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Classify a task or backlog by impact and required human attention, and route each item to the fanout, factory, or oneshot workflow. Use when starting work, when handed a list of tasks, or when unsure which workflow fits.

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The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

1 rule. 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.

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    Common

    Most of the 177 edited versions we read keep these.

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    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 1

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Very specific:

    Ask once: "Start these as routed?" If the human says yes, or already said to proceed, start each item with its workflow skill (/factory, …

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“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 177 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

Triage

Goal: decide, for each item, how much human attention it deserves, and route it.

Steps

  1. List the items. If the human gave a single task, the list has one entry.
  2. For each item, estimate quickly (t-shirt sizes, don't over-think):
    • Impact: low / high. High = user-facing, revenue, core architecture, or on someone's critical path.
    • Attention: low / high. High = ambiguous requirements, taste or design decisions, risky to get wrong, or needs human domain knowledge.
  3. Route:
    • high impact + high attention → fanout
    • high impact + low attention → factory
    • low impact + low attention → oneshot
    • low impact + high attention → recommend dropping it or reshaping it until it's low attention, then oneshot

  4. Output a table, and nothing else unless asked:

    #TaskImpactAttentionWorkflowFinish line

    "Finish line" is the concrete, checkable definition of done (e.g. "PR open, CI green, e2e test for checkout passes").

  5. Ask once: "Start these as routed?" If the human says yes, or already said to proceed, start each item with its workflow skill (/factory, /fanout, /oneshot).

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