context-driven-development
Context-Driven Development provides a framework for treating project documentation as a managed artifact alongside code, enabling consistent AI interactions and team coordination. Use this skill when establishing new projects with Conductor, maintaining consistency across AI-assisted development sessions, onboarding team members, or deciding when to update context documents for greenfield or brownfield projects.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents /tmp/context-driven-development && cp -r /tmp/context-driven-development/plugins/conductor/skills/context-driven-development ~/.claude/skills/context-driven-developmentSKILL.md
# 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 1. **Read context first**: Always read relevant artifacts before starting work 2. **Small updates**: Make incremental context changes, not massive rewrites 3. **Link decisions**: Reference context when making implementation choices 4. **Version context**: Commit context changes alongside code changes 5. **Review context**: Include context artifact reviews in code reviews 6. **Validate regularly**: Run context validation checklist before major work 7. **Communicate changes**: Notify team when context artifacts change significantly 8. **Preserve history**: Use git to track context evolution over time 9. **Question staleness**: If context feels wrong, investigate and update 10. **Keep it actionable**: Every context item should inform a decision or behavior
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