@leeovery/claude-technical-workflows 2.0.19 → 2.0.20

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  ## What is this?
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- A six-phase workflow for Claude Code that captures context, decisions, and rationale before any code is written, then implements and validates the work against those artifacts.
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+ A complete development workflow for Claude Code: explore ideas, capture decisions, build actionable plans, implement via strict TDD, and validate the result.
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+ Use it as a **six-phase workflow** or pick individual capabilities as needed:
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- Research Explore ideas
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- Specification → Validate and refine
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- Planning → Structure the work
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- Implementation → Build via TDD
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- Review → Validate against spec
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- **Why this matters:** Complex features benefit from thorough discussion before implementation. These skills help you document the *what* and *why* before diving into the *how*, preserving architectural decisions, edge cases, and the reasoning behind choices that would otherwise be lost.
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+ **Why this matters:** Complex features benefit from thorough discussion before implementation. This toolkit documents the *what* and *why* before diving into the *how*, preserving architectural decisions, edge cases, and the reasoning behind choices that would otherwise be lost.
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- **This is a work in progress.** The workflow is being refined through real-world usage. Expect updates as patterns evolve.
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+ **Flexible entry points:** Need the full workflow? Start at Research or Discussion and progress through each phase. Already know what you're building? Jump straight to Specification with `/start-feature`. Skills are input-agnostic - commands gather context and feed it to them.
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- **Model compatibility:** These skills have been developed and refined for Claude Code running on **Opus 4.5**. Different models may exhibit different edge cases, and future model releases may require adjustments to the prompts and workflows.
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+ > [!NOTE]
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+ > **Work in progress.** The workflow is being refined through real-world usage. Expect updates as patterns evolve.
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+ > [!IMPORTANT]
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+ > **Model compatibility:** These skills have been developed and refined for Claude Code running on **Opus 4.5**. Different models may exhibit different edge cases, and future model releases may require adjustments to the prompts and workflows.
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  ### Quick Install
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  ## How do I use it?
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- You have two entry points:
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- | Start here... | When... | Command |
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- | **Research** | You have a fresh idea to explore: feasibility, market, viability, early thoughts | `/workflow:start-research` |
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- | **Discussion** | You already know what you're building and need to iron out the details | `/workflow:start-discussion` |
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+ ### Two Ways to Use the Skills
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- **Research** is a free-for-all. Explore broadly, follow tangents, challenge assumptions. Not everything researched gets built, and that's fine. Use this for ideas that need validating before you commit.
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- **Discussion** is where you work through the challenging parts: core architecture, edge cases, non-obvious decisions. The key value is that it captures *how* you arrived at decisions, not just the decisions themselves. When you explore four approaches and pick one, the document explains why you rejected the others. This context is invaluable later.
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- Then follow the flow:
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+ **1. Full Workflow** - Sequential phases that build on each other:
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  ```
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  Research → Discussion → Specification → Planning → Implementation → Review
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  ```
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- Each phase builds on the previous. Specification validates your discussions into a standalone doc. Planning breaks that into tasks. Implementation executes via TDD. Review validates against the spec.
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+ Start with `/workflow:start-research` or `/workflow:start-discussion` and follow the flow. Each phase outputs files that the next phase consumes.
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+ **2. Standalone Commands** - Jump directly to a skill with flexible inputs:
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+ | Command | What it does |
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+ | `/start-feature` | Create a spec directly from inline context (skip research/discussion) |
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+ *More standalone commands coming soon.*
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+ ### The Command/Skill Architecture
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+ **Skills are input-agnostic.** They don't know or care where their inputs came from: a discussion document, inline context, or external sources. They just process what they receive.
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+ **Commands are the input layer.** They gather context (from files, prompts, or inline) and pass it to skills. This separation means:
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+ - The same skill can be invoked from different entry points
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+ - You can create custom commands that feed skills in new ways
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+ - Skills remain reusable without coupling to specific workflows
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- ### Commands
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+ ```
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+ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
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+ │ COMMANDS │
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+ │ (gather inputs from files, prompts, inline context) │
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+ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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+ │ /workflow:start-spec /start-feature (your custom) │
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+ │ │ │ │ │
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+ │ └───────────┬───────────┘ │ │
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+ │ ▼ ▼ │
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+ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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+ │ SKILLS │
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+ │ (process inputs without knowing their source) │
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+ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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+ │ technical-specification skill │
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+ │ technical-planning skill │
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+ │ technical-implementation skill │
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+ │ etc. │
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+ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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+ ```
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- Each phase has a command designed as its entry point. Commands are prefixed with `workflow:` to indicate they're part of the sequential workflow system:
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  | Implementation | `/workflow:start-implementation` |
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- Run the command directly or ask Claude to run it. Each command gathers the context it needs, asking what you're researching, discussing, or planning. Where relevant, it looks at outputs from the previous phase and offers you a choice from the list.
