Agent skill

Find Gaps

Custom licenceAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install Find Gaps

skills CLI

$ npx skills add citypaul/.dotfiles --skill find-gaps -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install citypaul/.dotfiles find-gaps --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/citypaul/.dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps .claude/skills/find-gaps && 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/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "find-gaps" agent skill from https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles/tree/main/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps into .claude/skills/find-gaps/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "find-gaps", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles/tree/main/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add citypaul/.dotfiles --skill find-gaps -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install citypaul/.dotfiles find-gaps --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps .agents/skills/find-gaps && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "find-gaps" agent skill from https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles/tree/main/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps into .agents/skills/find-gaps/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "find-gaps", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add citypaul/.dotfiles --skill find-gaps -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install citypaul/.dotfiles find-gaps --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps .cursor/skills/find-gaps && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "find-gaps" agent skill from https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles/tree/main/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps into .cursor/skills/find-gaps/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "find-gaps", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles.git --path claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add citypaul/.dotfiles --skill find-gaps -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install citypaul/.dotfiles find-gaps --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps .gemini/skills/find-gaps && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "find-gaps" agent skill from https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles/tree/main/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps into .gemini/skills/find-gaps/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "find-gaps", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install citypaul/.dotfiles find-gaps

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add citypaul/.dotfiles --skill find-gaps -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps .github/skills/find-gaps && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "find-gaps" agent skill from https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles/tree/main/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps into .github/skills/find-gaps/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "find-gaps", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add citypaul/.dotfiles --skill find-gaps -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install citypaul/.dotfiles find-gaps --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps .opencode/skills/find-gaps && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "find-gaps" agent skill from https://github.com/citypaul/.dotfiles/tree/main/claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps into .opencode/skills/find-gaps/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "find-gaps", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: find-gaps
GitHub stars: 740
Token cost: ~6.6k tokens
SKILL.md length: 3,507 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 44
Repo updated: Oct 9, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: Custom licence

At a glance

Works in 6 steps: Survey → Triage → Open the loop → …
An artifact needs tightening before planning
SKILL.md covers When to Use This Skill, Boundary With Nearby Skills, Core Principles and How This Works, plus 8 more sections
Calls pnpm

What it does

Find Gaps is an agent skill from citypaul/.dotfiles. Adversarially review an existing written artifact — stories, plans, acceptance criteria, specs, or design mocks — to surface missing states, unhandled edge cases, unstated assumptions, unverifiable criteria, and slices still too broad or horizontal. Works interactively, one question at a time, writing each answer back into the artifact as a new acceptance criterion, plan update, or mock-state spec. Use when an artifact needs tightening before planning or coding ("what's missing?", "poke holes in this", "tighten…

Its SKILL.md is about 6.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Product & Project Management, covering User stories and Requirements gathering.

When your agent uses it

An artifact needs tightening before planning
Coding (whats missing?
Poke holes in this
Tighten this up)

Example prompts

“s missing?”
“poke holes in this”
“tighten this up”
“/find-gaps”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

Survey
Triage
Open the loop
Ask, refine, capture
Recap every 3–5 gaps
Exit

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cd4028d. 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
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- pnpm
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use pnpm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
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

Find Gaps loads about 6.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 180 tokens; SKILL.md has 3,507 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~180
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~6.6k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 3,507 words (~6,601 tokens).

“Most shipped bugs and post-launch firedrills come from things that were never written down — not from things that were specified wrong. This skill systematically surfaces those absences before implementation, when fixing them is cheap.”

— opening of SKILL.md by citypaul, Custom licence

name: find-gaps

Outline of SKILL.md

Find Gaps
When to Use This Skill
Boundary With Nearby Skills
Core Principles
How This Works
The Gap-Closing Loop
Step 1 — Survey
Step 2 — Triage
Step 3 — Open the loop
Step 4 — Ask, refine, capture
Step 5 — Recap every 3–5 gaps
Step 6 — Exit
Gap Discovery — Checklists
Plans
Acceptance Criteria
Design Mocks
Gap Closing — Turning Answers into Artifact Updates
Answer → Acceptance Criterion
Answer → Plan Update
Answer → Mock State Spec
Working with the User
Asking with Structure
Good fits
Bad fits
Structural rules
Worked example — duplicate invitation, structured
Output
Anti-patterns
Quick reference

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps of citypaul/.dotfiles.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cd4028d

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Extracting Requirementsprime-radiant-inc/iterative-development	181	—	~2.7k	Automated safety check: Pass	Apache-2.0	4 mo ago
PRD Developmentdeanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills	7.2k	3 repos	~6.2k	Automated safety check: Pass	Custom licence	1 mo ago
Backlog Groomingforcedotcom/salesforcedx-vscode	1k	—	~1.5k	Automated safety check: Pass	BSD-3-Clause	yesterday

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Questions about Find Gaps

What does Find Gaps do?

Adversarially review an existing written artifact — stories, plans, acceptance criteria, specs, or design mocks — to surface missing states, unhandled edge cases, unstated assumptions, unverifiable…. dotfiles. Adversarially review an existing written artifact — stories, plans, acceptance criteria, specs, or design mocks — to surface missing states, unhandled edge cases, unstated assumptions, unverifiable criteria, and slices still too broad or horizontal.

When should I use Find Gaps?

Find Gaps fits situations like: an artifact needs tightening before planning; coding (whats missing?; poke holes in this; tighten this up).

How do I install Find Gaps in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add citypaul/.dotfiles --skill find-gaps -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps in citypaul/.dotfiles) into .claude/skills/find-gaps in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Find Gaps in Codex?

Run `npx skills add citypaul/.dotfiles --skill find-gaps -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (claude/.claude/skills/find-gaps in citypaul/.dotfiles) into .agents/skills/find-gaps in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Find Gaps 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 citypaul/.dotfiles --skill find-gaps -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/find-gaps, .gemini/skills/find-gaps, .github/skills/find-gaps and .opencode/skills/find-gaps in your project.

What does Find Gaps need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Find Gaps needs the command-line tools its instructions call (pnpm).

Does Find Gaps 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 Find Gaps 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 Find Gaps use?

Find Gaps has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Find Gaps use?

About 6.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 26k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Find Gaps?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Find Gaps: Feature Forge (Jeffallan/claude-skills, 12k stars), User Story Writer (deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, 7.2k stars), Extracting Requirements (prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development, 181 stars) and PRD Development (deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, 7.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Find Gaps?

citypaul (a GitHub user) maintains it in citypaul/.dotfiles, which has 740 GitHub stars. The repository holds 44 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: citypaul/.dotfiles on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Find Gaps

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Files

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