project-stage-detect

project-stage-detect is a skill for Claude Code from tranhieutt/software_development_department. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,663 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-inspection workflow that determines how far an existing software project has progressed and what documentation or implementation is missing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when onboarding to a project, reviewing its design and source files, or deciding the next development steps.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand an unfamiliar codebase and identify gaps before starting work or reaching a milestone.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when onboarding to a project, reviewing its design and source files, or deciding the next development steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tranhieutt/software_development_department/project-stage-detect
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tranhieutt/software_development_department --skill project-stage-detect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tranhieutt/software_development_department

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,663 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.
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 $0.00050 $0.01663
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00831
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00166

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6bd06f865f67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 9d 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.

.claude/skills/project-stage-detect/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 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 PRD files in design/docs/*.md
  • Check for product-concept.md, product-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/specs/

Source Code (src/):

  • Count source files (language-agnostic)
  • Identify major systems (directories with 5+ files)
  • Check for core/, business/, 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 product concept doc, brainstorming phase
Systems Design Product 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 · 226 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. 9d ago First seen · 226 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 6bd06f865f67

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project-stage-detect is a skill published in the GitHub repository tranhieutt/software_development_department (72 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,663 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.

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