tkwong

Validate Before Build

Name: Validate Before Build
Author: tkwong

Productivity community

SOURCE https://github.com/tkwong/claude-ops/blob/main/skills/validate-before-build.md

Description

--- name: validate-before-build description: Before committing time to build a non-trivial thing, spend 30 minutes checking it doesn't already exist. Reinventing wheels is the most expensive failure mode. --- # validate-before-build You're about to spend 1+ hours building something. Before you do, spend 30 minutes confirming you're not reinventing a wheel. ## The mindset The cost of building the wrong thing is the time to build it PLUS the time to maintain it PLUS the opportunity cost of not

Installation

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/tkwong-claude-ops-validate-before-build/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/tkwong-claude-ops-validate-before-build && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tkwong/claude-ops/HEAD/skills/validate-before-build.md -o ~/.claude/skills/tkwong-claude-ops-validate-before-build/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.