Use the moment a request is underspecified and you are about to act on an ASSUMED goal. Enumerate the candidate goals the request could mean, project the action or artifact each one implies, and check whether they diverge: if two or more plausible goals lead…
Use at write time to vector/embedding memory — Grove content-addressed insertion, chroma/pgvector upserts, memory-consolidation promoting session traces to MEMORY.md, or embedding externally-ingested content. Scores each candidate record against a fixed panel…
Run this appropriateness check the moment you are about to integrate a retrieved long-term memory — a Grove content-addressed hit, a chroma/pgvector neighbour, a memory-consolidation digest, or a MEMORY.md line — into a response, especially anything touching…
Use before you shorten, compress, or rewrite the BODY of an existing SKILL.md or agent .md — the moment you are about to cut text to reduce length. First inventory the file's operational anchors (exact code / command / API snippets, fail-closed workflow…
Use when parallel agents in a convoy or across git worktrees hit a write conflict on shared state — a git tree, a config, or a shared document — and you must decide whether the conflict is semantically real. Classifies each conflicting hunk as independent…
Use when reviewing, shipping, or regression-testing a SKILL.md and you hold one or more captured trajectories where that skill was actually loaded. Translates the skill's instructions into behavior constraints, then reports which were EXERCISED (coverage)…
Use when you have captured session evidence — session-retro / session- observatory-live traces in .planning/patterns/, tool logs, correction records — and want to induce a reusable skill from it. Segments the traces into candidate skill units (an LLM…
Use when the user asks to forge, scaffold, author, or ship a new skill or agent — the skill-creator's own namesake artifacts. Drives the skill-forge loop (create → fill → validate → critique → ship → publish) via the skill-creator CLI.