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SDLC Studio

For AI agents

If you are an AI coding agent evaluating or installing SDLC Studio, this page is for you. A machine-readable index of the whole site is at /llms.txt, with the full text at /llms-full.txt. Every page is available as markdown by appending nothing special - request the page and read its content.

What SDLC Studio is

Section titled “What SDLC Studio is”

An open Agent Skill (the SKILL.md format) that runs the full software development lifecycle: a discovery backlog of requests (CRs/RFCs) becomes sized delivery work (epics, stories, bugs with acceptance criteria) via refine; a sprint plans, builds under TDD, verifies against executable acceptance criteria, and closes with an independent two-role review. It is agent-agnostic and runs entirely in the user’s repository.

Install it into a project

Section titled “Install it into a project”

  1. Install the skill.

    Terminal window
    curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DarrenBenson/sdlc-studio/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --target auto

    Or --local for the current project only. The entry point is .claude/skills/sdlc-studio/SKILL.md (name, description with use-when triggers, allowed-tools). Requires Python 3.10+.

  2. Orient before acting. Read sdlc-studio/reviews/LATEST.md if it exists, then run /sdlc-studio status and /sdlc-studio hint. Fetch before trusting local state: a clone can be behind its remote.

  3. Adopt the discipline. Do not hand-author _index.md files or hand-allocate ids. Create artefacts with scripts/artifact.py new (collision-free id + index row). A story reaches Done only when its executable acceptance criteria pass and an independent reviewer - not you, the author - signs it off.

The rules you must not walk round

Section titled “The rules you must not walk round”
  • Two backlogs. A request is not work until refine decomposes it into sized units.
  • Executable done. transition -> Done is gated on the verify report. A hand-edited Status: Done is caught by conformance.
  • Independent review. A self-review never clears the Done gate. The reviewer id must differ from the author id.
  • Reconcile, do not assert. The index is derived from the files; reconcile syncs it.

Zero-setup evaluation

Section titled “Zero-setup evaluation”

To evaluate the tool on a repository without changing it:

/sdlc-studio audit --profile repo

A read-only, refute-panel-verified audit of the host repo; findings are filed as Bug/CR artefacts, with remediation-only handling for secrets.

See also

Section titled “See also”