project-development

1# Project Development Methodology
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3This 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.
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5The 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.
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7## When to Activate
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9Activate this skill when the unit of work is a whole project or pipeline:
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11- Deciding whether an LLM is the right primitive for a task at all (task-model fit before any code).
12- Shaping a multi-stage batch or agent pipeline (acquire / prepare / process / parse / render).
13- Estimating tokens, dollar cost, and timelines for an LLM-heavy project.
14- Choosing between single-agent and multi-agent at the project level.
15- Structuring agent-assisted iteration (where the agent helps build the project itself).
16- Designing structured output at the pipeline contract level (cross-stage handoff format).
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18Do not activate this skill for adjacent work owned by other skills:
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