GAIA

Claude is raw power.
GAIA is order and focus.

GAIA is the engineering discipline for Claude Code.
Keep the AI speed, lose the debt.

Enforced quality gates Claude can’t skip, so flawed code never reaches production. GAIA keeps Claude’s own config and memory clean as the project grows. Your AI engineer stays sharp, session after session.

React on the frontend, your stack everywhere else.

Built by Steven Sacks, creator of the original GAIA framework, used on 100,000+ sites.

Code you can trust

Skills advise. GAIA enforces.

A skill is advice. The model can take it or leave it. GAIA leaves no such choice.

The rules that matter most don’t depend on the model remembering them. Test-driven development is required. Secrets can’t be written into source. Every commit clears typecheck, lint, tests, and build.

Every merge is read line by line for security holes and risky patterns, fixed automatically where it’s safe, blocked for your review where it isn’t.

install · write · commit · merge
$ pnpm add @acme/parser@2.4.0
✗ held, published 6h ago, under the 7-day minimum
a package poisoned the day it ships can’t get in
write api/session.ts
✗ blocked, AWS key in source
a secret never reaches a commit
$ git commit -m "add discount logic"
✓ total.test.ts failed first (RED)
✓ typecheck✓ lint✓ tests✓ build
committed → feat/checkout
$ gh pr merge 412
IMPORTANTcart/total.ts:24discount path has no test
SUGGESTIONui/Modal.tsx:12prefer native dialog → fixed
✗ merge blocked, 1 important must clear first
Opinionated by default

Without standards, Claude improvises. With GAIA’s standards, quality holds up.

GAIA ships with informed opinions on styling, tests, stories, accessibility, and services. Claude applies them to every file it touches, so the codebase stays consistent instead of a patchwork of whatever the model felt like that session.

Each rule is scoped to the files it matches, so Claude gets the right standard and none of the noise. Whatever you build on top inherits the same gates.

.claude/rules/apply on match
app/**/*.{tsx,css}
→
tailwind
app/services/**
→
api-service
app/components/**
→
accessibility
app/**/*.stories.tsx
→
storybook
.playwright/**
→
playwright
Token efficiency

Your project grows. Your context doesn’t.

A bigger codebase usually means a bigger context and a bigger bill. Every session re-reads more, and Claude’s own notes pile up until they slow it down.

GAIA keeps state on disk and reads only what each task needs, not the whole project. Upkeep commands keep Claude’s context lean, so it stays flat as your project grows.

Claude’s memoryread on demand
wikiArchitecture, flows, and decisions
hot cacheWhat Claude touched this session
handoffCompact state for handoff and pickup
agent memoryEach subagent’s notes, between runs
Upkeeprun on command
auditPrunes duplicate, conflicting, and stale notes
fitnessHeals config rot before it degrades Claude
Open source. MIT.

Discipline you can install.

You direct. Claude implements.
GAIA enforces.

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