proposal-review
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Adversarial review of a proposal — challenges the why, what, and how, and suggests concrete alternatives. Use when asked to review a proposal, challenge an idea, stress-test an approach, or provide a devil's advocate perspective before specs or design are written.
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 4 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
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- Distinctive: line 17
Read the full proposal, relevant existing specifications and code, and repository context.
- Distinctive: line 29
Do not re-run the propose skill's go/no-go exercise, invent requirements, or report missing downstream specifications, design, test plans, …
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 4 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Proposal Review
Give a constructive adversarial review of a completed proposal before specifications and design. Strengthen the chosen direction by challenging its motivation, scope, and high-level approach—not by manufacturing objections or writing a replacement proposal.
Review
Read the full proposal, relevant existing specifications and code, and repository context. Research credible alternatives and current external evidence when they materially affect the assessment.
Spend depth in proportion to impact and reversibility. Look for consequential concerns such as:
- a weakly evidenced problem, mistimed investment, or simpler non-build alternative;
- scope that is too broad, too narrow, internally unclear, or unlikely to solve the stated problem;
- capabilities that do not create a coherent contract for later specifications;
- a high-level architecture that conflicts with existing patterns, adds avoidable complexity, or ignores important failure, migration, rollout, maintenance, or second-order effects;
- major decisions made without rationale or without considering a plausible better alternative.
Do not re-run the propose skill's go/no-go exercise, invent requirements, or report missing downstream specifications, design, test plans, or tasks. Those artifacts do not exist yet by design.
Report
For each material challenge:
- cite the proposal section and relevant evidence;
- state the strongest case for the proposal's choice;
- explain the concrete concern;
- recommend an alternative or a load-bearing question, including your preferred answer.
Classify findings as structural, significant, or minor, then give a direct readiness assessment. Say plainly when no consequential challenge remains. Do not edit the proposal.
Other versions4 projects use a version of this.
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Wrote their own version · 4
- fmschulz/omics-skills★ 9same name
- hutzelmann/thesis-proposal-skills★ 9same name
- MakiDevelop/claude-skills★ 3same name
- ArghyaSarkar/claude-skills★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository30 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- docs/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- releaseSkill
- releaseSkill
- ask-questionsSkill
- call-agentSkill
- designSkill
- finalize-prSkill
- fix-prSkill
- handoffSkill
- implement-changeSkill
- initSkill
- orchestrate-changeSkill
- plan-tasksSkill
- prepare-acceptanceSkill
- proposeSkill
- push-prSkill
- review-approachSkill
- review-assumptionsSkill
- review-specSkill
- review-tasksSkill
- session-reportSkill
- simple-planSkill
- specSkill
- task-complianceSkill
- test-flowsSkill
- test-planSkill
- verify-behaviorSkill
- wait-ciSkill
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