/define
Manifest builder. Turns shared understanding into a verifiable Manifest with Deliverables, Acceptance Criteria, Global Invariants, and an Initial Approach. Use when planning features, scoping refactors, debugging complex issues, or when the user asks to define, scope, plan, spec
$ npx -y skills add doodledood/manifest-dev --skill define --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/define
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The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Manifest builder. Turns shared understanding into a verifiable Manifest with Deliverables, Acceptance Criteria, Global Invariants, and an Initial Approach. Use when planning features, scoping refactors, debugging complex issues, or when the user asks to define, scope, plan, spec
Loop engineering for Claude Code and other agent CLIs: figure the problem out first, define what done means, then execute and verify every criterion independently.
Other skills on manifest-dev.
- /auto-optimize-prompt
Iteratively auto-optimize a prompt until no issues remain. Uses review-prompt in a loop, asks user for ambiguities, applies fixes via prompt-engineering skill. Runs until converged.
Open skill - /compress-prompt
Compresses prompts/skills into minimal goal-focused instructions. Trusts the model, drops what it already knows, maximizes action space. Use when asked to compress, condense, or minimize a prompt.
Open skill - /harden-task-file
Harden a manifest-dev task guidance file for one-shot quality — either /define''s quality-gate/Default set or figure-out''s probe set. Iterates: orthogonality gap analysis, user-approved additions, prompt review, fix, converge. Use when a task file needs comprehensive coverage
Open skill - /learn-from-session
Analyze Claude Code sessions to learn what went right/wrong and suggest high-confidence improvements to skills. Use when asked to analyze a session, learn from a session, or review workflow effectiveness.
Open skill - /optimize-prompt-token-efficiency
Iteratively optimizes prompts for token efficiency by maximizing information density - reduces verbosity, removes redundancy, tightens phrasing while preserving semantic content. Use when asked to compress, shorten, reduce tokens, tighten, maximize density, increase information
Open skill - /sync-claude-code-plugins
Sync the prompt-engineering plugin from a local clone of claude-code-plugins into .claude/ so the repo is self-contained for isolated/web environments. Copies agents/skills, removes only previously-synced items that disappeared upstream. Other content in .claude/ is left alone.
Open skill