Use when manual work, prior sessions, or an operator interview must be audited for repeatable skill, automation, or bounded-loop candidates.
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{"version":"8.1.0","updated":"2026-08-20","profile":"one-shot","assumes":"The operator supplies bounded text, Markdown, or JSON evidence and the promotion authority is explicit.","conflicts_with":"Invented run history, autonomous policy mutation, unbounded scheduling, or treating demo evidence as authority."}
Workflow Audit
<skill_contract>
Bounded manual notes, prior-session evidence, or interview answers describing work, repetition, decisions, and constraints.
A deterministic audit with mode, evidence-bounded candidates, skill/automation/loop decisions, permissions, and a typed handoff.
Every recommendation points to supplied evidence, remains within the input bound, and has an explicit supervised promotion decision.
<non_goals>Editing skills, changing schedules, mutating Vault state, inventing metrics, or executing an unapproved external action.</non_goals>
Usage Template
Provide: objective, evidence source, mode (manual, session, or interview), size bound, candidate limit, operator/approval owner, and desired handoff.
Workflow
Classify the source as manual notes, prior-session history, or an operator interview. Preserve its hash and provenance. Infer a mode only when the text contains a clear session or interview signal; otherwise use `manual`.
<unknowns_gate>
Separate observed repetition from a proposed improvement. Missing frequency, owner, verifier, permission, or stop condition makes a candidate review-only; it does not justify a schedule or autonomous loop.
</unknowns_gate>
Extract a bounded list of distinct work candidates. For each candidate, decide:
SKILL_CANDIDATE when the work has a reusable procedure or multiple steps; otherwise KEEP_MANUAL.
AUTOMATION_CANDIDATE only when repetition or a clear trigger is evidenced; otherwise HOST_REQUIRED_REVIEW.
LOOP_CANDIDATE only when retry, monitoring, polling, follow-up, or a repeat-until condition is evidenced; otherwise NO_LOOP.
Record the evidence snippet, approval owner, verifier, stop condition, and side-effect expectation. Promotion is a separate supervised action with a receipt and rollback path.
Reject recommendations that rely on an unbounded input, an inferred external permission, a fluent success claim, or a video/demo as authority. Check candidate count, source hash, evidence linkage, and `side_effect_count: 0`.
Failure Protocol
Return NEEDS_INPUT for missing evidence or a required authority decision, INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE when repetition cannot be supported, and VERIFY_FAILED when a recommendation cannot be traced to the supplied source. Preserve the audit receipt and do not promote.
Output Contract
Return status, result, evidence, unknowns, and next_action. The result includes mode, source hash, bounded candidates, skill/automation/loop decisions, approval, verifier, stop condition, and side-effect count.
Edge Cases
A quiet prior session is not proof that a workflow is eligible for automation; record INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE or request a frequency probe.
A recurring task that writes to a shared Vault remains a supervised staged-write candidate even when the extraction itself is deterministic.
Success Metrics
Source provenance and candidate bounds are preserved.
Every decision is evidence-linked and independently checkable.
No skill, schedule, external service, or Vault file is changed by the audit.
Quality Gates
Mode is explicit or conservatively inferred.
Unknown permissions, verifiers, and stop conditions are surfaced.
