@houserules/payload

The shared libraries that back houserules's installed hooks: reading houserules.config.json, reading and writing the backlog/decision ledgers, listing workspace packages, and running child processes. Every one of them ships with zero runtime dependencies, node builtins only, because they are copied byte for byte into a user's .claude/scripts/lib/ and executed there on bare node.

This package is not a plugin. It contributes no modules and is never installed directly. @houserules/cli depends on it directly, copying these libs alongside every hook script that imports one, and any first-party or third-party plugin that needs one of them imports it by package name:

import { loadConfigSafe } from '@houserules/payload/config';

That import never reaches the published .mjs. @houserules/cli's payload build rewrites it to a relative path pointing at a copy of the lib placed alongside the importing script, which is what keeps the installed hook dependency-free.

Part of houserules

houserules is portable Claude Code infrastructure that keeps the agent's context lean. The package list has the rest.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.