playbook/antigravity-awesome-skills/skills/yao-meta-skill/references/iteration-philosophy.md

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# Iteration Philosophy
The first skill package is a routeable baseline, not the final answer.
## Principle
Improve the skill by the smallest change that increases reliability more than it increases context cost.
## What Good Iteration Looks Like
- tighten boundary before adding prose
- improve description before enlarging the file tree
- add references only when they remove ambiguity
- add scripts only when deterministic logic repeats
- add gates only when risk justifies maintenance cost
- prefer one strong next step over five vague upgrades
## Default Priority Order
1. trigger clarity and exclusions
2. execution assets that remove repeated manual work
3. promotion, governance, and portability only when reuse justifies them
## First-Version Rule
After the initial package is created, always surface the three highest-value next iteration directions. This keeps the author focused on the best improvement path instead of expanding the skill in every direction at once.
## Anti-Pattern
Do not treat iteration as "make the package bigger." A larger package is only better when routing, execution, or governance becomes materially more reliable.