// Use this when the current screen is a merchant or when planning a shop line from map pressure, gold, deck state, relics, and potions. Trigger it before buying, before leaving a shop, and when a forced elite or boss makes the shop an immediate survival checkpoint. Shops are hard decisions, so prefer reading them with `--hard`.
Use this when planning for, entering, or playing an elite or boss fight. Trigger it before pathing into hard fights, before committing combat lines in elites or bosses, when the hard fight is new or unclear and needs STS1 parallel reasoning, and after those fights when updating durable lessons.
Use this for combat turn planning and execution. Trigger it before taking combat turns, when deciding whether a turn is easy or hard, when a fight presents setup vs tempo tension, when cost changes or free-card effects appear, and whenever you need general combat heuristics that are not boss-or-elite specific.
Use this at the start of an act, or whenever act-level planning resets after a compaction summary or major state change. Trigger it to re-evaluate deck shape, route goals, elite readiness, and act-specific priorities.
Use this at the start of Act 1 and for Act 1 route, reward, elite, boss, and survival decisions. Trigger it on new runs, whenever Act 1 pathing changes, before Act 1 elite or boss commitments, and when documenting new Act 1 encounters.
Use this at the start of Act 2 and for Act 2 route, reward, elite, boss, and survival decisions. Trigger it when Act 2 begins, whenever Act 2 pathing changes, before Act 2 elite commitments, and when documenting new Act 2 encounters.
Use this when the current run is Ironclad. Trigger it on new runs, after automated compaction summaries, and for Ironclad card, route, shop, reward, and combat decisions.
| name | merchant |
| description | Use this when the current screen is a merchant or when planning a shop line from map pressure, gold, deck state, relics, and potions. Trigger it before buying, before leaving a shop, and when a forced elite or boss makes the shop an immediate survival checkpoint. Shops are hard decisions, so prefer reading them with `--hard`. |
Use this as the shop decision workflow for STS2 runs.
Shops are hard.
--hard for merchant reads by default.--easy for shop decisions unless you are only confirming a single already-settled follow-through.--full only if the shop surface looks inconsistent or a state/export bug is suspected.Interpret the modes like this:
--easy is the execution surface for an already-settled shop line.--hard is the planning surface for actually deciding what to buy, skip, remove, or leave behind.Reason: merchant choices are dense and expensive. They combine gold, path pressure, deck shape, relic text, potion slots, and opportunity cost, so the compact view is usually too lossy for real shop decisions.
Read these before acting:
/home/igorw/Work/STS2/.agents/skills/merchant/references/heuristics.md/home/igorw/Work/STS2/.agents/skills/act-start/references/planning.md/home/igorw/Work/STS2/.agents/skills/act-start/references/rewards-and-deck-shape.md/home/igorw/Work/STS2/vault/runsIf the next node is an elite or boss, also read:
/home/igorw/Work/STS2/.agents/skills/boss-and-elite-fights/SKILL.md--hardKeep this skill short and practical. Move durable shopping heuristics into the owned references, then tighten this workflow when better shop patterns are discovered.