Agent skill

03 Shadow Areas

by ai-driven-dev in ai-driven-dev/framework

Scan a markdown artifact (idea, stories, PRD, spec) for blind spots into a shadow report grouped by category and severity.

MITAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install 03 Shadow Areas

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ai-driven-dev/framework --skill 03-shadow-areas -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ai-driven-dev/framework 03-shadow-areas --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-driven-dev/framework.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/aidd-refine/skills/03-shadow-areas .claude/skills/03-shadow-areas && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
03-shadow-areas
GitHub stars
513
Token cost
~638 tokens
SKILL.md length
256 words
Files
9 (incl. references, assets)
Skills in repo
46
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Scan a markdown artifact (idea, stories, PRD, spec) for blind spots into a shadow report grouped by category and severity.

  • What is missing in a written artifact
  • SKILL.md covers Actions, Transversal rules, References and Assets
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve PRD writing

What it does

03 Shadow Areas is an agent skill from ai-driven-dev/framework. Scan a markdown artifact (idea, stories, PRD, spec) for blind spots into a shadow report grouped by category and severity. Use to find gaps or what is missing in a written artifact. Not for interactive Q&A or code review.

Its SKILL.md is about 640 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 11 other files, including reference files and assets (for example `actions/01-detect.md`, `actions/02-render-report.md` and `actions/03-diff.md`).

It sits in Product & Project Management, covering PRD writing. The repository describes itself as: Marketplace Framework AI-Driven Dev : Context Engineering, Plugins, Agents, Skills, Hooks, Templates, SDLC. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • What is missing in a written artifact
  • Tasks that involve PRD writing

Example prompts

  • “/03-shadow-areas”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6e30640. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

03 Shadow Areas loads about 638 tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 256 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~59
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~638
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ai-driven-dev/framework at commit 6e30640, republished under its MIT licence (© ai-driven-dev). 256 words, ~638 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/03-shadow-areas/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 8 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
03-shadow-areas
description
Scan a markdown artifact (idea, stories, PRD, spec) for blind spots into a shadow report grouped by category and severity. Use to find gaps or what is missing in a written artifact. Not for interactive Q&A or code review.
argument-hint
file | text

Shadow Areas

Analytically scans a written artifact for gaps the author has not addressed. Unlike iterative Q&A clarification, this skill reads the existing material and emits a structured report: each gap carries a category from a locked 7-category taxonomy, a 3-tier severity, and a direct-question probe the author can act on immediately.

Actions

#ActionRoleInput
01detectParse input, extract gaps, classify category and severity, emit probesfile path or inline text
02render-reportRender markdown grouped by category and sorted by severity, write reportgap list from detect
03diffLoad prior report, classify gaps as closed / still-open / newly-introducedgap list from detect + prior report path

Dispatch by context: with no prior report run detect then render-report; with one, run detect then diff. Before running an action, read its file in actions/, not only the table or assets.

Transversal rules

  • Never modify the source artifact.
  • Every gap carries all three: a category, a severity, and a probe question.
  • Every probe is a direct question ending with ?.
  • Categories and severities come from the locked sets in references/locked-sets.json.
  • When zero blockers and zero majors remain, stamp the report status: clean.
  • On re-runs, gaps are matched by category and snippet, never by question wording, so rephrasing a question never creates a spurious "newly introduced" gap.

References

  • references/categories.md: locked 7-category taxonomy with definition and example per category.
  • references/severity-rubric.md: blocker / major / minor decision rules and examples.
  • references/probe-style.md: direct-question form rules.
  • references/locked-sets.json: machine-readable sets reused by the validator.

Assets

  • assets/report-template.md: report skeleton with header, per-category sections, and status: clean block.

© ai-driven-dev, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 8 other files (references, assets) in plugins/aidd-refine/skills/03-shadow-areas of ai-driven-dev/framework.

  • SKILL.md
  • actions/01-detect.md
  • actions/02-render-report.md
  • actions/03-diff.md
  • assets/report-template.md
  • references/categories.md
  • references/locked-sets.json
  • references/probe-style.md
  • references/severity-rubric.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e30640

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Questions about 03 Shadow Areas

What does 03 Shadow Areas do?

Scan a markdown artifact (idea, stories, PRD, spec) for blind spots into a shadow report grouped by category and severity. 03 Shadow Areas is an agent skill from ai-driven-dev/framework. Scan a markdown artifact (idea, stories, PRD, spec) for blind spots into a shadow report grouped by category and severity.

When should I use 03 Shadow Areas?

03 Shadow Areas fits situations like: what is missing in a written artifact; tasks that involve PRD writing.

How do I install 03 Shadow Areas in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ai-driven-dev/framework --skill 03-shadow-areas -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/aidd-refine/skills/03-shadow-areas in ai-driven-dev/framework) into .claude/skills/03-shadow-areas in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install 03 Shadow Areas in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ai-driven-dev/framework --skill 03-shadow-areas -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/aidd-refine/skills/03-shadow-areas in ai-driven-dev/framework) into .agents/skills/03-shadow-areas in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use 03 Shadow Areas in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ai-driven-dev/framework --skill 03-shadow-areas -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/03-shadow-areas, .gemini/skills/03-shadow-areas, .github/skills/03-shadow-areas and .opencode/skills/03-shadow-areas in your project.

What does 03 Shadow Areas need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: 03 Shadow Areas is instructions for the agent only.

Does 03 Shadow Areas access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is 03 Shadow Areas safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does 03 Shadow Areas use?

03 Shadow Areas is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does 03 Shadow Areas use?

About 638 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to 03 Shadow Areas?

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Who maintains 03 Shadow Areas?

ai-driven-dev (a GitHub organization) maintains it in ai-driven-dev/framework, which has 513 GitHub stars. The repository holds 46 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: ai-driven-dev/framework on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.