# Constraint Evaluation

> Understand the constraints a design was built under and evaluate quality within that context. Use when reviewing work that had limited time, budget, or team size, or when assessing whether constraints were handled well.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-dragoon0x-taste-skills-constraint-evaluation`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Dragoon0x](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/dragoon0x)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Dragoon0x](https://github.com/Dragoon0x)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Dragoon0x/taste-skills/tree/main/skills/judgment/constraint-evaluation

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-dragoon0x-taste-skills-constraint-evaluation
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Constraint Evaluation

Judge quality within context, not in a vacuum.

## How to use

- `/constraint-evaluation` Apply constraint-aware evaluation to this conversation.

## Constraints

### Identify the Constraints
- MUST attempt to identify: team size, timeline, technology, budget, business model, and target audience
- MUST evaluate quality relative to constraints, not against an ideal with unlimited resources
- A strong design under tight constraints demonstrates more taste than a mediocre design with unlimited time
- SHOULD note where constraints were handled gracefully and where they caused visible damage

### Essential vs. Incidental Quality
- MUST distinguish between decisions that are core to the experience and decisions that are execution details
- Core decisions (hierarchy, information architecture, primary flow) should hold up regardless of constraints
- Execution details (animation polish, micro-interactions, state coverage) scale with available resources
- NEVER excuse poor core decisions by pointing to tight constraints

### Anti-Patterns
- Judging a startup MVP against enterprise product standards
- Ignoring constraints entirely ("this should have better animation" for a 2-week project)
- Using constraints as an excuse for fundamentally broken hierarchy or flow

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Dragoon0x](https://github.com/Dragoon0x)
- **Source:** [Dragoon0x/taste-skills](https://github.com/Dragoon0x/taste-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-dragoon0x-taste-skills-constraint-evaluation
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/dragoon0x
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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