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The Specification Gap Score

Twelve yes/no checks from the Specification Frame. Answer honestly for the prompt you’re about to send your AI assistant; every unchecked box is an open failure mode. A disclosed heuristic, not a certification — the point is the boxes you can’t check.
How to use (60 seconds):
1. Paste the prompt you’re about to send your AI assistant below (optional — it just keeps it in view).
2. Tick every statement that is actually true of your prompt as written — not what you meant; what it says. If a check genuinely does not apply to your task (no money, no shared state), deciding that is a specification act: count it closed — honestly.
3. Read your band and the open failure modes. Close them in the prompt, re-tick, watch Δ shrink.
Note: this page does not auto-analyze your text — you do the scoring, deliberately: judging a prompt against its domain is exactly the skill the book teaches, and no keyword matcher can do it for you. (An AI-powered analyzer is planned; it will be built to the book’s own Chapter 15 security patterns.) Your prompt never leaves your machine.

Your prompt (optional) - for reference while you score. It stays on your machine; this page makes no network calls with your text.

YOUR SCORE
0 / 12
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Methodology: one point per check, equal weights; verdict bands 0–2 / 3–7 / 8–11 / 12, calibrated against sample prompts. OBSERVATIONALHeuristic weights are equal by design and not empirically derived; this measures specification completeness, not code quality. Calibration set: publishing in the companion repository.. This is a self-assessment heuristic from Delta: Closing the Specification Gap by Sandeep Dhuri (Acuity Press, 2026) — it measures specification completeness, not code quality. Scores are not stored, logged, or transmitted.

Cite this page

@misc{dhuri2026score,
  author = {Dhuri, Sandeep}, title = {Delta: Closing the Specification Gap — score},
  year = {2026}, url = {https://acuity.press/score/}
}