pdlc-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

pdlc-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from kanfu-panda/pdlc-skills. It costs 3,873 tokens per session, scanned B, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for pdlc-skills, a Claude Code plugin containing slash commands for stages such as requirements, design, testing, implementation, review, and release. A product development life cycle is the sequence used to take a software idea from planning to delivery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when maintaining the plugin, its 38 development-stage commands, or its marketplace files.
Why use it?
They explain the repository layout, supported tool, and naming rules so changes fit the plugin correctly.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is kanfu-panda/pdlc-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on pdlc-skills 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 pdlc-skills configures →

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/me/projects/pdlc-skills.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to kanfu-panda/pdlc-skills. 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/kanfu-panda/pdlc-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kanfu-panda/pdlc-skills

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5 $0.01937 $0.01937
Sonnet 5 $0.00775 $0.00775
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Measured 5d ago against content hash 49ead2ca8d0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

pdlc-skills CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

`pdlc-settings` is the interactive config command (Layer 3); currently it wires up the optional PDLC statusline (`bin/pdlc-statusline.sh`) — enable/disable/display-items. Editing global `~/.claude/settings.json` is backu

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

├── install.sh ← curl-based one-line installer wrapping `claude plugin install`
CLAUDE.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 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.

Repository purpose

pdlc-skills is a Claude Code plugin. It exposes 38 standardized "Product Development Life Cycle" stages as slash commands (/pdlc-feature, /pdlc-prd, /pdlc-tdd, ..., /pdlc-onboard) covering PRD → Design → TDD → Implement → Review → Ship → Deploy → Retro and 24 specialized tools.

The repo is both a plugin and a single-plugin marketplace (so claude plugin marketplace add github:kanfu-panda/pdlc-skills registers it directly).

This plugin is Claude Code only — it relies on Claude Code's plugin / skill mechanism. There's no port to Cursor, Copilot, Cline, etc.

Repository layout

pdlc-skills/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   ├── plugin.json                 ← plugin manifest (name, version, author, ...)
│   └── marketplace.json            ← marketplace manifest (so the repo is also a marketplace)
├── skills/                         ← 38 sub-skills (each = one slash command)
│   ├── pdlc-feature/SKILL.md       → /pdlc-feature
│   ├── pdlc-prd/SKILL.md           → /pdlc-prd
│   ├── pdlc-tdd/SKILL.md           → /pdlc-tdd
│   └── ... (38 dirs total)
├── bin/
│   └── pdlc-statusline.sh          ← optional statusline segment (scanned by /pdlc-settings)
├── references/
│   └── templates/
│       ├── *-template.md           ← user-facing document templates
│       └── prompts/*.md            ← shared prompt fragments (iron-law / handoff / ...)
├── install.sh                      ← curl-based one-line installer wrapping `claude plugin install`
├── docs/
│   └── usage-guide.md              ← single user manual (architecture + reference + scenarios)
├── tests/                          ← 6 scripts, all of them part of the local gate
│   ├── frontmatter-check.sh        ← validates skills/<name>/SKILL.md frontmatter
│   ├── install-smoke.sh            ← end-to-end install layout test
│   ├── statusline-check.sh         ← pdlc-statusline.sh scenario regression
│   ├── adapter-codex-check.sh      ← adapters/build_codex.py projection output
│   ├── adapter-codex-loop-run-check.sh ← Codex loop-run mapping + guardrails
│   └── evals-runner-check.sh       ← evals/run.sh driver (stubbed, no model spend)
└── VERSION                         ← canonical version (mirrored in plugin.json)

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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. 5d ago Changed · +18 lines · +348 tokens per session 49ead2ca8d0e
  2. 10d ago First seen · 174 lines · 3,525 tokens per session scan B 1e9147acdf95

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pdlc-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kanfu-panda/pdlc-skills (13 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 3,873 tokens to every session, about $0.0194 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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