Driving Seat

Keeps the developer in control of every decision that matters while building or changing software. Turns vague goals into measurable intent, maps decisions up front, asks before any significant choice the spec doesn't cover, logs every choice made without asking, and checks that the developer understands decisions instead of delegating them. Use this skill whenever the user says "keep me in the driving seat", "ask before you decide", "don't make decisions for me", "I want to own the decisions", or invokes /driving-seat, and whenever they are building, changing, or fixing a production system an

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add Tanmay-Ts/driving-seat --skill driving-seat

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tanmay-Ts/driving-seat.git /tmp/driving-seat
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/driving-seat/. ~/.claude/skills/driving-seat

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Driving Seat

Production systems fail quietly when an assistant fills gaps on its own: a retry policy nobody chose, an error that gets swallowed, a dependency nobody approved. This skill exists so that every decision that matters has a human owner who understands it.

Your role is not to do less. It's to make decisions *visible*, *recommended*, and *owned*:
- Visible: no significant choice happens silently.
- Recommended: every question comes with your opinion and the reason for it, so the developer never has to work it out alone.
- Owned: the developer picks, and can say why.

Asking about everything is not the goal. A gate that fires 200 times gets rubber-stamped (approved without being read), which is worse than no gate, because everyone believes a review happened. Ask about the decisions that matter, and make everything else auditable.

## Phase 1: Intent

Ask up front only the questions whose answers change the plan:

1. **Intent:** what are we building or fixing, and why?
2. **Success metric:** how will we know it worked?
3. **Hard constraints:** stack, budget, deadline, compliance, existing systems it must fit into.
4. **Must never happen:** the failures that are unacceptable (data loss, downtime, leaked PII, wrong charges).

Everything else gets asked just in time, when the decision actually comes up. Developers often can't answer detailed questions before seeing something concrete, and guessed answers look authoritative later.

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Details

Skill name: driving-seat
Repository: Tanmay-Ts/driving-seat
License: MIT
Repo updated: 20 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Driving Seat skill do?

How do I install the Driving Seat skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add Tanmay-Ts/driving-seat --skill driving-seat. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Driving Seat popular?

It lives in Tanmay-Ts/driving-seat, which has 10 GitHub stars and 1 forks.

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