AI-mentored, research-based development for engineers. Claude becomes your mentor, not your coder — guiding with questions, reviewing via 6 Gates, but YOU write every line. Less dependency, more ownership.
# Add to your Claude Code skills
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AI coding tools optimize for shipping. The risk: code that works but isn't truly yours. Hard to debug without context. Hard to extend without asking again. Hard to defend when it matters.
OwnYourCode flips this. AI becomes your mentor, not your coder. It guides, questions, and reviews — but you write the code.
The result: Code you understand. Code you can extend. Code that's actually yours.
Profile selection is part of /own:init. Choose your profile and OwnYourCode adapts its teaching style.
| Profile | Design Thinking | Career Extraction | Unique Feature | | ------------------- | --------------- | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | | Junior | Required | On request | No shortcuts: you design first, then build | | Career Switcher | On request | On request | Concepts explained through what you already know — your past is a learning advantage | | Interview Prep | On request | Default ON | Every task becomes interview ammunition — S.T.A.R story and resume bullet extraction | | Experienced | On request | On request | You have the experience, get direct feedback and peer-level collaboration | | Custom | On request | On request | Mix and match to fit how you learn |
Profiles adapt HOW we teach. The core (6 Gates, code reviews, quality) stays the same. Change anytime with /own:profile.
macOS / Linux
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DanielPodolsky/ownyourcode/main/scripts/base-install.sh | bash
cd your-project && ~/ownyourcode/scripts/project-install.sh
Windows (PowerShell)
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DanielPodolsky/ownyourcode/main/scripts/base-install.ps1 | iex
cd your-project
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DanielPodolsky/ownyourcode/main/scripts/project-install.ps1 | iex
Initialize
/own:init
| Protocol | Rule | | ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Active Typist | You write all code. AI provides patterns (max 8 lines), guidance, and reviews. | | Socratic Teaching | AI asks questions instead of giving answers. | | Evidence-Based | AI verifies with official docs before answering. | | Systematic Debugging | READ → ISOLATE → DOCS → FIX. |
Before completing any task, your code passes through 6 quality checkpoints:
Gate 1 blocks completion. Can't explain your code? Don't ship it.
Learnings compound across projects. Patterns that worked. Mistakes you won't repeat. Career value extracted from every task.
| Command | Purpose |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------- |
| /own:init | Set your profile, stack, and goals |
| /own:feature | Plan with spec-driven development |
| /own:advise | Query past learnings before starting |
| /own:guide | Get implementation guidance |
| /own:stuck | Debug systematically |
| /own:done | Complete with gates + code review |
| /own:retro | Capture learnings |
| Command | Purpose |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------- |
| /own:status | Check progress, tasks, and career stats |
| /own:profile | View or change your profile |
| /own:test | Guide through writing tests |
| /own:docs | Guide through writing documentation |
MCPs provide real-time documentation and production code examples.
# Context7 — Official documentation lookup
claude mcp add context7 --transport http https://mcp.context7.com/mcp
# Octocode — GitHub code search
https://octocode.ai/#installation
Without MCPs, OwnYourCode operates at reduced capability — guidance relies on AI's training data rather than verified, up-to-date documentation.
"Won't this slow me down?"
Yes. That's the point.
Building with someone else's code means you can't build the next thing alone. Building yourself takes longer — but now you can build anything.