Pre-Implementation Checklist for: $ARGUMENTS

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you avoid wasted engineering effort by forcing a structured analysis before you start implementing a change or feature.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Code discovery & relevance filtering: find the most relevant existing files and summarize what they do.
• Code philosophy & pattern reuse: identify naming, error handling, and structural conventions to follow (and avoid).
• Language-aware semantic understanding: use LSP-driven references, call hierarchy, and workspace symbol search to validate how the code is used.
• Assumption challenge & scope control: explicitly surface underlying needs, alternatives, failure modes, and what is out of scope.
• Implementation planning & risk capture: propose an approach, enumerate discrete steps, and define a test strategy including edge cases.

Quick Start

Ask for pre-implementation analysis by running the pre-impl skill with your intended task details, for example: "add user authentication and refactor error handling in the API."