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72 agent skills synthesizing 17 years of software engineering discipline into a prescriptive methodology for solo developers
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72 agent skills synthesizing 17 years of software engineering discipline into a prescriptive methodology for solo developers
72 agent skills synthesizing 17 years of software engineering discipline into a prescriptive methodology for solo developers
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Agent skills synthesizing 17 years of software engineering discipline — from Clean Code to AI-native architecture — into a single, prescriptive methodology for solo developers.
bigpowers provides a prescriptive, vertical-slice methodology for building software with AI agents (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, pi). It bridges the gap between raw LLM capabilities and professional engineering standards.
It is not a random collection of best practices. It is a chronological layer cake of ideas — each wave of thinking (Uncle Bob → Ousterhout → Karpathy → Wasowski → Akita) builds on and resolves tensions from the last, culminating in a 6-phase lifecycle with hard gates, a 94% quality threshold, and a YAML cockpit (specs/state.yaml) that keeps both human and agent aligned across sessions.
Published on npm: bigpowers. The skill count in the badge above is stamped automatically by sync-skills.sh; the canonical catalog is SKILL-INDEX.md.
Docs: bigpowers docs site — searchable, Google-discoverable reference for all skills, guides, and ADRs.
This methodology publishes its own evidence — see the live receipts page.
See it working: bigpowers-showcase — a real URL shortener (CLI + SQLite) built from scratch with the full spec trail committed from day one.
This README is a guided path, not a wall of reference. Start where you are:
| You want to… | Go to |
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| Try it in 30 seconds | Quick Start |
| Understand what it actually does | [Features](#-feat |
# bigpowers — Best-in-Class Agentic Skills    **Agent skills synthesizing 17 years of software engineering discipline — from Clean Code to AI-native architecture — into a single, prescriptive methodology for solo developers.** `bigpowers` provides a prescriptive, vertical-slice methodology for building software with AI agents (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, pi). It bridges the gap between raw LLM capabilities and professional engineering standards. It is not a random collection of best practices. It is a chronological layer cake of ideas — each wave of thinking (Uncle Bob → Ousterhout → Karpathy → Wasowski → Akita) builds on and resolves tensions from the last, culminating in a 6-phase lifecycle with hard gates, a 94% quality threshold, and a YAML cockpit (`specs/state.yaml`) that keeps both human and agent aligned across sessions. Published on npm: [bigpowers](https://www.npmjs.com/package/bigpowers). The skill count in the badge above is stamped automatically by `sync-skills.sh`; the canonical catalog is [`SKILL-INDEX.md`](SKILL-INDEX.md). Docs: [bigpowers docs site](https://danielvm-git.github.io/bigpowers/) — searchable, Google-discoverable reference for all skills, guides, and ADRs. **This methodology publishes its own evidence — see the [live receipts page](https://danielvm-git.github.io/bigpowers/receipts/).** **See it working:** [bigpowers-showcase](https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers-showcase) — a real URL shortener (CLI + SQLite) built from scratch with the full spec trail committed from day one. --- ## 🗺 How to Read This README This README is a guided path, not a wall of reference. Start where you are: | You want to… | Go to | |:---|:---| | Try it in 30 seconds | [Quick Start](#-quick-start) | | Understand what it actually does | [Features](#-feat
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