Agent skill

Requirement Convergence

by shinpr in shinpr/claude-code-workflows

Separates the outcome a change must produce from the requirements proposed to reach it, records what the user excluded, and bands cost from structure.

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Install Requirement Convergence

skills CLI
$ npx skills add shinpr/claude-code-workflows --skill requirement-convergence -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install shinpr/claude-code-workflows requirement-convergence --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/shinpr/claude-code-workflows.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/requirement-convergence .claude/skills/requirement-convergence && 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
requirement-convergence
GitHub stars
694
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
820 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
30
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Separates the outcome a change must produce from the requirements proposed to reach it, records what the user excluded, and bands cost from structure.

  • Works in 3 steps: Read the convergence record from the… → Treat nonGoals as excluded from the… → Treat a weak-but-explicit field as a…
  • A requirement enters a workflow
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Convergence Fields, Hearing Protocol and Scope Confirmation, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Requirement Convergence is an agent skill from shinpr/claude-code-workflows. Separates the outcome a change must produce from the requirements proposed to reach it, records what the user excluded, and bands cost from structure. Use when a requirement enters a workflow, before design begins.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/criteria.md`).

The repository describes itself as: Development workflows for Claude Code that keep broad exploration focused on the outcome you approved. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • A requirement enters a workflow
  • Before design begins

Example prompts

  • “Use the requirement-convergence skill to separate the outcome a change must produce from the requirements proposed to reach it, records what the…”
  • “/requirement-convergence”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Read the convergence record from the prompt.
  2. Treat nonGoals as excluded from the current change and desired-future requirements as buildable scope. Evaluation requests, speculative…
  3. Treat a weak-but-explicit field as a recorded open question rather than a settled decision. When work depends on it, return the missing…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a4ecd62. 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

Requirement Convergence loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 820 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~60
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.5k

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 shinpr/claude-code-workflows at commit a4ecd62, republished under its MIT licence (© shinpr). 820 words, ~1,525 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/requirement-convergence/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
requirement-convergence
description
Separates the outcome a change must produce from the requirements proposed to reach it, records what the user excluded, and bands cost from structure. Use when a requirement enters a workflow, before design begins.

Requirement Convergence

Purpose

Requirements arrive bloated, ambiguous, or aimed at the wrong outcome. A capable model reconciles all three into a coherent plan and builds it faithfully — delivering exactly what was asked for when what was asked for was wrong.

This skill converges what to build. How to build it, and which documents the change requires, are settled after the what is.

Convergence Fields

FieldPass condition
outcomeOne observable result. A requirement that does not serve it is excess.
requirements[]Every build-relevant item labeled current-state or desired-future.
nonGoals[]Authored by the user, or the user stated there are none.
costA band with the structural evidence that places it, plus the unknowns that remain.

cost is a rough band, not the effort estimate a work plan schedules against; requirements cannot support person-days. Its unknowns carry more decision weight than its size.

Classify from the user's own retained wording, not from an analyzer's restatement of it: wording that asks for an evaluation, describes a speculative idea, or suggests a mechanism stays in active convergence context as a judgment-only candidate. requirements[] and durable documents receive a candidate only after explicit user confirmation.

Each field carries a readiness label: ready, weak, or weak-but-explicit (weak, and the user agreed to leave it unresolved). Only the user sets weak-but-explicit. Requirements are converged when every applicable field is ready or weak-but-explicit.

Judgment rules per field: references/criteria.md.

Hearing Protocol

Run the hearing after scope analysis has produced the facts needed to judge the convergence fields. The workflow using this skill owns the interaction method and routing; this skill defines the hearing content and pass conditions.

Register these steps before starting and record each step's evidence as it completes:

StepActionCompletion evidence
1Render the Scope Confirmation below, asking only about the fields below readyEach fact cites the analysis output it came from, and User decisions holds one question per field below ready
2Record each answer as that field's valueThe value uses wording the user supplied, not wording the hearing offered
3Re-ask once when a recorded value still fails its pass condition, then mark the field weak-but-explicit when the user agrees to leave the second answer as it standsTwo recorded answers, or the user's agreement to stop
4Hand the record to the step that judges the fieldsAn updated record returned from that step

Step 2's evidence is what keeps the hearing reviewable: a value restating the hearing's own candidates fails it, so the user's judgment survives however the question was put.

