Release 1.1.3 — long skills keep their later steps

Fix release for 1.1.2: the 14 longest skills keep their later phases
after a compaction, a question nobody answered is never taken as an
answer, settings read the same from a subfolder, the commit check works
for a project in a subfolder of a larger repository, every skill opens
with a title, and the shipped allow rules no longer approve deleting a
branch or writing files without asking. Details in CHANGELOG.md; upgrade
steps in UPGRADING.md (v1.1.2 → v1.1.3).

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185en4t76fPn7315q4c3nko

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+# /review-all-gdds — Phase 3: Game Design Holism
+
+> Part of `/review-all-gdds`. `SKILL.md` names when to read this file; the settings it
+> resolved and the rules under its later headings still apply here.
+
+## Phase 3: Game Design Holism
+
+**In this file:**
+
+- 3a: Progression Loop Competition
+- 3b: Player Attention Budget
+- 3c: Dominant Strategy Detection
+- 3d: Economic Loop Analysis
+- 3e: Difficulty Curve Consistency
+- 3f: Pillar Alignment
+- 3g: Player Fantasy Coherence
+
+Review all GDDs together through the lens of game design theory and player
+psychology. These are issues that individual GDD reviews cannot catch because
+they require seeing all systems at once.
+
+### 3a: Progression Loop Competition
+
+A game should have one dominant progression loop that players feel is "the
+point" of the game, with supporting loops that feed into it. When multiple
+systems compete equally as the primary progression driver, players don't know
+what the game is about.
+
+Scan all GDDs for systems that:
+- Award the player's primary resource (XP, levels, prestige, unlocks)
+- Define themselves as the "core" or "main" loop
+- Have comparable depth and time investment to other systems doing the same
+
+```
+⚠️  Competing Progression Loops
+combat.md: Awards XP, unlocks abilities, is described as "the core loop"
+crafting.md: Awards XP, unlocks recipes, is described as "the primary activity"
+exploration.md: Awards XP, unlocks map areas, described as "the main driver"
+→ Three systems all claim to be the primary progression loop and all award
+  the same primary currency. Players will optimise one and ignore the others.
+  Consider: one primary loop with the others as support systems.
+```
+
+### 3b: Player Attention Budget
+
+Count how many systems require active player attention simultaneously during
+a typical session. Each actively-managed system costs attention:
+
+- Active = player must make decisions about this system regularly during play
+- Passive = system runs automatically, player sees results but doesn't manage it
+
+More than 3-4 simultaneously active systems creates cognitive overload for most
+players. Present the count and flag if it exceeds 4 concurrent active systems:
+
+```
+⚠️  Cognitive Load Risk
+Simultaneously active systems during [core loop moment]:
+  1. [system-a].md — [decision type] (active)
+  2. [system-b].md — [resource management] (active)
+  3. [system-c].md — [tracking] (active)
+  4. [system-d].md — [item/action use] (active)
+  5. [system-e].md — [cooldown/timer management] (active)
+  6. [system-f].md — [coordination decisions] (active)
+→ 6 simultaneously active systems during the core loop.
+  Research suggests 3-4 is the comfortable limit for most players.
+  Consider: which of these can be made passive or simplified?
+```
+
+### 3c: Dominant Strategy Detection
+
+A dominant strategy makes other strategies irrelevant — players discover it,
+use it exclusively, and find the rest of the game boring. Look for:
+
+- **Resource monopolies**: One strategy generates a resource significantly
+  faster than all others
+- **Risk-free power**: A strategy that is both high-reward and low-risk
+  (if high-risk strategies exist, they need proportionally higher reward)
+- **No trade-offs**: An option that is superior in all dimensions to all others
+- **Obvious optimal path**: If any progression choice is "clearly correct",
+  the others aren't real choices
+
+```
+⚠️  Potential Dominant Strategy
+combat.md: Ranged attacks deal 80% of melee damage with no risk
