Incremental implementation
Keeps the tree working after every step, so a failure is attributable to the last change rather than to the batch.
Installation
$ npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skillsThe CLI's unit is the repository, so this installs everything in addyosmani/agent-skills, not incremental-implementation alone. It writes into whichever agent directories it finds — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Zed.
Summary
Keeps the tree working after every step, so a failure is attributable to the last change rather than to the batch.
- Reach for it when any refactor big enough that a single broken commit would be painful to bisect.
- Sits in Implement — writing the change: framework-specific conventions, and the discipline that keeps a long agent run on the rails.
- Stack-agnostic — nothing in it assumes a particular language or framework.
- Published by Addy Osmani. Well regarded, but not the vendor of the thing it covers.
- Installing pulls the whole addyosmani/agent-skills repository: this catalogue lists 19 other entries from it, and the repo may hold more.
Where it sits in delivery
ImplementWriting the change: framework-specific conventions, and the discipline that keeps a long agent run on the rails.Everything in Build →
The skill itself
The full text lives with its publisher and changes when they change it. Read it there rather than here — a mirrored copy of somebody else's procedure goes stale silently, and this page would have no way of telling you.
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