Records decisions and documentation. Use when making architectural decisions, changing public APIs, shipping features, or when you need to record context that future engineers and agents will need to understand the codebase.
source-driven-development
source-driven-development is an open-source docs skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by addyosmani. Its author describes it as: “Grounds every implementation decision in official documentation. Use when you want authoritative, source-cited code free from outdated patterns. Use when building with any framework or library where correctness matters.”. The project has 82k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills`.
Installation
Add source-driven-development to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skillsAlways review a skill's source before installing it. This command comes from the skill's public repository; the linked repo is the source of truth for exact setup steps.
When to use it
Reach for source-driven-development when you want docs help from your agent without writing the same instructions every session. Load the skill and the agent picks it up automatically for relevant tasks.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt
- Ships in addyosmani/agent-skills, an established project with 82,220 GitHub stars
- Actively maintained (recent commits)
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does source-driven-development do?
- Grounds every implementation decision in official documentation. Use when you want authoritative, source-cited code free from outdated patterns. Use when building with any framework or library where correctness matters.
- How do I install source-driven-development?
- Run /plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills before installing.
- Is source-driven-development free to use?
- Yes. source-driven-development is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Where does source-driven-development come from?
- source-driven-development ships inside addyosmani/agent-skills, a repository that contains 25 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 82,220 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
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