Use when bootstrapping a repository — greenfield or brownfield — into Uhstray's standard development conventions, OpenSpec, and the two-store memory setup. Idempotent and non-destructive: safe to re-run, never overwrites existing docs. Triggers on "repo kickstart", "bootstrap this repo", "set up our conventions", "conform this repo", "initialize plans/openspec/memory", "initialize this repo for openspec and memory", "set up two-store memory here", "index this repo and create its memory bank".
Use when checking or setting up the four-strata memory system on this machine and in the current project — "is my memory set up right", "memory onboarding", "set up memory", "check my memory setup", after a fresh machine/repo, when repo-kickstart or buhhdy's preflight reports memory degradation, or when .claude/memory / MemPalace / evolve looks misconfigured.
Use when any orchestrating agent's development workflow — buhhdy's Workflow 2 is the canonical caller — has open PRs that need driving from creation through merge and cleanup — the terminal step once PRs are open. Triggers on "shepherd this PR", "drive the PR to merge", "babysit the PRs", "monitor the PR to merge", and post-merge close-out (close linked issues, archive the change, remove the worktree, janitor stale branches in the orchestrator's own prefix (buhhdy/* canonical)). Also load to verify PR-lifecycle preconditions (branch protection, CodeRabbit) before shepherding.
Use when the user says "remember", "don't forget", "save that", "keep that in mind", "recall", "what do we know about", "look that up", or any request to persist or retrieve project knowledge — stores memories in .claude/memory/ using the Claude Code memory format, committed to git so the whole team shares context.
Use when starting new planning/research on a project or picking up development against an existing plan — buhhdy's two standard, repeatable sequences: Planning & Research (fresh problem to a validated plan — an OpenSpec change where the repo has adopted the conventions — plus issues) and Development (fanout, audit, docs, and pr-shepherd).
Reference skill for buhhdy's provider routing logic — the decision tree, model tier table, per-provider strengths, skill-to-provider affinity, and cross-review pairings. Load when reasoning about which provider to use and why, or when a task doesn't clearly match the main routing tree.
Use when a repo OPTS INTO Uhstray's plans/development + plans/architecture conventions — the store-registration setup an adopting repo runs once, the house openspec/config.yaml rules, and the archive-time ADR promotion into plans/architecture/. Triggers on "openspec conformance", "register the openspec store", "plans/ layout", "promote an ADR", "openspec store setup", "conform openspec to plans". The single source of truth repo-kickstart (adoption) and pr-shepherd (archive, on adopted repos) both call.
Use when the user EXPLICITLY requests product inception — "new product", "product inception", "new major initiative", "greenfield product planning" — or explicitly asks for a BMAD-style phase (product brief, PRD, product architecture) for a major initiative. Never inferred from task size — for a feature, change, or bug (even "use our full planning process"), use core-workflows Workflow 1 instead.