catherder-instructions

Self-contained CatHerder method and standards for plans and tasks: planning vs execution, execution loop, prompt precedence, persistence; plus prompt/spec/implementation/review/follow-up files, frontmatter, statuses, timestamps, the open-questions gate, and validation. Use when planning, creating, reviewing, executing, or validating planNNN folders, or fixing plan/task format drift.

Captures Norwegian Stein Storken-style writing and Excel workbook conventions for use when users want concise decision-support communication, summary-first multi-sheet models, three alternatives, and workbook handoff language such as 'en enkel modell'.

Validate and verify plans and tasks in .instructions folder against CatHerder standards. Use when creating, reviewing, updating, verifying or validating plans and/or tasks.

Read and write Google Docs.

Access files and folders in Google Drive. Use this skill to list, search, upload, edit, delete, download files, documents and folders in Google Drive.

Google Sheets: Read and write spreadsheets.

Google Slides: Read and write presentations.

Google Tasks: Manage task lists and tasks.

Provides a dated offline summary of AGENTS.md, Agent Skills, Copilot, and Claude skill/file conventions. Use when defining skill layout, resolving standards questions, or checking cross-tool compatibility assumptions.

Detects contradictions, duplicated policy statements, and precedence ambiguities across .instructions files. Use for consistency reviews, conflict detection, and policy deduplication audits.

Orchestrates .instructions/ quality checks across repos. Use when asked to review, audit, or validate instruction files, check overall health of the instructions structure, find broken links, detect contradictions, trace context graphs, or verify compliance with file format conventions. Routes requests to specialized skills and produces a unified report.

Validates .instructions/ files for structural correctness: YAML front-matter, markdown structure, naming conventions, and timestamp format. Use when asked to review, audit, validate, or check instruction files for format compliance. Also use when creating new instruction files to ensure they follow conventions.

Simulates how an agent traverses references from an entry file and maps the resulting context graph. Use to trace reading paths, estimate context size, detect cycles, and find unreachable instruction files.

Checks links, anchors, and path references inside .instructions files. Use when asked to verify references, find broken links, validate reading-order paths, or audit entry-point link health.

Google Drive: List, search, upload, edit, delete, download files and folders in google drive.

gws CLI: Shared patterns for authentication, global flags, and output formatting.