Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex

Stop Vibe Coding in Silos. Build a Shared Cognitive Layer for Your Engineering Team.

Individual prompt hacks create quick wins for solo developers, but when scaled across a team, "vibe coding" leads to chaotic technical debt, context rot, unreviewable PRs, and lost code ownership. Speed is solved; Trust and Verification is the new bottleneck in AI engineering.

ADLC Team Skills (tikalk/adlc-team-skills) is the open-source Team Layer of the Twelve-Factor Agentic SDLC. It turns AI agents from isolated guessers into compliant, accountable team members that share your team's constitution, product strategy, architectural standards, and evaluation benchmarks.

Team AI Directives (tikalk/agentic-sdlc-team-ai-directives) is the companion repository that holds your team's version-controlled context modules (constitution, rules, personas, examples), CDR index, and skills manifest.

# Install skills + generate slash commands + wire session_start events
npx adlc-skills-cli add tikalk/adlc-team-skills -a opencode

# Or with npx skills only (skills without commands/events)
npx skills add tikalk/adlc-team-skills -a claude -g

Works out of the box with any agent supporting the Agent Skills standard — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and others.

Slash commands + events: adlc-skills-cli wraps npx skills add and additionally generates /name slash commands and wires session_start event hooks (via .events.json) for 9 coding agents. Skills repos without .events.json get commands only.

Universal orchestration: mission-brief auto-discovers skills from any source (mattpocock/skills, addy osmani/agent-skills, superpowers, spec-kit, or your own) and dynamically wires them into the mission pipeline. No vendor lock-in.

team-boot auto-runs at session start via the event hook. On an unconfigured project it outputs a warning telling the user to run /team-setup. team-setup is also available on demand:

npx adlc-skills-cli add tikalk/adlc-team-skills -a opencode   # install skills + commands + events

Then choose Mode 3 — Scaffold new empty team-ai-directives, or Mode 1 — Clone from GitHub to fork tikalk/agentic-sdlc-team-ai-directives:

team-setup            → pick destination (default ./team-ai-directives) + team name
                      → scaffolds README / AGENTS.md / CDR.md / .skills.json /
                        constitution placeholder / OKF index files + git init

team-constitution     → interactively replace the placeholder with your real principles

team-boot (auto)      → assembles constitution + CDR index + PDR/ADR indexes + skills registry
                        into the system prompt at session start

Already have a directives repo? team-setup offers three other modes:

• Mode 1 — Clone from GitHub (e.g. fork tikalk/agentic-sdlc-team-ai-directives)
• Mode 2 — Point to existing local path (wire a repo you already have)
• Mode 4 — Already configured (verify an existing setup)

                             [ THE GREAT FILTER ]
                      (Human Team Lead Macro-Review)
                                     ▲
                                     │
                  ┌──────────────────┴──────────────────┐
                  │   Pillar 4: Governance & Evals      │
                  │   (Tier 1 Fast Checks + LLM Judges) │
                  └──────────────────▲──────────────────┘
                                     │
                  ┌──────────────────┴──────────────────┐
                  │   Pillar 3: Spec-Driven Workflow    │
                  │   (Contract-First Mission Pipeline) │
                  └──────────────────▲──────────────────┘
                                     │
                  ┌──────────────────┴──────────────────┐
                  │   Pillar 2: Product & Architecture  │
                  │   (Product PDRs + Architecture ADRs)│
                  └──────────────────▲──────────────────┘
                                     │
                 ┌───────────────────┴───────────────────┐
                 │   Pillar 1: Strategy & Team Directives│
                 │   (team-boot / levelup / CDR repository) │
                 └───────────────────────────────────────┘

Put the team at the center of your AI strategy. Instead of individual developers hoarding prompt shortcuts on local machines, team standards live in a version-controlled Git repository (team-ai-directives).

