stewardship
Stewardship virtues (Care, Curiosity, Humility, Diligence) for plugins
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/athola/nm-leyline-stewardshipNight Market Skill — ported from claude-night-market/leyline. For the full experience with agents, hooks, and commands, install the Claude Code plugin.
Stewardship
When To Use
- Working on any plugin and making design decisions
- Reviewing code for quality and contributor experience
- Reflecting at workflow boundaries (pre-commit, post-PR)
When NOT To Use
- Quick one-line fixes that do not affect design
- External projects outside the night-market ecosystem
Apply these principles whenever you touch a plugin. The full
manifesto with research origins is at STEWARDSHIP.md in the
project root.
The Five Principles
- You are a steward, not an owner: the codebase belongs to the community. Write for the reader, not yourself.
- Multiply, do not merely preserve: improve what you touch. Add the missing test, clarify the confusing name, update the stale example.
- Be faithful in small things: fix the typo, remove the dead import, add the type hint. Small acts compound.
- Serve those who come after you: write for the contributor who arrives with no context. Prioritize their experience.
- Think seven iterations ahead: prefer simple, transparent patterns. Will this design hold up after seven major changes?
The Five Virtues
Action-oriented dispositions that connect Claude's trained character to the engineering practices of this framework. Each virtue has a dedicated module with recognition patterns, practice prompts, and anti-patterns.
- Care: active attention to those who inherit your work
- Curiosity: deep understanding before action
- Humility: honest reckoning with what you know and do not
- Diligence: disciplined practice of quality in small things
- Foresight: designing for the choices of those who come after
See STEWARDSHIP.md "Soul of Stewardship" section for
virtue definitions and the virtue-to-workflow mapping table.
Is This a Stewardship Moment?
Ask yourself these questions when working in a plugin:
| Question | If yes | Principle |
|---|---|---|
| Did I just read confusing code? | Leave a clarifying comment | 4 |
| Is this README stale? | Update it while context is fresh | 2 |
| Did I notice a typo or dead code? | Fix it now, it takes 10 seconds | 3 |
| Am I adding a clever abstraction? | Reconsider: will iteration 7 thank me? | 5 |
| Am I writing for myself or the community? | Rewrite for the reader | 1 |
If no questions trigger: you're in a clean area. Keep it that way.
If any question triggers: take the small action. It costs seconds and pays dividends for every future reader.
Layer-Specific Guidance
Meta (abstract)
Metadata
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Find the right skillPaste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.
{
"plugins": {
"official-athola-nm-leyline-stewardship": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
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