Witan

Witan (Old English): an assembly of wise advisors. The Anglo-Saxon king's council, drawing on the wisdom of bishops, ealdormen, thegns, and reeves to deliberate on matters of the realm. Etymologically the root of wisdom, witness, and wit.

The Witan is Mindful Stack's family of AI dev tools — a council where each member is a specialist in its craft.

This repo is the Claude Code plugin slice of that council: a Claude Code marketplace that catalogs the Witan members which ship as plugins. Other members (orchestrators, CLIs, services) are distributed separately — see The wider Witan below.

Add the marketplace

Inside Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add Mindful-Stack/witan

Plugin members

Plugin	Role	Status
lore	Lorekeeper — keeper of knowledge: domain context, pattern lookup, PR review	Available

Install a member:

/plugin install lore@witan

The wider Witan

Not every Witan member is a Claude Code plugin. Some are independent applications that sit alongside Claude Code rather than inside it.

Member	Form	Role	Status
reeve	Orchestrator app	Steward of the project — coming soon	Planned

Apps are distributed via their own repos and release channels — see each member's README for setup. They share the medieval-role naming and the Mindful Stack ethos, but not this marketplace's install path.

Why a council?

Each member does one thing well. Splitting capabilities into focused tools means each evolves independently — a new release of lorekeeper doesn't require a reeve update.

For Claude Code plugins, this marketplace is the single registry: add it once, install members as you need them.

Convene the council (coming soon)

Once a second member ships, this repo will gain a one-command setup that installs every Witan member, wires them together, and writes the config files they expect:

# planned, not yet implemented
./scripts/setup.sh

Until then, install members individually via the marketplace (plugins) or each member's own README (apps).

Adding a plugin to the marketplace

1. Build and publish your plugin to its own GitHub repo (with .claude-plugin/plugin.json).
2. Open a PR against this repo adding an entry to .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.
3. Members are reviewed for fit with the council's character — focused, well-tested, documented.

Adding a non-plugin member to the wider Witan

Not yet codified — open an issue if you have a candidate.

Licence

Marketplace metadata is unlicensed (effectively public domain). Each plugin in the council carries its own licence — see the linked repos.