• team-boot: Auto-runs at session start via the event hook, assembling the team constitution, CDR index, PDR/ADR indexes, and skill registry into the system prompt.
• Progressive Disclosure (No Token Waste): Instead of dumping massive prompt walls into every session, team-boot injects a compact ~100-token index. team-discover loads full rule bodies only when relevant to the active task.
• team-constitution: Interactively define, review, or amend your engineering team's core principles.
• team-repair: Re-index CDR.md, scan for rule conflicts, and verify directive freshness.

team-boot        → assembles constitution + CDR index + PDR/ADR + skills into system prompt
team-discover    → manual re-scan for structured discovery tables (/team-discover)
team-constitution → create or amend the team constitution interactively
team-repair      → re-index CDR.md, scan for conflicts, verify freshness

Without documented decisions, every implementation session re-derives (or misinterprets) product intent and architectural rules.

• Product Decision Records (product-*): Capture product decisions as individual PDR files, resolve ambiguities through an interactive clarification workflow, and compile them into a self-contained PRD.md.
• Architectural Decision Records (architect-*): Reverse-engineer or define architectural decisions using Rozanski & Woods viewpoints (Functional, Security, Deployment, Performance) and compose them into a unified AD.md.
• product-roadmap: Track milestone progress across four layers of truth — decisions (PDRs), execution (live issues via MCP), code evidence, and milestone gates.

Product:      product-init → product-clarify → product-implement → product-analyze
Architecture: architect-init → architect-clarify → architect-implement → architect-analyze
Roadmap:      product-roadmap (tracks PDRs + issues + code + gates)

AI is an obsessive guesser — when faced with ambiguity, it invents solutions instead of asking questions. Move from a Conversational model to a Contract model.

• mission-brief: The team's autonomous pipeline runner. Takes a feature prompt, derives a formal contract (Goal, Constraints, Non-Goals, Success Criteria), generates an ordered step list, and walks a specify → plan → tasks → implement ↺ converge loop to completion.
• Mantra: "Debug the Spec, Not the Code": When an agent makes a mistake, don't just patch the code — add the missing constraint to the specification so the mistake is never repeated.

mission-brief "add user profile API with JWT"
  ├── Phase 2: Brief (Goal, Constraints, Non-Goals, Success Criteria)
  ├── Phase 3: Route Classification (spec | change | quick)
  ├── Phase 4: Discovery (auto-wires local installed skills & SDD frameworks)
  └── Phase 5: Execute (specify → plan → tasks → implement ↺ converge)

Never let the agent that wrote the code decide if the code is good. "Separate the Maker from the Checker."

• evals skills: Build application-level evaluation suites (PromptFoo or DeepEval) using Eval-Driven Development (EDD). Runs Tier 1 fast checks + Tier 2 LLM judge subagents to test code against defined business risks before human macro-review in The Great Filter.
• levelup: Capture session wins into permanent team memory. levelup-specify extracts session execution traces and commits them to Git as reusable rules (Context Directive Records — CDRs).
• "Build to Delete": Prune outdated rules and prompt scaffolding as underlying foundation models improve using team-repair --build-to-delete.

LevelUp: levelup-init → levelup-specify → levelup-clarify → levelup-publish
Evals:   evals-init → evals-specify → evals-clarify → evals-implement → evals-validate → evals-analyze

Factor XII — Build to Delete. Factor XIII — Loop Engineering.

mission-brief acts as an open, vendor-agnostic orchestrator across all popular agent skill repositories and Spec-Driven Development (SDD) frameworks:

1. Discovery — At mission start, mission-brief scans all skills directories (.claude/skills, .agents/skills, etc.) and reads every SKILL.md frontmatter to build a vendor-agnostic inventory of installed skills with their names and descriptions.
2. LLM-decided routing — Each step's delegation prompt includes the full skills inventory. The subagent decides which skill (if any) fits the current phase — the LLM matches, not a brittle lookup table.
3. Graceful fallback — If no skill matches, the subagent executes directly. If a skill matches, it's invoked. Either way, the mission pipeline continues.

