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doubt-driven-development

An AI agent skill from addyosmani/agent-skills, scored 81 out of 100 by code and Verified.

81/ 100BVerified

Code score by group

  • Spec20/20
  • Description8/20
  • Procedure15/15
  • Done criteria13/15
  • Resources10/10
  • Scripts5/8
  • Safety7/7
  • Upkeep3/5

It loses the most points in Description (12), the group that checks whether the description says what the skill does and when to use it.

What the author says it does

Subjects every non-trivial decision to a fresh-context adversarial review before it stands. Use when you want every assumption cross-examined before proceeding, when stress-testing a plan for hidden failure modes, when correctness matters more than speed, when working in unfamiliar code, when stakes are high (production auth, security-sensitive logic, a high-stakes migration, irreversible operations), or any time a confident output would be cheaper to verify now than to debug later.

This is the description in the skill's own SKILL.md, written by its author, not by SkillCheatSheet.

Repository
addyosmani/agent-skills
Folder
skills/doubt-driven-development
License
MIT
GitHub stars
116,263
SKILL.md lines
246
Other files
0

Add doubt-driven-development to your agent

npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills --skill doubt-driven-development

The command uses the open skills CLI. A skill is instructions and scripts your agent will follow, so read it first: open the folder on GitHub at the commit that was scored.

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