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Compass

Compass is adaptive spec-driven development for Claude Code. You describe the work; Compass reads its risk, familiarity, size and goal, and a deterministic CLI computes how much process it needs. Five guardrails hold on every route: every change lands with a passing test, acceptance criteria come before code, code traces to a criterion, evidence is a recorded command output, and a person approves anything irreversible.

Start here

  • Five minutes - one small change, from assessment to a reviewable result.
  • Quickstart - from an empty machine to a finished first issue.
  • Install check - confirm an install works.

What Compass guarantees

  • Safety contract - what Compass enforces, and what it does not claim.
  • Refusal codes - every reason the pre-tool hook can refuse with.
  • Security - what Compass runs, and how it guards against tampered dependencies.

How it works

  • Methodology - the adaptive, spec-driven method and why it is built this way.
  • Roles - how product, design, engineering, marketing and QA each use Compass.
  • Portability - how Compass maps onto other agent runtimes.

The source, the CLI reference and the issue tracker are on GitHub.