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About this skill

Codex compatibility note:

  • Invoke repository skills with $skill-name in Codex; this mirrored copy rewrites legacy Claude /skill-name references.
  • Task tracker mandate: BEFORE executing any workflow or skill step, create/update task tracking for all steps and keep it synchronized as progress changes.
  • User-question prompts mean to ask the user directly in Codex.
  • Ignore Claude-specific mode-switch instructions when they appear.
  • Strict execution contract: when a user explicitly invokes a skill, execute that skill protocol as written.
  • Subagent authorization: when a skill is user-invoked or AI-detected and its protocol requires subagents, that skill activation authorizes use of the required spawn_agent subagent(s) for that task.
  • Do not skip, reorder, or merge protocol steps unless the user explicitly approves the deviation first.
  • For workflow skills, execute each listed child-skill step explicitly and report step-by-step evidence.
  • If a required step/tool cannot run in this environment, stop and ask the user before adapting.

Codex Project-Reference Loading (No Hooks)

Codex does not receive Claude hook-based doc injection. When coding, planning, debugging, testing, or reviewing, open project docs explicitly using this routing.

Always read:

  • docs/project-config.json (project-specific paths, commands, modules, and workflow/test settings)
  • docs/project-reference/docs-index-reference.md (routes to the full docs/project-reference/* catalog)
  • docs/project-reference/lessons.md (always-on guardrails and anti-patterns)

Situation-based docs:

  • Backend/CQRS/API/domain/entity changes: backend-patterns-reference.md, domain-entities-reference.md, project-structure-reference.md
  • Frontend/UI/styling/design-system: frontend-patterns-reference.md, scss-styling-guide.md, design-system/README.md
  • Spec/test-case planning or TC mapping: feature-docs-reference.md
  • Integration test implementation/review: integration-test-reference.md
  • E2E test implementation/review: e2e-test-reference.md
  • Code review/audit work: code-review-rules.md plus domain docs above based on changed files

Do not read all docs blindly. Start from docs-index-reference.md, then open only relevant files for the task.

Quick Summary

Goal: Automatically execute an existing plan with testing and code review — no user approval gate (trust mode).

Workflow:

  1. Plan Detection — Find latest plan or use provided path, select next incomplete phase
  2. Analysis & Tasks — Extract tasks into task tracking with step numbering
  3. Implementation — Implement phase step-by-step, run type checks
  4. Testing — Tester subagent; must reach 100% pass
  5. Code Review — Code-reviewer subagent; must reach 0 critical issues
  6. Finalize — Update status, docs, auto-commit; optionally loop to next phase

Key Rules:

  • No user approval gate (unlike $code which has a blocking Step 5)
  • Tests must be 100% passing; critical issues must be 0
  • $ALL_PHASES=Yes (default) processes all phases in one run
  • Keep tests real and let them genuinely pass — never comment out tests or use fake data to pass — why: faked green hides the regression the test exists to catch

MUST ATTENTION READ CLAUDE.md then THINK HARDER to start working on the following plan:

Be skeptical. Apply critical thinking, sequential thinking. Every claim needs traced proof, confidence percentages (Idea should be more than 80%).

$ARGUMENTS

Arguments

  • $PLAN: $1 (Mention specific plan or auto detected, default: latest plan)
  • $ALL_PHASES: $2 (Yes to finish all phases in one run or No to implement phase-by-phase, default: Yes)

Step 0: Plan Detection & Phase Selection

If $PLAN is empty:

  1. Find latest plan.md in ./plans
  2. Parse plan for phases and status, auto-select next incomplete

If $PLAN provided: Use that plan and detect which phase to work on.

Output: ✓ Step 0: [Plan Name] - [Phase Name]


Workflow Sequence

Rules: Follow steps 1-5 in order. Each step requires output marker ✓ Step N:. Mark each complete in task tracking before proceeding. Do not skip steps.


Step 1: Analysis & Task Extraction

Use project-manager agent to read plan file completely. Map dependencies. List ambiguities. Identify required skills. If the plan references analysis files in .ai/workspace/analysis/, re-read them before implementation.

