AI-Native SDLC: Transform Software Dev with Agent Skills

AI-Native SDLC: Transform Software Dev with Agent Skills

This AI agent skill facilitates a machine-readable, AI-native software development lifecycle (SDLC), organizing the stages of software development into a closed loop of clear steps and artifacts, and enforcing stage compliance through integrated hooks and gates. It assists developers in generating, managing, and transitioning between key development artifacts such as plans, specifications, and reviews.

What this skill does

• Initiates a feature development process by generating an intent.md to capture project intentions.
• Structured design through spec.md to formalize application specifications before coding starts.
• Develops project plans documented in plan.md, with diffs and tests for each implementation cycle.
• Establishes a controlled testing environment with clear verification targets and evaluations.
• Manages deploy stages with pull requests and REVIEW.md findings, gating releases for quality assurance.
• Maintains ongoing project governance with control bands, automatically generating new intents upon breach detection to close the loop.

Who it is for

• Software developers and engineering teams using AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.
• Development teams seeking a structured, automated and transparent SDLC.

Use cases

• Commencing a new feature by capturing intent and creating detailed specifications.
• Onboarding existing repositories into a managed and well-governed development process.
• Enhancing Continuous Integration (CI) processes by incorporating stage gates to verify compliance.
• Transforming production incidents back into actionable backlog items for future iterations.

Technical details

• Embeds PreToolUse hooks and CI gates to ensure structured progression through development stages.
• Generates machine-readable artifacts at each phase, serving as an audit trail for tracking decisions and changes.
• Supports integration with AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, ensuring compatibility with AI-driven development workflows.

Source & Licence

This package is built on open-source work published by timwukp (timwukp/agent-skills-best-practice) and distributed under MIT. The original licence text and copyright notice are included in your download.

Personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted, provided the original copyright and licence notice are retained.

Your purchase covers curation, licence verification, packaging, documentation and instant delivery. It does not grant exclusive rights to the underlying open-source code, which remains available under its original licence.

Delivery & Support

• Delivery: instant — a secure download link is emailed to you as soon as payment is confirmed.
• Format: ZIP archive containing the skill files, documentation and the original licence.
• Support: support@mcpcart.com — we aim to reply within 2 business days.
• Updates: updates are included only where stated on this page.

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