scope-hammerlisted

Use this skill whenever a Shape Up build run reaches its stop condition — the circuit breaker (round budget or a scope's attempt budget) trips, or all scopes finish and it's time to decide when to stop (step 11) — and needs a must-have census, a baseline-anchored cut list, and a ship verdict. Trigger on: "scope hammer", "hammer this down to must-haves", "decide when to stop", "cut list vs baseline", "circuit breaker tripped, what do we ship", "compare against the baseline not the ideal", "GATE H", "census the open items". Also triggers on tech-lead's GATE H at SHIP. Compares the product to the pitch's baseline (what customers live with today, not a perfect ideal) and returns a cut list + ship verdict.
nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin · ★ 2 · AI & Automation · score 68

Install: claude install-skill nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin

# Scope Hammer (GATE H — Decide When to Stop) The mechanism behind Shape Up step 11: as the appetite/round budget runs out, cut back on perfectionist ambitions by comparing the *actual* product to the **baseline** — what customers live with today — not to a hypothetical perfect version. "Better than the baseline" is good enough to ship; "not as good as I imagined" is not a reason to keep building. **Why this is its own skill, not tech-lead prose.** GATE H census pulls from several sources that accumulate over a whole run (QA findings, discovered-task ledger, attempt-budget overflows, per-scope inner-breaker trips) — a genuinely separate synthesis step from orchestration. Splitting it out keeps `tech-lead` thin (it dispatches, this skill decides what survives the hammer) and gives the census/cut-list/verdict logic one owner instead of being re-derived inline at every SHIP. --- ## When this fires ``` 1. All scopes reach FINISHED on the hill → normal stop, post-QA-hunt. 2. Outer circuit breaker trips: round_budget reaches 0 with scopes still uphill/downhill. 3. Inner circuit breaker trips: a scope's attempt_budget (default 5) is exhausted without a T0-green result → queued as a hammer PROPOSAL (`hammer_proposals`), judged here rather than immediately blocking the round. ``` Any of the three routes to this skill; the difference is only what's in the census (case 1 has no unresolved scopes; cases 2/3 do, and those become explicit CUT or CARRY candidates below). --- ##