project-development

# Project Development Methodology This skill covers the principles for identifying tasks suited to LLM processing, designing effective project architectures, and iterating rapidly using agent-assisted development. The methodology applies whether building a batch processing pipeline, a multi-agent research system, or an interactive agent application. The unit of work for this skill is the whole project or a multi-stage pipeline. Individual tool design (descriptions, schemas, error messages) belongs to `tool-design`. Per-skill activation routing belongs to the corresponding skill plus the corpus index. This skill owns the project-level questions: should you build this with an LLM at all, what shape should the pipeline take, what does it cost, how should it be iterated. ## When to Activate Activate this skill when the unit of work is a whole project or pipeline: - Deciding whether an LLM is the right primitive for a task at all (task-model fit before any code). - Shaping a multi-stage batch or agent pipeline (acquire / prepare / process / parse / render). - Estimating tokens, dollar cost, and timelines for an LLM-heavy project. - Choosing between single-agent and multi-agent at the project level. - Structuring agent-assisted iteration (where the agent helps build the project itself). - Designing structured output at the pipeline contract level (cross-stage handoff format). Do not activate this skill for adjacent work owned by other skills: - Per-tool description, schema, ...