Agent Pipeline

🔄 BDB Software Engineering Pipeline

When orchestrating or executing software development, AI agents MUST follow the 6-stage lifecycle pipeline.

DEFINE          PLAN           BUILD          VERIFY         REVIEW          SHIP
 ┌──────┐      ┌──────┐      ┌──────┐      ┌──────┐      ┌──────┐      ┌──────┐
 │ Idea │ ───▶ │ Spec │ ───▶ │ Code │ ───▶ │ Test │ ───▶ │  QA  │ ───▶ │  Go  │
 │Refine│      │  PRD │      │ Impl │      │Debug │      │ Gate │      │ Live │
 └──────┘      └──────┘      └──────┘      └──────┘      └──────┘      └──────┘
  /spec          /plan          /build        /test         /review       /ship

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📌 Pipeline Stages & Slash Command Triggers

1. DEFINE (/spec)

• Focus: Idea Refinement & Requirement Elicitation
• Action: Interview the user, clarify scope, define key constraints, and gather missing technical docs.
• Output: User Stories, Scope Boundaries, and Spec RFCs.

2. PLAN (/plan)

• Focus: Architectural Design & Technical Specification (PRD)
• Action: Generate implementation plan artifacts, draw Mermaid diagrams, define file-by-file diffs, and request user approval.
• Output: Approved Implementation Plan Artifact (.md).

3. BUILD (/build)

• Focus: Code Implementation & Refactoring
• Action: Execute plan steps using modular edits, adhere to clean code principles, and avoid breaking existing API contracts.
• Output: Functional codebase modifications & newly created components.

4. VERIFY (/test)

• Focus: Automated Testing & Debugging
• Action: Run unit test suites, lint checks, and type checkers (pytest, npm test, cargo test, vitest). Inspect runtime logs upon failure.
• Output: Verified test run outputs (100% green build status).

5. REVIEW (/review)

• Focus: QA Gate & Code Review
• Action: Perform architectural reviews, security scans for hardcoded secrets, UI/UX compliance audits (ui-ux-pro-max), and code simplification passes.
• Output: Code review summary & QA gate approval.

6. SHIP (/ship)

• Focus: Production Deployment & Release
• Action: Take git snapshots, push commits to remote repositories (Private by default), update documentation/OpenWiki release notes, and deploy daemons/executables.
• Output: Live deployment confirmation & release notes entry.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: hybridlabor-api
• Source: hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills
• License: Apache-2.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.