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This skill should be used when the user asks to "define acceptance criteria", "what are the success criteria", "set quality gates", "establish acceptance tests", "define what success looks like", or needs to specify pre-declared success criteria before code execution begins.
| name | Acceptance Criteria |
| description | This skill should be used when the user asks to "define acceptance criteria", "what are the success criteria", "set quality gates", "establish acceptance tests", "define what success looks like", or needs to specify pre-declared success criteria before code execution begins. |
Define specific, measurable acceptance criteria before any code execution, following test-driven development principles. Criteria serve as quality gates that critics evaluate with veto authority.
Must be:
/acceptance-criteria define for authentication refactoring:
- All existing tests must pass
- No OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
- Token storage uses httpOnly cookies
- Coverage maintains above 85%
Parsed automatically into structured format.
criteria:
- name: Test Pass Rate
description: All existing auth tests pass
validator: code-critic
threshold: 100%
- name: Security Compliance
description: No OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities introduced
validator: security-critic
checklist: OWASP-2021
- name: Code Coverage
description: Maintain test coverage
validator: code-critic
threshold: ">= 85%"
/acceptance-criteria use template financial
Loads pre-built criteria set for financial calculations.
---
domain: financial
criteria:
- Decimal precision maintained (no float arithmetic)
- Banker's rounding applied (IEEE 754)
- All operations logged to audit trail
- Results formatted to 2 decimal places
- Currency conversion explicit (no implicit conversions)
validators:
- domain-critic (financial specialization)
- code-critic (logic verification)
---
---
domain: security
criteria:
- No SQL injection vectors (parameterized queries only)
- No XSS vulnerabilities (output escaping verified)
- Authentication bypass prevented (auth required on protected routes)
- HTTPS enforced (no plaintext transmission)
- Secrets not in code (environment variables used)
- Password hashing with bcrypt/argon2
validators:
- security-critic
- code-critic (implementation check)
---
---
domain: performance
criteria:
- API latency < 200ms (95th percentile)
- Database queries < 10ms
- No N+1 query patterns
- Memory usage < 512MB
- Caching implemented for expensive operations
validators:
- code-critic (performance checks)
- domain-critic (SLA validation)
---
Each criterion evaluated by assigned critic:
Code Critic checks:
Security Critic checks:
Domain Critic checks:
Update criteria based on lessons learned:
/acceptance-criteria add to financial template:
- Handle leap year calculations correctly
- Timezone conversions must be explicit
Criteria library grows with project experience.
templates/financial.yaml - Financial calculation standardstemplates/security.yaml - OWASP checklist and auth patternstemplates/performance.yaml - Latency SLAs and optimizationreferences/criteria-library.md - All available criteria setsThis skill should be used when the user asks to "show audit trail", "why did we make this decision", "what happened after this", "trace this decision", "show decision history", "search audit log", or needs to understand the decision history and rationale behind code changes verified through coherence check.
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