writing-skills

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SKILL.md

Writing Skills

Overview

Writing skills IS Test-Driven Development applied to process documentation.

Personal skills live in agent-specific directories ($DOTFILE_REPO_ROOT/ai/files/skills)

Project skills live in .agents/skills/.

You write test cases (pressure scenarios with subagents), watch them fail (baseline behavior), write the skill (documentation), watch tests pass (agents comply), and refactor (close loopholes).

Core principle: If you didn't watch an agent fail without the skill, you don't know if the skill teaches the right thing.

REQUIRED BACKGROUND: You MUST understand superpowers:test-driven-development before using this skill. That skill defines the fundamental RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle. This skill adapts TDD to documentation.

Official guidance: Load the anthropic-best-practices resource from the writing-skills skill. This document provides additional patterns and guidelines that complement the TDD-focused approach in this skill.

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