{"slug":"constraint-driven-development","title":"constraint-driven-development","summary":"Use when asked to implement under non-negotiable constraints: performance budgets, platform limits, legal or API rules. Not for remote, credential, publish, deploy, or irreversible changes.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-08T21:38:38.995624Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin","stars":38,"forks":0,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-09-25T15:08:42Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: constraint-driven-development\ndescription: 'Use when asked to implement under non-negotiable constraints: performance budgets, platform limits, legal or API rules. Not for remote, credential, publish, deploy, or irreversible changes.'</h2>\n<h1>Constraint-driven development</h1>\n<h2>Contract</h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Field</th>\n<th>Bound contract</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Trigger</td>\n<td>Implementing under explicit non-negotiable constraints such as performance budgets, platform limits, or legal or API rules.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Authority</td>\n<td>Reversible local: writes only the constraints record and constrained code changes in the working tree; rollback is undo (revert those writes). No VCS history, credential, or remote mutation.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Side effect</td>\n<td>A constraints record and the code changes that satisfy it, both local and revertible.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Done</td>\n<td>All stated constraints verifiably pass in the delivered change and no unrelated behavior regressed, recorded in the constraints artifact.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<h2>Inputs</h2>\n<p>Required: the set of non-negotiable constraints the change must satisfy, each stated as a measurable predicate (a budget number, a platform limit, or a legal or API rule with a checkable condition). Optional: an existing constraints record that already governs the target tree. A constraint that arrives as prose without a measurable form must be converted to one before any code is written; a constraint that cannot be checked is unmeasurable and stops the run.</p>\n<h2>Procedure</h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Read the target tree once to learn language, stack, test runner, and any existing constraints record. Do not ask for what is readable. Done when: the target tree is read and its stack and test runner are known.</li>\n<li>Extract every stated constraint into a named invariant: a predicate, the command or inspection that produces its verdict, and the value it must hold. Record them in a constraints record at the repo root, one row per constraint (name, rule, checked-by, runs-at). A constraint with a number and no check command is unmeasurable, not a constraint; stop and ask the user to supply a check or drop the constraint. A constraint with no number is not non-negotiable until the user supplies the target value; do not invent one. Done when: every constraint is a named invariant with a check and a target value, recorded in the constraints record.</li>\n<li>Bound the change scope before mutating: list the files the work will touch. Constraints apply to the diff, not the whole tree, unless a constraint is explicitly project-wide. Done when: the change scope is bounded and listed.</li>\n<li>Capture the baseline. Run each constraint's checked-by command against the current tree and record the measured value. This baseline is the floor: the delivered change must not produce a worse value for any constraint. Done when: every constraint has a recorded baseline value.</li>\n<li>Implement the change. After each edit run the fast subset of checks (types, lint, the constraints whose checked-by command is fast) scoped to the touched files. Done when: the change is implemented and the fast checks pass for each edit.</li>\n<li>Validate against the baseline guard. For each constraint, run its checked-by command on the delivered change and compare the result to the baseline value from Step 4. A constraint is violated when the delivered value is worse than the baseline (a threshold exceeded, a count increased, a check that previously passed now fails). Tightening is silent; loosening is a violation. A constraint that cannot be re-measured after the change is unverified and blocks done. Done when: every constraint is re-measured and none worsened against the baseline.</li>\n<li>Run the full check set: every constraint's checked-by command against the complete change, plus the project test suite. Scope expensive checks (mutation testing, security scans) to the touched files. Done when: every constraint's checked-by command runs and the test suite passes.</li>\n<li>Verify the done predicate: every constraint holds in the delivered change and none worsened against the baseline. Done when: every constraint holds and the baseline guard is clean, or the failing constraint is named.</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Failure and recovery</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Unmeasurable constraint: stop and convert it to a measurable predicate with a target value before any code change. Do not proceed on prose. Do not substitute a self-invented target for a missing number.</li>\n<li>Baseline guard violation: a constraint worsened against its baseline. Fix the code, or route the deviation through a tracked exception with an owner and an expiry; never weaken the constraints record to make a change pass.</li>\n<li>A constraint cannot be re-measured after the change: the constraint is unverified. Do not treat the change as clean; report that the guard could not run and hold the change for a human.</li>\n<li>A constraint fails at task end: fix the code, not the constraint. Relaxing a threshold is a separate human decision recorded as an exception, not a side effect of implementation.</li>\n<li>Partial result: deliver only the subset of changes for which every constraint verifiably holds and revert the rest. Never claim the done predicate holds for work that was not checked.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Output</h2>\n<p>Constraints record naming each invariant with its check and baseline value, the delivered code change in which every constraint holds without regression, and a check-run report stating which constraints passed, which baseline-guard violations were flagged (none on success), and any constraint that could not be checked and why.</p>\n","files":[{"path":"agents/openai.yaml","sizeBytes":202,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":5434,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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