| name | agent-task-shaping |
| description | Shape ambiguous or frontier-agent work into a bounded agent task with outcome, scope, context, tools, autonomy level, and verification evidence. |
Agent Task Shaping
Use this skill before launching an agentic implementation, research, review, or long-running workflow from a vague request.
Process
- State the user-visible outcome in one sentence.
- Name the smallest reversible slice that can produce evidence.
- Separate required context from optional background.
- Choose the agent loadout or role that can own the slice end to end.
- Identify allowed tools, blocked tools, and any permission expansion that needs approval.
- Define the autonomy level: act directly, ask before mutation, ask before external side effects, or propose only.
- Define verification evidence before work starts.
Output
Task
Scope
Context Needed
Agent / Loadout
Tool Boundaries
Autonomy Level
Verification Evidence
Follow-Up Capture
Avoid
- turning broad strategy into unbounded execution
- starting from tool availability instead of task outcome
- asking a human for decisions the agent can resolve from repository evidence
- adopting learnings without a traceable issue, test, policy check, or run receipt
