32 skills · 42 books · 4 papers · One pipeline

Fifty years of software wisdom, finally executable.

Install a delivery pipeline your coding agent actually follows — shape, build, test, review, ship. Every stage operationalizes a proven engineering discipline, and every skill cites its source. Nothing rests on vibes.

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The canon

The whole shelf, not a selection

Every work cited in sources: frontmatter across the pack — 42 books and 4 papers. The ones an engineer knows on sight come first; the rest follow by how many skills are built on them, and every volume stands taller where more of them cite it. Pull any one off the shelf to see which skills draw on it.

Each SKILL.md names its sources in frontmatter; this case is built from those lines, so it is never a shorter list than the pack actually cites.

Into practice

From principle to pipeline stage

The pipeline isn't invented — it's assembled. Each stage operationalizes a named discipline from the literature, with explicit handoffs between them.

“Design it twice.”
A Philosophy of Software Design
/design-an-interface
Generates radically different designs before committing.
Appetite before solution
Shape Up
/write-a-prd
Sets a time budget, names rabbit holes, declares no-gos.
Red — green — refactor
TDD By Example
/tdd
A disciplined loop invoked from every execution.
Small, reversible steps
Refactoring
/request-refactor-plan
Plans refactors as tiny commits that always run.
Ubiquitous language
Domain-Driven Design
/ubiquitous-language
A living glossary with a decisions register.
Always releasable
Continuous Delivery
/pre-merge · /closeout
Architectural review, clean merges, clean teardowns.

The pipeline, end to end

/shape
/research
/write-a-prd
/prd-to-issues
/execute
/qa
/pre-merge
/compound
/closeout

A default path, not a prison — backtrack deliberately when assumptions fail.

The collection

32 skills, catalogued

Planning
shapecreate-milestoneresearchwrite-a-prdprd-to-issuesdesign-an-interfaceapi-design-reviewprototypemermaid
Development
executetddfix-findingstriage-issueimprove-codebase-architecturerequest-refactor-plants-audit
Knowledge & QA
qapre-mergewalk-commitsvisual-recapcompoundcloseoutubiquitous-languageimprove-pipeline
Orientation
helpcorrect-coursehandoffre-pitch
Tooling
init-pipelinesetup-pre-commitsetup-ralph-loopgit-guardrails-claude-code