# Install skills from multiple team or community sources
npx skills add mattpocock/skills
npx skills add tikalk/adlc-team-skills

# mission-brief discovers and routes them automatically
mission-brief "add user profile API with JWT"

Skills are organized under the four pillars of the Twelve-Factor Agentic SDLC, flattened directly under the skills/ directory:

skills/
├── architect/             # architect-* (5 skills)
├── product/               # product-* (6 skills) + product-templates/
├── levelup/               # levelup-* (4 skills) + levelup-helpers.{sh,ps1}
├── mission-brief/         # core SDD orchestrator (1 skill)
├── evals/                 # evals-* (6 skills) + evals-templates/
├── tech-radar/            # tech-radar-* (1 skill) + resources/radar.json
├── workspace/             # workspace (1 skill) — multi-repo coordination
└── team/                  # team-* (6 skills) + team-helpers.{sh,ps1}

This places every single skill exactly 2 levels deep, fully resolving the default depth limit of the skills CLI and ensuring all skills install out of the box.

• team-boot — Bootstrap session: assembles constitution, CDR index, PDR/ADR indexes, and skill registry into the system prompt at session start. Outputs a warning to run /team-setup on unconfigured projects.
• team-discover — Manually re-scan team context modules and produce a structured discovery table. Available via /team-discover.
• team-setup — Clone, scaffold, or configure a team AI directives repository. Model-invoked by team-boot (self-install) and available on demand. Say "Set up team directives for this project."

• team-constitution — Create or amend the team constitution interactively. Say "Create our team constitution" or "Amend our team principles."
• team-repair — Re-index CDR.md, .skills.json, AGENTS.md; health check; conflict scan; freshness verification. Say "Check our team directives health" (--health-only), "Repair our CDR index," or "Scan for rule conflicts" (--conflicts).
• team-skills — Browse and install team skills from the team AI directives. Say "Show me available team skills."

All user-invoked. Capture and publish reusable patterns to team-ai-directives, including paired directive compliance evals.

• levelup-init — Brownfield CDR discovery from existing codebase, including paired eval CDRs from code patterns. Say "Discover directives from this codebase."
• levelup-specify — Extract CDRs and paired eval CDRs from the current session. Say "Extract lessons from this session."
• levelup-clarify — Review, accept, reject, or defer pending CDRs. Evals regression gate runs by default. Say "Review pending CDRs."
• levelup-publish — Compile accepted CDRs into team directives artifacts, evals goldensets, and draft PR. Say "Publish accepted CDRs" or "Build one skill from a CDR" (--skill CDR-NNN).

All user-invoked. Document product decisions as individual PDRs and compile into a self-contained PRD.md.

• product-init — Brownfield PDR discovery from existing codebase and documentation. Say "Discover product decisions from this codebase."
• product-specify — Greenfield PDR creation through interactive product exploration. Say "Let's define our product strategy."
• product-clarify — Refine, validate, and approve PDRs before PRD generation. Say "Review our product decisions."
• product-implement — Generate PRD.md from accepted PDRs (multi-agent DAG orchestration). Say "Generate our PRD."
• product-analyze — Read-only PDR↔PRD consistency and quality analysis. Say "Analyze our product docs."
• product-roadmap — Track milestone progress: decision status, live issues via MCP, code evidence, and gates. Say "Show roadmap progress."

All user-invoked. Create and manage Architecture Decision Records using the Rozanski & Woods methodology.

• architect-init — Reverse-engineer ADRs from an existing codebase (brownfield). Say "Reverse-engineer architecture from this codebase."
• architect-specify — Create ADRs from a PRD or feature description (greenfield). Say "Create ADRs from this PRD."
• architect-clarify — Refine and validate existing ADRs. Say "Refine and validate my ADRs."
• architect-implement — Generate an Architecture Description (AD.md) from accepted ADRs. Say "Generate AD.md from my ADRs."
• architect-analyze — Check ADR↔AD consistency and architecture quality. Say "Analyze architecture consistency."

All user-invoked. Build and maintain application-level evaluation suites following EDD (Eval-Driven Development) principles (PromptFoo or DeepEval).

