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Spec Driven Lifecycle

Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: architecture  ·  Last updated:
type:audit
Coordinates spec-driven development lifecycle from Epic -> Sprint -> Story -> Architecture -> Development -> QA -> Release with structural anti-skip enforcement. Manages story lifecycle across 11 workflow states, enforces 4 quality gates, and orchestrates skill invocation. Replaces spec-driven-lifecycle as the unified lifecycle coordinator. Use when starting sprints, managing story workflow progression, auditing deferrals, running sprint retrospectives, or coordinating multi-story releases. Always use this skill when /orchestrate, /create-sprint, or /audit-deferrals is invoked.

From the source SKILL.md

Coordinate the complete story lifecycle from Backlog through Released, enforcing quality gates at every transition and invoking specialized skills at the right time.

What this skill does

Spec Driven Lifecycle is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the architecture sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/spec-driven-lifecycle/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when starting sprints, managing story workflow progression, auditing deferrals, running sprint retrospectives, or coordinating multi-story releases. Always use this skill when /orchestrate, /create-sprint, or /audit-deferrals is invoked.

Who uses this skill

The Spec Driven Lifecycle Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ 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/spec-driven-lifecycle
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/spec-driven-lifecycle/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/spec-driven-lifecycle/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/spec-driven-lifecycle/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/spec-driven-lifecycle/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\spec-driven-lifecycle\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

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