# Epic Validate

> Validates an epic across completed stories and audit evidence. Use at the epic prove gate before retrospective.

- Skill: `telum-ai/epic-validate` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 22 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add telum-ai/epic-validate`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/telum-ai/epic-validate/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Security
- Author: telum-ai (https://skillmd.com/u/telum-ai)
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/telum-ai/epic-validate

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# epic-validate

Cheap keys: `.speck/project.json` → archetype; `--claim` / highest supported → `claimed_state`; UI vs backend.

1. MUST Read templates, then MUST Read `references/spine.md`.
2. If backend/infra / no UI: MUST Read `references/backend-skip.md`. Do not Read larp / felt / taste / visual.
3. If UI-facing: MUST Read `references/larp.md` to adjudicate evidence produced earlier. If claiming UX-RC+: also MUST Read `references/axes/felt.md`, `references/axes/taste.md`, `references/visual.md`. Else skip those axis/visual nodes. Validation never loads producer procedures.
4. For `claimed_state` and every lower ladder state, MUST Read `references/states/<kebab>.md`.
5. If claimed ≥ INTEGRATION-GREEN: MUST Read `references/integration-green.md`. If claimed ≥ COMMERCIAL-RC: MUST Read `references/commercial.md`.
6. MUST Read `references/rollup.md`, `references/matrix-graph.md`, `references/mutation.md`, `references/composition.md`.
7. MUST Read `references/post-write.md`. Write + SHA-stamp.
STOP on any STOP in a Read node.