Dev Lifecycle

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

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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/web/content/docs ~/.claude/skills/docs

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: web/content/docs/10-dev-lifecycle-skill.md in codeaholicguy/ai-devkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/docs
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Dev Lifecycle does

Dev Lifecycle gives coding agents a repeatable engineering workflow that moves from requirements and design through planning, implementation, testing, and review. Use it to make Claude Code or Codex work like a senior engineer instead of jumping straight into code.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

The dev-lifecycle skill helps agents like Claude Code and Codex work more like a senior software engineer. Instead of jumping straight into code, it orchestrates focused skills for worktree setup, requirements, design, planning, implementation, testing, and review.

This is what makes the skill useful: it keeps development simple for you while making the agent more disciplined. You describe the feature. The skill handles the workflow.

Why This Skill Matters

Without structure, AI coding sessions usually drift:

The agent starts coding before requirements are clear
Important design decisions stay implicit
Testing and review get skipped
The next session loses context

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

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 AI Engineering skills?
Dev Lifecycle ranks #959 by stars among the 2451 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 Dev Lifecycle against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.