Subagent-Driven Development

by HezaoHezao

Subagent-Driven Development is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by HezaoHezao in poirot.

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Install Subagent-Driven Development

Copy Subagent-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/HezaoHezao/poirot/tree/master/poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/software-development/subagent-driven-development ~/.claude/skills/subagent-driven-development

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/HezaoHezao/poirot.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/software-development/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md in HezaoHezao/poirot
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/subagent-driven-development
Collection: One of 37 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Subagent-Driven Development does

Subagent-Driven Development executes implementation plans one task at a time with a spec review and a code-quality review after each task. Use it for planned work where tasks are mostly independent and need test-driven implementation.

Subagent-Driven Development is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Subagent-Driven Development comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-memory, agent-skill, agent-skills and agentic-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Subagent-Driven Development

Overview

Execute implementation plans task-by-task with systematic two-stage review between tasks.

Core principle: Fresh focus per task + two-stage review (spec then quality) = high quality, fast iteration.

Poirot note: The original skill dispatches a fresh subagent per task via delegate_task. Poirot has no subagents, so this version executes tasks sequentially in the same context with a deliberate context-reset between tasks. The two-stage review methodology is preserved.

When to Use

You have an implementation plan (from the plan skill or user requirements)
Tasks are mostly independent
Quality and spec compliance are important
You want automated review between tasks

The Process

1. Read and Parse Plan

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

Frequently asked about Subagent-Driven Development

What else does HezaoHezao publish alongside Subagent-Driven Development?
Subagent-Driven Development is one of 37 skills that DirSkills catalogs from HezaoHezao/poirot, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Academic Paper Review, ArXiv Research and Architecture Diagram. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Subagent-Driven Development does, and is maintained by HezaoHezao in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the HezaoHezao/poirot page.
How does Subagent-Driven Development compare to other Quality skills?
Subagent-Driven Development ranks #1267 by stars among the 1354 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 Subagent-Driven Development against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.