cybernetic-workflow-infrastructure

name	cybernetic-workflow-infrastructure
description	Use when optional local workflow guidance or legacy v1 workflow compatibility needs diagnosis.

Cybernetic Workflow Infrastructure

Workflow skills are optional guidance for v2 execution, not control authority or an installation prerequisite. Existing v1 runs may still require their recorded workflow keys.

Overview

This skill defines the repo-owned workflow infrastructure used by cybernetic skills.

Cybernetic skills compile approved work chains. The local cybernetic workflow registry and this policy provide the behavior discipline for planning, independent review, execution, debugging, delegation, and completion verification.

Use references/workflow-infrastructure-policy.md.

Workflow resolution is authoritative in ../references/workflow-registry.json. Every active $cybernetic-*-workflow name must resolve to a real local skill or an explicitly declared registry-only policy; a dangling name is an installation defect.

Core Rule

Cybernetic workflow disciplines are infrastructure dependencies, not optional style suggestions.

When a required workflow applies:

• invoke the local workflow skill when one exists, or load and follow this policy plus the approved control artifact's workflow instructions when the workflow is registry-only;
• record the workflow status in the produced artifact;
• do not silently replace it with ad hoc behavior from the current cybernetic skill;
• do not treat merely mentioning the workflow, citing it, or imitating generic behavior as sufficient;
• if the workflow is unavailable, stop and report the missing infrastructure.

Approval requires a final observer pass after the last substantive mutation to the reviewed approved files, including required solution design. An older review result must not be transferred to a changed approved work chain unless the change is deterministic-only and guard-covered.

Pre-goal review subagents are authorized by an active requirements or pre-goal transition gate whose next_action requires independent review and whose may_ask_user: false marks the action as agent-owned, such as RunInformationCounterexampleReview. Do not ask the user for separate subagent authorization. Runtime target-work subagents are authorized only when the final /goal explicitly contains the approved subagent-driven execution work assignment and the user launches that /goal; parallel runtime subagents still require explicit human approval recorded in the execution policy and review.

Stage Summary

Stage	Local cybernetic workflow	Required?
Exploratory requirements analysis	$cybernetic-brainstorming-workflow	Optional
Exploratory solution design	$cybernetic-brainstorming-workflow	Optional
Non-trivial execution policy generation	$cybernetic-planning-workflow	Required
Review approval	Independent subagent review discipline	Required for Approved unless explicit human approval exists
Runtime execution	$cybernetic-execution-workflow discipline	Required
Runtime target-work delegation	Approved bounded subagent delegation protocol	Required when execution policy selects serial or parallel subagent-driven work assignment
Runtime serial implementation-plan delegation	$cybernetic-serial-subagent-workflow discipline	Conditional: use only when the approved execution policy records Selected agent workflow: cybernetic-serial-subagent-workflow, Subagent execution mode: serial-single-active, and Max concurrent subagents: 1
Runtime parallel independent-domain delegation	$cybernetic-parallel-subagent-workflow discipline	Conditional: use only when the approved execution policy records Selected agent workflow: cybernetic-parallel-subagent-workflow, Subagent execution mode: parallel-max-safe, and approved wave/lock/barrier/integration rules
Unclear or repeated runtime failure	$cybernetic-debugging-workflow	Required
Completion claim	$cybernetic-verification-workflow	Required

Non-Goals

This skill does not:

• write goal control JSON;
• write execution policies;
• perform review;
• compile runtime /goal commands;
• execute target work.

It only supplies the shared infrastructure policy those skills must obey.