skills/dev/dev-workflow/SKILL.md

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name: dev-workflow
description: Personal development workflow for software projects.
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# Dev Workflow

This skill enforces my personal development workflow for software projects.

## Branch Strategy

- **Main branch**: `master` or `main` (production)
- **Development**: Always on feature branches off main
- **New work**: Features, fixes, and chores each get their own branch

## Workflow

### 1. Research / Discussion / Plan

Discuss the task, idea, or bug with the coding agent. The outcome is an **implementation plan** that includes:

- Summary of research and discussion
- Implementation plan broken into discrete steps

Create a GitLab/Git issue for the plan. The issue title starts with the feature slug, and the description contains the full plan. **WAIT for explicit user approval before creating the issue.**

### 2. Implementation

**Only proceed if the user explicitly approves the plan** (e.g., `go`, `approved`, `start`). Do not start implementing on your own. Before starting, the agent reads `AGENT.md` (project guidelines). Implementation proceeds step-by-step according to the plan. Each step is committed individually.

### 3. Review

After implementation is complete, a subagent with **fresh context** reviews the code and implementation using `code-review`.

### 4. Iteration

The agent fixes any findings the reviewer reported. This cycle continues until the reviewer subagent approves.

### 5. Merge Request

Create an MR/PR and inform the user.

## Language Rule

- **Plans and artifacts**: Always in **English**
- **User discussions**: Any language