source-driven-development

source-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shennawardana23/skillme. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,414 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A development guide that checks a framework's or library's official documentation before using its patterns. It helps ensure code matches the version and recommended approach used by the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing or reviewing framework-specific forms, routing, data fetching, authentication, or state management.
Why use it?
Framework APIs and recommended practices change, so relying on memory can produce outdated or incorrect code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the skillme plugin — 137 skills, 2 commands 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/shennawardana23/skillme/source-driven-development
Any agent
npx skills add shennawardana23/skillme --skill source-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shennawardana23/skillme

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install skillme, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 137 skills, 2 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,414 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 $0.00073 $0.01414
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00707
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00141

Measured yesterday against content hash 2b701f706b01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

source-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 yesterday.

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/source-driven-development/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Source-Driven Development

Verify framework-specific patterns against official documentation before writing them, rather than from memory. Training data goes stale, APIs deprecate, and best practices evolve — a pattern that was correct in a training snapshot can be the wrong one for the version actually installed. Every framework-specific decision should trace back to a source the user can check themselves.

When to use

Building boilerplate or patterns that will be copied elsewhere in the project; the user asks for "current," "documented," or "verified" code; implementing something where the framework's recommended approach matters (forms, routing, data fetching, state management, auth); reviewing code that leans on framework conventions; any time about to write framework-specific code from memory.

Skip it for: logic that's version-independent (loops, conditionals, data structures), renames/typo fixes, or when the user explicitly wants speed over verification.

The process

DETECT ──→ FETCH ──→ IMPLEMENT ──→ CITE

1. Detect stack and versions

Read the dependency file — package.json, composer.json, go.mod, requirements.txt/pyproject.toml, Gemfile — and state what was found:

STACK DETECTED: React 19.1.0, Vite 6.2.0 (from package.json)
→ Fetching official docs for the relevant pattern.

If a version is missing or ambiguous, ask — don't guess. The version is what determines which pattern is actually correct.

2. Fetch the specific documentation page

Fetch the page for the feature being implemented, not the framework homepage and not a general web search.

Priority Source
1 Official documentation (react.dev, docs.djangoproject.com, pkg.go.dev)
2 Official blog / changelog
3 Web standards references (MDN, web.dev)
4 Browser/runtime compatibility tables (caniuse.com)

Not authoritative, never cite as primary: Stack Overflow answers, blog posts or tutorials, AI-generated summaries, or your own training data — verifying that training data is the entire point of this skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. yesterday First seen · 157 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 2b701f706b01

Subscribe to this mod's changes

source-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository shennawardana23/skillme (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,414 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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