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Tribunal Kit

The minimal-dependency governance layer for AI coding agents. Real-time hallucination prevention, parallel AST review, and cross-session memory via a compiled Rust core.

Universal Compatibility: Cursor • Claude Code • Windsurf • VS Code • Aider • Devin • Gemini

🛡️ Value Proposition

AI coding assistants frequently hallucinate dependencies, deprecated framework hooks, and incorrect database columns. Linters and typecheckers catch these errors only _after_ the code is written, failing to understand semantic intent during generation.

Tribunal Kit acts as a neurosymbolic verification envelope. It intercepts AI output locally in < 10ms, validates it against your live repository AST, and prevents hallucinated code and phantom packages from ever touching your disk.

⚡ What's New in v9.2.7

• Skill Intelligence Engine (tk skill-intel): Autonomous discovery, composition, and gating across 234+ engineering skills with concept extraction, DAG pipeline compilation, and 11-point creation gate. • System-1 Expansion Core: Added specialized processing modules including browser intelligence, deterministic decision & evidence engines, and adaptive evolution pipeline. • Cross-Domain & Outcome Optimization: Real-time second-order effect detection, emergent failure prediction, and non-downgrade monotonic security invariants. • Backend Intelligence Trust Boundary: Strict validation engine output isolation. LLMs can no longer self-authorize findings; evidence requires verifiable provenance hashes and terminal command records. • Universal 18-Section Governance Standard: All 234 modular skills enforce Tri-State Evidence classification ([OBSERVED], [INFERRED], [UNVERIFIED]) and non-negotiable Verification-Before-Completion (VBC) gates.

⚡ Core Capabilities

• Parallel Review Pipeline: 31 domain-specific reviewers analyze generated code simultaneously across 3 waves (Logic, Security, Domain) before writing to disk. • Compiled Rust Core: Sub-10ms AST parsing, semantic graph extraction, and file synchronization using SHA-256 diffs. • Phantom Package Guardrails: Blocks "slopsquatting" and non-existent npm package imports during code generation. • Cross-Session Memory: "Supreme Court Case Law" (tk case) and key-value memory (tk memory) record past AI mistake precedents. • Subagent-Driven Development (SDD): Orchestrates multi-agent fan-out and synthesis, strictly isolating context windows to prevent token bloat. • Minimal Dependencies: The production CLI runtime requires zero heavy dependencies, protecting your supply chain. • Native MCP Server: Exposes real-time repository AST and team contract rules to Model Context Protocol compatible clients.

🏗️ Architecture Overview

Tribunal Kit operates as a fast, intercepting middleware layer between the AI generation event and the local filesystem.

Data Flow

1. Input: An LLM agent generates a code change proposal (or triggers a workflow like /generate or /sdd). 2. Processing: The Rust Core extracts the current AST and validates semantic bounds. The proposal is dispatched to parallel Reviewers (e.g., logic-reviewer, security-auditor, anti-slop-auditor). 3. Output: If valid, it passes to the Human Gate or writes directly to disk. If invalid, the process is halted, and structured feedback is fed back into the agent's context loop.

🚀 Installation & Quick Start

Install Tribunal Kit in your project directory. Node.js >= 18.0.0 is required.

Using a CLI Agent? Install the native adapter for Claude Code or Aider:

💻 Usage Guide & CLI Reference

Tribunal Kit CLI operations are routed through the compiled Rust binary when supported, falling back to the JavaScript engine gracefully.

| Command | Arguments | Description |

| init | [--force] | Initializes the .agent/ configuration payload. | | sync | — | Syncs rules with IDEs (.cursorrules, .windsurfrules). | | status | — | Evaluates workspace rules and checks for violations. | | validate | [--file ] | Validates .agent/ payload structure with live reviewer swarm. | | guardrail | [--file ] | Scans changes for phantom packages and // VERIFY tags. | | arch | map \| verify \| impact \| diff \| audit \| project | Verifiable Architecture Intelligence & Blast Radius engine. | | system1 | enable \| disable \| status | Manages local ONNX neural tier assessment and model weights. | | sdd | run \| status | Subagent-Driven Development execution with reviewer waves. | | minimal | [--prompt ] | Analyzes change requests for minimal viable diffs (Decision 0-7). | | contract | init \| verify \| list | AI agent behavioral contract validation and trace replay. | | memory | store \| recall \| gc | Manages persistent cross-session AI memory. | | case | add \| search | Records or searches for AI mistake precedents. | | tk-adapt | [claude\|aider\|--global] | Installs universal CLI agent adapters. | | hook | — | Installs the automated Git pre-push governance hook. |

_(For workflow execution, Tribunal Kit monitors for slash commands like /orchestrate, /audit, /sdd, or /deploy inside your AI context)._

⚙️ Configuration Reference

Tribunal Kit is largely zero-config, driven by the .agent/ directory, but exposes settings via mcp_config.json and package.json.

Example MCP Configuration (mcp_config.json)

📂 Project Structure

🔗 Integrations

| Environment / Tool | Integration Type | Status |

| Cursor IDE | Plugin & .cursorrules bridge | Supported | | Anthropic Claude Code | Native Marketplace Plugin (.claude-plugin/) | Supported | | Windsurf | Native .windsurfrules sync | Supported | | Cognition Devin | Native Plugin (.devin-plugin/) | Supported | | Aider CLI | Conventions Bridge (tk-adapt) | Supported | | Google Gemini CLI | Extension Manifest (gemini-extension.json) | Supported |

🔒 Security and Reliability…

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