# cc-tree

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> Language: English (canonical). Chinese: [`README.zh.md`](README.zh.md).

**cc-tree is a Claude Code plugin that turns open-ended thinking into a tree you can audit.** One universal radial-tree exploration engine, four swappable presets: divergent brainstorming, adversarial critique, design-space exploration, and code audit — same engine, different vocabulary. It is a disciplined, disk-persisted take on tree-of-thoughts search: every node is derived in full with `file:line` or URL evidence, `defer / future-work / TODO / NEEDS-MORE-INFO` leaves are hard-banned, and the run stops on substantive convergence rather than on a node budget.

```bash claude plugin marketplace add skymanbp/cc-tree claude plugin install cc-tree@cc-tree ```

> Refactor of [`sci-paper`](https://github.com/skymanbp/sci-paper)'s > `brainstorm` + `paper-attack-tree` skills, stripped of paper-specific > anchors and parameterized via presets.

## What it is

cc-tree treats *any* open-ended thinking task as a **phylogenetic tree growing outward from one root**. The root is your input — a topic, a document, a code path, a design prompt. Every node is expanded by the **same 12 framing passes**, each child is fully derived and scored, and only the high-value (`advances`) leaves get re-expanded, until the tree reaches **substantive convergence** rather than an arbitrary count.

![cc-tree as a radial phylogenetic tree