Sip

Taste your own cooking: the moment you finish making something, check it with the very skills this repo ships before you serve it.

Goal

A reminder buried in docs ("remember to verify") won't reliably fire in a fresh session. sip makes the recursive self-improvement loop a triggered habit: right after any create or change, run our own skills on the result — the clean checks and the true ones — so quality doesn't ride on the author's biased in-session judgment.

Workflow

1. Spot the trigger: you just created or changed an artifact or skill and are about to call it done, commit, or hand it off.
2. Cold-read it — run shower on the artifact (fresh-eyes comprehension / handoff check).
3. Verify it's true — if the artifact asserts a reality-grounded claim, run factchk; if it defines an eval, metric, or experiment, run mandela. Skip when it has neither.
4. Check consistency — run ssotize in audit mode across the repo for anything the change duplicated or contradicted; execute its consolidation plan only after approval.
5. Detool portability claims — run detool only when the artifact claims portability, tool-neutrality, stack-agnostic durability, or cross-agent reuse. Skip when it is provenance, operational notes, a tool-targeted runbook, or does not claim portability.
6. Tidy — re0 the changed docs so the result reads as a clean v0, not a patch over a draft.
7. Apply the findings here, then serve it.

Rules

• Trigger on your OWN output, right after making it — that's when bias is highest and a check is cheapest.
• Use the skills; don't re-implement them — shower for clarity, factchk/mandela for truth, ssotize for SSOT, detool for portability claims, re0 for cleanup. sip orchestrates and routes findings back to the author session to fix; the skills do the work.
• Skip what plainly doesn't apply, or any check whose skill isn't installed — run only what's present. factchk/mandela fire only when there is a claim or an eval; detool fires only when the artifact claims portability, tool-neutrality, stack-agnostic durability, or cross-agent reuse; a one-line prose tweak may need only a consistency check. Say what you skipped and why.
• Stop at the artifact — sip never touches git or makes commits.
• Chain only model-invoked skills; a user-invoked skill (marked disable-model-invocation) is a human's to fire deliberately, so sip must not call one.

Verification

Before finishing:

1. The change was actually run through the relevant skills, not eyeballed.
2. Findings were applied (or consciously deferred with a stated reason).
3. The artifact actually changed as a result (a diff exists), or every skipped skill has a stated reason.