ThumbGate Verification evidence
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# Claude Code Skills Need Pre-Action Enforcement

Claude Code skillbooks make recurring work more systematic, but markdown skills are still advisory. ThumbGate turns skill feedback into reusable rules, tests, and pre-action checks before the next risky command or edit runs.

👍 Thumbs up reinforces good behavior
👎 Thumbs down blocks repeated mistakes

## Why this page exists

- A living skillbook is useful acquisition fuel because new Claude Code users need reusable workflows immediately.
- The high-ROI product move is not another prompt file; it is converting named skills into gates, tests, and proof loops.
- This creates a clear post-course offer: install ThumbGate after learning Claude Code so the new automation does not repeat costly mistakes.

## Why this helps ThumbGate

Claude Code education expands the market. More people learning to automate code means more people about to hit repeated mistakes, risky shell commands, skipped tests, and vague project rules.

ThumbGate can be the safety kit for that moment: keep the skillbook, but promote every painful correction into an enforced pre-action check.

## High-ROI workflow to ship

- Create a repo skillbook with named skills for refactors, tests, migrations, CI hardening, and prompt/tool changes.
- Require each skill to name inputs, forbidden actions, verification steps, and examples of good and bad execution.
- Capture thumbs-down failures from skill use and promote repeat patterns into ThumbGate prevention rules.
- Block risky actions when the current task claims a skill but skips its required verification.
- Route buyers into the Workflow Hardening Sprint when one skill repeatedly fails in a shared repo.

## Where this creates revenue

This is a concrete sales bridge from Claude Code training content to ThumbGate: if a team is investing in skills, they already believe AI coding workflows can improve. ThumbGate sells the part that makes those workflows reliable across sessions and teammates.

## FAQ

Does ThumbGate replace Claude skills?

No. Skills describe how work should happen. ThumbGate checks whether the agent is allowed to take the next action and whether it has followed the skill evidence requirements.

What should a Claude Code skillbook contain?

Use named skills with purpose, inputs, do/don’t rules, verification commands, expected evidence, and examples. Then wire repeated failures into ThumbGate gates.