doubt-driven-development
by addyosmani (GitHub) in addyosmani/agent-skills
What it does
Subjects every non-trivial decision to a fresh-context adversarial review before it stands. Use when you want every assumption cross-examined before proceeding, when stress-testing a plan for hidden failure modes, when correctness matters more than speed, when working in unfamiliar code, when stakes
Quoted from the skill's SKILL.md under its MIT license.
Install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills.git /tmp/agent-skills mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ cp -r /tmp/agent-skills/skills/doubt-driven-development ~/.claude/skills/doubt-driven-development
The command copies the skill from the author's repo. SkillTrove does not host it.
Files
- SKILL.md
Source: https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/doubt-driven-development. Checked 2026-10-13.
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