| name | quick |
| description | Run a small fix or polish to an existing surface under a reduced quick-iteration Definition of Done — no subagents, no mobile pass, no self-improvement pass. Use ONLY when the user explicitly invokes /quick; never select this mode on your own, and never suggest it. |
Quick
A small fix should cost minutes, not half an hour. This mode trades the full Definition of Done for a reduced one that still protects correctness: the gates that catch real breakage stay, the rituals that only pay off on large or risky changes go.
Explicit only
This mode applies when — and only when — the user invoked /quick. Never classify a task as quick yourself, and never offer quick mode as an option: the choice is the user's alone, made by typing the command.
If the work outgrows the qualification criteria mid-task, stop, tell the user what it grew into, and continue under the full Definition of Done in CLAUDE.md. Discovering that a "small fix" needs a migration is not a reason to press on quietly.
Qualification criteria
Qualifies: a small fix or polish to an existing surface.
Any one of these disqualifies:
- a new route
- a new table or migration
- a new permission
- a new background job
- a new product surface
- a new capability the MCP server would have to mirror
- an architecturally material change
- anything that opens a simulator — a diff touching
apps/mobile/ or packages/bridge/, the mobile-verification skill's trigger
A disqualified task runs under the full Definition of Done, even though the user invoked /quick. Say so before starting.
Workflow
- Work inline: no subagents, no charters, no ledger. You are the one reading, building, and testing.
- Load only the skills the change itself needs —
design-system for UI work, kysely for a query, and nothing else on spec.
- Still work in an isolated worktree. Provisioning takes well under a minute, and the isolation is what lets the change be verified against a real server without disturbing anything else. The exception is a documentation-only diff (as defined in CLAUDE.md's Definition of Done), which needs no server and follows that path's no-provisioning rule even under
/quick.
- When continuing the same thread of work, reuse the lane already provisioned for it instead of setting up another.
Quick Definition of Done
When the user invoked /quick and the task qualifies, this list replaces the one in CLAUDE.md.
pnpm run lint and pnpm run tsc are green. Run only the unit test files the change affects — the full suites run on the PR's CI.
- Bug fixes still follow red/green: a failing test first, then the minimal fix. No mutation proof, and no double
test:unit reconciliation run.
- Verify the changed flow end to end with
agent-browser and take a screenshot.
- If user-visible behavior changed, update the existing Playwright spec that covers the flow. Editing an existing spec does not require the retry-safety death-injection proof; a brand-new spec still follows the
testing skill in full.
- Mobile verification is skipped, and no diff audit is needed to justify it: a change touching
apps/mobile/ or packages/bridge/ never qualified for quick mode in the first place.
- One code-review pass over the lane's committed diff, with the fixes applied. A single pass, not a loop.
- Open a PR. The CI E2E job stays the acceptance gate — fix any red on the branch.
- Skipped entirely: the self-improvement pass, and the
architecture.md, user-manual, MCP-parity, and dev-seed criteria. The qualification criteria guarantee none of them can apply.