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task(skills): remove curated subagent-driven-development, preserve context-management guidance #92

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Parent: #44

Summary

Investigation of the curated subagent-driven-development skill from obra/superpowers found no real exigence for a standalone skill. Every pattern it claims is either default tool behavior (fresh subagents already start clean), already covered by existing skills (verification-before-completion, test-first, CI review), or basic prompt engineering advice. The skill has zero pipeline integration — no cross-references from any native skill, and all its own cross-references point to uninstalled superpowers skills.

Direction: removal, not replacement

Two genuinely useful insights survive and are preserved as integrated guidance (not a standalone skill):

  1. Use subagents to manage context across multi-task execution — dispatching fresh subagents prevents context pollution as work progresses through a plan.
  2. Choose the subagent model thoughtfully — match model capability to task complexity. Use cheaper/faster models for straightforward tasks; reserve the most capable model for subtle or complex work.

These are added to using-groundwork stage 4 and WORKFLOW.md stage 4.

Acceptance criteria

  • subagent_driven_development entry removed from agents.toml
  • Skill block removed from skills/skills.toml
  • Installed copies removed from .claude/skills/ and .codex/skills/
  • subagent_driven_development removed from CLI skill list in main.rs
  • using-groundwork stage 4 updated with context-management and model-selection guidance
  • WORKFLOW.md stage 4 updated: SDD paragraph replaced with context-management note, routing table entry removed
  • README.md skills table: SDD row removed
  • CHANGELOG entry added
  • grep verification: zero matches outside CHANGELOG history and docs/research/

Dependencies

Depends on: #44 (evaluation verdict drives this work)

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