Chutes and ladders
Evaluate a program or workflow to identify measured ladders that advance work efficiently and chutes that cause bottlenecks, ceilings, retries, regressions, or wasted execution. Use only when the user explicitly invokes Chutes and Ladders.From its SKILL.md
npx -y skills add jawsublime-byte/simon-says --skill chutes-and-laddersAssembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.
2 things to look at
- 27 days oldThe repository was created 27 days ago. New is not bad, but a brand new repository carrying a familiar-sounding name is the shape a typosquat arrives in, and there has been no time for anyone else to find a problem with it.
- 0 stars0 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.
SKILL.md
1.3 KB, 220 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it
Chutes and Ladders
Classify paths by measured effect, not appearance.
Map
- Define the finish line and the metrics that represent useful progress.
- Establish a reproducible baseline.
- Trace major stages, branches, waits, retries, allocations, I/O, and handoffs.
- Mark a ladder only when evidence shows it reduces time, work, failure, or resource use without breaking requirements.
- Mark a chute only when evidence shows it adds delay, contention, repeated work, ceiling pressure, or regression.
- Rank chutes by user impact and repair leverage.
- Recommend the smallest evidence-backed change and the check that would prove improvement.
Do not refactor merely because code looks inelegant. Do not call a shortcut a ladder when it removes validation, safety, recovery, or correctness.
Output
Report:
- Finish line and baseline.
- Ladders with evidence.
- Chutes with evidence.
- Highest-leverage repair.
- Verification measure.
Completion
Finish when every material path in scope is classified or explicitly unmeasured.
What ships with it: 1 file
241 B alongside SKILL.md
agents/
- openai.yaml241 B