Formax Dev Loop

by yusifeng

Formax Dev Loop is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by yusifeng in formax.

192 stars7 forkson yusifeng/formaxAdded 2026/09/06Repository updated 2026/07/24

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Install Formax Dev Loop

Copy Formax Dev Loop 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/yusifeng/formax/tree/main/.codex/skills/formax-dev-loop-workflow ~/.claude/skills/formax-dev-loop-workflow

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/yusifeng/formax.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .codex/skills/formax-dev-loop-workflow/SKILL.md in yusifeng/formax
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/formax-dev-loop-workflow
Collection: One of 22 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1745 skills

What Formax Dev Loop does

Formax Dev Loop helps you work on Formax changes with a single mainline task, targeted tests, required review before commit, and small reviewable commits. Use it when you need a tight dev loop without scope drift or partial staging.

Formax Dev Loop is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Formax Dev Loop comes from a repository tagged agent, ai, ai-agent, assistant and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Formax Dev Loop (Mainline Discipline)

Default loop (repeat per TODO item)

Pick one mainline item and finish it end-to-end before starting another.
- If a new idea appears mid-flight, write it down in a backlog note and continue the mainline.
Write/adjust tests first to lock behavior (when feasible).
Implement the smallest change that satisfies the item.
Incremental optimization check (required)
- After implementation, do a quick pass:
  - Is there newly-dead/unused logic introduced by this increment?
  - Is there a low-risk simplification that reduces branching/duplication?
- If yes, include a small optimization in the same item (no scope drift, no behavior change).
- If no, explicitly proceed without optimization.

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

Frequently asked about Formax Dev Loop

What else does yusifeng publish alongside Formax Dev Loop?
Formax Dev Loop is one of 22 skills that DirSkills catalogs from yusifeng/formax, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze Task, Approval UI Workflow and Expanded Transcript Workflow. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Formax Dev Loop does, and is maintained by yusifeng in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the yusifeng/formax page.
How does Formax Dev Loop compare to other Quality skills?
Formax Dev Loop ranks #1581 by stars among the 1745 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Formax Dev Loop against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.