04-shadow-areas

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Scan a markdown artifact (idea, stories, PRD, spec) for blind spots into a shadow report grouped by category and severity. Use to find gaps or what is missing in a written artifact. Not for interactive Q&A or code review.

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Shadow Areas

Analytically scans a written artifact for gaps the author has not addressed. Unlike iterative Q&A clarification, this skill reads the existing material and emits a structured report: each gap carries a category from a locked 7-category taxonomy, a 3-tier severity, and a direct-question probe the author can act on immediately.

Actions

#	Action	Role	Input
01	`detect`	Parse input, extract gaps, classify category and severity, emit probes	file path or inline text
02	`render-report`	Render markdown grouped by category and sorted by severity, write report	gap list from detect
03	`diff`	Load prior report, classify gaps as closed / still-open / newly-introduced	gap list from detect + prior report path

Dispatch by context: with no prior report run detect then render-report; with one, run detect then diff. Before running an action, read its file in actions/, not only the table or assets.

Transversal rules

Never modify the source artifact.
Every gap carries all three: a category, a severity, and a probe question.
Every probe is a direct question ending with ?.
Categories and severities come from the locked sets in references/locked-sets.json.
When zero blockers and zero majors remain, stamp the report status: clean.
On re-runs, gaps are matched by category and snippet, never by question wording, so rephrasing a question never creates a spurious "newly introduced" gap.

References

references/categories.md: locked 7-category taxonomy with definition and example per category.
references/severity-rubric.md: blocker / major / minor decision rules and examples.
references/probe-style.md: direct-question form rules.
references/locked-sets.json: machine-readable sets reused by the validator.

Assets

assets/report-template.md: report skeleton with header, per-category sections, and status: clean block.