Skills refinement: improve formatting, phase structure, and trigger descriptions across 9 skills

- balance-check: rewrote as explicit phases with domain routing table; expanded trigger hints
- scope-check: restructured into numbered phases for clarity
- adopt, review-all-gdds, help, project-stage-detect: add argument mode headers or trigger hints
- gate-check, sprint-status, story-readiness: minor wording and structure improvements

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
name: balance-check
description: "Analyzes game balance data files, formulas, and configuration to identify outliers, broken progressions, degenerate strategies, and economy imbalances. Use after modifying any balance-related data or design."
description: "Analyzes game balance data files, formulas, and configuration to identify outliers, broken progressions, degenerate strategies, and economy imbalances. Use after modifying any balance-related data or design. Use when user says 'balance report', 'check game balance', 'run a balance check'."
argument-hint: "[system-name|path-to-data-file]"
user-invocable: true
allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep
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agent: economy-designer
---
When this skill is invoked:
## Phase 1: Identify Balance Domain
1. **Identify the balance domain** from the argument.
Determine the balance domain from `$ARGUMENTS[0]`:
2. **Read relevant data files** from `assets/data/` and `design/balance/`.
- **Combat** → weapon/ability DPS, time-to-kill, damage type interactions
- **Economy** → resource faucets/sinks, acquisition rates, item pricing
- **Progression** → XP/power curves, dead zones, power spikes
- **Loot** → rarity distribution, pity timers, inventory pressure
- **File path given** → load that file directly and infer domain from content
3. **Read the design document** for the system being checked from `design/gdd/`.
If no argument, ask the user which system to check.
4. **Perform analysis**:
---
For **combat balance**:
- Calculate DPS for all weapons/abilities at each power tier
- Check time-to-kill at each tier
- Identify any options that dominate all others (strictly better)
- Check if defensive options can create unkillable states
- Verify damage type/resistance interactions are balanced
## Phase 2: Read Data Files
For **economy balance**:
- Map all resource faucets and sinks with flow rates
- Project resource accumulation over time
- Check for infinite resource loops
- Verify gold sinks scale with gold generation
- Check if any items are never worth purchasing
Read relevant files from `assets/data/` and `design/balance/` for the identified domain.
Note every file read — they will appear in the Data Sources section of the report.
For **progression balance**:
- Plot the XP curve and power curve
- Check for dead zones (no meaningful progression for too long)
- Check for power spikes (sudden jumps in capability)
- Verify content gates align with expected player power
- Check if skip/grind strategies break intended pacing
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For **loot balance**:
- Calculate expected time to acquire each rarity tier
- Check pity timer math
- Verify no loot is strictly useless at any stage
- Check inventory pressure vs acquisition rate
## Phase 3: Read Design Document
5. **Output the analysis**:
Read the GDD for the system from `design/gdd/` to understand intended design targets,
tuning knobs, and expected value ranges. This is the baseline for "correct" behaviour.
---
## Phase 4: Perform Analysis
Run domain-specific checks:
**Combat balance:**
- Calculate DPS for all weapons/abilities at each power tier
- Check time-to-kill at each tier
- Identify any options that dominate all others (strictly better)
- Check if defensive options can create unkillable states
- Verify damage type/resistance interactions are balanced
**Economy balance:**
- Map all resource faucets and sinks with flow rates
- Project resource accumulation over time
- Check for infinite resource loops
- Verify gold sinks scale with gold generation
- Check if any items are never worth purchasing
**Progression balance:**
- Plot the XP curve and power curve
- Check for dead zones (no meaningful progression for too long)
- Check for power spikes (sudden jumps in capability)
- Verify content gates align with expected player power
- Check if skip/grind strategies break intended pacing
**Loot balance:**
- Calculate expected time to acquire each rarity tier
- Check pity timer math
- Verify no loot is strictly useless at any stage
- Check inventory pressure vs acquisition rate
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## Phase 5: Output the Analysis
```
## Balance Check: [System Name]
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[Specific values with suggested adjustments and rationale]
```
6. **Fix & Verify Cycle**
---
After presenting the report, ask:
## Phase 6: Fix & Verify Cycle
> "Would you like to fix any of these balance issues now?"
After presenting the report, ask:
If yes:
- Ask which issue to address first (refer to the Recommendations table by priority row)
- Guide the user to update the relevant data file in `assets/data/` or formula in `design/balance/`
- After each fix, offer to re-run the relevant balance checks for that system to verify the fix did not introduce new outliers or degenerate interactions
- If the fix changes a tuning knob that is defined in a GDD or referenced by an ADR, remind the user:
> "This value is defined in a design document. Run `/propagate-design-change [path]` on the affected GDD to find downstream impacts before committing."
> "Would you like to fix any of these balance issues now?"
If no:
- Summarize the open issues and suggest saving the report to `design/balance/balance-check-[system]-[date].md` for later.
If yes:
- Ask which issue to address first (refer to the Recommendations table by priority row)
- Guide the user to update the relevant data file in `assets/data/` or formula in `design/balance/`
- After each fix, offer to re-run the relevant balance checks to verify no new outliers were introduced
- If the fix changes a tuning knob defined in a GDD or referenced by an ADR, remind the user:
> "This value is defined in a design document. Run `/propagate-design-change [path]` on the affected GDD to find downstream impacts before committing."
End with:
> "Re-run `/balance-check` after fixes to verify."
If no:
- Summarize open issues and suggest saving the report to `design/balance/balance-check-[system]-[date].md` for later
End with:
> "Re-run `/balance-check` after fixes to verify."