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ub-mode: Uncle Bob's Clean Code skill gives coding agents deterministic quality gates
Robert C. Martin's agent skill runs coding agents through TDD, refactoring and small commits, enforced by CRAP-score, duplication and mutation-testing tools.
Why it matters
Clean Code's author turns his rules into a slash command with numbers that fail the build - the rare agent skill that can say no.
What you could build with it
A software consultancy could adopt the skill as a shared definition of done for agent-written code, running the CRAP and mutation gates in CI so junior developers ship reviewed-quality pull requests without a senior in the loop.
Does it hold up?
Immediately usable as a SKILL.md drop-in, but the companion tools need separate setup and the quality gains are the author's claims, not independent measurements yet.
Built with ub-mode
- Clean Code Author Robert Martin Releases ub-mode for AI Coding Agentsblog · News summary of the skill's three phases and its deterministic companion tools.
- ub-mode GitHub Overview: Deterministic Quality Gates for AI Codingyoutube · Video overview of the CRAP metric, AST similarity checks, mutation testing and context hygiene in ub-mode.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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