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v1.3.0

What Would Boris Do — engineering judgment channeled from Boris Cherny's published guidance, calibrated for a product-led, agent-maintained builder.

CodexClaude Code1 Skill

By David KimLicense: MIT1 GitHub starsUpdated 1 hour ago

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Codex and Claude Code
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Sep 24, 2026
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Install wwbd for Codex and Claude Code

Installs for the current user
codex plugin marketplace add davekim917/bootstrap
codex plugin marketplace upgrade davekim917-bootstrap
codex plugin add wwbd@davekim917-bootstrap

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Codex. They add and refresh the davekim917-bootstrap catalog, then install this plugin.

Compatibility: the page URL and API slug “wwbd” remain stable.

  • Codex: wwbd@agent-plugin-marketplace → wwbd@davekim917-bootstrap

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/davekim917/bootstrap

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The plugin root is plugins/wwbd/.

Plugin files

plugins/wwbd/
├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
└── skills/wwbd/SKILL.md

Included Skills1

wwbdskills/wwbd/SKILL.md

What Would Boris Do — engineering judgment calibrated the way Boris Cherny (creator of Claude Code) instructs his own AI agents. Load BEFORE committing to an architecture, a design approach, a new dependency, a data model, or a build plan; whenever the user asks "what would Boris say/do" or "wwbd", wants a second opinion on a technical decision, or asks whether a PROPOSED approach is over-engineered or how a top engineer would build it. This is decision advice BEFORE building — reviewing an already-written diff or codebase for bloat is team-review's territory, and running the delivery workflow is team-plan's. The operator is a product-led builder, not a CS-trained engineer — this skill defines how to carry the engineering half of the decision for them.

Plugin manifests2

plugins/wwbd/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "wwbd",
  "version": "1.3.0",
  "description": "What Would Boris Do — engineering judgment channeled from Boris Cherny's published guidance, calibrated for a product-led, agent-maintained builder.",
  "author": {
    "name": "David Kim"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/davekim917/bootstrap",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "judgment",
    "architecture",
    "simplicity",
    "advisory",
    "boris"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "hooks": "./hooks/wwbd-codex-hooks.json",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "WWBD — What Would Boris Do",
    "shortDescription": "Engineering-judgment advisory skill",
    "longDescription": "Channels Boris Cherny's published agentic-engineering judgment: verdict-first consults, build-time defaults (spec-first, verification loops, simplicity bias), and a from-scratch architecture review test.",
    "developerName": "David Kim",
    "category": "Coding",
    "capabilities": [
      "Interactive"
    ],
    "websiteURL": "https://github.com/davekim917/bootstrap",
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "What would Boris say about this architecture?",
      "If Boris built this from scratch, would he build it the same way?"
    ],
    "brandColor": "#111827"
  }
}
plugins/wwbd/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "wwbd",
  "version": "1.3.0",
  "description": "What Would Boris Do — engineering judgment channeled from Boris Cherny's published guidance, calibrated for a product-led, agent-maintained builder.",
  "author": {
    "name": "David Kim"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/davekim917/bootstrap",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "judgment",
    "architecture",
    "simplicity",
    "advisory",
    "boris"
  ],
  "skills": [
    "./skills"
  ],
  "hooks": "./hooks/wwbd-hooks.json"
}

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