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Generate a comprehensive project summary from milestone artifacts for team onboarding and review

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$ npx -y skills add open-gsd/gsd-core --skill gsd-milestone-summary --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.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/gsd-milestone-summary

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Generate a comprehensive project summary from milestone artifacts for team onboarding and review

SKILL.md

gsd-milestone-summary.SKILL.md
name: gsd-milestone-summary
description: "Generate a comprehensive project summary from milestone artifacts for team onboarding and review"
argument-hint: "[version]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Write
  - Bash
  - Grep
  - Glob

<objective> Generate a structured milestone summary for team onboarding and project review. Reads completed milestone artifacts (ROADMAP, REQUIREMENTS, CONTEXT, SUMMARY, VERIFICATION files) and produces a human-friendly overview of what was built, how, and why.

Purpose: Enable new team members to understand a completed project by reading one document and asking follow-up questions. Output: MILESTONE_SUMMARY written to `.planning/reports/`, presented inline, optional interactive Q&A. </objective>

<execution_context> @~/.claude/gsd-core/workflows/milestone-summary.md </execution_context>

<context> **Project files:**

  • `.planning/ROADMAP.md`
  • `.planning/PROJECT.md`
  • `.planning/STATE.md`
  • `.planning/RETROSPECTIVE.md`
  • `.planning/milestones/v{version}-ROADMAP.md` (if archived)
  • `.planning/milestones/v{version}-REQUIREMENTS.md` (if archived)
  • `.planning/phases/*-*/` (SUMMARY.md, VERIFICATION.md, CONTEXT.md, RESEARCH.md)

**User input:**

  • Version: $ARGUMENTS (optional — defaults to current/latest milestone)

</context>

<process> Execute end-to-end. </process>

<success_criteria>

  • Milestone version resolved (from args, STATE.md, or archive scan)
  • All available artifacts read (ROADMAP, REQUIREMENTS, CONTEXT, SUMMARY, VERIFICATION, RESEARCH, RETROSPECTIVE)
  • Summary document written to `.planning/reports/MILESTONE_SUMMARY-v{version}.md`
  • All 7 sections generated (Overview, Architecture, Phases, Decisions, Requirements, Tech Debt, Getting Started)
  • Summary presented inline to user
  • Interactive Q&A offered
  • STATE.md updated

</success_criteria>

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