Koaaa-sysu

Stop Before Code — Testing skill for Claude Code

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The "Stop-and-Think" Product Brain for AI Coding Agents.

How to install Stop Before Code

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open Koaaa-sysu/stop-before-code and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Stop Before Code does

The "Stop-and-Think" Product Brain for AI Coding Agents. No Spec, No Code.

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README

🛑 Stop Before Code (SBC)

**The "Stop-and-Think" Product Brain for AI Coding Agents.** *Don't let your AI write a single line of code until you've shaped the soul of your product.*

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*"The biggest waste of all is to build something with great efficiency that shouldn't have been built at all."* —— **Marty Cagan**, *Inspired*

💥 The Problem We All Face

In the era of frontier reasoning engines and autonomous agents (**GPT-6.1, CloudOps 5.5, Claude 4.5, and Gemini 3 Ultra**), **generating thousands of lines of code takes merely seconds**.

Yet, every developer has lived through this nightmare:

You casually type: "Build a simple note-taking bookmark tool."
Your AI gets hyper-excited, creates 18 files, spins up a Docker container, configures Redux, installs Tailwind, Prisma, and PostgreSQL.
20 minutes later, you are staring at 30 compiler errors, broken dependencies, and context explosion.
You wanted a bicycle; the AI attempted to build a spaceship and crashed in your living room.

Without SBC vs With SBC Comic