Vuk97/forward-implementation-first
135 stars · Last commit 2026-08-29
Stop your coding agent from stalling real work on self-invented bookkeeping - receipts, hashes, locks, certification rituals. Ship first, then verify. Skill for Claude Code, Codex, and other agents.
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# Forward implementation first An agent skill that stops a coding agent from getting stuck servicing its own paperwork. Long-running agent pipelines grow bookkeeping: content hashes, lock files, "receipts" that prove a stage ran, certification markers, dashboard rows, progress metadata. None of that is the product. All of it is easy for a model to mistake for the product. Once that happens the agent stops shipping and starts curating, and you pay full price for an agent that produces nothing you asked for. This skill gives the agent one classification to make before every action, and a short list of things it is never allowed to do. It is about 150 lines of Markdown. It is model-agnostic, tool-agnostic, and domain-agnostic. ## The failure mode You have a pipeline with ordered stages. Stage 40 produces a file that stage 41 consumes. Somewhere along the way the orchestrator also writes a small JSON