gate-check

Project readiness checks validate required artifacts, quality gates, and cross-domain director assessments before advancing game production phases. The system discovers files and verifies content across design, architecture, production plans, and QA evidence to produce a PASS, CONCERNS, or FAIL verdict.

Phase gate validation is the process of ensuring a game project meets phase-specific requirements before transitioning stages. It prevents premature advancement by surfacing concrete blockers through automated artifact discovery, content checks, and parallel director panel assessments across creative, technical, producer, and art domains.

To validate artifacts before pre-production, the system performs file system discovery and content checks across design, architecture, and production plans. It ensures required files exist and contain meaningful content rather than placeholders, flagging missing artifacts as blockers for the stage transition.

Yes, you can run director assessments in parallel with artifact checks during a phase gate review. The system evaluates creative, technical, producer, and art domains in lean mode to detect cross-domain risks alongside automated file validation before producing the final readiness verdict.

When a phase gate review returns a PASS verdict, the system recommends advancing the game development lifecycle. Upon user confirmation, it automatically updates the production stage file to reflect the newly approved stage, such as transitioning from Pre-Production to Production.

Phase gate validation supports both explicit target-phase input and auto-detect modes for transitions. Whether moving from Concept to Systems Design or Polish to Release, the system applies the appropriate phase-specific readiness requirements and quality gates to validate the project.