Pre-Implementation Trace Gate: If the plan is for a bugfix, failed verification, stale/incorrect final output, regression, or behavior-changing fix, MUST ATTENTION verify the plan or referenced analysis includes Debugger Trace: End -> Start, all feeder paths, hypothesis matrix, owning fix layer, and forward convergence proof. If missing, STOP and report the missing trace links instead of implementing.

task tracking Initialization:

  • Initialize task tracking with Step 0: [Plan Name] - [Phase Name] and all steps (1-5)
  • Read phase file, look for tasks/steps/phases/sections/numbered/bulleted lists
  • Convert to task tracking tasks with UNIQUE names:
    • Phase Implementation tasks → Step 2.X (Step 2.1, Step 2.2, etc.)
    • Phase Testing tasks → Step 3.X
    • Phase Code Review tasks → Step 4.X

Output: ✓ Step 1: Found [N] tasks across [M] phases - Ambiguities: [list or "none"]


Step 2: Implementation

Implement selected plan phase step-by-step. Mark tasks complete as done. For UI work, call ui-ux-designer subagent. Run type checking and compile.

Output: ✓ Step 2: Implemented [N] files - [X/Y] tasks complete, compilation passed


Step 3: Testing

Call tester subagent. If ANY tests fail: STOP, call debugger, fix, re-run. Repeat until 100% pass.

Testing standards: Forbidden: commenting out tests, changing assertions to pass, TODO/FIXME to defer fixes.

Output: ✓ Step 3: Tests [X/X passed] - All requirements met

Validation: If X ≠ total, Step 3 INCOMPLETE - do not proceed.


Step 4: Code Review

Call code-reviewer subagent. If critical issues found: STOP, fix, re-run tester, re-run code-reviewer. Repeat until no critical issues.

Output: ✓ Step 4: Code reviewed - [0] critical issues

Validation: If critical issues > 0, Step 4 INCOMPLETE - do not proceed.


Step 5: Finalize

  1. STATUS UPDATE (PARALLEL): Call project-manager + docs-manager subagents.
  2. ONBOARDING CHECK: Detect onboarding requirements + generate summary.
  3. AUTO-COMMIT: Call git-manager subagent. Run only if Steps 1-2 successful + Tests passed.

If $ALL_PHASES is Yes: proceed to next phase automatically. If $ALL_PHASES is No: ask user before proceeding to next phase.

If last phase: Generate summary report. Ask user about /preview and $plan-archive.

Output: ✓ Step 5: Finalize - Status updated - Git committed


First Principle — Easy to Change

The success metric of every coding decision is future change cost. DRY, SRP, abstraction, design patterns, naming, layering, tests — every technique exists to serve one goal: making the next change cheaper.

When evaluating code, a refactor, a test, or an abstraction, ask: does this make the next change cheaper or more expensive?

  • Reject "best practices" that raise change cost (premature abstraction, speculative generality, leaky indirection, ceremony without payoff).
  • Name the real enemies in findings: coupling, hidden state, duplicated knowledge, unclear intent, irreversible decisions exposed too early.
  • A simpler design that is easy to change beats a sophisticated design that isn't.

Apply this lens before invoking any specific rule, pattern, or checklist below — if a downstream rule would raise change cost, this principle wins.


Critical Enforcement Rules

Step output format: ✓ Step [N]: [Brief status] - [Key metrics]

task tracking tracking required: Initialize at Step 0, mark each step complete before next.

Mandatory subagent calls: Step 3: tester | Step 4: code-reviewer | Step 5: project-manager AND docs-manager AND git-manager

Blocking gates:

  • Step 3: Tests must be 100% passing
  • Step 4: Critical issues must be 0

Execute every step in declared order; proceed only when validation passes. One plan phase per command run. — why: skipping steps or advancing past a failed gate leaves later steps acting on unverified state.


Next Steps (Standalone: MUST ATTENTION ask user via a direct user question. Skip if inside workflow.)

MANDATORY IMPORTANT MUST ATTENTION — NO EXCEPTIONS: If this skill was called outside a workflow, you MUST ATTENTION use a direct user question to present these options. Do NOT skip because the task seems "simple" or "obvious" — the user decides:

  • "Proceed with full workflow (Recommended)" — I'll detect the best workflow to continue from here (code implemented). This ensures review, testing, and docs steps aren't skipped.
  • "$code-simplifier" — Simplify implementation
  • "$workflow-review-changes" — Review changes before commit
  • "Skip, continue manually" — user decides

If already inside a workflow, skip — the workflow handles sequencing.

[IMPORTANT] Use task tracking to break ALL work into small tasks BEFORE starting — including tasks for each file read. This prevents context loss from long files. For simple tasks, AI MUST ATTENTION ask user whether to skip.

  • docs/project-reference/domain-entities-reference.md — Domain entity catalog, relationships, cross-service sync (read when task involves business entities/models) (read directly when relevant; do not rely on hook-injected conversation text)

End-to-Start Debugger Trace — For non-trivial bugs, failed verification, regression fixes, behavior-changing code, or unclear code flow, start from the observed final state and walk backward before proposing a fix.

