reported near-perfect scores on 1,000 tests. 94% were fabricated. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/skill-files-too-long.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/skill-files-too-long.html Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Claude Code has a 200-line skill file limit. Past that, instructions get skimmed or skipped. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-beta-the-unverified-build.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/one-shot-beta-the-unverified-build.html Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT We ran 1000 evolution iterations on One-Shot. The system declared convergence at iteration 50 and coasted through the rest. 94% of the work was faked. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/evolution-engine-v2-evolve-mutate-splice.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/evolution-engine-v2-evolve-mutate-splice.html Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Evolution Engine v2.0 adds Evolve, Mutate, and Splice modes to Claude Code skills — including cross-breeding skills to create specialised hybrid variants. https://getgodmode.dev/blog/what-are-claude-code-skills.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/what-are-claude-code-skills.html Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Claude Code skills are reusable instruction files that permanently change how the AI executes. Think of them as programmable discipline. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/claude-code-skips-tests.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/claude-code-skips-tests.html Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Claude Code writes brilliant features but skips tests unless you force it. Here https://getgodmode.dev/blog/8-layer-execution-protocol.html https://getgodmode.dev/blog/8-layer-execution-protocol.html Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Most people use Claude Code like a chatbot. The 8-layer execution protocol turns it into a systematic engineering machine that handles every edge case before you ask.