Agent Ops Kit — Lite

The D.O.E. framework (Directive / Orchestration / Execution) for running AI coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI — reliably on real work.

The problem: an LLM is probabilistic; your business logic isn't. If the agent executes every step itself, errors compound — 90 % per step is 59 % over five steps. D.O.E. moves the deterministic work into scripts and leaves the agent one job: deciding what to run next. Then it makes the system self-annealing: every failure becomes a test, a rule, and a lint.

What's in the lite version (free, MIT)

The plugin lives in plugins/agent-ops-kit-lite/; the MCP server in mcp/ is separate.

File	What it is
plugins/agent-ops-kit-lite/templates/CLAUDE.md	The agent's operating instructions: the 3 layers, 6 operating principles, the self-annealing loop, mandatory directive checks. Cursor: paste into .cursorrules; Codex/Gemini: AGENTS.md / GEMINI.md.
plugins/agent-ops-kit-lite/templates/directives/core/operating-principles.md	The non-negotiables, written to sync unchanged into every repo you run
plugins/agent-ops-kit-lite/templates/directives/00_template.md	The directive layout (Goal · Inputs · Execution tools · Outputs · Edge cases · Verification)
plugins/agent-ops-kit-lite/templates/executions/lint_secrets.py	Catches hard-coded API keys/tokens before they reach git (Stripe, GitHub, AWS, Slack, OpenAI, Anthropic, private keys). Zero dependencies.

python plugins/agent-ops-kit-lite/templates/executions/lint_secrets.py --root .   # exit 1 on any finding

Install as a Claude Code plugin

/plugin marketplace add skibuff22/agent-ops-kit-lite
/plugin install agent-ops-kit-lite@calyx-ai

(Claude Code 2.1.275+: /plugin install agent-ops-kit-lite --marketplace skibuff22/agent-ops-kit-lite)

Then in any repo:

• /agent-ops-kit-lite:aok-init - scaffolds CLAUDE.md, directives/ and the secrets linter (never overwrites existing files)
• /agent-ops-kit-lite:aok-directive deploy the API - writes a directive for a job from what's actually in the repo
• /agent-ops-kit-lite:verify-claims post.md - checks a draft claim by claim against your facts.md before it goes public (PASS/FAIL table; Publish Gate lite)
• /agent-ops-kit-lite:aok-upgrade - what the paid kit adds

MCP server: publish-gate (free)

mcp/publish-gate/ is a zero-dependency MCP server (Node 18+) with two checks for a draft before it goes public: check_numbers (every number must be in your facts.md or carry a [src: URL]) and check_links (dead links, checkout links without utm_source).

git clone https://github.com/skibuff22/agent-ops-kit-lite
claude mcp add publish-gate -- node "$PWD/agent-ops-kit-lite/mcp/publish-gate/server.js"

Any MCP client works the same way (command node, argument the path to server.js). Details: mcp/publish-gate/README.md.

Also listed in the official MCP registry as io.github.skibuff22/publish-gate (version 0.1.0), packaged as an MCP Bundle attached to the mcp-v0.1.0 release. The bundle has not been tested in an MCPB client yet; the clone install above is the tested path.

Quick start (manual copy)

1. Copy plugins/agent-ops-kit-lite/templates/CLAUDE.md and plugins/agent-ops-kit-lite/templates/directives/ into your repo root.
2. Write your first directive from plugins/agent-ops-kit-lite/templates/directives/00_template.md, named after the job (deploy_api.md). Reference the script that will do the work.
3. Tell the agent: "Read CLAUDE.md, then ." Watch what it appends to the directive's Edge cases & learnings — that section is the return on investment.

The full kit

The paid Agent Ops Kit adds everything CLAUDE.md's mandatory-checks table refers to:

• 3 more core directives: self-annealing loop, bug-fix standard, agent governance
• 3 complete example directives: deploy a service, QA a website, scrape a site
• 6 more scripts: script template (argparse/.env/retries/exit codes), directive↔script linter, anneal log, headless QA/SEO crawler, SSH deploy with CRLF/BOM fix, robots-aware scraper — with tests
• 3 Claude Code skills (qa-test, deploy, project-status)
• PM + worker agent templates, agent registry schema
• Guides: why D.O.E. works, adopting it in an existing codebase, running a fleet

→ calyx-ai.net — instant download, free updates, 14-day refund.

Built and used daily to run a small engineering company's CRM, invoicing, inventory and calibration platform with a fleet of agents. Every governance rule in the full kit is a real incident turned into a standard.