@leeovery/claude-technical-workflows 2.0.20 → 2.0.22

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  {
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  "name": "@leeovery/claude-technical-workflows",
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- "version": "2.0.20",
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+ "version": "2.0.22",
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  "description": "Technical workflow skills & commands for Claude Code",
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  "license": "MIT",
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  "author": "Lee Overy <me@leeovery.com>",
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  name: technical-discussion
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- description: "Document technical discussions as expert architect and meeting assistant. Capture context, decisions, edge cases, debates, and rationale without jumping to specification or implementation. Second phase of research-discussion-specification-plan-implement-review workflow. Use when: (1) Users discuss/explore/debate architecture or design, (2) Working through edge cases before specification, (3) Need to document technical decisions and their rationale, (4) Capturing competing solutions and why choices were made. Creates documentation in docs/workflow/discussion/{topic}.md that technical-specification uses to build validated specifications."
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+ description: "Document technical discussions as expert architect and meeting assistant. Capture context, decisions, edge cases, debates, and rationale without jumping to specification or implementation. Use when: (1) Users discuss/explore/debate architecture or design, (2) Working through edge cases before specification, (3) Need to document technical decisions and their rationale, (4) Capturing competing solutions and why choices were made. Creates documentation in docs/workflow/discussion/{topic}.md that can be used to build validated specifications."
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  # Technical Discussion
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  ## Purpose in the Workflow
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- - **Sequentially** (Phase 2): After research to debate and document decisions
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+ - **Sequentially**: After research or exploration to debate and document decisions
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  - **Standalone** (Contract entry): To document technical decisions from any source
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  ## Workflow
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- **Your role: phases 1-2 only**
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+ **Your role: discuss and document only**
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  1. **Discuss** - Participate
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- 3. **Plan** - ❌ Planning team's job
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- 4. **Implement** - ❌ Developers' job
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+ 3. **Plan** - ❌ Not this skill's job
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+ 4. **Implement** - ❌ Not this skill's job
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- description: "Execute implementation plans using strict TDD workflow with quality gates. Fifth phase of research-discussion-specification-plan-implement-review workflow. Use when: (1) Implementing a plan from docs/workflow/planning/{topic}.md, (2) User says 'implement', 'build', or 'code this' after planning, (3) Ad hoc coding that should follow TDD and quality standards, (4) Bug fixes or features benefiting from structured implementation. Writes tests first, implements to pass, commits frequently, stops for user approval between phases."
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+ description: "Execute implementation plans using strict TDD workflow with quality gates. Use when: (1) Implementing a plan from docs/workflow/planning/{topic}.md, (2) User says 'implement', 'build', or 'code this' with a plan available, (3) Ad hoc coding that should follow TDD and quality standards, (4) Bug fixes or features benefiting from structured implementation. Writes tests first, implements to pass, commits frequently, stops for user approval between phases."
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  # Technical Implementation
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  ## Purpose in the Workflow
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- - **Sequentially** (Phase 5): To execute a plan created by technical-planning
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+ - **Sequentially**: To execute a plan created by technical-planning
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  - **Standalone** (Contract entry): To execute any plan that follows plan-format conventions
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  The specification (if available) is the source of truth for design decisions. If no specification exists, the plan is the authority.
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- **Important:** If research or discussion documents exist from earlier workflow phases, ignore them during implementation. They may contain outdated ideas, rejected approaches, or superseded decisions. The specification filtered and validated that content - refer only to the specification and plan.
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+ **Important:** If prior source material exists (research notes, discussion documents, etc.), ignore it during implementation. It may contain outdated ideas, rejected approaches, or superseded decisions. The specification filtered and validated that content - refer only to the specification and plan.
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  ## Project-Specific Conventions
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- description: "Transform specifications into actionable implementation plans with phases, tasks, and acceptance criteria. Fourth phase of research-discussion-specification-plan-implement-review workflow. Use when: (1) User asks to create/write an implementation plan, (2) User asks to plan implementation after specification is complete, (3) Converting specifications from docs/workflow/specification/{topic}.md into implementation plans, (4) User says 'plan this' or 'create a plan' after specification, (5) Need to structure how to build something with phases and concrete steps. Creates plans in docs/workflow/planning/{topic}.md that implementation phase executes via strict TDD."
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+ description: "Transform specifications into actionable implementation plans with phases, tasks, and acceptance criteria. Use when: (1) User asks to create/write an implementation plan, (2) User asks to plan implementation from a specification, (3) Converting specifications from docs/workflow/specification/{topic}.md into implementation plans, (4) User says 'plan this' or 'create a plan', (5) Need to structure how to build something with phases and concrete steps. Creates plans in docs/workflow/planning/{topic}.md that can be executed via strict TDD."
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  # Technical Planning
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  ## Source Material
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- **The specification is your sole input.** Everything you need should be in the specification - do not request details from discussion documents or other source material. If information is missing, ask for clarification on the specification itself.
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- **The specification is your sole input.** Discussion documents and other source materials have already been validated, filtered, and enriched during the specification phase. Everything you need is in the specification - do not reference other documents.
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- description: "Explore ideas, validate concepts, and research broadly across technical, business, and market domains. Preliminary phase before discussion-specification-plan-implement-review workflow. Use when: (1) User has a new idea to explore, (2) Need to research a topic deeply, (3) Validating feasibility - technical, business, or market, (4) Learning and exploration without necessarily building anything, (5) User says 'research this' or 'explore this idea', (6) Brain dumping early thoughts before formal discussion. Creates research documents in docs/workflow/research/ that may seed the technical-discussion phase."
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