Writing Skills & TDD Authoring

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Applies TDD principles to the creation of high-efficiency Claude Code skills through pressure testing and aggressive refactoring.

The Writing Skills skill provides a rigorous methodology for authoring, editing, and reviewing Claude Code skills using a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach. By treating process documentation like production code, it ensures every instruction in a skill addresses a specific failure scenario, meets the minimum criteria for success, and remains token-efficient through strict length targets. This methodology prevents documentation bloat and ensures that Claude only loads skills that solve demonstrable problems, resulting in more reliable agent behavior and optimized context usage.

Key Features

01Pressure scenario identification to verify the necessity of new skills
02Strict token efficiency guidelines with specific line count targets
03Claude Search Optimization (CSO) patterns for better trigger matching
04Standardized SKILL.md structural templates for consistency
0585 GitHub stars
06Red-Green-Refactor workflow for documentation and skill authoring

Use Cases

01Creating high-performance custom skills for the oh-my-claude ecosystem
02Refactoring existing documentation to reduce context window usage
03Auditing skill quality by testing against documented failure modes