Prompt-Driven Development

Prompt-Driven Development is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by mikeyobrien in ralph-orchestrator.

3.1K stars285 forkson mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestratorAdded 2026/08/17Repository updated 2026/08/16

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Install Prompt-Driven Development

Copy Prompt-Driven Development 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/mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator/tree/main/.claude/skills/pdd ~/.claude/skills/pdd

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/mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/pdd/SKILL.md in mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/pdd
Collection: One of 20 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Prompt-Driven Development does

Prompt-Driven Development turns a rough idea into a detailed design document and implementation plan. It guides iterative requirements clarification, research, design, and planning, producing spec-driven artifacts without writing code.

Prompt-Driven Development is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Prompt-Driven Development comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agents, ai-agents-framework, ai-developer-tools and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Prompt-Driven Development

Overview

Transform a rough idea into a detailed design with an implementation plan. The process is iterative: clarify requirements, research, design, plan — moving between phases as needed.

Important Notes

These rules apply across ALL steps:

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

Frequently asked about Prompt-Driven Development

What else does mikeyobrien publish alongside Prompt-Driven Development?
Prompt-Driven Development is one of 20 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Code Assist, Code Task Generator and Complex Test. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Prompt-Driven Development does, and is maintained by mikeyobrien in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator page.
How does Prompt-Driven Development compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Prompt-Driven Development ranks #656 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 Prompt-Driven Development against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.