The Overclaim Engine audits the moment a useful, finite thing begins claiming final, exhaustive, sacred, exclusive, immune, or reality-owning authority. Quotes, concepts, doctrines, institutions, political claims, scientific models, self-stories, books, and traditions can all enter the Arena.

The aim is not to reject finite things for being finite. The engine preserves what a name, map, model, practice, symbol, or story can validly do, then cuts the point where it pretends to be identical with the real. Its governing discipline is simple: preserve the use, cut the crown.

The Arena publishes completed audits from the Overclaim Engine, conceived and written by Trevor Wedge.

Enter the Arena

Bring the Engine to Codex

The Overclaim Engine is available from GitHub as a Codex Agent Skill. Skills give Codex reusable instructions and workflows; they are available in the Codex CLI, IDE extension, and app.

To install the portable audit skill for use across your projects, ask Codex:

Use $skill-installer to install the skill from
https://github.com/porkcharsui/overclaim-engine at path overclaim-engine.

If the skills do not appear immediately after installation, restart Codex. Then invoke the engine explicitly:

Use $overclaim-engine to audit this claim: "..."

You can also clone the repository, open it in Codex, and reference the repo-local skill directly:

Use the skill at ./overclaim-engine to audit this claim: "..."

The companion overclaim-fetch skill is intentionally repo-local. Clone-and-reference usage keeps downloaded sources and generated audits in the repository's canonical texts/ directory. Full installation and usage instructions are in the README.