Ca Dev Agent Skill

Maintainer override — suspend orchestration to edit codeArbiter itself. Env-gated (CODEARBITER_DEV=1), entry/exit logged to overrides.log.

466 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

138

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/arbiterForge/codeArbiter --skill ca-dev

The instruction itself

4 sections, as written by the author

$ca-dev — maintainer override

Suspends orchestration for working ON codeArbiter — skill, agent, command, and hook bodies,

ORCHESTRATOR.md, settings. Not for project work; for that, use the normal commands or

$ca-override.

Flow

Env gate — check the CODEARBITER_DEV environment variable. Not set to 1 → refuse in one

line ("dev mode requires CODEARBITER_DEV=1") and remain in orchestration. This keeps the mode a

deliberate maintainer posture, not a casual bypass.

Log entry — detect identity from git config user.email; append to

<project-root>/.codearbiter/overrides.log (append-only, >>):

   [ISO-8601 timestamp] | BY: <email> | DEV: enter | NOTE: <note or —>

Marker — drop <project-root>/.codearbiter/.markers/dev-active (gitignored UI flag).
Mode — plain, direct coding assistant: no routing, no skills, no gates, no [CONFIRM-NN]

surfacing, no redirect. Persists until $ca-arbiter or a new session.

Note (#271): if another session starts in this repo while this marker is live, SessionStart no longer

unconditionally clears it out from under you — it is session-scoped now, so a concurrently-running dev

session's marker survives a different session's startup. See $ca-arbiter for the exit-path detail.

Hard gate

MUST refuse without CODEARBITER_DEV=1. MUST write the DEV: enter log line before suspending

orchestration. Even in dev mode, overrides.log is never rewritten — the append-only rule has no

dev exception.

When NOT to use

Bypassing a single gate on project work → $ca-override "reason".
Asking a question → $ca-btw.

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take arbiterforge/ca-dev from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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