solvent-brain 0.2.0

The first tagged release of solvent-brain: a free, MIT-licensed starter for an AI-maintained architecture knowledge base. It holds the operating contract, resume state, rules and skills from the AI in the Architecture Practice series on mikereams.com.

What's in it

Piece	What it does
CLAUDE.md	The operating contract: layers, rules and the boot / work / close rituals
wiki/NOW.md, wiki/log/, wiki/inbox.md	Resume state, so each session starts where the last one stopped
rules/	Seven paste-in rules, from verify before assert to guarded writes and pushed is not deployed
skills/skeptical-reviewer/	An independent reviewer that assumes the change is wrong until its checks pass
agents/operator.md, skills/_template/	A cheaper, bounded operator for repeatable procedures
examples/	A disposition record and the shape of a golden-question eval set

Get started

Use it as a template: Use this template, then follow the Quick start in the README.

Or install it as an agent skill in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add solventarchitect/solvent-brain
/plugin install solvent-brain@solventarchitect

Other agents and Claude.ai: copy plugin/solvent-brain/skills/solvent-brain/ into your skills folder, or zip it and upload it as a custom skill.

Changes in 0.2.0

• New name. The starter, the plugin and its skill are now called solvent-brain (plugin 0.2.0). If you installed the plugin before October 2, install solvent-brain again with the commands above. Old repository links redirect here.
• Plugin copy stays in sync. CI checks that the plugin's bundled copy matches the template files (scripts/sync-plugin.mjs --check).
• Banner and social preview redrawn.

The plugin has no scripts and makes no network calls. Review it before installing, as you would any skill.

Read why it exists: Introducing solvent-brain