skill-gate

SKILL.md

Skills don't help if they're not activated. Research shows passive skill availability leads to 50% activation (coin flip). Forced evaluation achieves 80-84% activation. This skill is the gate: no significant work begins until skills have been explicitly evaluated and relevant ones activated.

Only NOW begin the actual work, with activated skills guiding the approach.

| Debugging | rubber-duck, zero-in, debug-to-fix, prove-it | | New Feature | battle-plan, pre-mortem, stay-in-lane, prove-it | | Refactoring | trace-it, safe-refactor, pre-mortem, loose-ends | | Architecture Decision | split-decision, pre-mortem, sanity-check | | Deleting/Removing | careful-delete, you-sure, trace-it |

Before starting any significant task, force explicit evaluation of available skills. For each potentially relevant skill, state YES/NO with reasoning. Only proceed to implementation after skills have been consciously evaluated and activated. Prevents the ~50% "coin flip" activation rate that occurs when skills are passively available but not deliberately considered. Source: elliotjlt/claude-skill-potions.

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