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⚗️ Experimental — A genius-builder brain for your AI coding tools: sharp defaults, real judgment, and the discipline to check their own work. For Claude Code, Codex, Cursor & Copilot. Just markdown; it improves itself over time.
A collection of Markdown rules that equip AI coding assistants with sharp defaults, engineering judgment, and self-checking discipline.
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version 0.22.0 ↗ status: experimental ↗ license MIT ↗
⚗️ Experimental (v0.22.0). Under active development — not yet stable, but usable. Its effect is measured in the open (see evals/RESULTS.md); APIs and defaults may change.
Make your AI coding assistant trustworthy. MasterMind is plain Markdown that gives Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and any AGENTS.md tool sharp defaults, real engineering judgment, and the discipline to check its own work — so you can rely on what it produces instead of watching every edit.
No app, no dependencies — just text that loads into your AI. You don't learn any commands: you talk normally ("build me X", "why is this slow?", "review this") and MasterMind applies the right discipline automatically. It improves itself over time, and it's tool-agnostic — one brain for every editor.
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Your AI already knows JavaScript, React, and algorithms. Re-teaching those wastes tokens. MasterMind adds only what's missing — the judgment and rigor that turn "looks right" into "verified":
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<p align="center"><sub><b>⚗️ Experimental (v0.22.0).</b> Under active development — not yet stable, but usable. Its
effect is measured in the open (see <a href="evals/RESULTS.md">evals/RESULTS.md</a>); APIs and defaults may change.</sub></p>
> **Make your AI coding assistant trustworthy.** MasterMind is plain Markdown that gives Claude Code,
> Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and any AGENTS.md tool sharp defaults, real engineering judgment, and the
> discipline to **check its own work** — so you can rely on what it produces instead of watching every edit.
No app, no dependencies — just text that loads into your AI. **You don't learn any commands: you talk
normally** ("build me X", "why is this slow?", "review this") and MasterMind applies the right discipline
automatically. It **improves itself** over time, and it's **tool-agnostic** — one brain for every editor.
> **🗺️ New here?** Explore the <a href="https://foglamp.dev/scan/mastermind-mkfscq" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>live interactive map</b></a>.
## Why it exists
Your AI already knows JavaScript, React, and algorithms. Re-teaching those wastes tokens. MasterMind adds
only what's *missing* — the judgment and rigor that turn "looks right" into "verified":
- **Good defaults** — which tool/pattern to reach for, so it picks the best option, not the average one.
- **A way to decide** — how to choose when there's no obvious default.
- **A habit of checking** — verify the work end-to-Source structure unverified
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