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| 1 | +<div align="center"> |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +# Project Prospector |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +A Claude Code plugin that catalogs and ranks everything you've built or sketched on a machine — half-finished repos, one-off scripts, dormant ideas, running services — into a tiered ranking by idea-novelty and leverage. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +[](https://github.com/88plug/project-prospector/actions/workflows/plugin-validate.yml) |
| 8 | +[](LICENSE.md) |
| 9 | +[](https://github.com/88plug/claude-code-plugins) |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +</div> |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +## Install |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +```text |
| 16 | +/plugin marketplace add 88plug/project-prospector |
| 17 | +/plugin install project-prospector@project-prospector |
| 18 | +``` |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +## Quickstart |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +Ask in plain language — no command to memorize: |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +```text |
| 25 | +What have I built on this laptop? Rank my projects by which ideas are most original. |
| 26 | +``` |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +You get a tiered ranking, strongest idea first, with `[idea]/[LIVE]/[dormant]` |
| 29 | +tags and an evidence-anchored one-liner for each entry: |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +```text |
| 32 | +Tier S — genius |
| 33 | + benchie [LIVE] — predicts engine latency without launching it |
| 34 | + (perfmodel/roofline.py), 72 commits this week. |
| 35 | +
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| 36 | +Tier A — elegant, high-leverage |
| 37 | + searxng-mcp — token-efficient self-hosted search for agents; dual-IP failover. |
| 38 | +
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| 39 | +Dormant |
| 40 | + old-scraper — last real commit pre-cutoff; cosmetic touch since. |
| 41 | +``` |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +## What it does |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +Project Prospector surveys a whole machine for *your own* work and ranks it by |
| 46 | +the quality of the idea, not how finished it is. A half-built concept with a |
| 47 | +novel core can outrank a polished CRUD app. The name is the intent: you're |
| 48 | +prospecting a messy filesystem for the few strong ideas buried in it. |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +It runs a two-pass, parallel, read-only sweep, then synthesizes one ranking: |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +- **Catalog pass** — clusters the filesystem into themed groups (crypto, |
| 53 | + homelab, AI-tooling, not alphabetical) and gives each cluster its own |
| 54 | + read-only explorer agent that reads READMEs, runs `git log` since the cutoff, |
| 55 | + and judges non-git dirs by file mtimes. |
| 56 | +- **Blind-spot pass** — a second wave of agents that each attack one place a |
| 57 | + file sweep structurally misses, so you don't confidently report "that's |
| 58 | + everything" and be wrong. |
| 59 | +- **Synthesize** — de-duplicates, separates idea quality from execution state, |
| 60 | + and produces an S–D tiered ranking with evidence-anchored rationale and |
| 61 | + alternative lenses. |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +## Why two passes |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +One agent reading directories top to bottom misses most of the value. The strong |
| 66 | +ideas hide in places a plain `ls` never reaches, so the blind-spot pass covers: |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +- **Transcripts** — `~/.claude/projects/` slugs, grepped for idea and plan |
| 69 | + language. Finds ideas discussed but never turned into a folder. |
| 70 | +- **Other agent CLIs** — `~/.codex/`, `~/.opencode/`, `~/.config/` agent tools. |
| 71 | + Finds work done through other tools. |
| 72 | +- **Running services and history** — shell history themes, `crontab -l`, |
| 73 | + `systemctl --user` timers and units, `docker ps -a`, long-running processes. |
| 74 | + Reveals what is actually live versus abandoned. |
| 75 | +- **Research artifacts** — substantive docs in `~/Downloads`, `~/Documents`, |
| 76 | + `~/Desktop`, and browser bookmarks and history. Finds ideas you're circling |
| 77 | + but haven't built. |
| 78 | +- **Beyond home** — `/opt`, `/srv`, `/mnt`, `/media`, nested repos inside other |
| 79 | + projects, and system-wide recently-modified source. Confirms nothing hides |
| 80 | + outside the obvious tree. |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +## How it ranks |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +The default axis is idea-novelty, non-obvious insight, and leverage — not lines |
