game-scope-check

game-scope-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge. It costs 80 tokens per session (4,042 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for checking whether a game's planned features fit its available time and resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review feature lists, assess timeline pressure and resource limits, and create a practical cut list.
Why use it?
It exposes scope creep, where small additions grow into more work than the team can finish, and helps identify what to cut.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab_gameforge/game-scope-check
Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge --skill game-scope-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,042 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00080 $0.04042
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.02021
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00808
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00404

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0b07c361bebb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

game-scope-check scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/workflows/game-scope-check/SKILL.md · 392 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 392 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AlterLab GameForge -- Scope Check Workflow

Scope creep is the number one killer of indie games. Not lack of talent, not bad ideas, not engine limitations. Games die because they grow past the team's capacity to finish them. It happens one "small" addition at a time, each individually reasonable, collectively fatal. The danger is that scope creep feels like progress -- adding a feature feels productive, cutting feels like failure. This workflow exists to invert that psychology: cutting is the skill, and a tight scope is the achievement.

Team Cherry shipped Hollow Knight with 3 people. ConcernedApe shipped Stardew Valley alone. Neither project was small in ambition -- they were ruthlessly disciplined about what to include and what to cut. The games that ship are not the ones with the longest feature lists. They are the ones where every feature earned its place through honest scope accounting.

The core principle: a finished game with 8 great features beats an abandoned game with 20 half-built ones. This workflow enforces that principle with concrete tools, not wishful thinking.

Purpose & Triggers

Use this workflow when:

  • The feature list has grown since the last scope check
  • Someone says "can we fit this in?" or "what if we also added..."
  • A milestone deadline is approaching and confidence is low
  • The team feels overwhelmed but cannot articulate why
  • Sprint velocity is consistently below planned capacity
  • Any stakeholder (including yourself) pushes back on cutting features
  • The project has never had a formal scope check

Problems this solves:

  • Feature lists that only grow, never shrink
  • The "just one more thing" pattern that compounds into missed deadlines
  • All features labeled "Must Have" because nobody wants to prioritize
  • No clear connection between features and available work hours
  • Teams afraid to cut features because they lack a framework for deciding what goes
  • Scope discussions that devolve into opinion battles instead of data-driven decisions

Read the full file on GitHub · 392 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 392 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 0b07c361bebb

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game-scope-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab_GameForge (34 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 4,042 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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