# story-readiness

Validates whether user story files are ready for development by checking acceptance criteria, dependencies, and ADR statuses before coding starts.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 410 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/story-readiness/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-19
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/story-readiness

## What it does

The skill reviews story files to ensure developers have clear requirements before writing any code. It runs strictly read-only: it never edits files on disk, returning verdicts like `READY`, `NEEDS WORK`, `BLOCKED`, or `NOT ASSESSED`, and offering draft fixes in the chat.

Checks run in three phases. The skill resolves scope from a specific story path, epic folder, or the `sprint` argument. Next, it gathers data using shell helpers such as `.claude/scripts/story-facts.sh` and `adr-status.sh`, then evaluates checklists covering design completeness, open questions, and DoD.

If your project repository lacks the underlying helper scripts in `.claude/scripts/`, the audit will fail. When a target path contains zero stories, the skill stops immediately with `NOT ASSESSED` instead of reporting a false clean pass.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill story-readiness -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/story-readiness/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- spot incomplete or vague acceptance criteria before coding
- verify referenced ADR status and pending story dependencies
- detect unresolved design questions inside story drafts
- audit the readiness of all stories scheduled for a sprint

## Example prompts
- Check if story-player-jump.md is ready to build --review full
- Check readiness for all stories in sprint
- Run readiness check on production/epics/combat/

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: story-readiness
description: "Checks whether a story is ready to implement: clear acceptance criteria, no open questions, valid ADR and dependencies. Use when the user asks if a story, or the sprint's stories, are ready to start or build."
argument-hint: "[story-file-path or 'all' or 'sprint'] [--review full|lean|solo]"
user-invocable: true
allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, Agent, Bash(bash "*/.claude/skills/story-readiness/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config *), Bash(bash .claude/scripts/story-facts.sh *), Bash(bash .claude/scripts/adr-status.sh *)
model: sonnet
---

!`bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config --keys review_mode,review_gate,automation,workflow,qa.level,gate_level,story_granularity,system_overrides`

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

Ask with the question tool. Without one, list the options numbered and end your turn
to wait. A skipped or dismissed question is not an answer: ask again in plain text.

# Story Readiness

Checks that a story file holds everything a developer needs before writing code:
no design questions mid-build, no guessing, no vague acceptance criteria.

**Read-only.** It never writes or edits a file. It reports, and offers to draft
fixes in the conversation.

**Verdicts**, one per story. The first that matches wins, in this order:

1. **BLOCKED**: a finding the reader can clear. A referenced ADR is missing,
   `Proposed`, `Deprecated` or `Superseded`; a dependency story is missing or
   `Draft`; or a criterion holds an UNRESOLVED design question with no owner.
2. **NEEDS WORK**: a blocking checklist item fails. The story can be fixed now.
3. **NOT ASSESSED**: the story could not be evaluated. The file is unreadable,
   a referenced ADR has no readable `## Status`, or the design document it names
   cannot be found. Name what could not be read. It is never READY: a story
   nobody could check has not been shown ready. It ranks below the two failures,
   because a known blocker is more useful than an unknown.
4. **READY**: every item passes, is N/A with a reason, or is advisory. Advisory
   gaps are still listed.

Asks follow `.claude/docs/automation-modes.md` (collaborative always asks, guided
asks on major choices, autonomous logs and goes on; `automation_always_ask`
categories always ask).

## Phase 1: Scope

The scope is the text typed after the skill name, with any `--review <mode>` pair
removed. What remains is one value; a path may contain spaces. With nothing typed,
the story, epic or sprint the user's request names is the scope.

- **A story path**: that story.
- **`sprint`**: the stories the current sprint lists (Phase 2 reads them).
- **`all`**: every `story-*.md` under `production/epics/`.
```
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