Research industry standards and best practices, identify viable approaches for a given technical or architectural problem, and produce a structured factual comparison against project-specific…

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Install Approach Evaluation

skills CLI
$ npx skills add digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework --skill approach-evaluation -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework approach-evaluation --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/digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.gaai/core/skills/cross/approach-evaluation .claude/skills/approach-evaluation && 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
approach-evaluation
GitHub stars
163
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
655 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
51
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Research industry standards and best practices, identify viable approaches for a given technical or architectural problem, and produce a structured factual comparison against project-specific…

  • Works in 4 steps: Problem Framing → Industry Research → Structured Comparison → …
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose / When to Activate, Process, Outputs and Quality Checks, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Approach Evaluation is an agent skill from digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework. Research industry standards and best practices, identify viable approaches for a given technical or architectural problem, and produce a structured factual comparison against project-specific constraints. Reports options — does not decide.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts. Compatibility notes: Works with any filesystem-based AI coding agent

The repository describes itself as: Turns AI coding tools into reliable software delivery systems. Drop a .gaai/ folder into any project — Discovery defines what to build, Delivery executes autonomously until…

Example prompts

  • “/approach-evaluation”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Works with any filesystem-based AI coding agent

Workflow steps

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

  1. Problem Framing
  2. Industry Research
  3. Structured Comparison
  4. Trade-off Surfacing

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a26ea7a. 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 (its code samples are markdown).

    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.

  • Compatibility

    Works with any filesystem-based AI coding agent

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Approach Evaluation loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 655 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~65
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k

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 655 words (~1,898 tokens).

“Activate when the invoking agent identifies a technical or architectural decision point where:”

— opening of SKILL.md by digipulse-engineering, Custom licence
name
approach-evaluation
compatibility
Works with any filesystem-based AI coding agent
license
ELv2
metadata.author
gaai-framework
metadata.version
1.0
metadata.category
cross
metadata.track
cross-cutting
metadata.id
SKILL-APPROACH-EVALUATION-001
metadata.updated_at
2026-02-26
metadata.status
stable
inputs
problem_statement (what needs to be solved), contexts/memory/index.md (registry — resolve project context, patterns, decisions files), contexts/memory/**…
outputs
contexts/artefacts/evaluations/{id}.approach-evaluation.md

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .gaai/core/skills/cross/approach-evaluation of digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a26ea7a

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Questions about Approach Evaluation

What does Approach Evaluation do?

Research industry standards and best practices, identify viable approaches for a given technical or architectural problem, and produce a structured factual comparison against project-specific…. Approach Evaluation is an agent skill from digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework. Research industry standards and best practices, identify viable approaches for a given technical or architectural problem, and produce a structured factual comparison against project-specific constraints.

How do I install Approach Evaluation in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework --skill approach-evaluation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.gaai/core/skills/cross/approach-evaluation in digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework) into .claude/skills/approach-evaluation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Approach Evaluation in Codex?

Run `npx skills add digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework --skill approach-evaluation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.gaai/core/skills/cross/approach-evaluation in digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework) into .agents/skills/approach-evaluation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Approach Evaluation 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 digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework --skill approach-evaluation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/approach-evaluation, .gemini/skills/approach-evaluation, .github/skills/approach-evaluation and .opencode/skills/approach-evaluation in your project.

What does Approach Evaluation need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Approach Evaluation is instructions for the agent only. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Works with any filesystem-based AI coding agent.

Does Approach Evaluation 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 Approach Evaluation 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 Approach Evaluation use?

Approach Evaluation 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 Approach Evaluation use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.6k 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 Approach Evaluation?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Approach Evaluation: Arize Evaluator (github/awesome-copilot, 40k stars), LLM Evaluation (davila7/claude-code-templates, 32k stars), Creating Online Evaluations (PostHog/posthog, 40k stars) and Agent Evaluation (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Approach Evaluation?

digipulse-engineering (a GitHub organization) maintains it in digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework, which has 163 GitHub stars. The repository holds 51 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 29, 2026.

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