Getting started
Install, lacquer init, and lacquer sync a project for the first time.
lacquer
One set of rules, skills, and CI, rendered into every project instead of copy-pasted and left to rot.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”lacquer is a Go CLI plus a set of profile templates that standardize how Claude Code
works across every project in ~/Developer. It renders shared content —
CLAUDE.md rules, skills, commands, CI workflows, git hooks, tool configs — into
each project and tracks how far each project has drifted, so a lesson pinned once
propagates everywhere instead of being copy-pasted and left to rot.
A project opts in per component (a subdirectory) via a .lacquer.toml
manifest. Each component declares one or more profiles; core applies to
every project regardless.
Agent rules
The engineering rules every Claude Code session in a lacquered project inherits — worktrees, TDD, CI hygiene, review gates.
Commands
Full CLI reference: init, onboard, sync, status, audit.
Skills catalog
Every skill that ships in core and each profile, and when it fires.
Built by Patrick Serrano, an iOS engineer building apps under a small independent studio. lacquer is the internal tooling that keeps engineering practice consistent across the whole fleet.