# dora-check

Assesses delivery health with metrics matched to the product type. Software checks use DORA and APEX; other products follow their own assessment paths.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 47
- Author: haabe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/haabe/mycelium/tree/HEAD/plugins/mycelium/skills/dora-check/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/dora-check

## What it does

The skill reads `product_type` from `.claude/diamonds/active.yml` and routes the assessment accordingly. Software gets DORA and APEX checks; courses, publications, and media use a content-delivery assessment. AI tools get their own assessment, with DORA/APEX added when code components are present. Service offerings follow a service-delivery path.

For software, the DORA assessment covers deployment frequency, commit-to-production lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time after a failed deployment. Reliability is treated separately from the four delivery metrics and assessed through SLOs/SLIs. Before changing a canvas file, the skill requires the `Read` tool; adding an entry with an ID also calls for a Bash scan of the existing IDs. The skill is designed for Mycelium: standalone use skips canvas state, theory gates, and harness behavior.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill dora-check -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/dora-check/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/dora-check/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill dora-check -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/dora-check/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill dora-check -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/dora-check/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install haabe/mycelium dora-check
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/dora-check/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill dora-check -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/haabe/mycelium --path plugins/mycelium/skills/dora-check
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/dora-check/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill dora-check -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/haabe/mycelium/tree/HEAD/plugins/mycelium/skills/dora-check/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- measure how often code reaches production
- track commit-to-production lead time
- calculate the share of failed deployments
- assess recovery time after a failed release
- choose delivery metrics for a product type

## Example prompts
- Assess software delivery with DORA and APEX metrics.
- Check which metrics fit the product in `.claude/diamonds/active.yml`.
- Review service reliability using SLOs/SLIs and delivery metrics.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: dora-check
description: "Assess delivery health metrics. For software: DORA + APEX. For content/AI/service products: product-type-appropriate metrics."
metadata:
  instruction_budget: "126"
  framework_dependency: "mycelium"
  framework_dependency_note: "This skill is designed to run within the Mycelium framework (https://github.com/haabe/mycelium). Standalone use will skip the canvas state, theory gates, and harness behavior the skill assumes. Install: /plugin install mycelium@haabe-mycelium."
---

# Delivery Metrics Check

Assess delivery health using product-type-appropriate metrics. Check `product_type` from `.claude/diamonds/active.yml` to determine which assessment to run.

**Product type routing** (v0.11.0):
- **software**: Full DORA + APEX assessment (Parts 1-3 below)
- **content_course, content_publication, content_media**: Content Delivery Assessment (Part 4 below)
- **ai_tool**: AI Tool Assessment (Part 5 below) + DORA/APEX if code components exist
- **service_offering**: Service Delivery Assessment (Part 6 below)

---

## Preflight: Read target canvas file(s) before any Write/Edit

**Hard rule.** Before issuing `Write` or `Edit` against any `.claude/canvas/*.yml`, use the **Read tool** on that file in this session. Claude Code's Read-before-Write check requires the `Read` tool specifically — `cat`/`head`/`grep` via Bash do NOT satisfy it.

**Edit vs Write — different cost profiles** (verified 2026-05-14):
- **`Edit`** (exact-string replacement): `Read` with `limit: 1` satisfies the check at ~50 tokens. State-tracking is per-file, not per-byte — subsequent `Edit` calls work anywhere in the file. Use this for partial updates against large canvas files (e.g., `purpose.yml` at 800+ lines).
- **`Write`** (full replacement): do a **full Read** first. Write obliterates the file; you should see what you're about to replace. The `limit:1` shortcut is *not* appropriate here.

**ID-bearing entries — scan the ID space before assigning** (added 2026-05-15, v0.23.19): When adding a new component, opportunity, solution, or any other ID-bearing entry to a canvas file, run a Bash grep first to confirm the next ID in your prefix sequence is actually free:

```
grep -o "<prefix>-[0-9][0-9]*" .claude/canvas/<file>.yml | sort -u -t- -k2 -n | tail -3
```
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