claude-intakelisted
Install: claude install-skill erclx/canon
# Claude intake
Intake dispositions many findings in breadth. A dump goes in, an inventory comes out, and every item carries a problem measured against the tree, one proposed fix, and a verdict. The item that turns out to be already settled is the highest-value output, and it is the one thing neither a plan nor a groundwork track has anywhere to put.
Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../standards/intake.md` before writing any file in the folder. It holds the numbering, the file map, the frontmatter and dating rules, the item format, and the answer contract. Do not work them from memory.
## Routing
The test is one question. Can the item be answered by reading the repository today?
- Yes: intake owns it, and the cost is a session of grepping
- No, because it needs an experiment or a source outside the project: route it to `claude-groundwork`, where the cost is measured in runs and days
- Already decided, with only the work left: route it to `claude-feature`
Apply the test per item rather than per dump. A dump of forty items typically yields one groundwork candidate, so routing the whole dump on its worst item buys a folder nobody can close.
Using the wrong one fails in two shapes. Intake on a question that needs measuring yields a confident verdict with nothing behind it. Groundwork on a brain dump is refused by its own qualifying guard, and forcing past that refusal gives one folder holding dozens of unrelated threads and a decision file that can close one of them.
## Guard