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absolute-work
End-to-end, phase-gated SDLC for AI coding agents: relentless design interview → reviewed spec → dependency-graphed task board → safe-wave TDD execution → verification → converge. Handles features, bugs, refactors, greenfield projects, planning breakdowns, and migrations. Triggers on "absolute work", "build this end-to-end", "plan and build", "break this into tasks", "grill me on this plan", "pick up this ticket", "run this migration".
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## Absolute Work: End-to-End AI Development Lifecycle
Absolute Work takes any unit of work — a ticket, a task, a plan, a migration — from
fuzzy intent to verified code. It is one continuous skill with **hard gates** between
phases: brainstorm a shared design, write and review a spec, decompose into a
dependency-graphed task board, then peel tasks off **one safe wave at a time** with
test-first verification. Nothing is assumed, nothing is silently expanded, and no code
is written until the design is approved.
The lifecycle has 6 phases:
**INTAKE & BRAINSTORM → SPEC → DECOMPOSE & PLAN → EXECUTE → VERIFY → CONVERGE**
