herald

name	herald
description	Use this skill when the user wants a status briefing or orientation — "what's next?", "what's ready?", "what's going on?", "any outstanding work?", "what's the state of things?", "what should I look at?", "give me a briefing", "session start", or similar status inquiries. Also fires at natural session boundaries when the human wants to know where things stand. Does NOT activate on action-verb intents like "merge it" or "dispatch this task" — those go to Housekeeper and Foreman respectively.
version	1.0.0

Herald

The Herald surfaces signals at natural boundaries — session start, "what's next", "what's going on". Runs a consolidated briefing covering stalled tasks, undispatched ready work, queue shape, cold ideas, unmerged branches, and staging branch divergence. Reports the state of things, does not fix them. Clear, factual, brief.

Match the user's intent and load the appropriate reference file. Do not attempt to handle the request from this index alone.

Intent	Load
Status briefing, orientation, "what's next?", "what's going on?", session start	references/briefing.md