OpenAgentSkill Registry Manifest
Skill: constraint-driven-development
Slug: addyosmani-constraint-driven-development
Category: research
Description: Establishes a project's quality bar as a written contract and stops agents quietly lowering it. Interviews the user on which dimensions matter, supplies sane default thresholds when they have no number in mind, records everything in CONSTRAINTS.md, and watches the diff for a weakened bar — new @ts-ignore or eslint-disable suppressions, skipped or deleted tests, assertions stripped out, unimplemented stubs, thresholds edited down. Use when no quality bar is written down, when the user says "set up constraints" or "define our standards", when an agent keeps silencing checks or skipping tests to get to green, when you need a coverage or performance threshold and don't know what number to pick, or when an agent writes more code than anyone will read.

Agent fit:
- Decision: 100/100 Production-ready
- Primary fit: Research agents
- Role: Primary pick

Supply profile:
- Track: Research and knowledge work
- Scenario: Research agents
- Applicable agents: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents, CLI, Codex, Cursor
- Maintenance: 10d since push
- Risk: Needs review

Trust:
- Trust score: 72/100 Strong shortlist
- Audit: 84/100 Needs review

Attribution:
- Status: Registry indexed
- Source: github candidate review
- Creator: addyosmani
- Claim URL: https://www.openagentskill.com/skills/addyosmani-constraint-driven-development#claim-this-skill

Install:
npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills --skill constraint-driven-development

URLs:
- Web: https://www.openagentskill.com/skills/addyosmani-constraint-driven-development
- API: https://www.openagentskill.com/api/agent/skills/addyosmani-constraint-driven-development
- Install API: https://www.openagentskill.com/api/skills/addyosmani-constraint-driven-development/install
- Repository: https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/constraint-driven-development