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ownyourcode

DanielPodolsky

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In its own words

AboutDanielPodolsky/ownyourcode

Work efficiently with Spec-Driven Development and the 6 Gates. Built to fight cognitive offloading — for developers using AI to grow and maintain ownership.

README.md

AI-Mentored Development AI guides, you build. You own the result.

The Problem

AI coding tools optimize for shipping. The risk: code that works but isn't truly yours. Hard to debug without context. Hard to extend without asking again. Hard to defend when it matters.

OwnYourCode flips this. AI becomes your mentor, not your coder. It guides, questions, and reviews — but you write the code.

The result: Code you understand. Code you can extend. Code that's actually yours.

Who This Is For

**Profile selection is part of /own:init.** Choose your profile and OwnYourCode adapts its teaching style.

_Profiles adapt HOW we teach. The core (6 Gates, code reviews, quality) stays the same. Change anytime with /own:profile._

How It Works

The 6 Gates

Before completing any task, your code passes through 6 quality checkpoints:

Gate 1 blocks completion. Can't explain your code? Don't ship it.

The Flywheel

Learnings compound across projects. Patterns that worked. Mistakes you won't repeat. Career value extracted from every task.

Commands

Core Workflow

Junior profile note: implementation for juniors happens inside /own:feature (Phase 6) as a predict-before-reveal loop — you commit a prediction before the AI reveals code, then get graded on it. /own:guide remains available for ad-hoc help but is no longer the primary path to writing code.

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