superpowers-writing-skills

Test-driven writing for Claude skills applies TDD cycles to create SKILL.md files, ensuring reliable documentation through progressive disclosure and structured frontmatter before deployment. This prevents drift and guarantees skill consistency.

Progressive disclosure in skill development is a structured frontmatter technique that optimizes how Claude loads and applies skills. You need it when creating or editing skills to ensure discoverability and safe deployment across workflows.

Verify Claude skill correctness by codifying test-driven writing patterns that evaluate baseline failures and ensure repeatable compliance. This framework supports checking skill functionality and documentation consistency before deployment.

Test-driven skill development works for editing existing documentation by applying structured evaluation practices and frontmatter constraints. It standardizes cross-team collaboration and ensures repeatable compliance when modifying current skills.

Start authoring a new Claude skill using TDD patterns by creating a minimal SKILL.md that clearly states the trigger and core pattern, plus one concrete example to bootstrap testing and establish a repeatable development cycle.

Claude skill documentation fails to load consistently when it lacks structured frontmatter constraints and progressive disclosure. Applying test-driven writing patterns ensures baseline compliance and prevents drift across cross-team workflows.