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Tell you when to stop polishing and ship — the point where more effort stops adding real value. Use when asked is this good enough, should I keep working on this, when do I stop, or I keep tweaking this and can't let go. Produces a read on whether the thing already meets its actual bar, the diminishing-returns check (is more effort improving it or just moving it around), what genuinely still needs fixing vs what's perfectionism, and a clear ship / one-more-pass / keep-going verdict — freeing you from polishing things past the point anyone will notice.

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# Good-Enough Detector

Perfectionism disguises itself as diligence, but past a point, more effort just moves things around without making them better — and the cost is everything else you're not doing. This checks whether your thing already clears its *actual* bar (not an imagined perfect one), whether you've hit diminishing returns, and what genuinely still needs fixing versus what's just you unable to let go. Then it tells you: ship, one more pass, or keep going.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The real bar** — what "good enough" actually means for this thing's purpose and audience (usually lower than your perfectionist bar)
- **The diminishing-returns read** — whether more effort is still improving it or just rearranging it
- **Genuine fixes vs. perfectionism** — the few things that truly still need doing, separated from the endless polish that no one will notice
- **The verdict** — ship it / one focused pass then ship / genuinely not there yet, with why
- **The cost of not shipping** — what continuing to polish is costing you elsewhere

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