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Scope Confirmation

Render this shape at every requirements confirmation stop, whether or not the hearing ran, using only what can change the user's requirement decision or the workflow route.

SectionContents
Confirmed scopeThe requirements and exclusions the user has already selected, in the user's wording
Decision evidenceEach material observed fact with its source, followed by what that fact can change about scope, outcome, or cost
User decisionsEach unresolved product, UX, or operational question, followed by the scope, outcome, or cost effects of its materially different answers
WorkflowRough cost band with the unknowns that remain, Structural Scale, and the selected document and workflow route

Keeping the first three sections separate is what makes the decision informable: merged, the reader cannot tell which line is the user's own settled boundary, which is a repository observation, and which is still open.

Only an explicit user answer moves an item from User decisions into Confirmed scope. Because Step 2 records the user's own wording, pose each open decision as a question and let the user supply its answer. The orchestrator owns Workflow and presents it as a selected route.

Storage Protocol

CarrierHoldsWritten by
The convergence record in the judging step's outputEvery field with its readiness labelThe judging step
PRD Success Criteria and Future / Out of Scopeoutcome; user-authored nonGoalsThe PRD production step
Design Doc Requirement ConvergenceThe same when no PRD exists, and the fields left weak-but-explicit in every caseThe Design Doc production step

A flow that produces neither document carries the record in its own context to the next step.

Reference Protocol (For Downstream Consumers)

  1. Read the convergence record from the prompt.
  2. Treat nonGoals as excluded from the current change and desired-future requirements as buildable scope. Evaluation requests, speculative ideas, prescribed mechanisms, and agent-proposed capabilities that were not promoted create no downstream obligation; an accepted ADR may retain evaluated options as decision history.
  3. Treat a weak-but-explicit field as a recorded open question rather than a settled decision. When work depends on it, return the missing decision and its effect to the owning workflow.

Quality Checklist

  • Scope facts were presented before questions were asked
  • nonGoals came from the user, or the user stated there are none
  • Every applicable field is ready, or weak-but-explicit by the user's agreement

References

  • references/criteria.md — judgment rules per field, cost inputs, challenge intensity, solution-in-disguise test

© shinpr, 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 1 other file (references) in skills/requirement-convergence of shinpr/claude-code-workflows.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/criteria.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a4ecd62

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Questions about Requirement Convergence

What does Requirement Convergence do?

Separates the outcome a change must produce from the requirements proposed to reach it, records what the user excluded, and bands cost from structure. Requirement Convergence is an agent skill from shinpr/claude-code-workflows. Separates the outcome a change must produce from the requirements proposed to reach it, records what the user excluded, and bands cost from structure.

When should I use Requirement Convergence?

Requirement Convergence fits situations like: A requirement enters a workflow; before design begins.

How do I install Requirement Convergence in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add shinpr/claude-code-workflows --skill requirement-convergence -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/requirement-convergence in shinpr/claude-code-workflows) into .claude/skills/requirement-convergence in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Requirement Convergence in Codex?

Run `npx skills add shinpr/claude-code-workflows --skill requirement-convergence -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/requirement-convergence in shinpr/claude-code-workflows) into .agents/skills/requirement-convergence in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Requirement Convergence 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 shinpr/claude-code-workflows --skill requirement-convergence -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/requirement-convergence, .gemini/skills/requirement-convergence, .github/skills/requirement-convergence and .opencode/skills/requirement-convergence in your project.

What does Requirement Convergence need to run?

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

Does Requirement Convergence 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 Requirement Convergence 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 Requirement Convergence use?

Requirement Convergence 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 Requirement Convergence use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.1k 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 943 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Requirement Convergence?

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Who maintains Requirement Convergence?

shinpr (a GitHub user) maintains it in shinpr/claude-code-workflows, which has 694 GitHub stars. The repository holds 30 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 1, 2026.

Source: shinpr/claude-code-workflows on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.