gherkin-scenario-reviewlisted
Install: claude install-skill yutna/gherkin-specification-skills
# Reviewing Gherkin
## Overview
Reviewing a feature file is a different job from writing one. The text
already exists, somebody meant it, and the useful output is not a verdict
but a rewrite. A review that says "this is too imperative" helps nobody; a
review that shows the same scenario four lines shorter and more truthful
gets merged.
This skill supplies the diagnosis and the repair for each recurring defect.
## When to use this skill
- A pull request adds or changes `.feature` files.
- Someone asks whether a scenario reads well.
- A suite has become slow, flaky, or unreadable and nobody knows where to
start.
- Feature files arrive from another team and need assessing.
- A refactor of existing scenarios is requested.
If the scenarios do not exist yet, write them with the scenario-writing
skill instead. If the underlying rules were never agreed, no amount of
rewriting will fix the file, and the work belongs in discovery.
## How to review
Read in three passes. Each pass finds a class of problem the others miss,
and doing them at once produces a scattered review.
1. **Names only.** Read the feature name and every scenario name, in
order, ignoring the steps. Does the list describe a capability? Could a
reader spot a missing rule from the gaps? Most structural problems are
visible here alone.
1. **Altitude.** Read the steps looking only for detail that has leaked
down from behaviour into mechanism, and for scenarios that depend on
each other.
1. **Truth.