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The Shiproom Kit is now the Backbrief Kit. Same files, same system, new name.
Run your project like a team of agents, not one endless chat. The kit drops a coordinated team into any Claude Code project: an orchestrator plans the work, routes each piece to a specialist, and a fresh-context verifier checks it before it ships. Plain Markdown, nothing to build, nothing to run.
No prompting skill required. /setup interviews you, plain language states the goal, and the orchestrator writes the plan. If you are ever unsure, type /next.
What you get
An orchestrator that reads your goal and context, writes the plan to a file, and routes the work.
Specialist agents that each own one domain, plus a cheap runner that takes mechanical work at lower cost.
The
/critiqueand/councilcommands for stress-testing decisions from several angles in one pass.The
/nextcommand, so you never wonder what to do next: it reads your project files, tells you where you stand, and offers the next step. Correct even in a brand-new chat, because it reads what is on disk, not what either of you remembers.The rules that keep the team routing, verifying, and shipping instead of drifting back into one long chat.
A knowledgebase for your own documents and links: the researcher cites your sources ahead of general knowledge, and naming a document in chat is enough to have it filed.
A scaffold of working folders you copy into each project, so state lives in files instead of your memory.
Fresh start or already building?
Either way, the kit installs without touching what you have. If you are starting clean, copy it in and go. If you already run your own agents, rules, or a CLAUDE.md, the included INTEGRATION.md shows how to add the kit alongside your setup without overwriting anything.
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The install is one instruction.
Claude installs it for you. Open Claude in the unzipped folder, type install this, and it asks where your project lives, copies the files, runs the checks, and never touches anything you wrote.
Fastest install: the Claude Code plugin
Same kit, no download. Run these three commands in Claude Code and the setup interview takes it from there.
/plugin marketplace add charlesashe/shiproom-kit/plugin install shiproom-kit@shiproom/shiproom-kit:setup
Prefer the zip? The form above emails you the same kit as a download, and the one-instruction install applies.
The kit is the base. Here is what builds on it.
The kit is free and complete on its own. When the project you are running is a business, Backbrief Business OS adds a review panel that grades your plan against a public rubric before any money or work moves (the grade is a stress-test, not a success promise). And everything we announce, we announce to kit owners first.