case-study-scaffold

A project-scoped skill for this portfolio: it generates a complete case study end to end — the typed content file, route registration, and a skeleton regression test — while enforcing the two rules that past mistakes wrote (the closing image is always populated; prose is never split by its own figure).

The mechanical parts of a new case study — wiring, registration, a skeleton test — are identical every time, and hand-doing them invites the one missed step that breaks the build. One pass generates them correctly so the effort goes to the content.

It's the pattern I use for turning recurring multi-step procedures into skills: the second time a task repeats, the procedure gets written down with its hard-won constraints inline, and every future run inherits them.

The whole method is downloadable and adaptable — skills/case-study-scaffold/SKILL.md inside the zip, as a worked example of a project-scoped skill; the file paths are this site's, the shape is reusable.