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This skill should be used when the user says "concept review", "review concept", "update product concept", "synthesize stress tests", "stress test review", "apply stress test findings", "review stress test results", "concept update", "merge stress test recommendations", or wants

shell
$ npx -y skills add AppsVortex/arness --skill arn-spark-concept-review --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/arn-spark-concept-review
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This skill should be used when the user says "concept review", "review concept", "update product concept", "synthesize stress tests", "stress test review", "apply stress test findings", "review stress test results", "concept update", "merge stress test recommendations", or wants

SKILL.md

arn-spark-concept-review.SKILL.md
name: arn-spark-concept-review
description: >-
  This skill should be used when the user says "concept review", "review concept",
  "update product concept", "synthesize stress tests", "stress test review",
  "apply stress test findings", "review stress test results", "concept update",
  "merge stress test recommendations", or wants to synthesize findings from
  completed stress tests into a reviewed and updated product concept document.
  Scans for stress test reports, consolidates recommendations, resolves conflicts
  using product pillars, presents the full changeset for user approval, and
  produces an updated product-concept.md alongside a concept-review-report.md.
version: 1.0.0

Arness Spark Concept Review

Synthesize findings from completed stress tests into an updated product concept. This skill scans for stress test reports, extracts their Recommended Concept Updates tables and Unresolved Questions, invokes the product strategist to consolidate and de-duplicate recommendations, resolves conflicts using product pillars, and presents the full proposed changeset to the user for approval before making any changes.

This is the **only skill that modifies product-concept.md**. All stress test skills are read-only with respect to the product concept -- they write recommendations to their reports, and this skill is the single point where those recommendations become actual changes, subject to explicit user approval.

The process: 1. Scan for available stress test reports 2. Extract all recommendations and unresolved questions 3. Consolidate, de-duplicate, and detect conflicts via the product strategist 4. Conditionally involve the UX specialist for UX-relevant changes 5. Present the full changeset to the user for approval (accept all, or review individually) 6. Apply approved changes: rename the original concept, write the updated concept 7. Write the concept review report as an audit trail

Prerequisites

Configuration Check

1. Read the project's `CLAUDE.md` and check for a `## Arness` section 2. If found, extract the configured **Vision directory** and **Reports directory** paths 3. If no `## Arness` section exists or Arness Spark fields are missing, inform the user: "Arness Spark is not configured for this project yet. Run `/arn-brainstorming` to get started — it will set everything up automatically." Do not proceed without it. 4. If the Reports directory or `stress-tests/` subdirectory does not exist, inform the user: "No stress-tests directory found. Run a stress test skill first to generate reports." (The stress test skills create this directory when writing their reports.)

Data Availability

| Artifact | Status | Location | Fallback | |----------|--------|----------|----------| | Product concept | REQUIRED | `<vision-dir>/product-concept.md` | Cannot proceed without it -- suggest running `/arn-spark-discover` | | Product pillars | REQUIRED | Product Pillars section of product concept | Cannot resolve conflicts without pillars -- suggest running `/arn-spark-discover` to define pillars | | At least 1 stress test report | REQUIRED | `<reports-dir>/stress-tests/` | Cannot proceed without at least one report -- see below | | Competitive landscape | ENRICHES | Competitive Landscape section of product concept | Review proceeds but competitive context is unavailable for conflict resolution |

**Stress test report detection:**

Scan `<reports-dir>/stress-tests/` for the following report files:

  • `interview-report.md` (from `/arn-spark-stress-interview`)
  • `competitive-report.md` (from `/arn-spark-stress-competitive`)
  • `premortem-report.md` (from `/arn-spark-stress-premortem`)
  • `prfaq-report.md` (from `/arn-spark-stress-prfaq`)

Present the scan results to the user:

"Found [N] stress test report(s):

  • ✓ / — Interview Report: [found / not found]
  • ✓ / — Competitive Report: [found / not found]
  • ✓ / — Pre-Mortem Report: [found / not found]
  • ✓ / — PR/FAQ Report: [found / not found]"

Use ✓ for found reports and — for missing reports.

**If 0 reports found:**

Inform the user: "No stress test reports found in `<reports-dir>/stress-tests/`. Run at least one stress test skill before reviewing the concept."

List the available stress test skills:

  • `/arn-spark-stress-interview` -- Synthetic user interviews with adversarial personas
  • `/arn-spark-stress-competitive` -- Competitive gap analysis
  • `/arn-spark-stress-premortem` -- Pre-mortem failure investigation
  • `/arn-spark-stress-prfaq` -- PR/FAQ marketing stress test

Do not proceed. Exit the skill.

**If 1 or more reports found:** Proceed with the available reports.

Workflow

Step 1: Load References

Load the conflict resolution protocol and review report template: > Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/arn-spark-concept-review/references/conflict-resolution-protocol.md` > Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/arn-spark-concept-review/references/review-report-template.md`

Step 2: Read Reports and Extract Data

For each available stress test report:

1. Read the full report from `<reports-dir>/stress-tests/` 2. Extract the **Recommended Concept Updates** table -- parse every row preserving: row number, section, current state, recommended change, type (Add/Modify/Remove), rationale 3. Extract the **Unresolved Questions** section -- parse every row preserving: row number, section, question, options, assessment 4. Record the source report name, file path, and report date for attribution

Also read the current product concept from `<vision-dir>/product-concept.md`. Extract:

  • The full document content (for the strategist)
  • The Product Pillars section specifically (for conflict resolution)
  • All section headings (for validating that recommendations reference real sections)

Step 3: Invoke Product Strategist for Consolidation

Invoke the `arn-spark-product-strategist` agent via the Task tool, passing the model from `.arness/agent-models/spark.md` as the `model` parameter (see `plugins/arn-spark/skills/arn-spark

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