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name: stage-gate-reviewer description: Use before moving from requirements to design, design to implementation, implementation to verification, or verification to release.

Stage Gate Reviewer

This skill decides whether a stage may proceed. A stage cannot pass by self-declaration.

Input Artifacts

• 00-stage.json
• 00-artifact-registry.json
• Current stage artifacts
• Evidence inventory when verifying completion

Output Artifact

• docs/full-stack-development/requirements/<feature-slug>/00-gate-report.md

Required MCP Tool

• review_stage_gate
• review_requirement_workspace_stage
• review_visual_evidence
• review_completion_gate

Hard Stops

• No visual design without approved requirements.
• No UI implementation without approved Pencil/Figma visuals reviewed by review_visual_evidence.
• No verification pass without test, build, screenshot when UI applies, code review, and acceptance evidence.

Pressure Test Responsibility

• Jump-to-design requests must block.
• Jump-to-code requests must block.
• A visualDesignApproved boolean without visual evidence must block.
• Verification with missing evidence must block.

Next Gate

• The next stage named by review_stage_gate.nextAllowedStage.