Rolling Start

A Claude Code native codebase tutor. An author describes the landscape of a codebase, a learner picks a destination, and the tutor, running as a Claude Code plugin, points the way: one task at a time, with feedback on real work in the learner's own working copy.

The learner's plugin, rolling, runs write lessons end to end: intake, a route through the author's map, a walkthrough, an exercise built from the repository's own history and proved before it is served, and feedback against the lesson's rubric (P1a). A map lives in a project's own tree, or ships as a map plugin for a repository its author does not own, and the tutor finds either (P1b). The tutor is helpful and honest, and measured: it answers what it is asked, offers to skip what the learner already knows, offers a detour grounded in the repository when a lesson leans on something their background lacks, asks before anything destructive, and cites only code and output it actually saw — each of those a case in an eval suite run against real sessions (P2). Next is P3, the author's plugin; direct mode is 2.0. The plan is in docs/plan.md, and each checkpoint's record is in docs/plans/.

Two public codebases have maps today. Homie has built-in support: its map is committed in its own tree, so Claude Code can run /rolling:start right out of the box on a fresh Homie clone. We also support Rallly as a demo of external support: its map ships as the rallly plugin in this marketplace. Clone Rallly then install Rolling Start's Rallly plugin.