ratchet

82 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (GitHub) · coding · 30 stars · scanned at commit 677e798

Count ratchet: freezes a lint violation, suppression, performance or telemetry count at today's value as a checked-in CI ceiling that fails on a rise and is lowered as the count falls. Counters only, never durations; proposes files for a human to merge. Use when asked to 'ratchet' a lint rule or suppressions, freeze a violation count, or 'stop this count from growing' in CI.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 11 places.

plugins/toolchain/skills/ratchet/SKILL.md, line 126python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/ratchet.py" add --file <ceilings file> \
plugins/toolchain/skills/ratchet/SKILL.md, line 151python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/ratchet.py" add --file <ceilings file> --per-file \
plugins/toolchain/skills/ratchet/scripts/ratchet.py, line 149result = subprocess.run(

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plugins/toolchain/skills/ratchet/scripts/ratchet.py, line 151shell=True,
plugins/toolchain/skills/ratchet/scripts/ratchet.py, line 157except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
plugins/toolchain/skills/ratchet/scripts/suppression-scan.py, line 671done = subprocess.run(command, cwd=cwd, capture_output=True, check=False)
plugins/toolchain/skills/ratchet/scripts/suppression-scan.py, line 684done = subprocess.run(
plugins/toolchain/lib/tree-result.mjs, line 15import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
plugins/toolchain/lib/tree-result.mjs, line 37return execFileSync("git", ["-C", dir, ...args], {
plugins/toolchain/lib/tree-result.mjs, line 75execFileSync("git", ["-C", top, "update-index", ...flags, "-z", "--stdin"], {
plugins/toolchain/hooks/hooks.json, line 9"command": "node",

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed.

Found in 1 place.

plugins/toolchain/hooks/result-gate.test.sh, line 197for t in make npm npx pnpm yarn bun dotnet uv uvx python python3 pytest ruff pyright go golangci-lint gofmt cargo shellcheck shfmt pwsh tsc eslint biome markdow

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ratchet' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ratchet' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ratchet already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '677e7988f432dacb5e2d4df2b124f96da8e8f9f3' -- 'plugins/toolchain/skills/ratchet' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/toolchain/skills/ratchet' ~/.agents/skills/'ratchet' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'ratchet' ~/.claude/skills/'ratchet' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-09	`677e798`	82
2026-11-07	`81c7244`	82