Use when the user wants to plan a feature — bootstrap repo if missing, brainstorm a design spec, decompose into linked GitHub issues, or split an existing spec into issues. Stops after Phase 3 and hands off to /autospec-run for autonomous implementation.
Use when the user has already run /autospec-define (or otherwise has a populated set of auto-implement GitHub issues) and wants the implementation half — Phases 4-6 — to run autonomously with admin auto-merge. Supports --profile <name> filtering against ~/.autospec/model-profiles.yml.
Use when the user wants /autospec-autonomous to run the autospec machinery unattended for weeks — a perpetual self-driving conductor that walks a never-idle priority waterfall (Tier 0 control channel + Tier 1 backlog→main + Tier 1.5 open-issue promotion + Tier 2 local discovery + Tier 3 architecture/coverage improvement + Tier 4 internet/operator discovery + capability-gated Tiers 5-7 growth outbound/define/measure), parks before quota exhaustion, obeys a GitHub control channel for live steering, and resumes automatically.
Use when the user wants to revalidate a running app against a spec, regenerate missing or weak tests, audit UI controls/forms/validation/dropdowns/API behavior/accessibility, or prove implemented features actually work after autospec-run.
Observe a live autospec-autonomous conductor read-only by summarizing typed status, timeline, launch, heartbeat, tier, and discovery artifact surfaces.
Use when Autospec runtime provisioning detects Docker Compose files that require migration for isolated worktree environments.
Use when the user wants to ship a feature end-to-end across multiple commits — bootstraps repo if missing, brainstorms a design spec, decomposes into linked GitHub issues, or splits an existing spec into issues, then runs an autonomous implementation loop with auto-merge.
Use when the user wants to retro-apply autospec's Phase 3.5 model-fit rubric to already-existing auto-implement issues — walks open issues in the current GitHub repo, classifies each with ctx:* / reasoning:* labels, and inserts a