# Deliverable Completion

> Clarifies that file creation tasks are complete when the deliverable is successfully written—no submission step required

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-hkuds-openspace-deliverable-completion`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [HKUDS](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/hkuds)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [HKUDS](https://github.com/HKUDS)
- **Source:** https://github.com/HKUDS/OpenSpace/tree/main/gdpval_bench/skills/deliverable-completion

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-hkuds-openspace-deliverable-completion
```

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

## About

# Deliverable Completion Protocol

## Purpose

This skill addresses a common misconception during document and file creation tasks: agents sometimes search for or attempt to use a `submit_work`, `finalize`, or similar tool after creating the deliverable. **No such step is required.** Task completion is achieved when the file is successfully created with the required content.

## Core Principle

**File creation = Task completion**

When a task requests you to create a document, report, script, or any file-based deliverable, the task is complete once:
1. The file has been written to disk
2. The file contains the required content
3. The file is in the correct format and location

There is **no additional submission, finalization, or confirmation step** needed.

## Execution Workflow

### Step 1: Create the Deliverable

Use the appropriate file creation method for your task:

```python
# For programmatic file creation
with open('deliverable.docx', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(document_content)
```

```bash
# For shell-based creation
echo "content" > output.txt
```

Or use available tools like `write_file`, `create_file`, etc.

### Step 2: Verify Creation

Confirm the file exists and contains expected content:

```bash
ls -la deliverable.docx
# or
cat output.txt
```

### Step 3: Declare Completion

Once verification passes, **the task is complete**. Do not:
- Search for a `submit_work` tool
- Look for a `finalize_task` function
- Attempt to "upload" or "submit" the file elsewhere
- Add extra confirmation steps

Simply report that the deliverable has been created successfully.

## Common Mistakes to Avoid

| ❌ Incorrect | ✅ Correct |
|-------------|-----------|
| Creating file, then searching for submit tool | Creating file, verifying, declaring done |
| Assuming a finalization API exists | Treating file creation as the final step |
| Adding unnecessary confirmation steps | Completing after successful write |

## Example Task Flow

**Task:** "Create a negotiation strategy document covering BATNA, ZOPA, and timeline."

**Correct Execution:**
1. Write the document content
2. Save as `negotiation_strategy.docx`
3. Verify file exists (~43KB, contains all sections)
4. Report: "Negotiation strategy document created successfully"
5. **Task complete** — no further action needed

## When This Applies

- Document creation (.docx, .pdf, .md, .txt)
- Code file generation (.py, .sh, .js)
- Data exports (.csv, .json, .xlsx)
- Configuration files (.yaml, .toml, .ini)
- Any file-based deliverable

## When This Does NOT Apply

- Tasks explicitly requiring external submission (e.g., "submit to API endpoint")
- Tasks requiring human review/approval workflows
- Tasks where the file is an intermediate step (not the final deliverable)

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [HKUDS](https://github.com/HKUDS)
- **Source:** [HKUDS/OpenSpace](https://github.com/HKUDS/OpenSpace)
- **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-hkuds-openspace-deliverable-completion
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/hkuds
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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