wicked-garden

wicked-garden is a specialized toolkit designed to augment coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Unlike plugins that attempt to override an agent's native planning or swarm capabilities, wicked-garden focuses on filling critical gaps that these agents cannot address alone. Its core philosophy is 'done is re-derived, not asserted,' ensuring that task completion is verified through independent evidence rather than simple self-reporting. Key capabilities include: 1. **Evidence-Gated Verification**: It re-runs proofs and rejects false 'tests pass' claims. If a backend is missing, it fails closed, ensuring no vacuous green checkmarks. 2. **Code Graph Analysis**: It identifies 'injected edges' (such as event-to-consumer or command-to-agent links) that standard grep searches miss. This enables accurate blast-radius analysis and lineage tracking. 3. **Cross-Session Memory**: Through the `wicked-estate` layer, it remembers decisions from previous sessions, helping agents maintain context over long-term projects. 4. **Multi-Model Review Panels**: It can convene a 'council' of different AI models (e.g., Antigravity, Codex) to provide second opinions and diverse perspectives on architectural decisions. 5. **Repo-Specific Playbooks**: Instead of re-deriving how to work in a repository for every task, it loads generated playbooks (e.g., `fix-bug`, `add-feature`) based on the current HEAD. 6. **Deterministic Refactoring**: It performs renames as graph operations rather than simple find-and-replace, reducing errors in complex codebases. wicked-garden operates on a 'work-shape' model rather than a rigid pipeline. A hook analyzes the shape of the work (e.g., typo fix vs. migration cutover) and applies the appropriate level of rigor. This ensures that simple tasks are not bogged down by heavy verification, while critical changes undergo strict, independently attested gates. The toolkit is extensible, allowing users to ship their own domain packs. It requires Python 3.9+ and Node.js, with `wicked-vault` as a mandatory peer for the evidence gate. It integrates with various CLIs and can compile its verification gates into any repository, making the enforcement mechanism portable and independent of the wicked-garden installation.