Describe Change — Productivity skill for Claude Code
You MUST run this as the FIRST step of ANY implementation task.
How to install Describe Change
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/ntanner-ctrl-claude-sail-describe-change/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ntanner-ctrl-claude-sail-describe-change && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ntanner-ctrl/claude-sail/HEAD/commands/describe-change.md -o ~/.claude/skills/ntanner-ctrl-claude-sail-describe-change/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Describe Change does
description: You MUST run this as the FIRST step of ANY implementation task. Determines required planning depth before you proceed. arguments:
- name: name description: Short name for this change (used for blueprint tracking) required: false
Describe Change
Lightweight triage that determines how much planning infrastructure to invoke. **Start here** for any non-trivial change.
Process
Step 1: Describe the Change
Ask the user:
**What are you changing?** (plain E
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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