Specs rot. Running code doesn’t. How I restructured my AI agent skills around live references

When I started having Claude Code build new web tools, I handed it abstract specs: design conventions, component rules, forbidden patterns. It would read the spec, produce something plausible, and stop at 80% quality. The remaining 20% took rounds of corrections. After doing that a few dozen times, …

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