code-guidelines

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides a set of behavioral guidelines to help developers, especially those working with AI, avoid common coding pitfalls such as overcomplication, making unnecessary changes, and unclear success criteria.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Pre-coding Strategy: Encourages explicit assumption surfacing and consideration of tradeoffs before implementation.
• Simplicity Enforcement: Guides towards writing the minimum viable code, avoiding speculative features or premature abstractions.
• Surgical Precision: Promotes making only necessary changes and cleaning up only what was introduced.
• Goal-Oriented Development: Emphasizes defining clear, verifiable success criteria for tasks and iterating until verified.
• Use Case: When refactoring a complex function, use these guidelines to ensure only the necessary parts are modified and that the changes are clearly testable.

Quick Start

Follow the code-guidelines skill to ensure your next code change is simple, surgical, and goal-driven.