Skill Release Gate — Claude Skill QA & Pre-Launch Checklist

Run every Claude Skill, prompt template, or SKILL.md through a structured spec-check, dry-run, red-team, and anti-pattern gate before it ships — so broken or half-finished skills never reach a user.

What this Claude Skill does

• Pressure-tests a skill's trigger description against realistic phrasing before anything else — a skill that never fires, or fires on the wrong request, has already failed
• Dry-runs the methodology against the easy case, a missing-precondition case, and an out-of-scope case, so gaps show up before a customer finds them
• Red-teams the skill with injection, contradiction, and ambiguity probes to catch confident-but-wrong output
• Scores the candidate against 11 documented failure patterns and returns a clear ship / ship-with-limits / return-to-author decision

Built for

• Anyone publishing Claude Skills, prompt templates, or GPT instruction sets and shipping without a second pair of eyes
• Agencies and consultants productizing internal prompts for client delivery
• Teams running a marketplace or internal library of AI assets who need a consistent bar before anything goes live

What's inside

• SKILL.md — the full skill file with frontmatter, five-phase release methodology, and recovery guidance
• anti-patterns.md — reference sheet of the 11 most common ways shipped Claude Skills fail, each with the fix
• redteam-prompts.md — ready-to-run adversarial test prompts for the injection, contradiction, and ambiguity phase
• scorecard-template.md — a Blocker / Warning / Note scoring sheet to document every release decision
• LICENSE.md — usage terms

How a Claude Skill works

This is a Claude Skill — a single SKILL.md file Claude reads as instructions for a specific kind of work. Drop it in your Claude Project, .claude/skills/ folder, or wherever Claude can read it. Claude triggers the skill automatically when your prompt matches its description, then runs the methodology end to end.

Author

Built by Ukiyo Productions — a strategy-led branding and growth agency. Part of a 100+ skill marketplace built for founders, operators, consultants, and agencies.