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051-design-two-steps-methods

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By jabrena/plinth (GitHub) · coding · 461 stars · scanned at commit bbdd3f8

Use when a complex or risky code change should be split into Kent Beck's two-step method by first making the change easy through behavior-preserving preparatory refactoring, then making the intended behavior change once the design supports it. This should trigger for requests such as Apply two-step change; Make this risky change safer; Refactor before changing behavior; Separate preparation from behavior change. Part of Plinth Toolkit

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'051-design-two-steps-methods' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'051-design-two-steps-methods' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named 051-design-two-steps-methods already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/jabrena/plinth' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'bbdd3f84aa085ab41151eb49d8da449762d32d83' -- 'skills/051-design-two-steps-methods' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/051-design-two-steps-methods' ~/.agents/skills/'051-design-two-steps-methods' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'051-design-two-steps-methods' ~/.claude/skills/'051-design-two-steps-methods' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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