• evals-init — Initialize evaluation directory structure (evals/{system}/) with security baseline. Say "Initialize my evaluation harness."
• evals-specify — Extract eval criteria from specs and production failure traces (bottom-up open coding). Say "Specify evaluation criteria from this failure log."
• evals-clarify — Cluster related patterns, refine criteria, isolate 20% holdout split, and publish goldset. Say "Clarify and accept my draft evaluations."
• evals-implement — Generate executable graders and test configs, automatically running unit tests to verify evaluator correctness. Say "Generate graders from the goldset."
• evals-validate — Run the evaluation pyramid (Tier 1 fast checks + Tier 2 LLM judges) and compute quality metrics (TPR/TNR, SLA headroom). Say "Validate my evaluation suite."
• evals-analyze — Deep-analyze trajectory failure traces, routing spec-level failures to levelup-specify (rules) and generalization failures to backlog. Say "Analyze evaluation failures."

User-invoked. Structure a feature description into a Mission Brief and run it end-to-end with any installed SDD skill set.

• mission-brief — Takes a description, structures it into a Mission Brief (goal, constraints, success criteria), generates an ordered step list with prompts that trigger installed SDD skills, and walks those steps to converged implementation. Sync (gated) or --async (ungated, checkpoint across sessions). Say "Build this feature end to end" or mission-brief "add dark mode". Resume with mission-brief --resume.

Model-invoked. Grounds tech stack choices in Tikal's Israeli Tech Radar.

• tech-radar-context — Discovers technologies implied by the prompt, matches them against the Tikal Tech Radar (radar.json), and injects a context table with each technology's adoption ring (Keep/Start/Try/Stop), quadrant, and Tikal's "Why?" opinion — plus Tikal-aligned alternatives for anything on Stop. Auto-triggered whenever a technology, framework, database, library, or cloud tool is being chosen or evaluated. Fetches the live radar best-effort and falls back to a bundled snapshot at resources/radar.json.

User-invoked. Multi-repo workspace coordination for shared team context.

• workspace — Discover child repos at depth 1 and optionally link them as Git submodules, creating a multi-repo workspace analogous to VS Code's .code-workspace. The parent repo holds shared PDRs, ADRs, and CDRs under .adlc/ (created by product-specify, architect-specify, levelup-specify); child implementation repos are linked for unified context. Commands: /workspace (discover), /workspace --link (register submodules), /workspace --status (audit: branch, dirty, unpushed, SHA drift). No workspace.yml — pure auto-discovery by convention. Say "Set up multi-repo workspace" or /workspace --link.

team-setup → team-constitution → team-boot (auto at session start)

Brownfield: product-init → product-clarify → product-implement → product-analyze
Greenfield: product-specify → product-clarify → product-implement → product-analyze
Roadmap:    product-roadmap (anytime)

Brownfield: architect-init → architect-clarify → architect-implement → architect-analyze
Greenfield: architect-specify → architect-clarify → architect-implement → architect-analyze

Brownfield: levelup-init → levelup-clarify → levelup-publish → team-repair
Session:    levelup-specify → levelup-clarify → levelup-publish → team-repair
Build to Delete: team-repair --build-to-delete → levelup-clarify (review deletion CDRs)

mission-brief "feature" → review brief → execute steps → converge → mission-log.json

product-specify / architect-specify → create shared PDRs/ADRs in parent .adlc/
workspace --link → register child repos as submodules
workspace --status → audit branch, dirty, unpushed, SHA drift

Greenfield (Spec-Driven): evals-init → evals-specify (from spec) → evals-clarify → evals-implement → evals-validate
Brownfield (Error-Driven): evals-init → evals-specify (from failures) → evals-clarify → evals-implement → evals-validate → evals-analyze

Product:     product-specify → product-clarify → product-implement → product-analyze
Architecture: architect-specify → architect-clarify → architect-implement → architect-analyze
Team:        levelup-specify → levelup-clarify → levelup-publish → team-repair

See RELEASE.md for the release runbook, tag naming conventions, and recovery procedures.

MIT — see LICENSE.