# Create Control Manifest

Builds a short list of must-do and never-do coding rules per system from accepted ADRs.

- Repository: https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios (32144 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-19
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill create-control-manifest -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill create-control-manifest -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill create-control-manifest -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill create-control-manifest -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Builds a short list of must-do and never-do coding rules per system from accepted ADRs. Use when the user wants programmer rules or a cheat sheet from the ADRs, or needs it regenerated after ADR changes.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

!`bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config --keys review_mode,review_gate,automation`

Resolved above, use as-is; `--review` overrides `review_mode` for this run. No
block → defaults in `.claude/docs/config-resolution.md`.

Ask with the question tool. Without one, list the options numbered and end your turn
to wait. A skipped or dismissed question is not an answer: ask again in plain text.

# Create Control Manifest

The control manifest is a flat rules sheet for programmers: what to do and what
never to do, by architectural layer, taken from the Accepted ADRs, the project's
technical preferences and the engine reference docs. The ADRs say *why*; the
manifest says *what*.

**Writes:** `docs/architecture/control-manifest.md`, after the user's yes.
**When:** after `/architecture-review` passes and the ADRs are Accepted. Run it
again whenever an ADR is accepted or revised.

Asks follow `.claude/docs/automation-modes.md` (collaborative always asks, guided
asks on major choices, autonomous logs and goes on; `automation_always_ask`
categories always ask).

## Phase 1: Load the inputs

### ADRs

`bash .claude/scripts/adr-status.sh` reads every `docs/architecture/adr-*.md` in one
pass: the counts first (`adrs`, then `accepted`, `proposed`, `deprecated`,
`superseded`, `unfilled`, `other`, `no_status`), then one row per ADR with its
status and layer. Establish the denominator first: decide from the counts, before
reading any ADR:

The rest: https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/create-control-manifest/SKILL.md