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gardening

Use when finding small maintenance work. One concern per PR, each with a verify command and a small diff budget.

Written by Kunanon Jarat

Original
You invoke
MIT
Superstacks v6.1.1

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Install this skill

Installs only gardening, globally, as a copy

DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 npx skills add KunanonJ/superstacks -g -s gardening --copy -y

Third-party installer; DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 turns its telemetry off.

Folder layout (gardening/SKILL.md). Unzip it into your agent’s skills directory.

Download gardening.zip

Flat layout: SKILL.md sits at the zip root, ready to upload as a skill.

Download gardening-flat.zip

Copy this folder from the repo at v6.1.1 into your agent’s skills directory

plugins/superstacks/skills/gardening/

gardening ships in the Superstacks plugin with the other skills. In Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add KunanonJ/superstacks
/plugin install superstacks@superstacks

Run them one at a time. Codex, Cursor and ZIP steps are on the Skills page.

How it runs

You invoke it.

Its frontmatter sets disable-model-invocation: true, so the agent never loads it on its own. Ask for it by name.

Files

Folder on GitHub →

Origin

Original

Written for Superstacks

Written for Superstacks; sources.lock.json credits no upstream. Released under MIT with the rest of the pack.

License: MIT
Release: v6.1.1 · 2026-10-06

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SKILL.md

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---
name: gardening
description: Use when finding small maintenance work. One concern per PR, each with a verify command and a small diff budget.
license: MIT
disable-model-invocation: true
---

# Gardening

Small maintenance only: deprecated patterns, dead code, tiny perf fixes, lint debt. One concern per draft PR.

## Sequence

1. List candidate nits. Pick **one**.
2. Name a verify-loop command that fails on the nit and passes after the fix.

3. Stay inside the diff budget. Run:

```text
python <this-skill>/scripts/diff_budget.py --base <default-branch> --max-lines 80 --max-files 6
```

4. If the script fails, split the work. Do not raise the budget to fit a refactor.
5. Open a draft PR. Run `pr/scripts/check_pr_body.py` on the body.

## Budget defaults

- 80 changed lines
- 6 files
- No generated lockfile churn
- No behaviour change outside the named nit

## Rules

- Dead-code deletion needs a verify command that would fail if the symbol were still referenced, or a compile/test run that proves the tree still loads.
- Do not mix gardening with a feature. Do not "while I'm here".
- One-way doors are not gardening. Hand those to `intake-triage` / `interrogate`.