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claude-groundworklisted

Opens and runs a numbered groundwork folder under `.canon/groundwork/<nn>-<slug>/` for a topic that has to be measured before it can be planned. Detects open, resume, and close from the folder itself. Use when asked to "research X", "dig into X", "work out what we should do about X", "measure this before we commit", or "open a groundwork folder". Do NOT use to write a feature plan or to implement. That is `claude-feature`.
erclx/canon · ★ 2 · AI & Automation · score 68
Install: claude install-skill erclx/canon
# Claude groundwork Groundwork gathers and weighs. A plan commits. A groundwork folder costs nothing to throw away, which is what makes it the right container for a question nobody has answered yet. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../standards/groundwork.md` before writing any file in the folder. It holds the reserved numbers, the frontmatter and dating rules, what each required file carries, the conventions, and the anti-patterns. Do not work them from memory. ## Guards - If no topic is given, stop: `❌ No topic. Name what needs measuring.` - Apply the qualifying test in open mode alone, after Step 1 resolves the mode and before the folder is created. Two of these three must hold: the current state is not known, more than one approach is live, and committing wrong costs more than a day of measuring. When one or fewer holds, stop: `❌ Already decided enough to plan. Run /claude-feature instead.` - Resume and close are exempt from the test above. A track that has already been measured fails it by definition, since its current state is now known and its approaches have narrowed, so applying the test to either mode refuses the folder that same test admitted. - A refused topic that is a broad dump rather than one question routes to `claude-intake`, not to the planning skill the stop names. Intake dispositions many findings in breadth from what the repository already holds, and one folder holding dozens of unrelated threads is what forcing them past this guard produces. - Do not pa