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Al Kickoff — Data skill for Claude Code

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Ticket-to-shipped pipeline, running only the stages the task's real weight earns.

How to install Al Kickoff

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/al-af-al-skills-al-kickoff/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/al-af-al-skills-al-kickoff && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/al-af/al-skills/HEAD/commands/al-kickoff.md -o ~/.claude/skills/al-af-al-skills-al-kickoff/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Al Kickoff does

description: Ticket-to-shipped pipeline, running only the stages the task's real weight earns

Classify first, out loud, lightest lane that holds: **trivial** (one rung on `al`'s ladder, no branch/loop/parser/money/security path) skips spec/plan/challenge entirely; **bounded** (well-scoped, existing flow, no real ambiguity) skips spec, keeps a short plan; **full** (new subsystem, multi-file, genuinely open approach) runs everything. The ratchet is one-way — hidden complexity found mid-ta

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