source-driven-development
An agent skill by addyosmani, from addyosmani/agent-skills. Tags: api, developer-tools, documents, web.
What it does
Grounds every implementation decision in official documentation. Use when you want to verify an approach against the official docs before implementing it, or when you want authoritative, source-cited code free from outdated patterns. Use when building with any framework or library where correctness matters.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills --skill source-driven-developmentOr copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills
cp -r agent-skills/skills/source-driven-development ~/.claude/skills/source-driven-developmentSafety box score
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Source
- Repository
- addyosmani/agent-skills (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- skills/source-driven-development/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
Related skills
- code-documenter — Generates, formats, and validates technical documentation — including docstrings, OpenAPI/Swagger specs, JSDoc annotations, doc portals, and user guides.
- api-and-interface-design — Guides stable API and interface design. Use when designing APIs, module boundaries, or any public interface.
- debugging-and-error-recovery — Guides systematic root-cause debugging.
- deprecation-and-migration — Manages deprecation and migration. Use when removing old systems, APIs, or features. Use when migrating users from one implementation to another.
- documentation-and-adrs — Records decisions and documentation.
- observability-and-instrumentation — Instruments code so production behavior is visible and diagnosable. Use when adding logging, metrics, tracing, or alerting.