Summary
Reinforce series-qa as a diagnosis-only skill that isolates failures and hands deeper recovery work to longform-story-design.
Problem
series-qa currently diagnoses well, but some wording still drifts toward revision planning. After strengthening longform-story-design for long-range audit + recovery, series-qa should become sharper, not broader.
Goal
- Keep
series-qa focused on diagnosis, evidence, severity, and recheck gates
- Let it suggest repair direction only at a high level
- Hand canon recovery, reconstruction packages, and drafting re-entry work to
longform-story-design
Scope
skills/series-qa/SKILL.md
skills/series-qa/references/diagnostic-workflow.md
skills/series-qa/references/report-templates.md
skills/series-qa/references/regression-checks.md
- optionally
skills/series-qa/references/example-prompts.md
Planned changes
- Add hard diagnosis-only boundaries near the top of the skill
- Add a canonical diagnostic order ending in handoff
- Narrow the output contract to QA artifacts
- Standardize
repair direction plus handoff target language
- Tighten recheck output so it distinguishes QA pass vs. needs recovery planning
Acceptance criteria
- The skill reads as diagnosis-only from the opening section
- It does not imply ownership of reconstruction packages or drafting re-entry packets
- Major findings include evidence, root cause, damage, repair direction, and handoff target
- Templates remain practical QA artifacts rather than redesign plans
- Recheck output verifies the original failure mode is gone
Design doc
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-14-series-qa-diagnostic-handoff-design.md
Summary
Reinforce
series-qaas a diagnosis-only skill that isolates failures and hands deeper recovery work tolongform-story-design.Problem
series-qacurrently diagnoses well, but some wording still drifts toward revision planning. After strengtheninglongform-story-designfor long-range audit + recovery,series-qashould become sharper, not broader.Goal
series-qafocused on diagnosis, evidence, severity, and recheck gateslongform-story-designScope
skills/series-qa/SKILL.mdskills/series-qa/references/diagnostic-workflow.mdskills/series-qa/references/report-templates.mdskills/series-qa/references/regression-checks.mdskills/series-qa/references/example-prompts.mdPlanned changes
repair directionplushandoff targetlanguageAcceptance criteria
Design doc
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-14-series-qa-diagnostic-handoff-design.md