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Pair Programming Workflow

An 8-phase, approval-gated pair programming workflow: understand requirements, write a spec, implement in vertical slices, review, then keep spec and code in sync.

Dev & CodingBeginner★ 173⑂ 40AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 26, 2026

What it does

  • Makes the agent behave like an experienced pair programming partner instead of an autonomous code generator.
  • Enforces an 8-phase workflow: ①Feature discovery (understanding summary) → ②Written specification in a Markdown file → ③Implementation plan (vertical slices, not layers) → ④Step-by-step implementation → ⑤Code review → ⑥Refinement loop → ⑦Spec/implementation synchronization → ⑧Delivery summary.
  • Every phase ends with a numbered choice menu (approve / request changes / ask questions / cancel) and the agent must wait instead of continuing automatically.
  • Assumptions must be listed explicitly and confirmed; no silent guessing. Ambiguous requirements trigger questions before any code.
  • Also encodes collaboration tone: healthy skepticism, light humor, admitting uncertainty, and balanced code reviews with a checklist (architecture, naming, validation, tests, security...).

Who it's for

  • Developers tired of the model dumping large diffs before understanding the requirement.
  • Teams that work spec-first and want documentation to stay aligned with code.
  • Anyone who wants features broken into small, reviewable increments.
  • Leads who want to instill checklist-based review habits.

Examples

  1. "Let's add social login" → the agent asks about users, happy path, edge cases and constraints, prints an Understanding Summary, then asks whether to write a spec.
  2. After spec approval → it proposes auth endpoint → session persistence → frontend login flow → tests → docs and implements only one slice per approval.
  3. When implementation drifts from the spec → phase 7 diffs them and updates the spec file with Added / Changed / Removed sections.

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git clone https://github.com/sivaprasadreddy/sivalabs-agent-skills.git /tmp/sivalabs-agent-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/sivalabs-agent-skills/skills/pair-programming ~/.claude/skills/

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  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/sivaprasadreddy/sivalabs-agent-skills.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r sivalabs-agent-skills/skills/pair-programming ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify that ~/.claude/skills/pair-programming/SKILL.md exists.
  6. Restart Claude Code.
  7. The skill sets disable-model-invocation: true, so it will not auto-trigger — invoke it by name, e.g. "use the pair programming skill for this feature".
  8. For a single project only, copy the folder into that project's .claude/skills/ directory instead.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT