PAUL

PAUL

Plan-Apply-Unify Loop — Structured AI-assisted development for Claude Code.

Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

*"Quality over speed-for-speed's-sake. In-session context over subagent sprawl."*

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Why PAUL

I build with Claude Code every day. It's incredibly powerful — when you give it the right context.

The problem? Context rot. As your session fills up, quality degrades. Subagents spawn with fresh context but return ~70% quality work that needs cleanup. Plans get created but never closed. State drifts. You end up debugging AI output instead of shipping features.

PAUL fixes this with three principles:

1. Loop integrity — Every plan closes with UNIFY. No orphan plans. UNIFY reconciles what was planned vs what happened, updates state, logs decisions. This is the heartbeat.

2. In-session context — Subagents are expensive and produce lower quality for implementation work. PAUL keeps development in-session with properly managed context. Subagents are reserved for discovery and research — their job IS to gather context.

3. Acceptance-driven development — Acceptance criteria are first-class citizens, not afterthoughts. Define done before starting. Every task references its AC. BDD format: Given [precondition] / When [action] / Then [outcome].

The complexity is in the system, not your workflow. Behind the scenes: structured state management, XML task formatting, loop enforcement. What you see: a few commands that keep you on track.

Who This Is For

Builders who use AI to ship — software, campaigns, workflows, automations, anything that benefits from structured execution.

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