workflow-router

name	workflow-router
description	Standardize workflow classification and skill selection before execution. Use when a task requires explicit known-vs-unknown workflow judgment, temporary workflow creation, workflow-local skill shortlist construction, or a decision on whether a new skill should be created.

Workflow Router

Role Boundary

This skill is the canonical routing owner for the agent+skill system.

The agent still owns repo-wide governance and user communication, but reusable routing policy must live here rather than in AGENTS.md, workflow-scoped-execution, or compatibility shims.

Use This Skill When

Use this skill when:

• a task needs explicit known vs unknown workflow judgment,
• the correct workflow is not obvious,
• the agent needs a workflow-local skill shortlist,
• a temporary workflow must be created,
• or there is a question about whether a new skill is justified.

Use this skill as the single source of truth for:

• request-pattern to skill mapping,
• workflow classification,
• skill shortlist construction,
• new-skill creation decision.

Required Output

Every routing decision should produce:

1. workflow_status = known | unknown
2. workflow_name = <name>
3. workflow_family = <direct_specialist | scoped_execution | research_chain | maintenance | utility | temporary>
4. workflow_owner_skill = <skill that owns orchestration for this workflow>
5. reason = <why this workflow fits or why no known workflow fits>
6. allowed_skill_subset = [...]
7. next_skill = <selected owner skill or next bounded stage>
8. eda_loop_role = owner | delegated_stage | not_used
9. new_skill_decision = reuse_existing | create_new_skill | defer
10. new_skill_reason = <boundary/specialization judgment>

The agent must surface the routing result to the user in a short explicit form rather than treating it as internal-only metadata.

Knowledge And Tool Interaction

1. Read AGENTS.md, the skill manifest, and relevant skill docs before making reusable routing decisions.
2. If a task first needs shared KB/tool lookup before routing can be made cleanly, delegate that retrieval step to eda-context-accessor.
3. When routing exposes a structural gap, hand off the maintenance action to eda-infra-maintainer instead of silently inventing policy inside this skill.

Design Principle

The system should evolve like this:

• user does not choose skills,
• agent does not micromanage tool internals,
• workflow narrows the search space,
• skills provide bounded expertise,
• and new skills are added only when boundary and professionalism justify them.

For workflow-owner skills specifically:

• keep owner skills stable as control-plane nodes,
• prefer capability growth in lower-layer specialist or utility skills,
• and escalate owner-skill edits only when orchestration semantics or owner/delegate boundaries must change.

Operational References

1. Load references/workflow-classification.md when you need to decide whether the task fits a known workflow or requires a temporary workflow.
2. Load references/workflow-owner-contract.md when deciding which skill should own orchestration and whether workflow-scoped-execution is owner, delegated stage, or unused.
3. Load references/request-pattern-routing.md when the request can be matched by pattern and you need the canonical request-to-workflow-owner mapping plus quick routing examples.
4. Load references/skill-selection-and-new-skill-decision.md when choosing the minimal skill subset or deciding whether to reuse, defer, or create a new skill.
5. Load references/routing-disclosure-format.md when surfacing the routing decision to the user.