genseq

A Claude Code skill that, given a task, produces its optimal generative sequence: the smallest living version of the whole, grown step by step by felt necessity — never a topic-partition or an up-front waterfall. Works across code, writing, research, design, and planning.

Install

Clone into your personal Claude Code skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/cjunekim/genseq ~/.claude/skills/genseq

It's picked up at the next session start, or run /reload-skills to load it now. Then invoke it:

/genseq [task]

What's in here

• SKILL.md — the skill: the living-process principles the approach is built on (the Ten Essential Features, the Fundamental Process, and the office-layout example, quoted from Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order), a check-information-before-starting rule, and five worked examples (data/code · game · writing · planning · facilitation).

Why the worked examples matter

genseq ships five worked examples — a synthetic-survey app, a Tetris game, an essay, a CEO slide-talk, and a year-end gathering — each showing the same move (smallest living seed → grow by felt necessity) in a different domain, so the model learns the move rather than over-fitting one domain.

A controlled study on this skill family (run on the original three examples) found the worked example is the single strongest determinant of the sequence genseq produces — more than its prose or framing. Swapping one example's shape moved its blind-judged closeness-to-target from 31.7 → 71.4 (complete separation); adding the game and writing examples lifted those domains (≈ +12, ≈ +14) with no measured over-anchoring on held-out tasks.

To extend coverage to a new domain, add one more worked example in that domain, in the same shape.

License

Original work (the genseq method, the worked examples, this README) is released under the MIT License (see LICENSE). The Christopher Alexander source sections of SKILL.md quote The Nature of Order (© Christopher Alexander / Center for Environmental Structure); those passages are reproduced for commentary and education and are not covered by the MIT License (see NOTICE).