Design-by-Contract Development Skill

Capability

Design-by-Contract (DbC) is a programming methodology that uses formal specifications (contracts) to define component behavior. This skill enables:

• Contract Design: Plan preconditions, postconditions, and invariants before implementation
• Artifact Generation: Create contract annotations across 8+ languages
• Verification: Run contract validation with appropriate runtime flags
• Remediation: Fix contract violations with targeted debugging

Core Contract Types:

• Preconditions: What must be true before a function executes (caller's duty)
• Postconditions: What must be true after a function executes (callee's promise)
• Invariants: What must always be true about object state

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