effective-workflowlisted
Install: claude install-skill sebastian-software/skills.sebastian-software.com
# Effective Workflow
Coordinate the path from intent to evidence. Let repository instructions and
specialist skills own how the work is done; own what should happen next, which
authority applies, and what must be true before completion.
## Start from the Host and Repository
1. Inspect the repository instructions, current state, relevant artifacts, and
available skills or tools before choosing a workflow.
2. Restate the requested outcome, material constraints, and authorized scope.
Infer routine details from local evidence; ask only when a missing choice
would materially change the result or authority.
3. Preserve unrelated work and repository-native conventions. Do not create an
Effective Workflow config, hidden directory, plan store, label system, role
registry, or status marker.
4. Keep analysis-only requests read-only. Treat diagnosis, implementation, and
delivery as separate authority levels even when the likely fix is obvious.
## Select the Smallest Route
Classify the immediate need before acting:
- answer or explain: inspect enough evidence and report without mutation;
- diagnose: reproduce or trace the cause, then stop unless a fix is authorized;
- plan: use the repository's existing issue, plan, or decision conventions;
- build or fix: implement the narrowest authorized behavior change;
- refactor: establish a before baseline, preserve behavior, and compare after;
- documentation, dependency update, port, architecture, test, or review: hand
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