# Gangsta Agents > Gangsta Framework — Spec-Driven Development for AI Agents ## Documentation Sets - [Gangsta Agents](https://gangsta.page/llms-full.txt): Gangsta Framework — Spec-Driven Development for AI Agents ## Docs - [What is Gangsta Agents?](https://gangsta.page/raw/getting-started.md): An AI agentic skills framework for spec-driven development, organized around the mafia family metaphor. - [Installation](https://gangsta.page/raw/getting-started/installation.md): Install Gangsta Agents skills on Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Cursor. - [Quickstart — Your First Heist](https://gangsta.page/raw/getting-started/quickstart.md): Walk through your first Gangsta Agents Heist cycle from start to finish. - [The 1% Rule](https://gangsta.page/raw/getting-started/the-1-percent-rule.md): The core behavioral rule of Gangsta Agents — if there's even a 1% chance a skill applies, you must invoke it. - [Core Concepts](https://gangsta.page/raw/core-concepts.md): The foundational ideas behind Gangsta Agents — the hierarchy, the pipeline, the laws, and the philosophy. - [Intent Routing](https://gangsta.page/raw/core-concepts/intent-routing.md): How Gangsta Agents maps user intent to the right skill invocation. - [Omerta — The Five Laws](https://gangsta.page/raw/core-concepts/omerta.md): The five governance laws that prevent chaos in AI-assisted development. - [Spec-Driven Development](https://gangsta.page/raw/core-concepts/spec-driven-dev.md): The philosophy at the core of Gangsta Agents — spec is law, code is implementation. - [The Gangsta Agents Family Hierarchy](https://gangsta.page/raw/core-concepts/the-borgata.md): The organizational structure of a Gangsta Agents project — Don, Consigliere, Underboss, Crew Lead, Worker, and The Ledger. - [The Heist Pipeline](https://gangsta.page/raw/core-concepts/the-heist.md): The 6-phase development cycle that every feature goes through in Gangsta Agents. - [The Ledger](https://gangsta.page/raw/core-concepts/the-ledger.md): Gangsta Agents' institutional memory — insights, fails, and constitution rules that persist across sessions. - [Reconnaissance](https://gangsta.page/raw/heist-pipeline/reconnaissance.md): Phase 1 — Gather intel on the codebase, requirements, and constraints before any design begins. - [The Grilling](https://gangsta.page/raw/heist-pipeline/the-grilling.md): Phase 2 — Adversarial debate between proposer and devil's advocate to surface risks and edge cases. - [The Sit-Down](https://gangsta.page/raw/heist-pipeline/the-sit-down.md): Phase 3 — Draft the formal specification (Contract). No code allowed. - [Resource Development](https://gangsta.page/raw/heist-pipeline/resource-development.md): Phase 4 — Decompose the Contract into work packages and allocate territories. - [Execution](https://gangsta.page/raw/heist-pipeline/the-hit.md): Phase 5 — Parallel implementation by Workers using Test-Driven Development and budget tracking. - [The Delivery](https://gangsta.page/raw/heist-pipeline/laundering.md): Phase 6 — Verification, integration, and Ledger update. Clean production-ready code. - [The Heist Pipeline](https://gangsta.page/raw/heist-pipeline.md): The 6-phase development cycle — from reconnaissance to the delivery. - [Skills Reference](https://gangsta.page/raw/skills.md): All 20 battle-tested Gangsta Agents skills — each a pure markdown file that can be installed to any AI agent platform. - [Artifacts Reference](https://gangsta.page/raw/advanced/artifacts.md): Every file Gangsta Agents generates during a Heist — what they contain, where they live, and which phase produces them. - [Autonomous Mode](https://gangsta.page/raw/advanced/autonomous-mode.md): Run the Heist Pipeline end-to-end with the Don Proxy approving gates on your behalf. - [Checkpoint Recovery](https://gangsta.page/raw/advanced/checkpoint-recovery.md): How to resume interrupted Heists from checkpoint files. - [Contributing](https://gangsta.page/raw/advanced/contributing.md): How to contribute skills to the Gangsta framework. - [Writing Custom Skills](https://gangsta.page/raw/advanced/custom-skills.md): Create your own Gangsta skills using the SKILL.md format and register them with your AI tool. - [Advanced Topics](https://gangsta.page/raw/advanced.md): Custom skills, multi-agent patterns, checkpoint recovery, autonomous mode, and contributing to Gangsta. - [Multi-Agent Patterns](https://gangsta.page/raw/advanced/multi-agent-patterns.md): How to use the Underboss and Crew Lead for task decomposition and territory orchestration. - [Glossary](https://gangsta.page/raw/glossary.md): Plain-English definitions of every term used in Gangsta Agents — because clarity beats jargon. - [The Family vs. The Team](https://gangsta.page/raw/blog/2026-04-18-the-family-vs-the-team.md): Why Gangsta Agents replaces the agile team with the family — and why every member carries more weight, more discipline, and more freedom than any sprint board ever allowed. - [Spec-Driven Development in 2026](https://gangsta.page/raw/blog/2026-05-01-sdd-compared.md): GitHub Spec Kit, OpenSpec, BMad Method, and Gangsta Agents all implement spec-first development but with different philosophies. Here's how they actually differ — and how to choose. ## Landing - [Gangsta Agents — Run AI Agents Like the Mob](https://gangsta.page/raw/index.md): AI development structured like a Mafia family — hierarchy, strict pipelines, and discipline enforced. The Don approves every phase. No code ships without a contract.