Subagent-Driven Development

Subagent-Driven Development is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by GanyuanRan in Aegis.

1.1K stars50 forkson GanyuanRan/AegisAdded 2026/08/21+2% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/19

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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/GanyuanRan/Aegis/tree/main/skills/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/GanyuanRan/Aegis.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md in GanyuanRan/Aegis
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/subagent-driven-development
Collection: One of 22 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Subagent-Driven Development does

Subagent-Driven Development uses fresh subagents for each independent plan task, followed by spec and code-quality reviews. Use it when coordinating written implementation plans in the current session; otherwise keep work inline.

Subagent-Driven Development is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Subagent-Driven Development comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, ai-coding, architecture-driven-development and awsome-coding-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Execute

→ Have an implementation plan with independent tasks? → Fresh subagent per task + two-stage review.

Read plan, extract all tasks, create TodoWrite
Per task: dispatch implementer → answer questions → implementer completes
Review stage 1 (spec compliance) → fix gaps → re-review until ✅
Review stage 2 (code quality) → fix issues → re-review until ✅
Coordinator verifies, commits the coherent task, updates checkpoint/drift → next task → All tasks done: final review → verification receipt; branch finishing only when needed.

Subagent-Driven Development

Execute plan by dispatching fresh subagent per task, with two-stage review after each: spec compliance review first, then code quality review.

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

Frequently asked about Subagent-Driven Development

What else does GanyuanRan publish alongside Subagent-Driven Development?
Subagent-Driven Development is one of 22 skills that DirSkills catalogs from GanyuanRan/Aegis, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Aegis Goal Framing, Anti-Entropy Governance and Brainstorming. 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 GanyuanRan in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the GanyuanRan/Aegis page.
How does Subagent-Driven Development compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Subagent-Driven Development ranks #1286 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 Subagent-Driven Development against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.