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Engagement calibration to prevent skill atrophy when working with AI. This skill MUST trigger when starting a session, when about to implement anything involving algorithm selection, architecture decisions, domain modeling, or technical choices with non-obvious tradeoffs. Trigger when the user is delegating heavily, when consecutive tool calls exceed 5 without user input, or when a task touches skills the user has flagged as non-negotiable. Also trigger when the user asks about deskilling, HITL, skill maintenance, delegation balance, or cognitive offloading. Trigger when decision-support tools (like FPF/Quint q-frame, q-explore, q-decide, q-reason) are about to be used on domain-critical decisions — the human must reason first, then the tool records what they decided. Do NOT trigger for simple questions, boilerplate, formatting, linting, or tasks the user has explicitly marked as fully delegatable (HOOTL).

Mandatory gate on code implementation that prevents Claude from writing domain-critical code the user should write themselves. This skill MUST trigger whenever Claude is about to implement anything involving algorithm selection, architecture decisions, domain modeling, data pipeline design, or technical choices with non-obvious tradeoffs. This skill takes priority over decision-support tools like q-reason, q-frame, q-explore, q-decide — fire anti-deskilling FIRST, get the user's thinking, THEN hand off to those tools if appropriate. Also trigger when the user is delegating heavily (5+ consecutive tool calls without user input), when a task touches skills the user has flagged as non-negotiable, or when the user asks about deskilling, HITL, skill maintenance, delegation balance, or cognitive offloading. For HITL tasks, Claude presents an outline with gaps for the user to fill — not finished code. Do NOT trigger for simple questions, boilerplate, formatting, linting, or tasks the user has explicitly marked as fu