ChristopherKahler/paul
Plan-Apply-Unify Loop — Structured AI-assisted development for Claude Code. Quality over speed-for-speed's-sake. observed · 2026-10-10
Health v2 · maintenance only
57/100
- Activity 90
- Release rhythm 37
- Longevity 18
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 265
- days_rel: 210
- days_push: 60
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
1251 stars · 140 forks observed · 2026-10-10
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
PAUL (Plan-Apply-Unify Loop) is a structured development framework for Claude Code that enforces a PLAN → APPLY → UNIFY cycle with acceptance criteria, state persistence, and decision logging. It combats context rot by keeping implementation in-session and reserving subagents for research, distributed as an npm package runnable via npx.
Use cases
- structure ai-assisted development with claude code
- prevent context rot in long ai coding sessions
- enforce acceptance criteria in ai-generated code
- manage spec-driven development workflows
- track planned vs completed work across ai sessions
- run structured non-code projects like marketing campaigns with ai
When to choose
- you use Claude Code daily and suffer from drifting plans and degraded session quality
- you want enforced loop discipline with reconciliation (UNIFY) and audit trails
- you prefer in-session execution over subagent sprawl
- you want acceptance-criteria-first, BDD-style task qualification
When to avoid
- you don't use Claude Code or another compatible AI coding agent
- you want lightweight ad-hoc prompting without structured state files
- your workflow depends on heavy subagent parallelization for implementation
- you need a battle-tested enterprise framework rather than a young community tool
Facets
framework · maturity active
agent-framework prompt-engineering workflow-automation developer-tools developer-tools large-language-models windows cli claude-code spec-driven-development vibe-coding context-management acceptance-criteria plan-execute-loop ai-assisted-development automation ai-agents nodejs macos linux
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/paul · fetched 2026-10-10 · 4bfd8a48d308
- homepage: https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/paul/blob/main/PAUL-VS-GSD.md · fetched 2026-08-29 · 426122f1d5aa
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ChristopherKahler/paul | main | 57 |
For agents
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