norma - one task loop and verification gate, enforced by git

norma installs a task harness into a git repository: a verification gate that runs the project's own checks and the tests for what changed, a pre-commit hook that refuses a commit without a fresh stamp from that gate, and a library of procedures - orient, enrich, branch, plan, implement, verify, review, document, hand over - that any agent follows by file path.

This skill is the entry point. It lets an agent:

• detect whether norma and its harness are already in the repository, and whether the hook is actually armed;
• install the CLI and add the harness through norma's official routes - Homebrew, a tagged release, or the install script shown to you before it runs - and only after you say yes;
• work through the repository's own loop and gate instead of improvising one;
• explain why a commit was refused and what fixes it, without bypassing anything.

What it does not do: enforce anything by itself. The guarantees come from the git hook, the gate and your CI; the skill forbids the agent to fake them - no --no-verify, no hand-written stamp, no edits to the gate - and tells it to say so when your CI does not run the gate, because then the hook is the only check.

Free and open source (MIT). POSIX sh, no runtime dependencies beyond git.