Absolute Work

by maddhruv

Absolute Work is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by maddhruv in absolute.

209 stars29 forkson maddhruv/absoluteAdded 2026/09/04Repository updated 2026/07/06

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Install Absolute Work

Copy Absolute Work into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/maddhruv/absolute/tree/main/skills/absolute-work ~/.claude/skills/absolute-work

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/maddhruv/absolute.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/absolute-work/SKILL.md in maddhruv/absolute
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/absolute-work
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2970 skills

What Absolute Work does

Absolute Work guides AI coding agents through a gated SDLC from intake and design review to task decomposition, test-first execution, verification, and convergence. Use it for tickets, migrations, refactors, and other multi-step work that needs planning before code.

Absolute Work is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Absolute Work comes from a repository tagged claude, claude-code, claude-skills, codex and documentation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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Absolute Work: End-to-End AI Development Lifecycle

Absolute Work takes any unit of work — a ticket, a task, a plan, a migration — from fuzzy intent to verified code. It is one continuous skill with hard gates between phases: brainstorm a shared design, write and review a spec, decompose into a dependency-graphed task board, then peel tasks off one safe wave at a time with test-first verification. Nothing is assumed, nothing is silently expanded, and no code is written until the design is approved.

The lifecycle has 6 phases: INTAKE & BRAINSTORM → SPEC → DECOMPOSE & PLAN → EXECUTE → VERIFY → CONVERGE

The Phase Gate Rule

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Absolute Work provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/absolute

Frequently asked about Absolute Work

What else does maddhruv publish alongside Absolute Work?
Absolute Work is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from maddhruv/absolute, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Absolute Audit, Absolute Debt and Absolute Deflake. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Absolute Work does, and is maintained by maddhruv in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the maddhruv/absolute page.
How does Absolute Work compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Absolute Work ranks #2704 by stars among the 2970 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Absolute Work against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.