evaluation-preflight

Validate an Arena evaluation protocol before any costly or result-producing run.

SKILL.md

GitHub

Perform a read-only preflight for Arena evaluation $0. Do not start the evaluation.

Read AGENTS.md and the governing Issue/protocol, then verify only requirements that are actually specified, including as applicable:

  • execution target and required merged revision
  • clean-worktree requirement
  • candidate and baseline identity
  • seed set, game count, duplicate layout, and worker constraints
  • artifact/output location and overwrite policy
  • pre-execution lock or receipt requirements
  • one-shot, rerun, or result-publication restrictions
  • dependency/pin identity
  • estimated runtime/cost when the protocol makes it decision-relevant

Treat application/protocol-level validation as authoritative. Claude Hooks are only operator-error guards and must not be treated as the research-integrity boundary.

Report PASS, BLOCKED, or NOT APPLICABLE for each relevant item and list any command the user should run next. Do not execute the result-producing command.