shortcuts/radin

Too cheap to pay full price for a whole AI tool stack, so it went shopping for you.
"Radin" is French slang for miser. Hence the rat.
A Claude Code plugin for a solo dev on a small subscription. One curl | bash
gives you:
A backlog-driven workflow. Tasks live as files in your repo, so they
survive the conversation. Plan them, execute them one commit at a time,
review the result. Any run resumes where it stopped.
A curated token-reduction stack, installed whole: rtk, caveman,
ponytail, codebase-memory-mcp, thermo-nuclear, mattpocock-skills,
unslop, technical-writing.
radin delegates to them instead of reimplementing them. It never forks or
vendors them.
## Install
sh
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shortcuts/radin/main/install.sh | bash
Needs curl, tar, bash, and the claude CLI. Two files are C, the TUI and the
JSON surgery behind radin repair. Install builds both with cc (Xcode
Command Line Tools on macOS, gcc on Linux) and skips each with a warning when
no compiler is there. Companion tools pull their
own stacks; one that fails is reported and skipped, and radin still installs.
rtk installs through Homebrew, mise, or its own
installer. The install asks which.
Install asks three questions: one about radin-batch's sub-agent models,
one naming the package manager for companion tools, one about sub-agent effort. Add -s -- --yes to take the defaults. Add -s -- --verbose to
trace every command, for an install that hangs or fails.
Update radin itself with radin update. It asks the sub-agent model and effort questions
again, reapplies every companion's configuration, and installs only the
companions that are missing. Re-run install.sh to update the companions too.
## Use it
| Command | What it does |
| /radin-record | Turn a bug, idea, or aside raised mid-session into a backlog task |
| /radin-plan | Write a step-by-step plan for one task, touching no code |
| /radin-batch | Work the backlog: prioritize, plan the tasks /radin-record flagged, implement, commit, one task per commit |
| /radin-do | Record one ad-hoc prompt as a backlog entry, plan it when flagged, then execute just that task |
| /radin-review | Two-axis pass over a scope, repo rubrics plus the originating entry's spec; kept findings go to the backlog or straight to /radin-do |
| /radin-stats | Every companion tool's own savings report, side by side |
| /radin-uninstall | Remove what install.sh put in ~/.claude |
| radin | Full-screen backlog browser for humans. Bare radin on a terminal is the human entry point. No agent involved; ? lists keys. Off a terminal it prints the usage text and exits non-zero, so a skill or pipe never hangs in a full-screen app. radin help prints that text on purpose |
Typical loop: record, plan (optional), execute, review. Review findings feed the next
execute. Each skill runs in your own conversation, so it can ask you
questions; only leaf work goes to sub-agents. /radin-batch confirms the
order before it starts, and every task's state is on disk, so interrupting it