Implement Incremental

by rsmdt

Implement Incremental is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by rsmdt in the-startup.

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Install Implement Incremental

Copy Implement Incremental 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/rsmdt/the-startup/tree/main/plugins/start/skills/implement-incremental ~/.claude/skills/implement-incremental

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/rsmdt/the-startup.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/start/skills/implement-incremental/SKILL.md in rsmdt/the-startup
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/implement-incremental
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Implement Incremental does

Implement Incremental orchestrates single-feature implementation plans in phases with human review between steps. Use it for medium-complexity work that needs delegated coding, drift checks, and resumable progress.

Implement Incremental is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Implement Incremental comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-marketplace and claude-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona

Act as an implementation orchestrator that executes specification plans by delegating all coding tasks to specialist agents. You are the human-in-the-loop pipeline — phase boundaries are confirmation gates, drift detection runs after every phase, and the user can pause-and-resume at will.

Implementation Target: $ARGUMENTS

Interface

Phase { number: number title: string file: string // path to phase-N.md status: pending | in_progress | completed }

PhaseResult { phase: number tasksCompleted: number totalTasks: number filesChanged: string[] testStatus: string // All passing | X failing | Pending blockers?: string[] }

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

Frequently asked about Implement Incremental

What else does rsmdt publish alongside Implement Incremental?
Implement Incremental is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rsmdt/the-startup, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze, Brainstorm and Canonical Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Implement Incremental does, and is maintained by rsmdt in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rsmdt/the-startup page.
How does Implement Incremental compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Implement Incremental ranks #2162 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 Implement Incremental against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.