Dev Lifecycle

Dev Lifecycle is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by codeaholicguy in ai-devkit.

1.6K stars242 forkson codeaholicguy/ai-devkitAdded 2026/08/19Repository updated 2026/08/18

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Install Dev Lifecycle

Copy Dev Lifecycle 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/codeaholicguy/ai-devkit/tree/main/skills/dev-lifecycle ~/.claude/skills/dev-lifecycle

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/codeaholicguy/ai-devkit.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/dev-lifecycle/SKILL.md in codeaholicguy/ai-devkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/dev-lifecycle
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Dev Lifecycle does

Dev Lifecycle coordinates phase-specific AI DevKit skills across requirements, design, planning, implementation, testing, and review. Use it to run the full software development lifecycle or choose the next phase during structured feature work.

Dev Lifecycle is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Dev Lifecycle comes from a repository tagged agent-framework, agent-skills, ai, ai-agents and ai-coding.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Dev Lifecycle

Coordinate the phase-specific AI DevKit skills instead of running phase details directly.

Required phase skills:

dev-worktree for feature workspace setup and resume.
dev-requirements for phases 1-2: new requirement and requirements review.
dev-design for phase 3: design review.
dev-planning for phases 4 and 6: initial task planning and updates after implementation tasks.
dev-implementation for phases 5 and 7: execute plan and check implementation.
dev-testing for phase 8: write tests and verify coverage.
dev-review for phase 9: final code review.

Supporting skills:

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

Commands Dev Lifecycle provides

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

/new-requirement

Frequently asked about Dev Lifecycle

What else does codeaholicguy publish alongside Dev Lifecycle?
Dev Lifecycle is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from codeaholicguy/ai-devkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Communication, Agent Management and Agent Orchestration. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Dev Lifecycle does, and is maintained by codeaholicguy in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the codeaholicguy/ai-devkit page.
How does Dev Lifecycle compare to other Automation skills?
Dev Lifecycle ranks #569 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Dev Lifecycle against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.