+combat.md: Melee attacks deal 100% damage but require close range
+→ Unless melee has a significant compensating advantage (AOE, stagger,
+  resource regeneration), ranged is dominant — higher safety, only 20% less
+  damage. Consider what melee offers that ranged cannot.
+```
+
+### 3d: Economic Loop Analysis
+
+Identify all resources across all GDDs (gold, XP, crafting materials, stamina,
+health, mana, etc.). For each resource, map its **sources** (how players gain
+it) and **sinks** (how players spend it).
+
+Flag dangerous economic conditions:
+
+| Condition | Sign | Risk |
+|-----------|------|------|
+| **Infinite source, no sink** | Resource accumulates indefinitely | Late game becomes trivially easy |
+| **Sink, no source** | Resource drains to zero | System becomes unavailable |
+| **Source >> Sink** | Surplus accumulates | Resource becomes meaningless |
+| **Sink >> Source** | Constant scarcity | Frustration and gatekeeping |
+| **Positive feedback loop** | More resource → easier to earn more | Runaway leader, snowball |
+| **No catch-up** | Falling behind accelerates deficit | Unrecoverable states |
+
+```
+🔴 Economic Imbalance: Unbounded Positive Feedback
+gold economy:
+  Sources: monster drops (scales with player power), merchant selling (unlimited)
+  Sinks: equipment purchase (one-time), ability upgrades (finite count)
+→ After equipment and abilities are purchased, gold has no sink.
+  Infinite surplus. Gold becomes meaningless mid-game.
+  Add ongoing gold sinks (upkeep, consumables, cosmetics, gambling).
+```
+
+### 3e: Difficulty Curve Consistency
+
+When multiple systems scale with player progression, they must scale in
+compatible directions and at compatible rates. Mismatched scaling curves
+create unintended difficulty spikes or trivialisations.
+
+For each system that scales over time, extract:
+- What scales (enemy health, player damage, resource cost, area size)
+- How it scales (linear, exponential, stepped)
+- When it scales (level, time, area)
+
+Compare all scaling curves. Flag mismatches:
+
+```
+⚠️  Difficulty Curve Mismatch
+combat.md: Enemy health scales exponentially with area (×2 per area)
+progression.md: Player damage scales linearly with level (+10% per level)
+→ By area 5, enemies have 32× base health; player deals ~1.5× base damage.
+  The gap widens indefinitely. Late areas will become inaccessibly difficult
+  unless the curves are reconciled.
+```
+
+### 3f: Pillar Alignment
+
+Every system should clearly serve at least one design pillar. A system that
+serves no pillar is "scope creep by design" — it's in the game but not in
+service of what the game is trying to be.
+
+For each GDD system, check its Player Fantasy section against the design pillars.
+Flag any system whose stated fantasy doesn't map to any pillar:
+
+```
+⚠️  Pillar Drift
+fishing-system.md: Player Fantasy — "peaceful, meditative activity"
+Pillars: "Brutal Combat", "Tense Survival", "Emergent Stories"
+→ The fishing system serves none of the three pillars. Either add a pillar
+  that covers it, redesign it to serve an existing pillar, or cut it.
+```
+
+Also check anti-pillars — flag any system that does what an anti-pillar
+explicitly says the game will NOT do:
+
+```
+🔴 Anti-Pillar Violation
+Anti-Pillar: "We will NOT have linear story progression — player defines their path"
+main-quest.md: Defines a 12-chapter linear story with mandatory sequence
+→ This system directly violates the defined anti-pillar.
+```
+
+### 3g: Player Fantasy Coherence
+
+The player fantasies across all systems should be compatible — they should
+reinforce a consistent identity for what the player IS in this game. Conflicting
+player fantasies create identity confusion.
+
+```
+⚠️  Player Fantasy Conflict
+combat.md: "You are a ruthless, precise warrior — every kill is earned"
+dialogue.md: "You are a charismatic diplomat — violence is always avoidable"
+exploration.md: "You are a reckless adventurer — diving in without a plan"
+→ Three systems present incompatible identities. Players will feel the game
+  doesn't know what it wants them to be. Consider: do these fantasies serve
+  the same core identity from different angles, or do they genuinely conflict?
+```
+
+---