Gate Check

Gate Check is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by Donchitos in Claude-Code-Game-Studios.

23.9K stars3.4K forkson Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-StudiosAdded 2026/08/14Repository updated 2026/05/21

ai-agentsai-assisted-developmentanthropicclaudeclaude-codegame-designgame-developmentgamedevgodotindie-game-devunityunreal-engine

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Install Gate Check

Copy Gate Check into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/tree/main/.claude/skills/gate-check ~/.claude/skills/gate-check

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/gate-check/SKILL.md in Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/gate-check
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Gate Check does

Gate Check validates readiness to advance between development phases. It produces a PASS/CONCERNS/FAIL verdict with specific blockers and required artifacts, used when someone asks whether the project is ready to move to the next stage.

Gate Check is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Gate Check comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-assisted-development, anthropic, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Gate Check provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/project-stage-detect
/gate-check
/prototype
/design-review
/review-all-gdds
/architecture-review
/vertical-slice
/asset-spec
/create-control-manifest
/create-epics
/create-stories
/ux-review

Frequently asked about Gate Check

What else does Donchitos publish alongside Gate Check?
Gate Check is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adopt, Architecture Decision and Architecture Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Gate Check does, and is maintained by Donchitos in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios page.
How does Gate Check compare to other Quality skills?
Gate Check ranks #136 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Gate Check against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.