flow-develop

A multi-AI development workflow for implementing software during the Develop phase of a Double Diamond process. The Double Diamond is a design process that separates defining the problem from developing the solution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to coordinate implementation with available AI providers, inspect project phase state, warn about incomplete definition work, and update development progress.
Why use it?
It checks that the problem-definition phase is complete and records the project’s current development status before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the octo plugin — 47 skills, 10 agents, 2 hooks 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/nyldn/claude-octopus/flow-develop
Any agent
npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill flow-develop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nyldn/claude-octopus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install octo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 10 agents, 2 hooks.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,983 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 $0.00000 $0.06983
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.03492
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00698

Measured 3d ago against content hash 062bd1fc64cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow-develop 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.

.claude/skills/flow-develop/SKILL.md · 841 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 841 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{{PREAMBLE}}

Pre-Development: State Check

Before starting development:

  1. Read .octo/STATE.md to verify Define phase complete
  2. Update STATE.md:
    • current_phase: 3
    • phase_position: "Development"
    • status: "in_progress"
# Verify Define phase is complete
if [[ -f ".octo/STATE.md" ]]; then
  define_status=$("${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/octo-state.sh" get_phase_status 2)
  if [[ "$define_status" != "complete" ]]; then
    echo "⚠️ Warning: Define phase not marked complete. Consider running definition first."
  fi
fi

# Update state for Development phase
"${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/octo-state.sh" update_state \
  --phase 3 \
  --position "Development" \
  --status "in_progress"

⚠️ EXECUTION CONTRACT (MANDATORY - CANNOT SKIP)

This skill uses ENFORCED execution mode. You MUST follow this exact sequence.

STEP 1: Detect Work Context (MANDATORY)

Analyze the user's prompt and project to determine context:

Knowledge Context Indicators:

  • Deliverable terms: "PRD", "proposal", "presentation", "report", "strategy document", "business case"
  • Business terms: "market entry", "competitive analysis", "stakeholder", "executive summary"

Dev Context Indicators:

  • Technical terms: "API", "endpoint", "function", "module", "service", "component"
  • Action terms: "implement", "code", "build", "create", "develop" + technical noun

Also check: Does project have package.json, Cargo.toml, etc.? (suggests Dev Context)

Capture context_type = "Dev" or "Knowledge"

Step 1b: Detect Dev Subtype (if Dev context)

When context_type is Dev, determine the subtype to inject domain-appropriate quality guidance into the prompt sent to providers. Append the matching supplement text after the user's prompt.

Subtype Trigger keywords Quality supplement
frontend-ui "page", "widget", "component", "UI", "HTML", "CSS", "form", "dashboard", "layout" See frontend-ui enrichment below.
cli-tool "CLI", "command-line", "terminal", "script", "flag", "argument" Help text via --help flag. Meaningful exit codes (0 success, 1 user error, 2 system error). Stdin/stdout/stderr used correctly. Argument validation with clear error messages.
api-service "API", "endpoint", "REST", "GraphQL", "gRPC", "server", "route" Input validation at boundaries. Consistent error response format. Auth/authz on every endpoint. Rate limiting consideration. OpenAPI/schema documentation.
infra "deploy", "terraform", "docker", "CI", "pipeline", "Kubernetes", "helm" Idempotent operations. Secrets never hardcoded. Rollback path documented. Health checks included.
data "ETL", "pipeline", "migration", "schema", "database", "SQL" Idempotent migrations. Backup/rollback strategy. Data validation at ingestion.
general Default if no subtype matches No supplement — use base implementer persona only.

Read the full file on GitHub · 841 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 · 841 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 062bd1fc64cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

flow-develop is a skill published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,029 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 6,983 tokens. 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.