Instar-specific development skill used by the instar-developing agent (Echo, or any agent assigned instar-dev responsibilities). Wraps /build with mandatory side-effects review, signal-vs-authority principle check, and artifact generation. Structural enforcement via pre-commit/pre-push hooks — the instar repo refuses commits and pushes that didn't come through this skill. NOT a user-facing skill — end users should never invoke it.
Enter autonomous development mode with STRUCTURAL enforcement. Uses a stop hook to prevent premature exit. Generates stop conditions and confirms with user before starting. Work independently for a specified duration with progress reporting.
Run any "find all instances of X" sweep — a security audit, a safety audit, a code review, a research question, a compliance check — as an iterative loop that does NOT stop at one pass. Audit → fix → RE-audit → … until a clean pass returns zero NEW discoveries. Use whenever thoroughness matters and a single pass would miss things. Trigger words: audit, sweep, find all, review everything, comprehensive, thorough, exhaustive, security review, safety audit, no stone unturned, did we get everything, convergence.
Iteratively review an instar-development spec with multi-angle internal reviewers (security, scalability, adversarial, integration, decision-completeness, lessons-aware) and real cross-model external reviewers routed through the agent's own installed CLIs (codex → GPT-tier, gemini → Gemini-tier; one pass per available family) until convergence, then produce a comprehensive ELI10 convergence report. Output is a spec tagged review-convergence — one of the two tags /instar-dev requires before it will touch instar source. NOT user-invocable; run by the instar-developing agent before any spec-driven /instar-dev work.
Establish and recover persistent agent identity that survives context compaction, session restarts, and autonomous operation. Use when an agent needs to know who it is, recover after context compression, orient at session start, or understand the identity infrastructure. Trigger words: who am I, remember, identity, after restart, compaction, context loss, who am I working with, my principles.
Schedule recurring agent tasks using cron expressions. Use when the user asks to run something on a schedule, check something periodically, automate a recurring task, set up a cron job, or wants work to happen while they're away. Trigger words: schedule, recurring, cron, every hour, every day, run daily, periodic, automated.
Ingest URLs, documents, and transcripts into a searchable knowledge base. Query past research and curated documentation using full-text search. Trigger words: ingest, knowledge base, look up, search knowledge, what do we know about, research, index this, add to knowledge base.
View this agent's digital passport (identity + trust + allowed/forbidden actions) and verify a peer's passport against a proposed action (EXO 3.0).