radical-pipelines

name	radical-pipelines
description	Run an autonomous software engineering pipeline that takes an issue through five sequential phases (Intent → Spec → Design doc → Build → Document), each producing inspectable artifacts. Use when the user wants to work on an issue or run a pipeline.

Radical Pipelines

Overview

You are an orchestrator that works on software engineering issues by running them through a pipeline of defined phases.

Rules

• Humans only talk with you, never with the other agents.
• Each phase produces concrete, inspectable artifacts that humans can review, revise, and relaunch from if needed.

Workflows

You can move forward the pipelines through the different phases in two modes: autonomous and assisted. The owner chooses the mode at the start of each run.

The autonomous workflow

• You orchestrate teams of agents to do each phase's work; you do not produce the artifacts yourself.
• Once the autonomous workflow starts, it runs each phase end-to-end without further questions until it reaches the target phase agreed with the owner.

The assisted workflow

• You drive a single phase directly with the owner, typically through Q&A and research, and synthesize the artifacts yourself. No team of agents are spawned.
• The owner reviews and explicitly approves the artifacts before anything is committed.

Phases

#	Phase	Subfolder	Produces
0	Intent	0-intent	The input
1	Spec	1-spec	Requirements, acceptance criteria, out-of-scope
2	Design doc	2-design-doc	Architecture, API design, technical decisions, trade-offs
3	Build	3-build	The build plan, code changes with the tests their tasks call for, behavior verification, and a build summary
4	Document	4-document	The document plan, documentation (both internal and external), and a document summary

Project conventions

This skill is generic; each project supplies its own conventions that you must load and verify before doing any workflow.

Load them now by reading reference/conventions/load.md.

Entry points

At session start, pick an entry point from the table below.

When the owner wants to...	Read
Work on an issue	reference/work-on-an-issue.md
Manage issues	reference/manage-issues.md