project-stage-detect

project-stage-detect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,503 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-audit skill that examines existing files to estimate how far a game project has progressed and what is missing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when joining an existing game project, checking readiness for a milestone, or asking where development currently stands.
Why use it?
It gives a new contributor or team a clear view of the current state without manually inspecting every folder and document.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Claude Code Game Studios is a setup that organizes Claude Code into a coordinated game-development team of specialized AI agents. It supports game projects across design, programming, art, audio, narrative, quality assurance, and production, with skills and workflows for coordinating that work.

Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios · 24,822 stars · on GitHub

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/donchitos/claude-code-game-studios/project-stage-detect
Any agent
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill project-stage-detect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,503 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 $0.00048 $0.01503
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00751
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00150

Measured 2d ago against content hash dffa5112b8d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-stage-detect 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/project-stage-detect/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Stage Detection

This skill scans your project to determine its current development stage, completeness of artifacts, and gaps that need attention. It's especially useful when:

  • Starting with an existing project
  • Onboarding to a codebase
  • Checking what's missing before a milestone
  • Understanding "where are we?"

Workflow

1. Scan Key Directories

Analyze project structure and content:

Design Documentation (design/):

  • Count GDD files in design/gdd/*.md
  • Check for game-concept.md, game-pillars.md, systems-index.md
  • If systems-index.md exists, count total systems vs. designed systems
  • Analyze completeness (Overview, Detailed Design, Edge Cases, etc.)
  • Count narrative docs in design/narrative/
  • Count level designs in design/levels/

Source Code (src/):

  • Count source files (language-agnostic)
  • Identify major systems (directories with 5+ files)
  • Check for core/, gameplay/, ai/, networking/, ui/ directories
  • Estimate lines of code (rough scale)

Production Artifacts (production/):

  • Check for active sprint plans
  • Look for milestone definitions
  • Find roadmap documents

Prototypes (prototypes/):

  • Count prototype directories
  • Check for READMEs (documented vs undocumented)
  • Assess if prototypes are archived or active

Architecture Docs (docs/architecture/):

  • Count ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
  • Check for overview/index documents

Tests (tests/):

  • Count test files
  • Estimate test coverage (rough heuristic)

2. Classify Project Stage

Based on scanned artifacts, determine stage. Check production/stage.txt first — if it exists, use its value (explicit override from /gate-check). Otherwise, auto-detect using these heuristics (check from most-advanced backward):

Stage Indicators
Concept No game concept doc, brainstorming phase
Systems Design Game concept exists, systems index missing or incomplete
Technical Setup Systems index exists, engine not configured
Pre-Production Engine configured, src/ has <10 source files
Production src/ has 10+ source files, active development
Polish Explicit only (set by /gate-check Production → Polish gate)
Release Explicit only (set by /gate-check Polish → Release gate)

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 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. 2d ago First seen · 196 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A dffa5112b8d3

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project-stage-detect is a skill published in the GitHub repository Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios (24,822 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,503 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 2026-09-03.

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