using-development-skills

using-development-skills is a skill for Claude Code from reidemeister94/development-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (730 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing guide for development work in Claude Code and Codex, including planning, testing, implementation, and review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Deciding whether to use a direct or full workflow, coordinating brainstorming and plans, recording work, and guiding approval, implementation, verification, and review.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right development process and proof for a task before code is changed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the development-skills plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Deciding whether to use a direct or full workflow, coordinating brainstorming and plans, recording work, and guiding approval, implementation, verification, and review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/using-development-skills
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 reidemeister94/development-skills --skill using-development-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reidemeister94/development-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install development-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 730 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 $0.00027 $0.00730
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00073

Measured 8d ago against content hash c4eb19ecf674, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-development-skills 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 8d 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.

skills/using-development-skills/SKILL.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

Using development-skills

Skip this router for a bounded subagent task. Read the development loop. Resume an active plan at its recorded step; otherwise choose:

Direct applies only when the result, forced solution, and proof are clear. The change must be reversible and carry no business or design choice. Weighing more than one viable approach is a design choice.

Full applies to everything else. Inspect first, run brainstorming, and agree on the result and proof. Use create-test for test work or business, integration, KPI, and probabilistic proof. Use best-practices when current external evidence can change a decision.

Then write the plan and chronicle.

In chat, cover result, checks, what is out of scope, approach, files, and risks. Offer the conversation-language equivalents of Approve / Edit / Cancel / Chat about, then stop. Only Approve after that presentation permits implementation; the original request does not.

After approval, implement, verify, explain concepts worth transferring, and review.

Create or update the repository plan and chronicle in completed tool calls before product or plugin edits. Never combine them in one patch. Record Current step: Implement, then complete Implement, Verify, Explain diff, and Review.

After Verify and before Review:

  • a business, architectural, lifecycle, trade-off, or failure-mode concept exists → enter Explain diff;
  • no concept is worth transferring → state that briefly and continue.

This gate does not affect Direct.

Translate older Claude Code tool names on Codex with codex-tools.md.

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. 8d ago First seen · 58 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A c4eb19ecf674

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using-development-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository reidemeister94/development-skills (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 730 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 2026-08-30.

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