Claude Code Partner Playbook: 12 Skills for Agentic Programming

Engineering Scenario:

Operational Paradigm:

12 Partner Skills Skill 3 of 12

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❌ The Autocomplete Pitfall

Blindly accepting tab-completion without pre-existing reproduction tests or architectural constraints leads to silent regressions, hallucinated imports, and sprawling 600-line PRs.

✅ Disciplined Partner Dynamic

The agent writes a failing test first, runs ripgrep to verify call sites, requests human approval before breaking contract changes, and verifies git diff stays strictly under 100 lines.

Production CLAUDE.md Guardrail Generator

Turn disciplined pair-programming principles into machine-enforced policies for your local repository.

Tech Stack & Ecosystem

Max Allowed Diff per Step (Lines)

Enforced Agent Guardrails

TDD Enforcement: Require a failing reproduction test before any source code edit Pre-flight Search: Force ripgrep AST / reference inspection before renaming or refactoring Blast Radius Guard: Forbid direct edits to .env*, infra/*, or migrations without confirmation Token Conservation: Mandate file-slice reads over whole-file dumps (>200 lines) Clean History: Require Conventional Commits with concise change summaries

ROOT / CLAUDE.md

Team Pairing Readiness Checklist

Ensure your engineering team safely scales agentic coding workflows.

1. Seed Repository Context

Commit a tailored CLAUDE.md at root detailing test commands, code layout, and architecture boundaries.

2. Subagent Task Delegation

Isolate speculative debugging or large dependency evaluations to ephemeral subagent sessions with strict token budgets.

3. Diff Sanity Gate

Never commit uninspected agent diffs. Run pre-commit checks locally and review git diff --stat before pushing.