running-an-iteration

running-an-iteration is a skill for Claude Code from prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,645 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for carrying out the next unfinished iteration in a software roadmap. An iteration is a planned development cycle that turns selected requirements into code and evidence, then checks affected and regression scenarios.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to execute roadmap iterations, prepare implementation tasks, run relevant checks, and update iteration records after the work.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to choose the next work, understand its scope, implement it, and verify behavior. This reduces the chance of missing related requirements or breaking existing behavior.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the iterative-development plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to execute roadmap iterations, prepare implementation tasks, run relevant checks, and update iteration records after the work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development/running-an-iteration
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.

Any agent
npx skills add prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development --skill running-an-iteration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install iterative-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,645 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 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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.01645
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00822
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00329
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00164

Measured 10d ago against content hash 330359478d65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

running-an-iteration 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check_citations.py, scripts/validate_iteration_log.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/running-an-iteration/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Running an Iteration

Overview

Drives one iteration: picks the next pending, runs sentinel corpus baseline, runs pre-iteration scope review via PAR, decomposes into code and evidence tasks, dispatches implementing-tasks, runs impacted + sentinel scenarios at wrap-up, and updates the roadmap and iteration log.

When to Use

Invoked by iterative-development inside the main loop. Each invocation runs exactly one iteration. After return, the orchestrator invokes auditing-progress.

Script Location

All scripts referenced below live in this skill's scripts/ directory, next to this SKILL.md file.

Iteration Process

1. Pick next iteration

Read docs/superpowers/iterations/roadmap.md, find the first iteration with status pending.

2. Load scope context

Read the per-epic files in docs/superpowers/iterations/requirements/ to load the full story cards for each committed story ID. Only read the epic files that contain stories for this iteration — not all of them. Also:

  • Load the next 3 pending iterations from the roadmap for look-ahead
  • Read docs/superpowers/iterations/behavior-scenarios.md to identify impacted scenarios
  • Read docs/superpowers/iterations/behavior-corpus.md to identify sentinel scenarios

3. Run sentinel corpus baseline

Before any code changes, run every scenario in the behavior corpus with run cadence sentinel:

  • If all sentinels pass: record baseline as clean, proceed
  • If any sentinel fails: the failure predates this iteration. Record it, create a gap story for it, but proceed with the iteration (the gap will be addressed in a follow-up)

This establishes whether regressions exist before the current iteration starts.

4. Pre-iteration consistency audit

Before planning any work, verify that artifact state is consistent:

  1. Citation check: python3 "scripts/check_citations.py" docs/superpowers/iterations/roadmap.md docs/superpowers/iterations/requirements/ — if citations fail, stop and fix the roadmap.
  2. Status reconciliation: For each story in this iteration's scope, verify:
    • Stories listed in the roadmap iteration are not already marked done:ITER-XXXX in the requirements index (unless code/tests actually exist for them)
    • Stories marked done in the requirements index actually have corresponding code and tests
    • No story appears in multiple pending iterations
  3. Epic counter validation: Spot-check that epic progress counters match the actual count of done stories.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 10d ago First seen · 137 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 330359478d65

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running-an-iteration is a skill published in the GitHub repository prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development (179 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,645 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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