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Module 2: Dev Workflow

Feature workflow and stack pattern skills — structured development with AI agents.

Default module — installed automatically by npx @acdl/cli init.

What This Module Does

Provides structured workflows for building features and encoding stack-specific patterns:

  1. Feature workflow — seven-phase lifecycle (spec, research, design, tasks, build, verify, closeout)
  2. Stack patterns — skill for documenting your project's coding conventions and idioms

Skills

feature

Structured feature development with spec writing, task tracking, debugging, testing, and closeout.

  • Location: skills/feature/SKILL.md
  • Templates: skills/feature/templates/
  • spec.md, tasks.md, research.md, design.md, plan.md, user-stories.md, verify-checklist.md

Usage: load skill feature

Phases: spec, research, design, tasks, build, verify, closeout

patterns

Guidance for documenting stack-specific patterns and coding conventions as skills.

  • Location: skills/patterns/SKILL.md

Usage: load skill patterns

Three Workflow Tracks

Track When Docs Needed
Quick Flow Bug fix, typo, config change None
Standard Flow Any feature (not a bug fix) spec.md + tasks.md
Complex Flow New systems, integrations, research-heavy research.md + spec.md + tasks.md + ADR

Setup

npx @acdl/cli init              # installs this module by default

Then tell your AI: load skill feature