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  ## Installation
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- Skills are copied to `.claude/` and can be committedgiving you ownership and making them available everywhere including Claude Code for Web.
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  <summary>pnpm users</summary>
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  ## The Six-Phase Workflow
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  ┌───────────────┐ ┌───────────────┐ ┌───────────────┐ ┌───────────────┐ ┌───────────────┐ ┌───────────────┐
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  **Phase 1 - Research:** Explore ideas from their earliest seed. Investigate market fit, technical feasibility, business viability. Free-flowing exploration that may or may not lead to building something.
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- **Phase 2 - Discussion:** Captures the back-and-forth exploration of a problem. Documents competing solutions, why certain approaches won or lost, edge cases discovered, and the journey to decisionsnot just the decisions themselves.
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+ **Phase 6 - Review:** Validates completed work against specification requirements and plan acceptance criteria. The specification is the validated source of truth; earlier phases may contain rejected ideas that were intentionally filtered out. Provides structured feedback without fixing code directly.
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- This package depends on [`@leeovery/claude-manager`](https://github.com/leeovery/claude-manager), which:
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+ ## Project Structure
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- 1. **Copies skills** into your project's `.claude/skills/` directory
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- 2. **Copies commands** into your project's `.claude/commands/` directory
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- 4. **Tracks installed plugins** via a manifest file
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+ ### Output Files
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- ├── technical-research/ # Phase 1: Explore and validate ideas
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- ├── workflow:start-research.md # Begin research exploration
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+ ├── technical-research/ # Explore and validate ideas
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+ ├── technical-specification/ # Build validated specifications
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+ ├── technical-planning/ # Create implementation plans
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+ ├── workflow:start-research.md # Sequential: begin research
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+ ├── workflow:start-specification.md # Sequential: begin specification
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+ ├── workflow:start-planning.md # Sequential: begin planning
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+ ├── workflow:start-implementation.md # Sequential: begin implementation
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+ ├── workflow:status.md # Utility: show workflow status and next steps
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+ ├── workflow:view-plan.md # Utility: view plan tasks and progress
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- | [**technical-research**](skills/technical-research/) | 1 | Explore ideas from their earliest seed. Investigate market fit, technical feasibility, business viability. Free-flowing exploration across technical, business, and market domains. |
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- | [**technical-discussion**](skills/technical-discussion/) | 2 | Document technical discussions as expert architect and meeting assistant. Captures context, decisions, edge cases, competing solutions, debates, and rationale. |
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- | [**technical-specification**](skills/technical-specification/) | 3 | Build validated specifications from discussion documents through collaborative refinement. Filters hallucinations, enriches gaps, produces standalone spec. |
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- | [**technical-planning**](skills/technical-planning/) | 4 | Transform specifications into actionable implementation plans with phases, tasks, and acceptance criteria. Supports multiple output formats. |
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- | [**technical-implementation**](skills/technical-implementation/) | 5 | Execute implementation plans using strict TDD workflow. Writes tests first, implements to pass, commits frequently, and gates phases on user approval. |
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- | [**technical-review**](skills/technical-review/) | 6 | Review completed implementation against specification requirements and plan acceptance criteria. Uses parallel subagents for efficient chain verification. Produces structured feedback without fixing code. |
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- Acts as **research partner** with broad expertise spanning technical, product, business, and market domains.
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+ | [**technical-research**](skills/technical-research/) | Explore ideas from their earliest seed. Investigate market fit, technical feasibility, business viability. Free-flowing exploration across technical, business, and market domains. |
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+ | [**technical-specification**](skills/technical-specification/) | Build validated specifications from source material through collaborative refinement. Filters hallucinations, enriches gaps, produces standalone spec. |
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+ | [**technical-planning**](skills/technical-planning/) | Transform specifications into actionable implementation plans with phases, tasks, and acceptance criteria. Supports multiple output formats. |
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+ | [**technical-implementation**](skills/technical-implementation/) | Execute implementation plans using strict TDD workflow. Writes tests first, implements to pass, commits frequently, and gates phases on user approval. |
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- - [**@leeovery/claude-nuxt**](https://github.com/leeovery/claude-nuxt) Nuxt.js development skills for Claude Code
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+ ## Step 4: Mention Plan Viewing
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+ ```
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+ - Assumptions and unstated constraints
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+ - Tradeoffs and concerns
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+ - What could go wrong
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