context-driven-development

context-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code from wshobson/agents. It costs 103 tokens per session (416 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for keeping project context documents—such as product, technology, workflow, and task records—organized alongside the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up or maintain Conductor documentation, onboard contributors, validate project context, and record decisions.
Why use it?
It helps teams and AI assistants share the same understanding of a project as it changes.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the conductor plugin — 3 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up or maintain Conductor documentation, onboard contributors, validate project context, and record decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wshobson/agents/context-driven-development
About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 39,461 stars · on GitHub · sethhobson.com

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 wshobson/agents --skill context-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install conductor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 416 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 21 Feb 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00103 $0.00416
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00208
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00042

Measured 4d ago against content hash 504ea0602c44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/conductor/skills/context-driven-development/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Context-Driven Development

Guide for implementing and maintaining context as a managed artifact alongside code, enabling consistent AI interactions and team alignment through structured project documentation.

When to Use This Skill

  • Setting up new projects with Conductor
  • Understanding the relationship between context artifacts
  • Maintaining consistency across AI-assisted development sessions
  • Onboarding team members to an existing Conductor project
  • Deciding when to update context documents
  • Managing greenfield vs brownfield project contexts

Detailed patterns and worked examples

Detailed pattern documentation lives in references/details.md. Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient.

Best Practices

  1. Read context first: Always read relevant artifacts before starting work
  2. Small updates: Make incremental context changes, not massive rewrites
  3. Link decisions: Reference context when making implementation choices
  4. Version context: Commit context changes alongside code changes
  5. Review context: Include context artifact reviews in code reviews
  6. Validate regularly: Run context validation checklist before major work
  7. Communicate changes: Notify team when context artifacts change significantly
  8. Preserve history: Use git to track context evolution over time
  9. Question staleness: If context feels wrong, investigate and update
  10. Keep it actionable: Every context item should inform a decision or behavior
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 4d ago First seen · 42 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 504ea0602c44

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (39,461 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 416 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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