NiravRVaghasiya

Dependency First Architect — Development skill for Claude Code

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How to install Dependency First Architect

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open NiravRVaghasiya/dependency-first-architect and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Dependency First Architect does

A planning skill for coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) that turns a build request into a dependency-ordered build plan: hard-to-reverse tradeoffs settled up front, a walking skeleton in production first, validation gates for every hypothesis, and security/observability threaded through each phase.

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README

Dependency-First Architect

**Your coding agent plans what everything else depends on first.**

A planning skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex

[![CI](https://github.com/NiravRVaghasiya/dependency-first-architect/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/NiravRVaghasiya/dependency-first-architect/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)](LICENSE)

[Install](#install) · [What you get](#what-you-get) · [Evidence](#evidence) · [Limits](#limits) · [Contributing](#contributing)

Ask your agent to "plan a customer-support chatbot over our help-center docs". With this skill, you get a **build plan in dependency order** instead of a list of components: the foundations first, a test for every risky assumption, and no real users until those tests pass.

It is only Markdown instructions, no code.

Install

**1. Check that you have Python 3.9 or newer.** Run `python3 --version` (on Windows, `py --version`). No Python? [Install by hand](#install-by-hand) instead.

**2. Open a terminal in your project's folder and paste the block for your system.**

**macOS, Linux, WSL, Git Bash** (in Git Bash, if `python3` is not found, change it to `py -3` in the last line):

f=install-dependency-first-architect-v2.1.0.py; t="$(mktemp -d)"
curl -fsSL -o "$t/$f" "https://github.com/NiravRVaghasiya/dependency-first-architect/releases/download/v2.1.0/$f" || echo "Download failed."
h="$(sha256sum "$t/$f" 2>/dev/null || shasum -a 256 "$t/$f" 2>/dev/null)"
if [ "${h%% *}" = "206dbfbc2b458e839704112f1cec610147d663d29850bdb4a6bfd9a66526f81c" ]; then python3 -I "$t/$f"; else echo "Not run: the installer is missing or does not match its published checksum."; fi

**Windows PowerShell:**

$f = "install-dependency-first-architect-v2.1.0.py"; $d = Join-Path ([IO.Path]::GetTempPath()) ([guid]::NewGuid()); $null = New-Item -ItemType Directory $d; $t = Join-Path $d $f
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