| name | cybernetic-workflow-infrastructure |
| description | Use when optional local workflow guidance or legacy v1 workflow compatibility needs diagnosis. |
Cybernetic Workflow Infrastructure
Workflow skills are optional guidance for v2 execution, not control authority or
an installation prerequisite. Existing v1 runs may still require their recorded
workflow keys.
Overview
This skill defines the repo-owned workflow infrastructure used by cybernetic
skills.
Cybernetic skills compile approved work chains. The local cybernetic workflow
registry and this policy provide the behavior discipline for planning,
independent review, execution, debugging, delegation, and completion
verification.
Use references/workflow-infrastructure-policy.md.
Workflow resolution is authoritative in
../references/workflow-registry.json. Every active
$cybernetic-*-workflow name must resolve to a real local skill or an explicitly
declared registry-only policy; a dangling name is an installation defect.
Core Rule
Cybernetic workflow disciplines are infrastructure dependencies, not optional
style suggestions.
When a required workflow applies:
- invoke the local workflow skill when one exists, or load and follow this
policy plus the approved control artifact's workflow instructions when the
workflow is registry-only;
- record the workflow status in the produced artifact;
- do not silently replace it with ad hoc behavior from the current cybernetic skill;
- do not treat merely mentioning the workflow, citing it, or imitating generic behavior as sufficient;
- if the workflow is unavailable, stop and report the missing infrastructure.
Approval requires a final observer pass after the last substantive mutation to the reviewed approved files, including required solution design. An older review result must not be transferred to a changed approved work chain unless the change is deterministic-only and guard-covered.
Pre-goal review subagents are authorized by an active requirements or pre-goal
transition gate whose next_action requires independent review and whose
may_ask_user: false marks the action as agent-owned, such as
RunInformationCounterexampleReview. Do not ask the user for separate subagent
authorization. Runtime target-work subagents are authorized only when the final
/goal explicitly contains the approved subagent-driven execution work
assignment and the user launches that /goal; parallel runtime subagents still
require explicit human approval recorded in the execution policy and review.
Stage Summary
| Stage | Local cybernetic workflow | Required? |
|---|
| Exploratory requirements analysis | $cybernetic-brainstorming-workflow | Optional |
| Exploratory solution design | $cybernetic-brainstorming-workflow | Optional |
| Non-trivial execution policy generation | $cybernetic-planning-workflow | Required |
| Review approval | Independent subagent review discipline | Required for Approved unless explicit human approval exists |
| Runtime execution | $cybernetic-execution-workflow discipline | Required |
| Runtime target-work delegation | Approved bounded subagent delegation protocol | Required when execution policy selects serial or parallel subagent-driven work assignment |
| Runtime serial implementation-plan delegation | $cybernetic-serial-subagent-workflow discipline | Conditional: use only when the approved execution policy records Selected agent workflow: cybernetic-serial-subagent-workflow, Subagent execution mode: serial-single-active, and Max concurrent subagents: 1 |
| Runtime parallel independent-domain delegation | $cybernetic-parallel-subagent-workflow discipline | Conditional: use only when the approved execution policy records Selected agent workflow: cybernetic-parallel-subagent-workflow, Subagent execution mode: parallel-max-safe, and approved wave/lock/barrier/integration rules |
| Unclear or repeated runtime failure | $cybernetic-debugging-workflow | Required |
| Completion claim | $cybernetic-verification-workflow | Required |
Non-Goals
This skill does not:
- write goal control JSON;
- write execution policies;
- perform review;
- compile runtime
/goal commands;
- execute target work.
It only supplies the shared infrastructure policy those skills must obey.