scope-hammer skillA
scope-hammer is agent-read markdown (skill) from nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin: Use this skill whenever a Shape Up build run reaches its stop condition — the circuit breaker (round budget or a scope's attempt budget) trips, or all scopes finish and it's time to decide when to stop (step 11) — and needs a must-have census, a baseline-anchored cut list, and a ship verdict. Trigger on: "scope hammer", "hammer this down to must-haves", "decide when to stop", "cut list vs baseline", "circuit breaker tripped, what do we ship", "compare against the baseline not the ideal", "GATE H.
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What the file says
# Scope Hammer (GATE H — Decide When to Stop) The mechanism behind Shape Up step 11: as the appetite/round budget runs out, cut back on perfectionist ambitions by comparing the *actual* product to the **baseline** — what customers live with today — not to a hypothetical perfect version. "Better than the baseline" is good enough to ship; "not as good as I imagined" is not a reason to keep building. **Why this is its own skill, not tech-lead prose.** GATE H census pulls from several sources that accumulate over a whole run (QA findings, discovered-task ledger, attempt-budget overflows, per-scope inner-breaker trips) — a genuinely separate synthesis step from orchestration. Splitting it out keeps `tech-lead` thin (it dispatches, this skill decides what survives the hammer) and gives the census/cut-list/verdict logic one owner instead of being re-derived inline at every SHIP. --- ## When this fires ``` 1. All scopes reach FINISHED on the hill → normal stop, post-QA-hunt. 2. Outer circuit breaker trips: round_budget reaches 0 with scopes still uphill/downhill. 3. Inner circuit breaker trips: a scope's attempt_budget (default 5) is exhausted without a …
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How to install
mdr add nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin/scope-hammer@git:20260922.449c249mdr add nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin/scope-hammer@sha256:8b7964a93e0a2942Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260922.449c249 latest | 2026-09-22 | 449c249 | 13,115 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.8cb684c | 2026-09-20 | 8cb684c | 12,383 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260919.9106bc8 | 2026-09-19 | 9106bc8 | 12,393 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260912.d969d65 | 2026-09-12 | d969d65 | 11,584 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.0e41b77 | 2026-08-13 | 0e41b77 | 10,410 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.8203778 | 2026-08-12 | 8203778 | 10,476 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13115 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rn4h67bagepdogq5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin/scope-hammer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8b7964a93e0a2942edda3da32388b09bce642a4229596b61c2cd9675ba24ffe0
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