design-review

To review a game design document for completeness and consistency before coding begins, you analyze the artifact against project standards, design pillars, and dependencies. This validates internal logic and engineering alignment to ensure implementability.

Phase-based analysis in design review is a guided workflow mechanism that structures the validation process into sequential phases. It applies depth options to evaluate dependency validation and traceability to production standards systematically.

You validate dependencies and alignment with design pillars by running a consistency validation check on the game design document. This process verifies logical coherence, tonal consistency, and dependency requirements against the established project pillars.

Yes, you can use a design review skill to enforce traceability to AGENTS.md and production standards. It verifies the design document includes required frontmatter and aligns with engineering constraints before handoff to programmers.

Design review requires the game design document to include specific frontmatter with a name and description. It uses this structured metadata to execute completeness checks and phase-based analysis for reproducible reviews.

The best way to surface engineering blockers in game design documents is to perform an implementability review validating dependencies and engineering alignment. This identifies gaps and impracticalities so engineers can implement with confidence.