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component-design-with-tdad is agent-read markdown (skill) from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers: Use when designing a new plugin component (skill, agent, command, or backing script) for the ai-literacy-superpowers plugin or a sister plugin in this marketplace. Surfaces the design questions that the four-layer TDAD architecture implies — component type, tier targeting, scenario shape, FINDING-vs-scenario judgement, modification-vs-refactor heuristic. Loadable by spec-writer, tdd-agent, or directly during human brainstorming. Not a gate; a methodology guide that names the questions to ask bef.

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# Component design with TDAD

When designing a new plugin component — a skill, an agent, a command,
or a backing script — the four-layer TDAD architecture has implications
for the component's *shape* that are easy to miss if the design is
done before the testing discipline is considered. This skill names
the questions to ask at design time so the component ships
test-friendly rather than acquiring (or never acquiring) its scenario
afterwards.

The skill is loadable by:

- The `spec-writer` agent when authoring a spec that adds a new plugin
  component
- The `tdd-agent` when operating in its agent-artefact branch (a
  scenario file is the RED-phase deliverable)
- Human brainstorming directly, before any agent dispatch

It is **not a gate**. The forcing functions live in HARNESS.md (the
deterministic CI workflows shipped in v0.36.0). This skill packages
the design intelligence those gates assume.

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## Before reading this skill

The skill assumes familiarity with:

- The four-layer TDAD architecture — see
  [the TDAD docs page](../../../docs/tdad/index.md) and
  [`tdad_tests/README.md`](../../../tdad_tests/README.md) for the
  full architecture and cost-cadence trade-offs
…

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habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 106 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main

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