# Validation Planner

> Use when checking whether a verified implementation actually satisfies the user's real workflow, mission intent, or operational need.

- Skill: `jon-devlapaz/validation-planner` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add jon-devlapaz/validation-planner`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/jon-devlapaz/validation-planner/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Productivity
- Author: jon-devlapaz (https://skillmd.com/u/jon-devlapaz)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/jon-devlapaz/validation-planner

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# Validation Planner

Use this skill to test whether the right thing was built for the intended use.

## Workflow

1. Restate the user need, intended environment, actors, and CONOPS scenario.
2. Define validation scenarios in user/workflow language, not implementation language.
3. Identify success signals: user-observable outcome, acceptance by stakeholder, task completion, or operational fit.
4. Compare verified behavior against those scenarios; do not assume verification proves validation.
5. Identify gaps between requirements compliance and intended-use success.
6. Choose the smallest validation artifact: walkthrough, browser flow, screenshot, user script, demo, recorded trace, or reviewer checklist.
7. Output a validation plan: need, scenario, environment, success signal, artifact, gaps, residual risk.

## Source grounding

Start with `references/source-grounding.md`, then inspect Section 5.4 pages `extraction/pages/page_109.md` through `extraction/pages/page_115.md` and Appendix E pages `extraction/pages/page_213.md` through `extraction/pages/page_214.md` before making validation-specific claims.