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Use to evaluate whether current work aligns with Better Value Sooner Safer Happier. Run at diamond completion and periodically.
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Use to evaluate the current state of a diamond. Checks theory gates, confidence levels, and recommends next action.
Use when building anything USER-FACING (or with persuasion/retention/cancellation/consent/pricing flows, or that touches vulnerable people) to surface design-level harm the security/privacy/compliance gates miss: dark/deceptive patterns and foreseeable misuse. Assumes the product works as designed and asks who it could harm and whether it is Happier-negative. NUDGE, not a block.
Lint canvas files for staleness, missing fields, inconsistent evidence types, and orphaned references. Run periodically or before major transitions.
Accessibility audit against WCAG 2.1 AA. Checks semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard navigation, color contrast, screen reader compatibility.
Design the smallest viable test to validate or invalidate a critical assumption. Based on Torres's assumption testing framework, organized by Gilad's AFTER model (Assessment → Fact-Finding → Tests → Experiments → Release Results).
Use before any research activity or significant decision. Reviews cognitive biases relevant to the current stage.
| name | bvssh-check |
| description | Use to evaluate whether current work aligns with Better Value Sooner Safer Happier. Run at diamond completion and periodically. |
| metadata | {"instruction_budget":"50","framework_dependency":"mycelium","framework_dependency_note":"This skill is designed to run within the Mycelium framework (https://github.com/haabe/mycelium). Standalone use will skip the canvas state, theory gates, and harness behavior the skill assumes. Install: /plugin install mycelium@haabe-mycelium."} |
Evaluate alignment with Better Value Sooner Safer Happier.
For each dimension, assess current state:
Smart's Happier covers four stakeholders: customers, colleagues, citizens, and climate. "Not 'more for less' at any human or climatic cost."
Colleagues:
Customers:
Citizens:
Climate:
Compute/token usage proportionate to value delivered? (Not brute-forcing with retries)
Waste prevented? (Projects killed before unnecessary code, discovery before delivery)
Sustainable resource usage patterns?
Evidence: [cite specific metrics or observations]
CALMS originated as CAMS (Culture, Automation, Measurement, Sharing) coined by Damon Edwards and John Willis at DevOpsDays Mountainview 2010. Jez Humble added the L (Lean) to create CALMS.
Assess the five cultural dimensions that explain WHY DORA outcomes are what they are:
Interpreting CALMS with DORA: DORA tells you WHAT your delivery performance is. CALMS explains WHY. If DORA metrics are poor, CALMS identifies the cultural root cause. If DORA is good but CALMS is weak, the performance is fragile.
Lead with the verdict; make Red pop (Von Restorff, per harness/design-principles.md — a declining dimension buried in a uniform table is the one thing the reader must not scroll past; graduated from two consecutive /framework-health 4e flags, 2026-06-05 + 2026-06-12):
## BVSSH Assessment
> **Verdict: [HEALTHY | N dimension(s) RED/declining — [name them]]** — [one line on the single most important move]
Date: [date]
Diamond: [ID if applicable]
| Dimension | Status | Trend | Key Evidence |
|-----------|--------|-------|-------------|
| Better | Green/Amber/Red | Improving/Stable/Declining | ... |
| Value | Green/Amber/Red | Improving/Stable/Declining | ... |
| Sooner | Green/Amber/Red | Improving/Stable/Declining | ... |
| Safer | Green/Amber/Red | Improving/Stable/Declining | ... |
| Happier | Green/Amber/Red | Improving/Stable/Declining | ... |
### CALMS Culture Health
| Dimension | Status | Key Signal |
|-----------|--------|-----------|
| Culture | Green/Amber/Red | ... |
| Automation | Green/Amber/Red | ... |
| Lean | Green/Amber/Red | ... |
| Measurement | Green/Amber/Red | ... |
| Sharing | Green/Amber/Red | ... |
Overall: [summary and recommended actions]
Any Red cell (either table) gets a bolded **Red** + a one-line Blocking:-style callout under its table — never left as an undifferentiated table value.
APPEND a ### BVSSH Assessment entry to .claude/harness/decision-log.md with: all 5 dimension ratings, CALMS ratings, key evidence, recommended actions.