checklist-mini
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Validate a mini-spec before planning.
In this repository23 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- analyze-miniSkill
- bug-captureSkill
- build-oneSkill
- ceremony-budgetSkill
- constitution-liteSkill
- context-checkSkill
- diagnose-loopSkill
- eco-modeSkill
- falsify-specSkill
- grill-with-docs-liteSkill
- handoffSkill
- lean-modeSkill
- mini-specSkill
- operator-profileSkill
- scope-freezeSkill
- ship-miniSkill
- teach-backSkill
- test-miniSkill
- thin-planSkill
- tool-noise-guardSkill
- verify-contractSkill
- workspace-checkpointSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
9 rules. About 0 are common, 6 are distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈6
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
3
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 14
Use after mini-spec and before thin-plan, especially when the next step would turn unclear requirements into implementation tasks.
- Very specific: line 26
Check that unresolved ambiguity is marked with [NEEDS CLARIFICATION: ...].
- Distinctive: line 27
Check that acceptance criteria are observable.
- Distinctive: line 28
Check that success criteria are measurable.
- Distinctive: line 29
Check that non-goals are explicit.
- Distinctive: line 30
Check that a verification demo exists.
- Distinctive: line 31
Check that a scope boundary can be defined.
- Distinctive: line 32
Check that speculative features are absent.
- Very specific: line 33
Update CHECKLIST.md with pass, fail, or needs-clarification notes.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Checklist Mini
Purpose
Validate a mini-spec before planning.
When to use
Use after mini-spec and before thin-plan, especially when the next step would turn unclear requirements into implementation tasks.
Inputs
SPEC.mdCONTEXT.mdif available- Known commands
- Known constraints
- Open questions
Workflow
- Check that unresolved ambiguity is marked with
[NEEDS CLARIFICATION: ...]. - Check that acceptance criteria are observable.
- Check that success criteria are measurable.
- Check that non-goals are explicit.
- Check that a verification demo exists.
- Check that a scope boundary can be defined.
- Check that speculative features are absent.
- Update
CHECKLIST.mdwith pass, fail, or needs-clarification notes.
Outputs
CHECKLIST.md- Spec readiness judgment
- Blocking clarification notes
- Safe next step
Stop conditions
- The mini-spec is ready for thin planning.
- A blocking ambiguity must be clarified before planning.
Anti-patterns
- Planning from vague acceptance criteria.
- Treating missing non-goals as harmless.
- Letting speculative features enter the first implementation plan.
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