Jane Street Puzzle Archivist

Use when solving, organizing, or reviewing Jane Street monthly puzzles, especially when bootstrapping a new puzzle month, comparing against prior public solu...

Use this skill to keep Jane Street puzzle work reproducible, archived, and reusable.

When to Use

• A new monthly Jane Street puzzle is live.
• An existing month needs solver cleanup, answer submission, or better notes.
• You need to compare the current puzzle with prior public solution repos.
• You want to turn puzzle-solving experience into reusable scripts, docs, or skills.

Workflow

1. Run python3 scripts/current_puzzle.py to inspect the live puzzle metadata.
2. If it is a new month, run python3 scripts/current_puzzle.py --init and work inside puzzles/YYYY/YYYY-MM-slug/.
3. Refresh the reference index with python3 scripts/index_reference_repos.py.
4. Read:
   • references/reference-repos.md
   • references/solving-patterns.md
5. Solve the puzzle with a reproducible script stored in the month folder.
6. Record the answer and submission status in that month's README.md and submission.json.
7. If you learned a reusable technique, update this skill or the repo knowledge files before finishing.

Required structure

• Each puzzle lives under puzzles/YYYY/YYYY-MM-slug/.
• Keep the puzzle asset, solver, notes, metadata, and submission record together.
• Do not commit refs/ or .omx/.

Publishing

• This skill can be published directly with:
  • clawhub publish .agents/skills/jane-street-puzzle-archivist --slug jane-street-puzzle-archivist --name "Jane Street Puzzle Archivist" --version <semver>
• If the skill changes materially, publish a new version after verifying the references still match the repo workflow.