context-driven-development

context-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NOMARJ/sigil. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,246 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of context-driven-development, Apache-2.0.

A software-development method that keeps project goals, technology choices, and workflow in structured documents alongside the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up and maintaining Conductor project documents such as product.md, tech-stack.md, and workflow.md.
Why use it?
It gives the assistant and team a shared, maintained source of project context instead of relying on scattered prompts or memory.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Setting up and maintaining Conductor project documents such as product.md, tech-stack.md, and workflow.md.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nomarj/sigil/context-driven-development
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NOMARJ/sigil --skill context-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NOMARJ/sigil

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,246 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00040 $0.02246
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00898
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00449
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00225

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ddb6d5c0c715, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-driven-development 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to context-driven-development — 20 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

packs/team/skills/conductor/context-driven-development/SKILL.md · 386 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 386 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context-Driven Development

Guide for implementing and maintaining context as a managed artifact alongside code, enabling consistent AI interactions and team alignment through structured project documentation.

When to Use This Skill

  • Setting up new projects with Conductor
  • Understanding the relationship between context artifacts
  • Maintaining consistency across AI-assisted development sessions
  • Onboarding team members to an existing Conductor project
  • Deciding when to update context documents
  • Managing greenfield vs brownfield project contexts

Core Philosophy

Context-Driven Development treats project context as a first-class artifact managed alongside code. Instead of relying on ad-hoc prompts or scattered documentation, establish a persistent, structured foundation that informs all AI interactions.

Key principles:

  1. Context precedes code: Define what you're building and how before implementation
  2. Living documentation: Context artifacts evolve with the project
  3. Single source of truth: One canonical location for each type of information
  4. AI alignment: Consistent context produces consistent AI behavior

The Workflow

Follow the Context → Spec & Plan → Implement workflow:

  1. Context Phase: Establish or verify project context artifacts exist and are current
  2. Specification Phase: Define requirements and acceptance criteria for work units
  3. Planning Phase: Break specifications into phased, actionable tasks
  4. Implementation Phase: Execute tasks following established workflow patterns

Artifact Relationships

product.md - Defines WHAT and WHY

Purpose: Captures product vision, goals, target users, and business context.

Contents:

  • Product name and one-line description
  • Problem statement and solution approach
  • Target user personas
  • Core features and capabilities
  • Success metrics and KPIs
  • Product roadmap (high-level)

Update when:

  • Product vision or goals change
  • New major features are planned
  • Target audience shifts
  • Business priorities evolve

Read the full file on GitHub · 386 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. 1mo ago First seen · 386 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A ddb6d5c0c715

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context-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository NOMARJ/sigil (6 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,246 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to context-driven-development, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.