What Waykit gives you

Waykit is the SDLC for coding agents. The rest of this page is what that install actually puts on disk: a thin handshake, on-demand skills, one MCP profile, a quality gate, and learning loops. Eval-driven development is how you prove tool calls; it is not the whole product.

Independent assessment (value + model-/host-agnosticism) and open follow-ups: kit-value-and-model-agnostic-review.md, kit-review-backlog.md.

Always-on context

Agents pay for every byte in the bootstrap. Waykit keeps always-on files small and loads philosophy, SOPs, and skill bodies on demand.

Surface	In the always-on total?	Target
`AGENTS.md` + project handshake + thin IDE rules (`.cursorrules`, `CLAUDE.md`)	Yes	< ~8KB (~2k tokens)
Skill descriptions (frontmatter only)	No (discovery)	Fine; do not pre-load skill bodies
`CODING_PHILOSOPHY.md` and SOP files	No	Zero on typo/debug routes unless that procedure is needed

wk measure-context

Prints a character/token estimate per file and FAIL if always-on exceeds 8KB. Re-run after editing AGENTS.md or the handshake template. wk check runs this gate last.

Agent checklist: SOPs/context-budget.md.

One MCP profile per session

Extra MCP tools compete for attention and inflate tool-schema tokens. Compose one named profile:

wk mcp default --install
wk mcp collab --install
wk mcp ops --install
wk mcp cloudflare-ops --install

Match the profile to the skill’s mcp: frontmatter. Do not merge collab + devtools + ops into one global mcp.json. Catalog: mcps/README.md. Procedure: SOPs/mcp-library.md.

Quality gate

wk check is the local merge bar:

wk audit: prompt injection, secrets, entropy, lockfile pins
wk validate / wk verify: eval schemas and skills layout
wk ontology check: live-derived graph refs (depends-on, mcp)
IDE rules match AGENTS.md
Skill-trigger evals (registration / prompt hygiene; not a model run) and EDD wk eval ci (scripted, 95% routing)
Context budget

wk check
wk audit
wk sync --install

wk sync installs upstream skills (Cloudflare, Vercel) from skills/external.lock.json by version tag or latest, not a guessed commit SHA. SOPs/external-skills.md.

Live kit graph

Skills, SOPs, MCP servers, evals, and docs are one graph derived from the files agents already edit. You do not maintain a second catalog. wk ontology check fails dangling depends-on and mcp: refs. wk ontology generate writes a gitignored index for kit-knowledge and the public map.

Browse: Waykit map. Authoring: Author the Waykit map. Decision: ADR 0005.

Commands

Command	What it measures or installs
`wk measure-context`	Always-on bootstrap size vs 8KB
`wk check`	Audit, ontology, evals, EDD CI, context budget
`wk ontology check`	Live graph referential integrity
`wk ontology generate`	Write gitignored index for kit-knowledge and the map
`wk mcp <profile>`	One MCP profile into `mcp.json`
`wk audit`	Skills and scripts supply-chain scan
`wk eval ci`	Routing accuracy gate (EDD)
`wk sync`	Upstream skills from the lockfile

EDD loop, keys, and CI: edd.md.

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