check-readiness

check-readiness is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from BostonOrange/claude-code-framework. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,171 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-development check that reviews a software ticket for missing or unclear information. It looks for placeholders, incomplete data fields, vague acceptance criteria, unresolved questions, and integration gaps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a ticket number before implementation. It reads the ticket and, when available, a matching local story file, then reports issues that need clarification.
Why use it?
It catches tickets that are not ready to build before development begins. This reduces interruptions caused by missing specifications or unclear requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bostonorange/claude-code-framework/check-readiness
Any agent
npx skills add BostonOrange/claude-code-framework --skill check-readiness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BostonOrange/claude-code-framework

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,171 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 $0.00043 $0.01171
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00585
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00117

Measured 3d ago against content hash fa4a9f5bf5f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-readiness 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 3d 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/check-readiness/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Check Readiness

Automated readiness gate — validates a ticket is implementation-ready before entering /develop.

Usage

/check-readiness TICKET-1234
/check-readiness 1234

Purpose

20-30% of tickets arrive in /develop needing major refinement, causing the dev cycle to halt. This skill runs automated checks to catch gaps early and return structured feedback before development starts.

Phase 1: Fetch Ticket Content

Parse ticket ID from input.

{{TRACKER_FETCH_TICKET}}

Extract:

  • Title
  • Description (story body, tech spec, field mappings)
  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Test instructions
  • Deployment notes / tech spec

Also check local docs if they exist: docs/stories/TICKET-{id}/story.md

Phase 2: Run Readiness Checks

Check 1: No Placeholder Text (FAIL)

Scan all content for:

  • TBD, TBC, TBA (case-insensitive)
  • TODO outside of code blocks
  • [placeholder] or {placeholder} patterns
  • ??? or ... used as placeholders

Check 2: Data Model Completeness (FAIL)

For each data/field reference in the ticket:

  1. Identify the entity and field
  2. Look up existing definitions in the codebase
  3. Verify the referenced values are valid (enum values, types, relationships)

Check 3: Testable Acceptance Criteria (WARN)

Scan each AC for vague language:

  • "should update" without specifying from/to values
  • "appropriate" without defining what qualifies
  • "relevant" without listing which items
  • "as needed" without conditions
  • "properly" or "correctly" without measurable criteria

Check 4: No Unresolved Open Questions (FAIL)

Scan for:

  • "Open Questions" section with unresolved items
  • Items marked with ?, OPEN, or no answer
  • Comments with unanswered questions

Check 5: Explicit Technical Specs (FAIL)

Scan for:

  • Vague references: "the field on the account", "the status field"
  • Missing API names / identifiers
  • Incomplete mappings: source specified but no target

Check 6: Integration Contracts (WARN)

If the ticket involves integrations, check for:

  • Payload structure defined
  • Endpoint specified
  • Authentication documented
  • Error handling specified
  • Retry strategy documented

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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. 3d ago First seen · 171 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A fa4a9f5bf5f6

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check-readiness is a skill published in the GitHub repository BostonOrange/claude-code-framework (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,171 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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