Scoping The Simplest Core

Scoping The Simplest Core is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by prime-radiant-inc in iterative-development.

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Install Scoping The Simplest Core

Copy Scoping The Simplest Core 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/prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development/tree/main/skills/scoping-the-simplest-core ~/.claude/skills/scoping-the-simplest-core

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/prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/scoping-the-simplest-core/SKILL.md in prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/scoping-the-simplest-core
Collection: One of 6 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3475 skills

What Scoping The Simplest Core does

Scoping The Simplest Core turns extracted requirements into a roadmap with a walking-skeleton iteration and follow-on iterations. It is used to choose the first runnable journey scenario, split stories by dependency profile, and validate scope via review.

Scoping The Simplest Core is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Scoping The Simplest Core comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, autonomous-agents, claude-code, claude-code-plugin and methodology.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Scoping the Simplest Core

Overview

Reads the per-epic requirement files in docs/superpowers/iterations/requirements/ and docs/superpowers/iterations/behavior-scenarios.md, and produces docs/superpowers/iterations/roadmap.md: a walking-skeleton iteration (ITER-0000) plus ordered follow-on iterations. The walking skeleton must produce the first runnable journey scenario. Runs citation and scope review via PAR before committing the roadmap.

When to Use

Invoked by iterative-development during bootstrap after extracting-requirements.

Script Location

All scripts referenced below live in this skill's scripts/ directory, next to this SKILL.md file.

Scoping Process

1. Read the backlog

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

Frequently asked about Scoping The Simplest Core

What else does prime-radiant-inc publish alongside Scoping The Simplest Core?
Scoping The Simplest Core is one of 6 skills that DirSkills catalogs from prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Auditing Progress, Extracting Requirements and Implementing Tasks. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Scoping The Simplest Core does, and is maintained by prime-radiant-inc in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development page.
How does Scoping The Simplest Core compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Scoping The Simplest Core ranks #3127 by stars among the 3475 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 Scoping The Simplest Core against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.