Plan Devex Review — Workflow

Overview

How the plan-devex-review skill works, step by step.

Source Workflow

Claude skill workflow.

Step-by-step Workflow

plan-devex-review — Workflow

Auto-generated from SKILL.md. The skill itself is the source of truth; this is a human-readable map of what it does and how it runs.

What it does & when to use

Interactive developer experience plan review. Explores developer personas, benchmarks against competitors, designs magical moments, and traces friction points before scoring. Three modes: DX EXPANSION (competitive advantage), DX POLISH (bulletproof every touchpoint), DX TRIAGE (critical gaps only). Use when asked to "DX review", "developer experience audit", "devex review", or "API design review". Proactively suggest when the user has a plan for developer-facing products (APIs, CLIs, SDKs, libraries, platforms, docs). (gstack) Voice triggers (speech-to-text aliases): "dx review", "developer experience review", "devex review", "devex audit", "API design review", "onboarding review".

Triggers

  • DX review
  • developer experience audit
  • devex review
  • API design review
  • dx review
  • developer experience review
  • devex audit
  • onboarding review

How it works

Workflow outline (sections of SKILL.md):

  1. Preamble (run first)
  2. Plan Mode Safe Operations
  3. Skill Invocation During Plan Mode
  4. Skill routing
  5. AskUserQuestion Format
  6. Artifacts Sync (skill start)
  7. Model-Specific Behavioral Patch (claude)
  8. Voice
  9. Context Recovery
  10. Writing Style (skip entirely if EXPLAIN_LEVEL: terse appears in the preamble echo OR the user's current message explicitly requests terse / no-explanations output)
  11. Completeness Principle — Boil the Lake
  12. Confusion Protocol
  13. Continuous Checkpoint Mode
  14. Context Health (soft directive)
  15. Question Tuning (skip entirely if QUESTION_TUNING: false)
  16. Repo Ownership — See Something, Say Something
  17. Search Before Building
  18. Completion Status Protocol
  19. Operational Self-Improvement
  20. Telemetry (run last)
  21. Plan Status Footer
  22. Step 0: Detect platform and base branch
  23. DX First Principles
  24. The Seven DX Characteristics
  25. Cognitive Patterns — How Great DX Leaders Think
  26. DX Scoring Rubric (0-10 calibration)
  27. TTHW Benchmarks (Time to Hello World)
  28. Hall of Fame Reference
  29. Priority Hierarchy Under Context Pressure
  30. PRE-REVIEW SYSTEM AUDIT (before Step 0)
  31. Prerequisite Skill Offer
  32. Auto-Detect Product Type + Applicability Gate
  33. Step 0: DX Investigation (before scoring)
  34. The 0-10 Rating Method
  35. Review Sections (8 passes, after Step 0 is complete)
  36. Prior Learnings
  37. Outside Voice — Independent Plan Challenge (optional, recommended)
  38. CRITICAL RULE — How to ask questions
  39. Required Outputs
  40. Review Readiness Dashboard
  41. Plan File Review Report
  42. GSTACK REVIEW REPORT
  43. Capture Learnings
  44. Next Steps — Review Chaining
  45. Mode Quick Reference
  46. Formatting Rules

Components

Single-file skill — all instructions live in SKILL.md.

Invoke

  • Slash: /plan-devex-review
  • Or a natural-language request matching the triggers above.

Source: SKILL.md in this directory.

Execution Logic

The skill executes when its trigger fires (slash command, natural-language match, or direct invocation). It reads its references, applies its rules, and produces the documented outputs.

Edge Cases

See the source skill's references/ and scripts/ folders for edge-case handling.

Failure Handling

A skill failure surfaces as a tool error or a partial output; never a silent skip. Re-run with --verbose (where applicable) for diagnostics.

Integration Notes

  • Claude — invoked via the Skill tool with skill: "plan-devex-review".
  • Codex — referenced from AGENTS.md if mirrored.
  • Antigravity — referenced from the workspace agent rules if mirrored.
  • HQ Project — listed on the landing page Skills section + post-login sidebar.
  • MD Project (md.sgnk.ai) — file rendered from Skills/Plan Devex Review/workflow.md.
  • Obsidian — file rendered with frontmatter + tags.

Usage Examples

Invoke via slash command or natural language matching the skill description.

Source: ~/.claude/skills/plan-devex-review/WORKFLOW.md