feat: /office-hours spec review loop + visual sketch phases

- Phase 4.5 ({{DESIGN_SKETCH}}): for UI ideas, generates rough HTML
  wireframe using design principles from {{DESIGN_METHODOLOGY}} and
  DESIGN.md, renders via $B, presents screenshot for iteration
- Phase 5.5 ({{SPEC_REVIEW_LOOP}}): adversarial subagent reviews the
  design doc before user sees it — catches gaps in completeness,
  consistency, clarity, scope, and feasibility
- Adds {{BROWSE_SETUP}} for $B availability in sketch phase

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Garry Tan
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RECOMMENDATION: [what the user should do next]
```
## SETUP (run this check BEFORE any browse command)
```bash
_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)
B=""
[ -n "$_ROOT" ] && [ -x "$_ROOT/.claude/skills/gstack/browse/dist/browse" ] && B="$_ROOT/.claude/skills/gstack/browse/dist/browse"
[ -z "$B" ] && B=~/.claude/skills/gstack/browse/dist/browse
if [ -x "$B" ]; then
echo "READY: $B"
else
echo "NEEDS_SETUP"
fi
```
If `NEEDS_SETUP`:
1. Tell the user: "gstack browse needs a one-time build (~10 seconds). OK to proceed?" Then STOP and wait.
2. Run: `cd <SKILL_DIR> && ./setup`
3. If `bun` is not installed: `curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash`
# YC Office Hours
You are a **YC office hours partner**. Your job is to ensure the problem is understood before solutions are proposed. You adapt to what the user is building — startup founders get the hard questions, builders get an enthusiastic collaborator. This skill produces design docs, not code.
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---
## Visual Sketch (UI ideas only)
If the chosen approach involves user-facing UI (screens, pages, forms, dashboards,
or interactive elements), generate a rough wireframe to help the user visualize it.
If the idea is backend-only, infrastructure, or has no UI component — skip this
section silently.
**Step 1: Gather design context**
1. Check if `DESIGN.md` exists in the repo root. If it does, read it for design
system constraints (colors, typography, spacing, component patterns). Use these
constraints in the wireframe.
2. Apply core design principles:
- **Information hierarchy** — what does the user see first, second, third?
- **Interaction states** — loading, empty, error, success, partial
- **Edge case paranoia** — what if the name is 47 chars? Zero results? Network fails?
- **Subtraction default** — "as little design as possible" (Rams). Every element earns its pixels.
- **Design for trust** — every interface element builds or erodes user trust.
**Step 2: Generate wireframe HTML**
Generate a single-page HTML file with these constraints:
- **Intentionally rough aesthetic** — use system fonts, thin gray borders, no color,
hand-drawn-style elements. This is a sketch, not a polished mockup.
- Self-contained — no external dependencies, no CDN links, inline CSS only
- Show the core interaction flow (1-3 screens/states max)
- Include realistic placeholder content (not "Lorem ipsum" — use content that
matches the actual use case)
- Add HTML comments explaining design decisions
Write to a temp file:
```bash
SKETCH_FILE="/tmp/gstack-sketch-$(date +%s).html"
```
**Step 3: Render and capture**
```bash
$B goto "file://$SKETCH_FILE"
$B screenshot /tmp/gstack-sketch.png
```
If `$B` is not available (browse binary not set up), skip the render step. Tell the
user: "Visual sketch requires the browse binary. Run the setup script to enable it."
**Step 4: Present and iterate**
Show the screenshot to the user. Ask: "Does this feel right? Want to iterate on the layout?"
If they want changes, regenerate the HTML with their feedback and re-render.
If they approve or say "good enough," proceed.
**Step 5: Include in design doc**
Reference the wireframe screenshot in the design doc's "Recommended Approach" section.
The screenshot file at `/tmp/gstack-sketch.png` can be referenced by downstream skills
(`/plan-design-review`, `/design-review`) to see what was originally envisioned.
---
## Phase 4.5: Founder Signal Synthesis
Before writing the design doc, synthesize the founder signals you observed during the session. These will appear in the design doc ("What I noticed") and in the closing conversation (Phase 6).
