Constraint Driven Development
Establishes a project's quality bar as a written contract and stops agents quietly lowering it. Interviews the user on which dimensions matter, supplies sane default thresholds when they have no number in mind, records everything in CONSTRAINTS.md, and watches the diff for a weakened bar — new @ts-ignore or eslint-disable suppressions, skipped or deleted tests, assertions stripped out, unimplemented stubs, thresholds edited down. Use when no quality bar is written down, when the user says "set up constraints" or "define our standards", when the user wants dimensions they care about — accessibility, web performance, coverage — set up as enforced constraints, when an agent keeps silencing checks or skipping tests to get to green, when you need a coverage or performance threshold and don't know what number to pick, or when an agent writes more code than anyone will read.
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What this skill does
Constraint Driven Development is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the accessibility sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/constraint-driven-development/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when no quality bar is written down, when the user says "set up constraints" or "define our standards", when the user wants dimensions they care about — accessibility, web performance, coverage — set up as enforced constraints, when an agent keeps silencing checks or skipping tests to get to green, when you need a coverage or performance threshold and don't know what number to pick, or when an agent writes more code than anyone will read.
Who uses this skill
The Constraint Driven Development Claude Code skill is built for product managers, product designers, and cross-functional teams planning, shipping, and measuring product features. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 213,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
How to install
Free
Manual install (2 steps)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/constraint-driven-development
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/constraint-driven-development/SKILL.md \
-o ~/.claude/skills/constraint-driven-development/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/constraint-driven-development/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/constraint-driven-development/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\constraint-driven-development\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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Pro
One-click install via the desktop app
The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I install the Constraint Driven Development Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy
SKILL.md from the source repository to
~/.claude/skills/constraint-driven-development/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at
claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Constraint Driven Development skill do?
Establishes a project's quality bar as a written contract and stops agents quietly lowering it. Interviews the user on which dimensions matter, supplies sane default thresholds when they have no number in mind, records everything in CONSTRAINTS.md, and watches the diff for a weakened bar — new @ts-ignore or eslint-disable suppressions, skipped or deleted tests, assertions stripped out, unimplemented stubs, thresholds edited down. Use when no quality bar is written down, when the user says "set up constraints" or "define our standards", when the user wants dimensions they care about — accessibility, web performance, coverage — set up as enforced constraints, when an agent keeps silencing checks or skipping tests to get to green, when you need a coverage or performance threshold and don't know what number to pick, or when an agent writes more code than anyone will read.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Constraint Driven Development skill?
Use Constraint Driven Development when your Claude Code task falls under the Product category — specifically in the accessibility area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Constraint Driven Development" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at
/category/product/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Constraint Driven Development skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a
SKILL.md file that lives under
~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Constraint Driven Development is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Product category. Learn more at
/learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.
Attribution & license
Cite this skill
If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
APA
LeoYeAI. (2026). Constraint Driven Development [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/constraint-driven-development/
BibTeX
@misc{constraint-driven-development-2026,
author = {LeoYeAI},
title = {Constraint Driven Development [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/constraint-driven-development/}
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