The ticket looked fine until I started building
I've been on the receiving end of shipped tickets with gaps no one catches until I am elbows deep in implementation. I built a skill to find them first.
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Write the spec. Then try to kill it.
I spec'd an entire SaaS before writing a line of code. Then I asked AI to kill it. Here's the workflow that came out the other side.
What I learned running AIDLC
We ran AIDLC with a novel’s worth of docs stacked to feed the process. The slog wasn’t the room or the ritual. It was how much was still unclear before we started.
Frontmatter is the Interface
Your agent doesn't read skill files. It selects them. Here's what that means for how you write them.