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feature-launch-playbook

The operational playbook for launching a feature well. Positioning, internal alignment, customer comms, sales enablement, support readiness, rollout strategy, monitoring with pre-defined rollback triggers, post-launch measurement against spec hypotheses, and the discipline that distinguishes shipping from releasing from actually launching. Triggers on launch plan, feature launch, launch checklist, ship vs release, rollout strategy, gradual rollout, sales enablement, support readiness, launch announcement, post-launch measurement, launch failure, declared victory too early. Also triggers when planning a launch (any size, any segment), auditing an existing launch process, fixing the we shipped it but the metric did not move problem, or building a launch checklist for the team.

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured operational playbook: chronological phases, explicit health-check gates and rollback triggers, a readiness checklist, and clean one-level-deep progressive disclosure to ten real reference files. The main weakness is redundancy — the core distinction and failure modes are each restated two to three times across the intro, dedicated sections, framework recap, and closing — which inflates token cost without adding guidance.

Suggestions

Cut or compress the 'The framework: 12 considerations' section and the 'Common failure modes' list into a single consolidated checklist — both largely restate the per-section failure paragraphs and the section content verbatim.

State the ship/release/launch distinction once (in its dedicated section) and reduce the intro and closing sections to one-line pointers to it, saving roughly 30 lines of repeated framing.

Replace the 'blast radius times confidence times external commitments' metaphor with an explicit decision procedure or worked example in the rollout section, mirroring the concrete rollback-trigger examples.

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Conciseness

The guidance itself is dense and opinionated rather than fluffy, but the ~340-line body restates the same material several times: the ship/release/launch distinction appears in the intro, its own section, and the closing; each section's failure paragraph is repeated in 'Common failure modes'; and 'The framework: 12 considerations' is a compressed recap of the entire body. Merging these would cut a substantial fraction of tokens without losing information.

3 / 5

Actionability

For an instruction-only skill the guidance is largely concrete and executable: specific deliverables ('One-page battlecard', 'FAQ document', 'demo script'), explicit timings ('distributed two to four weeks before launch', '1 percent, then 10 percent, then 25 percent'), and copy-ready rollback triggers ('Error rate above 1 percent sustained for 5 minutes triggers rollback'). Minor gaps remain, e.g. the decision framework 'Feature blast radius times confidence in correctness times external commitments' is a metaphor without an actual decision procedure.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The workflow is clearly sequenced (pre-launch positioning/alignment/comms/enablement/support, launch-day rollout/monitoring/comms execution, post-launch measurement/iteration) with explicit validation gates: comms 'gated on a rollout health check', the closing readiness checklist ('If any of those answers is no, the launch is not ready'), the plan review 'two weeks before launch; gaps are filled', rollback triggers that fire automatically, and a diagnosis-to-fix mapping for post-launch problems.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is an overview with ten real, one-level-deep reference files, each clearly signaled at the end of its section ('Detail in [references/...]') and indexed with one-line descriptions in a dedicated 'Reference files' section; all ten referenced paths exist in the bundle.

5 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: it names the domain comprehensively, provides an explicit two-part trigger clause with natural user phrasings, and stays in third person. The only weaknesses are nominal (noun-list rather than verb-action) capability phrasing and minor trigger overlap with adjacent PM/marketing skills.

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Specificity

Enumerates concrete workstreams — 'Positioning, internal alignment, customer comms, sales enablement, support readiness, rollout strategy, monitoring with pre-defined rollback triggers, post-launch measurement' — covering the domain comprehensively, but the items are noun-named deliverables rather than verb-phrased actions like the anchor-5 example, a minor phrasing gap.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both questions: the 'what' is the enumerated operational playbook for launching, and the 'when' is stated twice with concrete trigger phrases ('Triggers on...' and 'Also triggers when planning a launch (any size, any segment), auditing an existing launch process, fixing the we shipped it but the metric did not move problem, or building a launch checklist for the team').

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Comprehensive natural trigger coverage with synonyms and real user phrasings: 'launch plan, feature launch, launch checklist, ship vs release, gradual rollout, sales enablement, support readiness, launch announcement' plus colloquial phrases like 'we shipped it but the metric did not move' and 'declared victory too early'.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The feature-launch niche is clear with distinct triggers (launch plan, launch checklist, ship vs release), but terms like 'sales enablement', 'support readiness', and 'gradual rollout' carry minor overlap risk with adjacent sales-comms and feature-flagging skills; third-person voice is used correctly.

4 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Total

15

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16

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