writing-skills

Test-driven development for process documentation applies red-green-refactor discipline to skill creation, ensuring docs are testable and evolvable through explicit testing and rationalization tracking before finalizing the content.

Rationalization tracking in skill development involves including explicit rationalizations and counters within process documentation to prevent the skill from slipping or deviating from its intended logic under pressure.

Structure Claude skills for discovery by using progressive disclosure and easy cross-referencing, which prompts loading of minimal, targeted references as needed rather than loading the entire document at once.

The best way to make process documentation repeatable is to ground it in test-driven development principles, applying red-green-refactor discipline to iterate on skill docs until they produce consistent, tested outcomes.

Prior TDD experience is not strictly required, but understanding red-green-refactor discipline helps you craft testable skills, as the technique explicitly emphasizes applying these development principles to process documentation.

You should avoid TDD for skill documentation when a process is purely exploratory or one-off, since the approach requires defining explicit tests and rationalizations that add overhead suited for reusable, repeatable processes.