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dev-lifecycle from codeaholicguy/ai-devkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add codeaholicguy/ai-devkit/dev-lifecycle@git:20261023.3f90d45

Pins git:20261023.3f90d45 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
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SKILL.md skill
Repository
codeaholicguy/ai-devkit
Path
skills/dev-lifecycle/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
git:20261023.3f90d45, committed Oct 23, 2026
First version recorded
May 26, 2026
Size
7,061 bytes
Repository stars
1,656
License
Apache-2.0

AI DevKit · Orchestrator for structured SDLC phase skills. Use when the user wants to run the full lifecycle or choose the next phase across requirements, design, planning, implementation, testing, and review.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Dev Lifecycle

Coordinate the phase-specific AI DevKit skills instead of running phase details directly.

Required phase skills:

- `dev-worktree` for feature workspace setup and resume.
- `dev-requirements` for phases 1-2: new requirement and requirements review.
- `dev-design` for phase 3: design review.
- `dev-planning` for phases 4 and 6: initial task planning and updates after implementation tasks.
- `dev-implementation` for phases 5 and 7: execute plan and check implementation.
- `dev-testing` for phase 8: write tests and verify coverage.
- `dev-review` for phase 9: final code review.

Supporting skills:

- `memory` for reusable project knowledge during clarification.
- `tdd` for implementation tasks.
- `verify` before completing implementation, implementation checks, testing claims, and review readiness.
- `dev-smoke` after Write Tests and before Code Review for user-facing changes.
- `dev-retro` after Code Review or PR: offer it, and run only if the user agrees.
- `task` for optional progress tracing when the task command is usable.

## Startup Validation

At the beginning of every `dev-lifecycle` run:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add codeaholicguy/ai-devkit/dev-lifecycle@sha256:0d0f84aaf0d960de

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261023.3f90d45, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between May 26, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 25 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7061 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

codeaholicguy/ai-devkit · 1,656 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xi7swvzub6hrfjuh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=codeaholicguy/ai-devkit/dev-lifecycle
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0d0f84aaf0d960ded591a4272737a9d66ed8389cb8ceaedd12651e356b525dbf

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