Cycle — Development skill for Claude Code
Execute continuous development cycle for an epic.
How to install Cycle
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/databayt-hogwarts-cycle.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/databayt/hogwarts/HEAD/.claude/commands/cycle.md -o ~/.claude/commands/databayt-hogwarts-cycle.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Cycle does
description: Execute continuous development cycle for an epic
Cycle Command - Story Execution
Launch orchestrated development loop to implement all stories in an epic continuously.
Usage
/cycle [epic-id]
Process
- Load Epic: Get all stories from the epic
- Order by Dependencies: Topological sort for execution order
- For Each Story:
- Update status to IN_PROGRESS
- Write tests first (TDD - RED)
- Implement solution (GREEN)
- Refactor c
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