stepwise-core

A structured development workflow that separates research, planning, implementation, and validation, with project notes managed in a thoughts/ directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a change, write an implementation plan, build it, and validate the result. TDD, listed as a keyword, means writing tests before the code they check.
Why use it?
It gives development work a repeatable sequence and keeps supporting documents organized.

Plugin for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add nikeyes/stepwise-dev
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/nikeyes/stepwise-dev/core
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nikeyes/stepwise-dev

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

stepwise-core scanned grade A with 0 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 yesterday.

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.

core/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 22 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "stepwise-core",
  "version": "1.4.0",
  "description": "Core workflow for structured development: Research → Plan → Implement → Validate with thoughts/ management",
  "author": {
    "name": "Jorge Castro",
    "url": "https://github.com/nikeyes"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/nikeyes/stepwise-dev",
  "repository": "https://github.com/nikeyes/stepwise-dev",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "keywords": [
    "workflow",
    "research",
    "planning",
    "implementation",
    "validation",
    "thoughts",
    "tdd"
  ]
}
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. yesterday First seen · 22 lines scan A 534bc8728191

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stepwise-core is a plugin published in the GitHub repository nikeyes/stepwise-dev (24 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.