small-safe-steps

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you divide any complex task into the smallest, safest, and most valuable steps possible, typically lasting 1-3 hours each, ensuring minimal risk and maximum progress.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Task Decomposition: Breaks down large or risky tasks (like migrations, refactorings, or new feature implementations) into manageable, deployable, and reversible steps.
• Risk Mitigation: Applies the Expand-Contract pattern for risky changes, ensuring zero downtime and safe rollbacks.
• Use Case: When faced with migrating a database schema, this skill will guide you through adding new columns, dual-writing data, switching reads, and finally dropping old columns, all in small, safe increments.

Quick Start

Use the small-safe-steps skill to plan the implementation of a new user authentication flow.