What problem does it solve?
gate-check prevents teams from advancing to the next development phase without the required design, technical, testing, and QA artifacts in place, reducing rework and late-stage surprises.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Phase-gated readiness verdict: Produces a PASS/CONCERNS/FAIL result for a specific transition (or auto-detected transition) with clear blockers and recommendations.
- Artifact + quality validation: Checks required files have real content, validates cross-references (like design reviews and architecture traceability), and flags manual checks where verification isn’t possible.
- Director Panel synthesis: In lean/full modes, coordinates parallel assessments from creative, technical, producer, and art directors via Task, then merges their readiness into the final recommendation.
- Safe stage advancement workflow: On PASS, updates production/stage.txt only after the user explicitly approves.
Quick Start
Use the gate-check skill to validate readiness to advance to Production by running gate-check with target phase set to production.