Use when installing, refreshing, or re-tuning sound taste rules in a project. Triggers on "sound setup", "install taste rules", "scaffold .claude/rules", "set up sound here", starting work in a repo with no .claude/rules/, or a taste-not-defined nudge. Also use to re-run after a stack change (new framework, new package in a monorepo).
Locks the session into DELEGATOR mode — route all work to subagents and workflows, do no work directly.
Use as load-bearing work lands, or when the user asks to debrief, hand off recent work, or check what they actually own versus what AI carried. Triggers on "debrief", "what do I own", "hand over", "hand it back", "over", and recently shipping a load-bearing decision the human has not reasoned through.
Use when you want to learn how experts would think about a design tradeoff, architecture choice, repeated failure, or domain question. Triggers on expert names, "mentor", "panel", "debate", "what would [X] say", "stuck on", style requests.
Use when a pipeline stage or the human meets facts that live outside the repo — a service, database, queue, third party, or live logs — and the work depends on their current state. Triggers on "what's the state of", "check prod", "is the service returning", "snapshot the data", external-system dependencies. Repo-local work skips it.
Turn rough ideas into clear work orders before planning or building. Use when request is vague like "add a button", "make it better", "fix the thing". Triggers on ambiguous or underspecified requests.
Resolves technical HOW decisions — architecture choices, technology selection, and design patterns. Use shape when the intent is clear but the technical path is not. Triggers on "shape this", "architecture for X", "how should I build", "which pattern", "technical approach".
Define how unsupervised work will be judged before it runs. Use when execution is an autonomous loop or a long unbabysat agent run that optimizes toward a metric. Triggers on "autonomous loop", "let it run", "optimize until", "overnight run", "unsupervised", "set a goal".