pxp_skill: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

pxp_skill CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from infews/pxp_skill. It costs 754 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of repository instructions for a Claude Code plugin that guides an Extreme Programming workflow from broad work ideas to small stories, clear requirements, and test-first development. It also explains how the plugin’s Markdown-based skills fit together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when maintaining or extending the pxp_skill repository, its Claude Code plugin manifest, its skills, or its story and epic templates.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent consistent project-specific guidance and defines which skill to use at each stage. This removes guesswork about the repository structure and the order of the development process.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is infews/pxp_skill's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on pxp_skill itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything pxp_skill configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to infews/pxp_skill. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/infews/pxp_skill/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/infews/pxp_skill

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A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What this repo is

pxp is a Claude Code plugin. The plugin manifest lives at .claude-plugin/plugin.json. It ships three skills under skills/ that work together to support a Pivotal Labs–style XP pairing workflow: epic refinement → story slicing → EARS specs → TDD.

This is a pure-markdown repo. There are no build steps, no test suite, and no package manager.

Skill architecture

skills/
  pivotal-xp/          — main workflow skill (5-phase XP cycle)
  ears-specifications/ — sub-skill for EARS pattern reference
  test-driven-development/ — bundled fallback TDD sub-skill

Each skill is a directory containing SKILL.md (with YAML frontmatter) and optional subdirectories. The pivotal-xp skill also has a templates/ directory with epic.md and story.md starters.

How the skills relate

pivotal-xp is the orchestrator. In Phase 3 it requires pxp:ears-specifications as a sub-skill. In Phase 4 it requires a TDD skill via a fallback chain:

  1. superpowers-ruby:test-driven-development — preferred if the user has it
  2. superpowers:test-driven-development — second choice
  3. pxp:test-driven-development — the bundled copy in this package (last resort)

This package must work standalone for users without any superpowers plugin installed. The bundled test-driven-development skill is the safety net — it should never be the primary recommendation in external contexts.

Rule for all future cross-skill references: external/upstream first, local bundled copy last.

Skill frontmatter

Every SKILL.md begins with a YAML frontmatter block:

---
name: skill-name
description: When to trigger this skill (used by Claude Code for automatic matching)
---

The description field is what Claude Code reads to decide when to invoke the skill. It should describe the trigger conditions precisely — too broad causes false positives, too narrow misses valid uses.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 61 lines · 754 tokens per session scan A d7916f0bf2a2

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pxp_skill CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository infews/pxp_skill (21 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 754 tokens to every session, about $0.0030 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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