An opinionated product development pipeline for builders who use AI agents. Structures the journey from idea to shipped product through seven sequential stages.
Research → Strategy → Gauntlet → Design → PRD → Build → Ship
Each stage is a guided divergent/convergent exercise. Context accumulates across stages through file artifacts. Bad ideas get killed early. Good ideas ship with full context.
npx skills add narain/context-daemonOr install manually by copying the skills/ directory contents into your agent's skills folder.
| Agent | Skills path |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | ~/.claude/skills/ |
| Claude Cowork | Via skill/plugin install |
| OpenAI Codex | ~/.codex/skills/ |
| GitHub Copilot | .github/skills/ |
| Cursor | .cursor/skills/ or project root |
| Google Antigravity | .agent/skills/ |
| Amp Code | .agents/skills/ |
| Mistral Vibe | .vibe/skills/ |
context-daemon — The full pipeline skill. Detects your current stage, loads the right guide, and walks you through structured exercises at each step.
skills/context-daemon/
├── SKILL.md # Router — detects stage, loads guides
├── guides/ # Stage-by-stage guided exercises
│ ├── 01-research.md
│ ├── 02-strategy.md
│ ├── 03-gauntlet.md
│ ├── 04-design.md
│ ├── 05-prd.md
│ ├── 06-build.md
│ └── 07-ship.md
├── templates/ # Output templates for each stage
└── references/ # Pipeline overview, Double Diamond mapping
falsification-gauntlet — Standalone adversarial stress-testing for product ideas. Five phases: Thesis Inversion, Moat Analysis, Technical Feasibility, Competitive Landscape, Decision. Can be used independently or as part of the full pipeline.
skills/falsification-gauntlet/
├── SKILL.md # Stress-testing framework
└── references/
└── templates.md # Phase output templates
- Start a conversation and tell your agent you want to take an idea through the pipeline
- The daemon scans your project folder for stage artifacts to determine where you are
- It presents the pipeline map and offers to proceed to the next stage
- Each stage produces a Markdown file that feeds the next — context accumulates, never degrades
The pipeline includes explicit kill points. If an idea isn't working, the process kills it early — before you've wasted build time on something that was never going to ship.
- contextdaemon.com — Full documentation and pipeline guide
- contextdaemon.com/install — Detailed install instructions
- contextdaemon.com/guide — Stage-by-stage walkthrough
Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.