| name | plan-devex-review |
| description | Pre-implementation developer-experience review for Codex. Use when a plan is for APIs, CLIs, SDKs, docs, or developer-facing platforms. |
Plan DevEx Review
Use this skill when the product is for developers and the plan should be judged on onboarding, clarity, and time-to-value before implementation starts.
This port is adapted from garrytan/gstack at commit 4d2c8d94d00cc4f4f3d4c26316a4f939ceedc045.
Workflow
- Read the plan and identify the target developer persona.
- Trace the intended first-run journey:
- discovery
- install or setup
- hello world
- first real success
- Stress-test the plan for:
- time to first working result
- documentation clarity
- API or CLI ergonomics
- failure handling and error messages
- magical moment versus tedious setup
- Rewrite the plan to reduce friction and expose the real adoption bottlenecks.
Guardrails
- Do not confuse backend complexity with good developer experience.
- Prefer concrete journey steps over abstract DX slogans.
- Name the highest-friction step explicitly.
Outputs
Always include:
- target developer persona
- expected hello-world path
- biggest friction points
- revised DevEx direction
- what to test after implementation
- next 1-3 actions