| 85 | +of code, not polish. Output is structured as tiers, strongest first: |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +- Tier S — genius: genuinely novel core insight, high ceiling. |
| 88 | +- Tier A — elegant, high-leverage: strong idea, clear payoff. |
| 89 | +- Tier B — clever hacks, narrower: smart but bounded in scope. |
| 90 | +- Tier C — solid, low novelty: useful and reliable, not inventive. |
| 91 | +- Tier D — utility, scratch, and stubs, plus a Dormant list. |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | +Each entry carries a tag that separates the idea from its execution state: |
| 94 | +`[idea]` (no codebase yet, can still rank at the top), `[LIVE]` (currently |
| 95 | +running), and `[dormant]` (untouched before the cutoff). Every cited path, |
| 96 | +commit count, or number is verified against disk before it goes in the report. |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +<details> |
| 99 | +<summary>Alternative lenses (ask for any of these instead)</summary> |
| 100 | + |
| 101 | +- **Initiative clustering** — group projects into real themes and rank the |
| 102 | + clusters by coherence. |
| 103 | +- **Momentum** — accelerating versus stalled, by the trend of commits over time. |
| 104 | +- **Kill list** — what to archive or delete as dead weight, with the reason. |
| 105 | +- **Authorship / provenance** — an honest share of what you wrote versus |
| 106 | + vendored, forked, or scaffolded. |
| 107 | +- **Loss-risk / bus-factor** — valuable work in danger of vanishing (zero |
| 108 | + commits, unpushed branches, scratch dirs, no backup). |
| 109 | + |
| 110 | +</details> |
| 111 | + |
| 112 | +## Usage and arguments |
| 113 | + |
| 114 | +Two inputs shape every run, both stated in plain language: |
| 115 | + |
| 116 | +- **Time window** — relative dates resolve to an absolute cutoff (e.g. "last 3 |
| 117 | + months"). Defaults to roughly 3 months if unspecified, and says so. |
| 118 | + Recency is judged by substantive activity (real commits, content of changes), |
| 119 | + not raw mtimes bumped by a generated file or a formatting-only commit. |
| 120 | +- **Scope and exclusions** — narrow the scope to a theme ("just my homelab |
| 121 | + projects"), a directory, or a non-home root, and exclude paths to skip |
| 122 | + ("ignore my work repo"). The exclusion is honored verbatim by every agent. |
| 123 | + |
| 124 | +Examples: |
| 125 | + |
| 126 | +```text |
| 127 | +Take stock of my half-finished repos from this week. |
| 128 | +Catalog my side projects, but ignore my day-job monorepo. |
| 129 | +What's the single most original thing I've built since I started benchie? |
| 130 | +Audit /srv on this server and give me the kill list. |
| 131 | +``` |
| 132 | + |
| 133 | +The written deliverable scales to the ask: a top-3 question gets a short |
| 134 | +shortlist, "catalog everything" gets the full S–D census with the dormant tail. |
| 135 | + |
| 136 | +> [!NOTE] |
| 137 | +> Project Prospector is strictly read-only. It inspects; it never edits, moves, |
| 138 | +> deletes, commits, or starts and stops services. Everything read off disk is |
| 139 | +> treated as untrusted data, not instructions (prompt-injection hardened). If a |
| 140 | +> finding warrants action, that's a separate step you confirm explicitly. |
| 141 | +
|
| 142 | +## What it bundles |
| 143 | + |
| 144 | +One skill (`project-prospector`) plus reference agent-prompt templates and a |
| 145 | +trigger and task eval set. Read-only, general-purpose, no MCP, hooks, or |
| 146 | +scripts. |
| 147 | + |
| 148 | +It complements `total-recall` (persistent operator memory) rather than |
| 149 | +duplicating it: prospector produces a one-shot ranked project census, not a |
| 150 | +memory profile. |
| 151 | + |
| 152 | +You can also install from a local clone: |
| 153 | + |
| 154 | +```text |
| 155 | +git clone https://github.com/88plug/project-prospector |
| 156 | +/plugin marketplace add ./project-prospector |
| 157 | +/plugin install project-prospector@project-prospector |
| 158 | +``` |
| 159 | + |
| 160 | +## Contributing |
| 161 | + |
| 162 | +Issues and pull requests are welcome at |
| 163 | +[88plug/project-prospector](https://github.com/88plug/project-prospector). The |
| 164 | +[plugin-validate](https://github.com/88plug/project-prospector/actions/workflows/plugin-validate.yml) |
| 165 | +workflow checks the plugin manifest and skill structure on every push. |
| 166 | + |
| 167 | +## License |
| 168 | + |
| 169 | +[FSL-1.1-ALv2](LICENSE.md) © 2026 [88plug](https://github.com/88plug) — |
| 170 | +Functional Source License; converts to Apache 2.0 two years after each release. |
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