AB game-design-one-thing-to-remove
Identify the single highest-leverage thing to remove from a game design, feature, system, UX flow, pitch, roadmap item, or prototype in order to improve it significantly. Use when a design feels bloated, muddy, overengineered, overly tutorialized, friction-heavy, or diluted by low-value mechanics, and you want a subtractive critique with rationale, tradeoffs, and a cleaner alternative.
As a process B 66/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: when it triggers, inputs and preconditions, progress reporting
How to improve
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 4. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 66/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 60Failures and branches. 2 branches
- 85Steps. 57 steps, 2 vague phrases
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 940 tokens
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +4No input/output examples
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 388: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 20 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 57 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (2 of 2)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 87.