Dev Cycle: Start-to-Finish Workflow

Dev Cycle gets invoked once to start a task and again later to ship it, keeping git, testing, and review calls out of a single freeform session.

Orchestrates a unit of work from branch creation to merge and release. Runs in two modes that typically span different sessions:

• Start mode: pull latest, size-detect, create feature branch, brainstorm spec for large work or hand off to coding for small work.
• Finish mode: verify green, sync docs/versions, review, push, open PR, watch CI, merge, cut release when conventions exist.

Each mode delegates to purpose-built skills (git, testing, code-review, update-docs, brainstorming skills) rather than reimplementing them. This skill is the glue, not the engine.

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