agent-behavior-guardrails

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps prevent common coding-agent mistakes such as hidden assumptions, overbuilt designs, and unverifiable 'done' claims by providing structured guardrails for the coding process.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Clarify Assumptions: Ensures assumptions are stated when they affect design, security, data shape, or workflow.
• Simplify Changes: Promotes the smallest change that satisfies the requested outcome, avoiding speculative configuration and abstractions.
• Surgical Edits: Requires every changed line to trace to the user's request or necessary cleanup.
• Verifiable Goals: Converts broad requests into success criteria before editing, and ensures targeted verification passes.
• Avoid Anti-Patterns: Helps avoid common pitfalls like silent interpretation of ambiguous requests and unnecessary refactoring.

Quick Start

Run the agent-behavior-guardrails skill before making non-trivial code changes to ensure best practices are followed.