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Prove The Effort — Design skill for Claude Code

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grill a plan, design, brainstorm, option, review, claim or "done" report by making it name the one concrete thing that would prove the effort's feasible, optimal and worth it.

How to install Prove The Effort

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/bodencrouch-prove-the-effort-prove-the-effort/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/bodencrouch-prove-the-effort-prove-the-effort && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bodencrouch/prove-the-effort/HEAD/commands/prove-the-effort.md -o ~/.claude/skills/bodencrouch-prove-the-effort-prove-the-effort/SKILL.md

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

What Prove The Effort does

description: grill a plan, design, brainstorm, option, review, claim or "done" report by making it name the one concrete thing that would prove the effort's feasible, optimal and worth it argument-hint: "[what to grill, empty = whatever's on screen]"

run the `prove-the-effort` skill on the argument. no argument, run it on whatever's on screen or in scope.

six rules from `skills/prove-the-effort/SKILL.md`:

stance first, one sentence, then the one question that would move you
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