design-to-code-check

# Design-to-code check A skill for reviewing the alignment between a design specification and its code implementation, producing a structured discrepancy report catalogued by dimension and severity. ## Before you begin: verify references Before doing anything else, confirm that every file listed in this skill's frontmatter `references:` field exists at its relative path from this SKILL.md. If any are missing, stop — the install is incomplete. This usually means a third-party installer (for example `npx skills install`) flattened the skill into a standalone folder and dropped the repo-root `knowledge-notes/` directory this skill depends on. Tell the user to reinstall using a supported method from `1-INSTALL.md` (git clone, or the `.plugin` bundle in Cowork) and to run `verify-install.sh` from the install root to confirm the fix. Only proceed without the references if the user explicitly says to — and if they do, state clearly in your output that it was produced in degraded mode without the pack's reference material. ## Context Design-to-code alignment reviews catch two different categories of problem. The first is implementation error — the developer built something different from what was specified, either by mistake or because the specification was unclear. The second is specification ambiguity — the design did not define behaviour completely enough for the developer to implement it correctly, and the developer made a reasonable guess that turned out to be wrong. Both ...