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Pilot Shell Documentation

Pilot Shell is how real engineers run Claude Code. You get plans you can review before a single line is written, tests that are enforced — not optional, knowledge that persists across sessions, and quality gates that run automatically on every edit.

No more re-explaining decisions, chasing skipped tests, or reviewing 15-file changes that were never scoped. Pilot adds the structure that turns fast AI output into reliable production code.

Why Pilot Shell​

  • Reliable output — every feature goes through plan → implement → verify, with TDD at each step
  • Persistent context — architectural decisions, patterns, and project knowledge survive across sessions
  • Automatic quality — linting, formatting, type checking, and test enforcement happen as hooks, not suggestions
  • Full visibility — a local dashboard shows what's running, what changed, and what it cost

Quick start​

# Install
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxritter/pilot-shell/main/install.sh | bash

# Start
cd your-project && pilot

# Generate project rules
> /setup-rules

# Create a reusable skill
> /create-skill

# Brainstorm a vague idea into a PRD (with optional research)
> /prd "Add real-time notifications for team updates"

# Plan and build a feature
> /spec "Add user authentication with OAuth"

Architecture​

Pilot enhances Claude Code with:

  • 18 hook registrations across 7 lifecycle events for automatic quality and security enforcement (includes a built-in credential scanner)
  • 6 MCP servers for library docs, memory, web search, code search, page fetching, and code intelligence
  • 3 language servers (Python, TypeScript, Go) for real-time diagnostics
  • Intelligent model routing — Opus for planning, Sonnet for implementation
  • Persistent memory via local SQLite — decisions and context survive across sessions
  • Pilot Console — local web dashboard for monitoring, configuration, and skill sharing

Explore the sidebar for getting started, workflows, and features.