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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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Quality

71%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

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Quality

Content

42%

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

This is a comprehensive but excessively verbose feature launch playbook. Its greatest strength is the progressive disclosure structure with 10 well-signaled reference files and the clear conceptual framework (ship vs release vs launch, launch tiers, 12 considerations). Its greatest weakness is extreme verbosity—it explains concepts Claude already understands, repeats key points across multiple sections, and describes frameworks rather than providing executable templates or filled-out examples that would make the guidance immediately actionable.

Suggestions

Cut the content by 50-60%: remove explanations of why things matter (Claude knows), eliminate the closing section which restates the entire playbook, and compress the failure modes into a simple table rather than prose descriptions.

Add a concrete, filled-out example of the positioning canvas and launch brief rather than just listing the fields—show what a completed artifact looks like for a specific feature.

Convert the 12-consideration framework into an explicit checklist with gate conditions (e.g., 'Do not proceed to step 9 until step 8 rollback triggers are documented and reviewed') to strengthen workflow clarity.

Replace prose descriptions of rollback triggers and monitoring with a copy-paste-ready template (e.g., a markdown table with columns for metric, threshold, action, owner) to increase actionability.

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Conciseness

The skill is extremely verbose at ~2500+ words. It extensively explains concepts Claude already knows (what shipping/releasing/launching mean, why sales enablement matters, what positioning is). Many sections repeat the same points in slightly different ways. The 'closing' section rehashes the entire playbook. The failure modes section lists 12 items that largely restate points already made in earlier sections. Every section could be cut by 50-70% without losing actionable content.

1 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides structured frameworks (positioning canvas fields, 12-consideration checklist, rollout patterns, monitoring dimensions) that give concrete guidance on what to produce. However, it lacks executable templates, example outputs, or copy-paste-ready artifacts. The positioning canvas lists fields but doesn't show a filled-out example. The rollback triggers give example thresholds but not a template document. It describes rather than demonstrates.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The 12-consideration framework provides a clear sequence, and the comms execution section describes ordering (sales first, support second, etc.). However, validation checkpoints are mostly implicit rather than explicit. The rollback triggers are well-defined, but there's no explicit 'gate check' workflow between steps. The post-launch iteration section describes diagnosis but lacks a structured decision tree or explicit feedback loop with validation steps.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill has excellent progressive disclosure structure with 10 clearly signaled reference files, each linked with descriptive text explaining what they contain. References are one level deep and well-organized. The main document serves as an overview with appropriate detail, pointing to reference files for templates and worked examples. However, no bundle files were provided to verify the references actually exist.

3 / 3

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Description

100%

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

This is a strong, well-crafted skill description that excels across all dimensions. It provides concrete actions, extensive natural trigger terms covering both keywords and user scenarios, explicit 'when to use' guidance, and occupies a clearly distinct niche. The description is slightly verbose but the detail serves the purpose of disambiguation rather than being filler.

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Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions: positioning, internal alignment, customer comms, sales enablement, support readiness, rollout strategy, monitoring with rollback triggers, post-launch measurement against spec hypotheses. Also distinguishes between shipping, releasing, and launching.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both what (positioning, alignment, comms, enablement, readiness, rollout, monitoring, measurement) and when (explicit trigger list plus scenario descriptions like 'planning a launch', 'auditing an existing launch process', 'fixing the metric did not move problem').

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Excellent coverage of natural terms users would say: 'launch plan', 'feature launch', 'launch checklist', 'ship vs release', 'rollout strategy', 'gradual rollout', 'sales enablement', 'support readiness', 'launch announcement', 'post-launch measurement', 'launch failure'. Also includes scenario-based triggers like 'we shipped it but the metric did not move'.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear niche around feature launch operations and go-to-market execution. The specific combination of launch planning, sales enablement, support readiness, and rollback triggers is distinctive and unlikely to conflict with generic project management or product development skills.

3 / 3

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Validation

90%

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

Validation10 / 11 Passed

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