Claude Code skillAnalysis & planning

reality-check

Hold a project's stated vision up against what's actually built and running, and report the gap without flattery: what works, what's claimed-but-broken, what's missing, what drifted — ending in an explicit SHIP-READY / NOT verdict. When a project has no intent doc at all, flips to INTENT EXTRACTION instead: reconstructs the project's goals from code, tests, beads, and commits into a confirmable intent statement. Use when "reality check", "where are we really", "does this actually work", "are we on track", "gap analysis", "what's missing", or when project-autopilot / ship-it / idea-forge need their assess, preflight, or intent-extraction step.

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Every project tells two stories: the one its docs tell and the one its runtime tells. This skill reads both and reports the difference. It is the instrument the other verticals steer by — project-autopilot's assess step, ship-it's Phase-0…
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