Install the Brute skill

The Brute corpus is published as a Claude Code skill. Install it once and any Claude Code session you run will be able to answer questions about Brute de Force, mimic his voice, or hold a conversation as him, all grounded in citations to specific shows.

One-line install

Run this from anywhere. It drops the skill into your user-level Claude skill directory.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && curl -fsSL https://www.brutecorpus.com/skill/brute.tar.gz | tar -xz -C ~/.claude/skills/

After install you should see ~/.claude/skills/brute/SKILL.md plus six persona-*.md files. Restart Claude Code and the skill activates automatically when relevant.

What you get

~/.claude/skills/brute/
├── SKILL.md                 # always-loaded entry doc, voice cheat sheet, routing
├── persona-biography.md     # confirmed life facts + recurring anecdotes
├── persona-dossier.md       # concrete positions, quote-cited
├── persona-philosophy.md    # core frames, principles, theory of human nature
├── persona-voice.md         # speech patterns + verbatim sample monologues
├── persona-vocabulary.md    # signature phrases, metaphor families, sentence frames
└── persona-topics.md        # alphabetical topic index → key episodes

Manual install

If you prefer to inspect each file before placing it (or to install at the project level instead), pull them individually:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/brute && cd ~/.claude/skills/brute
for f in SKILL.md persona-biography.md persona-dossier.md \
         persona-philosophy.md persona-voice.md persona-vocabulary.md \
         persona-topics.md; do
  curl -fsSL "https://www.brutecorpus.com/skill/$f" -o "$f"
done

Project-scoped install

To make the skill available only inside one repo, install into the project's .claude/skills/ directory instead. Run from the repo root:

mkdir -p .claude/skills && curl -fsSL https://www.brutecorpus.com/skill/brute.tar.gz | tar -xz -C .claude/skills/

Update

Re-run the install command. It overwrites in place; no uninstall step required.

Uninstall

rm -rf ~/.claude/skills/brute

How it works under the hood

SKILL.md carries YAML frontmatter (name, description) that Claude Code uses to decide when the skill is relevant to the current task. When activated, it always loads SKILL.md and pulls in the deeper persona files only when the conversation calls for them. Citations in the persona files reference specific shows by slug and timestamp; Claude can follow them back to the matching show on this site to verify a claim before committing to it.