AlexParamonov

The Software Factory Playbook — Dex Horthy's 4-gate workflow as a skill

A Claude Code Agent Skill built from Dex Horthy's (HumanLayer) playbook on David Ondrej's podcast.

"Once the model has written thousands of lines of code, it is harder to change. The sessions that generate design docs are context-light — you get the most model intelligence when you do the hard thinking early."

By default, agents build horizontally: all the backend, then all the frontend, then a 2,000-line diff lands in your lap and reviewing it is your problem. This skill flips that. Every decision that matters gets made before the code exists — where changing your mind costs a sentence, not a rewrite.

What it does

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class Organization
  def to_param
    "42"
  end
  def saved?
    rand > 0.5
  end
end