gate-check

gate-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios. It costs 64 tokens per session (8,225 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A readiness check for moving a game project from one development phase to another, such as design, production, polish, or release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check whether the project is ready for the next phase or a specific production milestone.
Why use it?
It identifies missing documents, quality issues, and blockers before you advance.

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/striderza/opencodegamestudios/gate-check
Any agent
npx skills add striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios --skill gate-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,225 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 $0.00064 $0.08225
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.04112
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01645
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00822

Measured yesterday against content hash 8f3c8ce318b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gate-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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/modules/core/skills/gate-check/SKILL.md · 669 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 669 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phase Gate Validation

This skill validates whether the project is ready to advance to the next development phase. It checks for required artifacts, quality standards, and blockers.

Distinct from /project-stage-detect: That skill is diagnostic ("where are we?"). This skill is prescriptive ("are we ready to advance?" with a formal verdict).

Production Stages (7)

The project progresses through these stages:

  1. Exploration — Pre-workflow: rapid prototyping multiple ideas (/explore)
  2. Concept — Brainstorming, game concept document
  3. Systems Design — Mapping systems, writing GDDs
  4. Technical Setup — Engine config, architecture decisions
  5. Pre-Production — Prototyping, vertical slice validation
  6. Production — Feature development (Epic/Feature/Task tracking active)
  7. Polish — Performance, playtesting, bug fixing
  8. Release — Launch prep, certification

Special gate: workflow-selection — Only valid from the Exploration stage. When it passes, it sets both production/workflow-mode.txt (hybrid or full) and production/stage.txt (Concept). See the Workflow Selection gate below.


1. Parse Arguments

Target phase: $ARGUMENTS[0] (blank = auto-detect current stage, then validate next transition)

Also resolve the review mode (once, store for all gate spawns this run):

  1. If --review [full|lean|solo] was passed → use that
  2. Else read production/review-mode.txt → use that value
  3. Else → default to lean

Note: in solo mode, director spawns (CD-PHASE-GATE, TD-PHASE-GATE, PR-PHASE-GATE, AD-PHASE-GATE) are skipped — gate-check becomes artifact-existence checks only. In lean mode, all four directors still run (phase gates are the purpose of lean mode).

  • With argument: /gate-check production — validate readiness for that specific phase /gate-check workflow-selection — run workflow selection (only valid from exploration stage)
  • No argument: Auto-detect current stage using the same heuristics as /project-stage-detect, then confirm with the user before running:

Read the full file on GitHub · 669 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. yesterday First seen · 669 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 8f3c8ce318b6

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gate-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios (84 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 8,225 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.