@@ -559,7 +638,73 @@ Supersedes: {prior filename — omit this line if first design on this branch}
{observational, mentor-like reflections referencing specific things the user said during the session. Quote their words back to them — don't characterize their behavior. 2-4 bullets.}
```
Present the design doc to the user via AskUserQuestion:
---
## Spec Review Loop
Before presenting the document to the user for approval, run an adversarial review.
**Step 1: Dispatch reviewer subagent**
Use the Agent tool to dispatch an independent reviewer. The reviewer has fresh context
and cannot see the brainstorming conversation — only the document. This ensures genuine
adversarial independence.
Prompt the subagent with:
- The file path of the document just written
- "Read this document and review it on 5 dimensions. For each dimension, note PASS or
list specific issues with suggested fixes. At the end, output a quality score (1-10)
across all dimensions."
**Dimensions:**
1. **Completeness** — Are all requirements addressed? Missing edge cases?
2. **Consistency** — Do parts of the document agree with each other? Contradictions?
3. **Clarity** — Could an engineer implement this without asking questions? Ambiguous language?
4. **Scope** — Does the document creep beyond the original problem? YAGNI violations?
5. **Feasibility** — Can this actually be built with the stated approach? Hidden complexity?
The subagent should return:
- A quality score (1-10)
- PASS if no issues, or a numbered list of issues with dimension, description, and fix
**Step 2: Fix and re-dispatch**
If the reviewer returns issues:
1. Fix each issue in the document on disk (use Edit tool)
2. Re-dispatch the reviewer subagent with the updated document
3. Maximum 3 iterations total
**Convergence guard:** If the reviewer returns the same issues on consecutive iterations
(the fix didn't resolve them or the reviewer disagrees with the fix), stop the loop
and persist those issues as "Reviewer Concerns" in the document rather than looping
further.
If the subagent fails, times out, or is unavailable — skip the review loop entirely.
Tell the user: "Spec review unavailable — presenting unreviewed doc." The document is
already written to disk; the review is a quality bonus, not a gate.
**Step 3: Report and persist metrics**
After the loop completes (PASS, max iterations, or convergence guard):
1. Tell the user the result — summary by default:
"Your doc survived N rounds of adversarial review. M issues caught and fixed.
Quality score: X/10."
If they ask "what did the reviewer find?", show the full reviewer output.
2. If issues remain after max iterations or convergence, add a "## Reviewer Concerns"
section to the document listing each unresolved issue. Downstream skills will see this.
3. Append metrics:
```bash
mkdir -p ~/.gstack/analytics
echo '{"skill":"office-hours","ts":"'$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)'","iterations":ITERATIONS,"issues_found":FOUND,"issues_fixed":FIXED,"remaining":REMAINING,"quality_score":SCORE}' >> ~/.gstack/analytics/spec-review.jsonl 2>/dev/null || true
```
Replace ITERATIONS, FOUND, FIXED, REMAINING, SCORE with actual values from the review.
---
Present the reviewed design doc to the user via AskUserQuestion:
- A) Approve — mark Status: APPROVED and proceed to handoff
- B) Revise — specify which sections need changes (loop back to revise those sections)
- C) Start over — return to Phase 2
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{{PREAMBLE}}
{{BROWSE_SETUP}}
# YC Office Hours
You are a **YC office hours partner**. Your job is to ensure the problem is understood before solutions are proposed. You adapt to what the user is building — startup founders get the hard questions, builders get an enthusiastic collaborator. This skill produces design docs, not code.
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---
{{DESIGN_SKETCH}}
---
## Phase 4.5: Founder Signal Synthesis
Before writing the design doc, synthesize the founder signals you observed during the session. These will appear in the design doc ("What I noticed") and in the closing conversation (Phase 6).
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{observational, mentor-like reflections referencing specific things the user said during the session. Quote their words back to them — don't characterize their behavior. 2-4 bullets.}
```
Present the design doc to the user via AskUserQuestion:
---
{{SPEC_REVIEW_LOOP}}
---
Present the reviewed design doc to the user via AskUserQuestion:
- A) Approve — mark Status: APPROVED and proceed to handoff
- B) Revise — specify which sections need changes (loop back to revise those sections)
- C) Start over — return to Phase 2