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project-development
This skill should be used for project-level decisions about LLM-powered systems: whether an LLM is the right primitive for the task at hand, the shape of a multi-stage batch or agent pipeline, token and cost estimation, choosing between single-agent and multi-agent at the project level, structured output design for downstream parsing, and structuring agent-assisted iteration. Use this when the unit of work is a whole project or a multi-stage pipeline. Route individual tool design to tool-design and individual skill-loading or context-budget tactics to context-optimization.
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# Project Development Methodology
This skill covers the principles for identifying tasks suited to LLM processing, designing effective project architectures, and iterating rapidly using agent-assisted development. The methodology applies whether building a batch processing pipeline, a multi-agent research system, or an interactive agent application.
The unit of work for this skill is the whole project or a multi-stage pipeline. Individual tool design (descriptions, schemas, error messages) belongs to `tool-design`. Per-skill activation routing belongs to the corresponding skill plus the corpus index. This skill owns the project-level questions: should you build this with an LLM at all, what shape should the pipeline take, what does it cost, how should it be iterated.
## When to Activate
Activate this skill when the unit of work is a whole project or pipeline:
- Deciding whether an LLM is the right primitive for a task at all (task-model fit before any code).
- Shaping a multi-stage batch or agent pipeline (acquire / prepare / process / parse / render).
- Estimating tokens, dollar cost, and timelines for an LLM-heavy project.
- Choosing between single-agent and multi-agent at the project level.