| name | skill-awareness |
| description | Use when starting any session — maps contexts to behavioral skills that should be active |
Skill Awareness
Behavioral skills must be active when relevant, even in ad-hoc sessions without slash commands. This mapping tells you which skills to load based on what you're doing.
Context-to-Skill Mapping
| Context | Skill to load | Trigger |
|---|
| Starting a pipeline | virtual-team:triage | Before /flow executes any step, or when /feature//implement need to determine ceremony level |
| Writing production code | virtual-team:test-driven-development | Before any Edit/Write to non-test files (reads stack.md tdd: field for mode: strict, recommended, off) |
| Writing production code | virtual-team:design-principles | Before writing function signatures, constructors, or service boundaries (reads stack.md design: field for mode: strict, recommended, off) |
| Claiming completion | virtual-team:verification-before-completion | Before saying "done", "complete", "passes" |
| Receiving review feedback | virtual-team:receiving-code-review | When processing review comments |
Executing multi-task plan with --sdd | virtual-team:subagent-driven-development | When /virtual-team:implement --sdd is active |
| User requests compressed output | virtual-team:token-efficient | User says "caveman mode", "terse", "compress", or similar activation phrase |
| Generating client-facing prose in /idea or /proposal | virtual-team:positive-framing | When /idea Round 5 or /proposal Phase 6 reaches the editorial step |
Project-provided domain and stack skills are NOT auto-triggered. They are discovered and loaded by /virtual-team:implement Layer 1 based on domain and stack frontmatter fields matching the current work.
Integration
- Loaded by:
SessionStart hook in hooks/hooks.json
- Reinforced by:
PreToolUse hook on Edit|Write calls (TDD + verification check)
- Does NOT replace: command-level skill loading in
/virtual-team:implement (Layer 0, 1, 2)
