context-driven-development

wshobson/agents · plugins/conductor/skills/context-driven-development/SKILL.md

Creates and maintains project context artifacts (product.md, tech-stack.md, workflow.md, tracks.md) in a `conductor/` directory. Scaffolds new projects from scratch, extracts context from existing codebases, validates artifact consistency before implementation, and synchronizes documents as the project evolves. Use when setting up a project, creating or updating product docs, managing a tech stack file, defining development workflows, tracking work units, onboarding to an existing codebase, or running project scaffolding.

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What this skill does

Context-Driven Development

Guide for implementing and maintaining context as a managed artifact alongside code, enabling consistent AI interactions and team alignment through structured project documentation.

When to Use This Skill

Setting up new projects with Conductor
Understanding the relationship between context artifacts
Maintaining consistency across AI-assisted development sessions
Onboarding team members to an existing Conductor project
Deciding when to update context documents
Managing greenfield vs brownfield project contexts

Detailed patterns and worked examples

Detailed pattern documentation lives in references/details.md. Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient.

Best Practices

Read context first: Always read relevant artifacts before starting work
Small updates: Make incremental context changes, not massive rewrites
Link decisions: Reference context when making implementation choices
Version context: Commit context changes alongside code changes
Review context: Include context artifact reviews in code reviews
Validate regularly: Run context validation checklist before major work
Communicate changes: Notify team when context artifacts change significantly
Preserve history: Use git to track context evolution over time
Question staleness: If context feels wrong, investigate and update
Keep it actionable: Every context item should inform a decision or behavior

Installation

Copy a source-pinned command for your client. You run it yourself.

Destination: .claude/skills/context-driven-development · pinned to the source commit

# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 38e19c20d2b154510b0e624a2e3e186b19b5c527
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/plugins/conductor/skills/context-driven-development" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmp

Review the source before running. This copies files into your project; it is not a one-click install and does not verify runtime safety.

New here? Step-by-step setup – from installing the agent to using the skill

Operating systemAgentI already use Claude Code

1
Install Git
Install Git with your package manager (Debian/Ubuntu shown; use dnf/pacman on others). Official download.
```
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y git
```
2
Install Claude Code
Requires Node.js 18+. Install the CLI globally: Official docs. (command-line tool)
```
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
```

Get the skill, pinned to its exact version

Open a terminal and run these steps (they clone the source, check out the exact commit, and copy the skill into place):

# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 38e19c20d2b154510b0e624a2e3e186b19b5c527
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/plugins/conductor/skills/context-driven-development" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmp

Destination: .claude/skills/context-driven-development

4
Use it in Claude Code
Open Claude Code in your project. It reads skills from the folder above, so context-driven-development is now available. Always review the source before using it – static checks cannot prove runtime safety.

Security & Audits

Scanner static-checks@0.1.0 · commit 38e19c20d2b1. Static checks cannot prove runtime safety – review the source and the exact diff before installing. How checks work.

No static rules matched. This is not a safety guarantee.

context-driven-development

wshobson/agents · plugins/conductor/skills/context-driven-development/SKILL.md

Product & ResearchNo license★ 39156⑂ 4179commit 38e19c2

What this skill does

Context-Driven Development

Guide for implementing and maintaining context as a managed artifact alongside code, enabling consistent AI interactions and team alignment through structured project documentation.

When to Use This Skill

Setting up new projects with Conductor
Understanding the relationship between context artifacts
Maintaining consistency across AI-assisted development sessions
Onboarding team members to an existing Conductor project
Deciding when to update context documents
Managing greenfield vs brownfield project contexts

Detailed patterns and worked examples

Detailed pattern documentation lives in references/details.md. Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient.

Best Practices

Read context first: Always read relevant artifacts before starting work
Small updates: Make incremental context changes, not massive rewrites
Link decisions: Reference context when making implementation choices
Version context: Commit context changes alongside code changes
Review context: Include context artifact reviews in code reviews
Validate regularly: Run context validation checklist before major work
Communicate changes: Notify team when context artifacts change significantly
Preserve history: Use git to track context evolution over time
Question staleness: If context feels wrong, investigate and update
Keep it actionable: Every context item should inform a decision or behavior

Installation

Copy a source-pinned command for your client. You run it yourself.

Destination: .claude/skills/context-driven-development · pinned to the source commit

# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 38e19c20d2b154510b0e624a2e3e186b19b5c527
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/plugins/conductor/skills/context-driven-development" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmp

Review the source before running. This copies files into your project; it is not a one-click install and does not verify runtime safety.

New here? Step-by-step setup – from installing the agent to using the skill

Operating systemAgentI already use Claude Code

1
Install Git
Install Git with your package manager (Debian/Ubuntu shown; use dnf/pacman on others). Official download.
```
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y git
```
2
Install Claude Code
Requires Node.js 18+. Install the CLI globally: Official docs. (command-line tool)
```
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
```

Get the skill, pinned to its exact version

Open a terminal and run these steps (they clone the source, check out the exact commit, and copy the skill into place):

# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 38e19c20d2b154510b0e624a2e3e186b19b5c527
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/plugins/conductor/skills/context-driven-development" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmp

Destination: .claude/skills/context-driven-development

4
Use it in Claude Code
Open Claude Code in your project. It reads skills from the folder above, so context-driven-development is now available. Always review the source before using it – static checks cannot prove runtime safety.

Security & Audits

Scanner static-checks@0.1.0 · commit 38e19c20d2b1. Static checks cannot prove runtime safety – review the source and the exact diff before installing. How checks work.

No static rules matched. This is not a safety guarantee.

context-driven-development

What this skill does

Context-Driven Development

When to Use This Skill

Detailed patterns and worked examples

Best Practices

Installation

Install Git

Install Claude Code

Get the skill, pinned to its exact version

Use it in Claude Code

Security & Audits

context-driven-development

What this skill does

Context-Driven Development

When to Use This Skill

Detailed patterns and worked examples

Best Practices

Installation

Install Git

Install Claude Code

Get the skill, pinned to its exact version

Use it in Claude Code

Security & Audits