# milestone-review

This skill reviews milestone progress, quality, risks, and go/no-go readiness. Use it at a checkpoint or before a deadline.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 442 installs · ★ 27473
- Author: Donchitos
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/milestone-review/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-19
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/milestone-review

## What it does

The skill reviews a milestone and its sprint reports, then assesses feature completeness, quality, risks, and go/no-go readiness. It separates fully complete, partially complete, blocked, and not-started features, while counting the sprints included in the milestone.

Its workflow parses arguments, loads data from `production/milestones/` and `production/sprints/`, and checks blocked stories in `production/sprint-status.yaml` and `production/epics/**/story-*.md`. It also scans for `TODO`, `FIXME`, and `HACK`, checks bugs in `production/qa/bugs/`, and reads the risk register in `production/risk-register/`. You can select a review mode with `--review full|lean|solo`.

The skill supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode. When required inputs are missing, it stops with “could not run” instead of filling the report with estimates, so the project structure needs checking before the review.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill milestone-review -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill milestone-review -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill milestone-review -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios milestone-review
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill milestone-review -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --path .claude/skills/milestone-review
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill milestone-review -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/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/milestone-review/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- check milestone completeness before a deadline
- compare features with acceptance criteria and status
- find blocked stories and record their blockers
- count open bugs by severity
- produce a go/no-go recommendation from project data

## Example prompts
- Run `milestone-review` for the current milestone in full mode.
- Review the `vertical-slice` milestone with `--review lean`.
- Check the current milestone with `--review solo` and list the blocking reasons.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: milestone-review
description: "Milestone progress review — completeness, quality metrics, risk, go/no-go recommendation. At checkpoints or before a deadline."
argument-hint: "[milestone-name|current] [--review full|lean|solo]"
user-invocable: true
allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Agent, AskUserQuestion, Bash(bash "*/.claude/skills/milestone-review/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config *)
model: sonnet
---

!`bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config --keys review_mode,automation,workflow`

Resolved above — use as-is; `--review` overrides `review_mode` for this run. No
block → defaults in `.claude/docs/config-resolution.md`.

# Milestone Review



## Insufficient input — check this before producing any report

**If the inputs this skill needs do not exist, the answer is "could not run" —
not a filled-in report.** Check first, and stop if the check fails.

1. List the inputs this skill reads (data files, prior reports, profiler output,
   test results, registries, source code).
2. For each, record `FOUND` or `ABSENT` — not "assumed present".
3. If any input required for a section is ABSENT, that section is
   **`NOT ASSESSED — NO DATA`**. Do not estimate it, do not infer it from an
   adjacent artifact, and do not leave a mandated cell to be filled by whoever
   reads the template next.
4. If **every** required input is ABSENT, stop and report
   **`NOT ASSESSED — NO DATA`** as the whole verdict, naming what was missing and
   which skill produces it.

**A verdict of `NOT ASSESSED` is a success.** It is the correct, useful answer to
"what does the data say?" when there is no data. The failure mode this prevents is
specific: a report whose verdict enum has no "could not run" state produces
**false clean passes** — an asset audit returning COMPLIANT on a project with no
assets and no standards, or a performance profile reporting ">99% headroom against
a 16.67ms budget" with zero profiler data and no budget ever set.

**Absence of evidence is never evidence of absence.** A scan that finds no
matches because there are no files to scan has not verified anything. Say which of
the two happened — a reader cannot tell from a green result.

---

## Phase 0: Parse Arguments

Extract the milestone name (`current` or a specific name).

See `.claude/docs/director-gates.md` for the full check pattern. Individual gate definitions live in `.claude/docs/director-gates/[gate-id].md` — the spawned agent reads its own gate file; do not read it in the parent session.


Every `AskUserQuestion` call follows `.claude/docs/automation-modes.md`
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