dev-lifecycle

dev-lifecycle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tinhtran24/maestro. It costs 54 tokens per session (782 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A full workflow for taking a software task from definition through planning, coding, testing, review, and delivery. It records the user goal, acceptance criteria, risks, dependencies, and the files likely to change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare task drafts, guide implementation, run tests, and finish work with a named branch and a Conventional Commit, a standard format for commit messages.
Why use it?
It helps prevent coding from starting with unclear requirements and breaks work into small steps that can be checked as they are completed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/tinhtran24/maestro/dev-lifecycle
Any agent
npx skills add tinhtran24/maestro --skill dev-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tinhtran24/maestro

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for dev-lifecycle

README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 782 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 $0.00054 $0.00782
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00391
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00078

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7f97b68ed2cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-lifecycle 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.

backend/internal/skillassets/dev-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Development lifecycle

This is the delivery method every Maestro task follows. It distills a full software lifecycle (Define → Plan → Build → Verify → Review → Ship) into the two moments Maestro cares about: creating a task (Analysis + Plan) and doing the task (Development + Testing, then branch + commit). Method credit: addyosmani/agent-skills.

When a task is created: Analysis, then Plan

Do these in order and write them down in the task draft.

  1. Analysis — understand before proposing. Capture:
    • the problem and the user story ("As a … I want … so that …");
    • explicit acceptance criteria (observable, testable statements);
    • scope (XS/S/M/L/XL) and the risks, dependencies, and open questions;
    • the likely files/areas the change touches. Surface missing information instead of guessing it.
  2. Plan — decompose the analysis into small, verifiable steps ordered by dependency. Each step should be independently checkable. Prefer thin vertical slices over broad horizontal refactors.

A good task draft answers "what does done look like?" (acceptance criteria) and "what is the smallest sequence of verifiable steps to get there?" (plan) before any code is written.

When a task is executed: Development, then Testing

The orchestrator coordinates workers through these phases and surfaces each step so the human can see progress.

  1. Development — implement one plan step at a time as a thin slice. Keep changes surgical and tied to the task; avoid drive-by refactors.
  2. Testing — verify each slice: add or update tests at the boundary being changed, run the project's relevant checks, and exercise the real behavior (not just types/compile). Do not report a step complete while its checks fail.

Only after Development and Testing pass do you commit and open the pull request.

Branch naming and commits

Create the branch before the first commit. Use a prefix that matches the task's nature, then a short kebab-case description:

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 3d ago First seen · 73 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 7f97b68ed2cf

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dev-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository tinhtran24/maestro (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 782 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 2026-08-31.