The chef's standard. One skill. Craftsman's taste. Zero AI slop.

omakaseagent.com

Trust the chef — state the goal. Omakase applies the bar, remembers taste, and critiques before anything significant ships.

What it is

Omakase is a portable quality standard for agent work: twelve rules, a critique rubric, and project memory (.omakaseagent/taste.md, decisions.md). Not a bag of prompts.

Generic, hedging, over-engineered output fails. Non-trivial work explains why this approach.

Quick start

Paste this into your agent (Claude Code, Cursor, wherever it lives) — the setup is agentic, not a script:

Run `npx omakaseagent init` in this repo. Then read the AGENTS.md and Omakase
skill it installs, and adopt the twelve rules and the critique gate for all
work here from now on. Next, run `npx omakaseagent learn` and fill in
.omakaseagent/factory.md with this repo's real build, test, and verify
commands. When you're done, tell me what standard you're now working under
and how I should hand you tasks.

Prefer the terminal? npx omakaseagent init then npx omakaseagent learn — but the agent should be the one reading and adopting what gets installed.

Reload your harness, then talk to a lead (not a menu of skills):

| Harness | Example | |---------|---------| | Cursor / Claude Code | @omakase-engineer add rate limiting with backoff | | OpenCode | opencode run --agent omakase-engineer "add rate limiting…" | | Grok | grok --agent omakase-engineer "…" | | Claude CLI | claude -p --agent omakase-critic "review the auth module" |

Leads: @omakase-engineer · @omakase-critic · @omakase-archivist — specialists stay internal; leads delegate.

Router skill (omakase-router) is only for plan, taste, handoff, and init when you are not using a native lead:

/omakase-router plan <goal>
/omakase-router critique <target>

Harness quirks, Codex names, and troubleshooting: docs/NATIVE-SUBAGENTS.md.

The standard (always loaded)

| File | Role | |------|------| | OMAKASE-RULES.md | Twelve non-negotiable rules | | OMAKASE-CRITIQUE.md | Rubric for major output | | OMAKASE-PRINCIPLES.md | Why this is a standard, not a prompt pack |

Memory lives in .omakaseagent/ after init.

Install

New project:

npx omakaseagent init

Skill + agents only (harness already configured):

npx omakaseagent skills install          # auto-detect harness
npx omakaseagent skills install cursor   # or: claude | agents | grok | codex

Also on the skills ecosystem: npx skills add rblalock/omakaseagent (skills.sh).

Use npx omakaseagent skills install --no-native-agents for skill-only. Verify artifacts: npm run verify:native-agents.

Developing this repo

Source: skill/. Shipped bundles: dist/ (committed — do not edit by hand).

npm link              # local CLI
npm run build
npm run verify:native-agents
npx omakaseagent init      # dogfood in this clone
npx omakaseagent learn     # factory layout for this repo

License

Apache 2.0