AB game-dev-first-steps
Help a beginner or early-stage indie team turn a game idea into a practical starting plan. Use when someone asks how to start making a game, what to build first, how to approach development order, how to scope a concept for a solo dev, duo, or small team, or how to turn a rough game idea into a sensible first prototype or pitchable vertical slice. Ask a few core questions about the concept, team size, skill mix, platform, scope, release intent, and constraints, then recommend a simple development strategy with build order, risks, what to postpone, and concrete next steps.
As a process B 75/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: inputs and preconditions, running it twice, 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 75/100
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 30Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 70Failures and branches. 10 branches
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 88 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1620 tokens
- low 10 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
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 578: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 23 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 88 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.