ready-check

ready-check is a skill for Claude Code from iampawan/Manifest. It costs 182 tokens per session (10,056 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A readiness check for a product requirements document, or PRD—the description of what a product change should do. It reviews requirements for missing details before engineering estimates or builds the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on PRDs for user interfaces, backends, APIs, data, or infrastructure. It accepts sources such as project tickets, documents, chat messages, links, images, pasted text, or plain descriptions.
Why use it?
It keeps incomplete requests from reaching developers, reducing back-and-forth about scope, designs, states, failures, and acceptance criteria.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node scripts/ready-check.mjs --scorecard answers.json # readable panel-like scorecard.

Part of the manifest plugin — 28 skills, 15 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it on PRDs for user interfaces, backends, APIs, data, or infrastructure. It accepts sources such as project tickets, documents, chat messages, links, images, pasted text, or plain descriptions.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iampawan/Manifest
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iampawan/manifest/ready-check

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install manifest, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 15 commands.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ready-check

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 182 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,056 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00182 $0.10056
Opus 5 $0.00091 $0.05028
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.02011
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.01006

Measured 8d ago against content hash 35e380c8b174, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ready-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 8d 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/ready-check/SKILL.md · 651 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 651 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ready Check (PM-side gate)

The world this is built for: a PM has a PRD and is about to hand it to engineering for grooming and estimation. Today, half-baked PRDs get through, dev chases the PM for basics, and dev eats the delay. Ready Check is the cheap, 2-minute check the PM clears first. Green → a gate code + hand-off; anything missing → the exact gaps, in plain language.

It is deliberately a floor, not the deep judge. The precise, code-grounded review (regression, security, feasibility, estimate) is Level 2 — skills/contract-pickup, dev-side. Read reference/READY-CHECK-RUBRIC.md for the rubric and the PM-vs-dev dividing line.

Works for EVERY PRD — frontend, backend, API, data, infra

This gate is stack-neutral. It is not a UI-only tool, and there is no "this is backend, the tool doesn't apply" escape. Every rubric item has a sensible reading for a pure-backend or API PRD — treat the item, not the label:

item frontend reading backend / API / data reading
design Figma / mock link interface / contract spec — OpenAPI, proto, GraphQL schema, event schema
states empty / loading / done / error copy response & failure contract — 2xx/4xx/5xx codes, error bodies, ret/idempotency
flows screens touched endpoints, jobs, queues, consumers touched
scope platforms (iOS/Android/web) services in scope, and what's explicitly out
l10n copy final & localised response/payload format finalised (schema version, error codes)
writer writer/creator surface downstream consumers (services, webhooks, subscribers)
events analytics events metrics / logs / traces (latency, error-rate, throughput)

A backend PRD is not cleared by N/A-ing the UI items — it's cleared by answering the backend equivalents above. If a PM says "it won't work, this is backend," that's the signal to run it with these readings, not to skip it.

Runs in both surfaces

This skill is plain markdown + one deterministic script, so it behaves identically in Claude Code and Cowork. The offline web page (gate/prd-readiness-gate.html) is the same rubric for PMs with no Claude open; it mints the same gate-code format, so a code from any surface verifies in all of them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 651 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. 8d ago First seen · 651 lines · 182 tokens per session scan A 35e380c8b174

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ready-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository iampawan/Manifest (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 182 tokens to every session and 10,056 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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