playbook/antigravity-awesome-skills/skills/yao-meta-skill/references/qa-ladder.md

QA Ladder

Use the smallest quality gate set that still protects the user from likely failure.

Basic

Use when:

• the skill is disposable or exploratory
• the route is obvious
• there is little downside to imperfect output

Recommended checks:

• structure sanity
• naming alignment
• a quick read for boundary clarity

Standard

Use when:

• the skill will be reused
• near-neighbor prompts are plausible
• references or scripts could drift from the main instructions

Recommended checks:

• validate_skill.py
• resource_boundary_check.py
• a small trigger prompt set
• one description optimization pass when route wording is still unstable
• one realistic output example

Advanced

Use when:

• the skill is shared infrastructure
• packaging or routing errors would be costly
• you want evidence that the skill stays healthy over time

Recommended checks:

• description optimization suite with dev and holdout cases
• family-based trigger regression
• failure and anti-pattern regression
• governance scoring
• packaging contract validation
• regression history and result reporting

Escalation Heuristics

• add trigger eval before writing more instruction detail
• add boundary checks before adding more folders
• add governance and history once the skill becomes a maintained asset
• do not add advanced checks only for optics