  1. Frame 0: observed end state — Name the exact user-visible output, failing assertion, log line, persisted value, API response, rendered UI, or aggregate bucket. Record the reader/query/renderer that produced it with file:line evidence.
  2. Walk backward one hop at a time — Trace final reader -> projection/cache/storage -> writer -> consumer/handler/job -> producer/caller -> original trigger. At every hop record: input, transformation, output, owner, and evidence.
  3. Enumerate all feeder paths — Find every upstream producer/caller/event/job that can write into the final path, including retry, async, cache, background, and alternate UI/API paths. Mark each path verified, ruled out, or still unknown.
  4. Build the hypothesis matrix — For each plausible cause, list evidence for, evidence against, how to reproduce/verify, blast radius, and status (primary, contributing, ruled out, latent). Do not fix until competing causes are explicitly resolved or bounded.
  5. Choose the owning fix layer — Identify the invariant owner and the lowest shared point that protects all downstream consumers. A fix at the symptom site is rejected unless the symptom site owns the invariant.
  6. Prove convergence forward — After choosing the fix, walk start -> end again and show how the corrected state reaches the observed final output. Map each root cause to a fix part and each fix part to a test/proof.

BLOCKED until: final state named · backward trace written · all feeder paths enumerated · hypothesis matrix completed · owning fix layer justified · forward convergence proof mapped to tests.

NEVER: Start at the first suspicious code path. Collapse multiple producers into one "flow". Treat duplicate symptoms as duplicate records without proving the read model. Skip ruled-out hypotheses.

Nested Task Expansion Contract — For workflow-step invocation, the [Workflow] ... row is only a parent container; the child skill still creates visible phase tasks.

  1. Call the current task list first. If a matching active parent workflow row exists, set nested=true and record parentTaskId; otherwise run standalone.
  2. Create one task per declared phase before phase work. When nested, prefix subjects [N.M] $skill-name — phase.
  3. When nested, link the parent with TaskUpdate(parentTaskId, addBlockedBy: [childIds]).
  4. Orchestrators must pre-expand a child skill's phase list and link the workflow row before invoking that child skill or sub-agent.
  5. Mark exactly one child in_progress before work and completed immediately after evidence is written.
  6. Complete the parent only after all child tasks are completed or explicitly cancelled with reason.

Blocked until: the current task list done, child phases created, parent linked when nested, first child marked in_progress.

Project Reference Docs Gate — Run after task-tracking bootstrap and before target/source file reads, grep, edits, or analysis. Project docs override generic framework assumptions.

  1. Identify scope: file types, domain area, and operation.
  2. Required docs by trigger: always docs/project-reference/lessons.md; doc lookup docs-index-reference.md; review code-review-rules.md; backend/CQRS/API backend-patterns-reference.md; domain/entity domain-entities-reference.md; frontend/UI frontend-patterns-reference.md; styles/design scss-styling-guide.md + design-system/design-system-canonical.md; integration tests integration-test-reference.md; E2E e2e-test-reference.md; feature docs/specs feature-docs-reference.md; architecture/new area project-structure-reference.md.
  3. Read every required doc that exists; skip absent docs as not applicable. Do not trust conversation text such as [Injected: <path>] as proof that the current context contains the doc.
  4. Before target work, state: Reference docs read: ... | Missing/not applicable: ....

Blocked until: scope evaluated, required docs checked/read, lessons.md confirmed, citation emitted.

Critical Thinking Mindset — Apply critical thinking, sequential thinking. Every claim needs traced proof, confidence >80% to act. Anti-hallucination: Never present guess as fact — cite sources for every claim, admit uncertainty freely, self-check output for errors, cross-reference independently, stay skeptical of own confidence — certainty without evidence root of all hallucination.

Understand Code First — HARD-GATE: Do NOT write, plan, or fix until you READ existing code.

  1. Search 3+ similar patterns (grep/glob) — cite file:line evidence
  2. Read existing files in target area — understand structure, base classes, conventions
  3. Run python .claude/scripts/code_graph trace <file> --direction both --json when .code-graph/graph.db exists
  4. Map dependencies via connections or callers_of — know what depends on your target
  5. Write investigation to .ai/workspace/analysis/ for non-trivial tasks (3+ files)
  6. Re-read analysis file before implementing — never work from memory alone. — why: long context drifts from the file; the file is ground truth
  7. NEVER invent new patterns when existing ones work — match exactly or document deviation. — why: divergent patterns fragment the codebase and slow every future reader

BLOCKED until: - [ ] Read target files - [ ] Grep 3+ patterns - [ ] Graph trace (if graph.db exists) - [ ] Assumptions verified with evidence

Source/test drift check. For coding, fix, debug, investigation, test, or review work: when source behavior changes, inspect affected unit/integration/E2E tests and decide from evidence whether tests should change to match intended behavior or the source change is an unintended bug to fix. Do not write tests for migration code; schema/data migrations are one-time execution paths, not core application logic.

