| name | using-superpowers |
| description | Consult directly matching task playbooks before substantial design, debugging, implementation, review, or completion work without forcing full workflow execution. |
If you were dispatched as a subagent to execute a specific task, ignore this skill.
Consulting Task Playbooks
Core rule
Skills are task-specific playbooks. Explicit user invocation of a skill is
binding.
Before substantial design, investigation, debugging, implementation, review, or
completion work, inspect the available skills. If a skill directly matches the
task type, load it before acting.
Loading a skill means consulting its guidance, not following every step verbatim.
Apply the parts relevant to the task; exact step-by-step execution is not
mandatory unless the skill explicitly marks a safety, permission, or verification
gate as binding.
Select and consult
- Read the request and available project instructions.
- Scan the available skills for a direct task-type match.
- Load the single most relevant workflow skill before substantial work begins.
- Apply the guidance and binding gates relevant to the real task.
- Load another skill only when the task enters a distinct phase.
Start with at most one primary workflow skill. Load another only when the task
enters a distinct phase or a separate risk boundary requires it.
Direct questions, narrow lookups, and bounded low-risk mechanical changes may
proceed without loading a workflow skill.
Common routes
- Unresolved product behavior, architecture, interaction design, or another
load-bearing choice: consult brainstorming after inspecting the project.
- Unclear root cause, repeated failure, or cross-component behavior: consult
systematic-debugging before selecting a repair.
- A behavior change with a meaningful automated seam: consult
test-driven-development before implementation.
- Multi-round implementation, context compaction, or worker handoff: consult
writing-plans.
- Review feedback that needs evaluation before implementation: consult
receiving-code-review.
- Delegating implementation from an approved plan: consult
subagent-driven-development.
- A substantive completion claim: consult verification-before-completion.
These are task-type matches, not a fixed sequence.
Delegated work
Workers executing a bounded delegated task use the supplied task contract. They
do not need to re-run this session-start selection step unless the task itself
requires a safety, verification, or other specialized workflow.
Platform adaptation
If your harness appears here, read its reference file for tool translation only:
- Codex:
references/codex-tools.md
- Pi:
references/pi-tools.md
- Antigravity:
references/antigravity-tools.md
User instructions
Direct user instructions, repository instructions, and project policy take
precedence over this skill. Preserve user authority at approval, permission, and
repository-operation boundaries.