sdlc-flow

sdlc-flow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from douglance/sdlc-plugin. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,422 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide for software work that spans multiple lifecycle phases, such as planning, design, implementation, and verification. It defines how each phase passes a documented output to the next one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Routing multi-stage development work, selecting the starting phase, and producing consistent documents between specialized workflow steps.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right next phase when a request is broad or its stage is unclear. It preserves stable identifiers, defined terms, relationships, and supporting evidence across the workflow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sdlc plugin — 30 skills, 1 plugin shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/douglance/sdlc-plugin/sdlc-flow
Any agent
npx skills add douglance/sdlc-plugin --skill sdlc-flow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/douglance/sdlc-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills, 1 plugin.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,422 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00021 $0.01422
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00711
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00284
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00142

Measured 3d ago against content hash a6b882005c46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdlc-flow 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 3d 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.

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.

.agents/skills/sdlc-flow/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SDLC Flow

The plugin is an optional graph of phases. Each phase is a skill that routes to one agent role and emits an artifact for its immediate receiver. This skill explains where to start, which dependencies apply, and how the phases connect.

Read references/core-ontology.md when reasoning about system entities, relationships, cardinalities, lifecycle edges, authority, traceability, evidence, or provider projections. The ontology controls relationships; project glossaries control term definitions.

Host routing contract

When the host exposes the named phase agents and you are the parent/orchestrator, delegate the selected phase to its named owner and pass the complete prior artifact. When already executing as that owner, or when named-agent delegation is unavailable, run the phase locally. Never delegate the same phase recursively. The artifact contract is portable; automatic delegation is a host capability, not something Rulesync can synthesize.

Lifecycle artifact contract

Use lifecycle-documentation for every phase output and input gate. Select the smallest applicable IEEE/ISO information item, write it in STE-derived controlled English, preserve stable IDs, and end with the required handoff block. A receiving phase must reject an incomplete artifact instead of guessing what the producing phase meant.

The default path: idea → shipped

Select only the phases the work needs. Run selected phases in dependency order; each handoff passes one accepted artifact to one immediate receiver.

  1. feasibility-analysis (→ researcher) — scout an unfamiliar problem space. Start here when the approach is unknown. Produces options, constraints, and trade-offs.
  2. requirements-gathering (→ product-owner) — turn a vague or high-blast-radius request into a stress-tested specification. Start here when what to build is unclear.
  3. planning (→ project-manager) — break the spec into a plan of milestones with dependencies, risks, and an explicit out-of-scope set. Produces a plan.
  4. design (→ architect) — settle interfaces, contracts, exact files, and trade-offs. Produces a technical design. For user-facing work, pair with visual-design (→ graphic-designer) for layout, composition, states, and accessibility.
  5. implementation (→ engineer) — build it test-first in vertical slices. Produces tested, bounded changes. Commit those changes when the task includes commit authority.
  6. testing (→ tester) — adversarially falsify the change by executing it across edge cases, scale, and security. Produces a verdict with reproducible failing cases.
  7. quality (→ quality-engineer) — assure the change beyond execution: verification & validation, review/inspection, and the quality attributes. Produces a quality verdict.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 105 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A a6b882005c46

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sdlc-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository douglance/sdlc-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,422 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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