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Getting Started with Skills Skills wiki intro - mandatory workflows, search tool, brainstorming triggers

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Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs Interactive idea refinement using Socratic method to develop fully-formed designs

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Test-Driven Development (TDD) Write the test first, watch it fail, write minimal code to pass

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Systematic Debugging Four-phase debugging framework that ensures root cause investigation before attempting fixes. Never jump to solutions.

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Root Cause Tracing Systematically trace bugs backward through call stack to find original trigger

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Collision-Zone Thinking Force unrelated concepts together to discover emergent properties - "What if we treated X like Y?"

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Verification Before Completion Run verification commands and confirm output before claiming success

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Writing Plans Create detailed implementation plans with bite-sized tasks for engineers with zero codebase context

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Testing Anti-Patterns Never test mock behavior. Never add test-only methods to production classes. Understand dependencies before mocking.

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Subagent-Driven Development Execute implementation plan by dispatching fresh subagent for each task, with code review between tasks

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Code Review Reception Receive and act on code review feedback with technical rigor, not performative agreement or blind implementation

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Testing Skills With Subagents RED-GREEN-REFACTOR for process documentation - baseline without skill, write addressing failures, iterate closing loo…

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Executing Plans Execute detailed plans in batches with review checkpoints

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When Stuck - Problem-Solving Dispatch Dispatch to the right problem-solving technique based on how you're stuck

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Requesting Code Review Dispatch code-reviewer subagent to review implementation against plan or requirements before proceeding

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Defense-in-Depth Validation Validate at every layer data passes through to make bugs impossible

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Simplification Cascades Find one insight that eliminates multiple components - "if this is true, we don't need X, Y, or Z"

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Using Git Worktrees Create isolated git worktrees with smart directory selection and safety verification

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Finishing a Development Branch Complete feature development with structured options for merge, PR, or cleanup

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Inversion Exercise Flip core assumptions to reveal hidden constraints and alternative approaches - "what if the opposite were true?"

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Meta-Pattern Recognition Spot patterns appearing in 3+ domains to find universal principles

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Tracing Knowledge Lineages Understand how ideas evolved over time to find old solutions for new problems and avoid repeating past failures

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Dispatching Parallel Agents Use multiple Claude agents to investigate and fix independent problems concurrently

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Writing Skills TDD for process documentation - test with subagents before writing, iterate until bulletproof

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Condition-Based Waiting Replace arbitrary timeouts with condition polling for reliable async tests

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Remembering Conversations Search previous Claude Code conversations for facts, patterns, decisions, and context using semantic or text search

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Scale Game Test at extremes (1000x bigger/smaller, instant/year-long) to expose fundamental truths hidden at normal scales

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Sharing Skills Contribute skills back to upstream via branch and PR

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Gardening Skills Wiki Maintain skills wiki health - check links, naming, cross-references, and coverage

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Preserving Productive Tensions Recognize when disagreements reveal valuable context, preserve multiple valid approaches instead of forcing premature…

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Pulling Updates from Skills Repository Sync local skills repository with upstream changes from obra/superpowers-skills

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