AI Mistake Prevention — Failure modes to avoid on every task:

Check downstream references before deleting. Deleting components causes documentation and code staleness cascades. Map all referencing files before removal. Verify AI-generated content against actual code. AI hallucinates APIs, class names, and method signatures. Always grep to confirm existence before documenting or referencing. Trace full dependency chain after edits. Changing a definition misses downstream variables and consumers derived from it. Always trace the full chain. Trace ALL code paths when verifying correctness. Confirming code exists is not confirming it executes. Always trace early exits, error branches, and conditional skips — not just happy path. When debugging, ask "whose responsibility?" before fixing. Trace whether bug is in caller (wrong data) or callee (wrong handling). Fix at responsible layer — never patch symptom site. Assume existing values are intentional — ask WHY before changing. Before changing any constant, limit, flag, or pattern: read comments, check git blame, examine surrounding code. Verify ALL affected outputs, not just the first. Changes touching multiple stacks require verifying EVERY output. One green check is not all green checks. Holistic-first debugging — resist nearest-attention trap. When investigating any failure, list EVERY precondition first (config, env vars, DB names, endpoints, DI registrations, data preconditions), then verify each against evidence before forming any code-layer hypothesis. Surgical changes — apply the diff test. Bug fix: every changed line must trace directly to the bug. Don't restyle or improve adjacent code. Enhancement task: implement improvements AND announce them explicitly. Surface ambiguity before coding — don't pick silently. If request has multiple interpretations, present each with effort estimate and ask. Never assume all-records, file-based, or more complex path.

IMPORTANT MUST ATTENTION search 3+ existing patterns and read code BEFORE any modification. Run graph trace when graph.db exists.

MUST ATTENTION apply critical thinking — every claim needs traced proof, confidence >80% to act. Anti-hallucination: never present guess as fact.

MUST ATTENTION apply AI mistake prevention — holistic-first debugging, fix at responsible layer, surface ambiguity before coding, re-read files after compaction.

  • MANDATORY After task-tracking bootstrap and before target/source work, read required project-reference docs and cite Reference docs read: ....
  • MANDATORY Always include lessons.md; project conventions override generic defaults.

IMPORTANT MUST ATTENTION debugger trace gate: for non-trivial bug/fix/investigation/review work, start at the observed final output and trace backward through reader -> storage/projection -> writer -> consumer/job -> producer/trigger. Enumerate all feeder paths and hypotheses before fixing. BLOCKED until trace, hypothesis matrix, owning fix layer, and forward convergence proof exist.

  • MANDATORY Parent workflow rows do not replace child phase tracking; expand phases and link the parent when nested.
  • MANDATORY Orchestrators pre-expand child skill phases before invocation; use [N.M] $skill-name — phase prefixes and one-in_progress discipline.

Closing Reminders

IMPORTANT MUST ATTENTION break work into small todo tasks using task tracking BEFORE starting IMPORTANT MUST ATTENTION search codebase for 3+ similar patterns before creating new code IMPORTANT MUST ATTENTION cite file:line evidence for every claim (confidence >80% to act) IMPORTANT MUST ATTENTION add a final review todo task to verify work quality IMPORTANT MUST ATTENTION validate decisions with user via a direct user question — never auto-decide MANDATORY IMPORTANT MUST ATTENTION READ the following files before starting:

IMPORTANT MUST ATTENTION READ CLAUDE.md before starting

[TASK-PLANNING] Before acting, analyze task scope and systematically break it into small todo tasks and sub-tasks using task tracking.


Closing reminder — Easy to Change is the success metric. Every finding, test, refactor, and abstraction must answer one question: does this make the next change cheaper or more expensive? If it doesn't reduce future change cost, reject it. Coupling, hidden state, duplicated knowledge, and unclear intent are the real enemies — call them out by name.

Hookless Prompt Protocol Mirror (Auto-Synced)

Source: .claude/hooks/lib/prompt-injections.cjs + .claude/.ck.json

[WORKFLOW-EXECUTION-PROTOCOL] [BLOCKING] Workflow Execution Protocol — MANDATORY IMPORTANT MUST CRITICAL. Do not skip for any reason.

Generic portability boundary: Reusable skills and protocol text stay project-neutral; project-specific conventions are discovered from docs/project-config.json and docs/project-reference/. Apply shared AI-SDD from shared/sdd-artifact-contract.md. Read docs/project-config.json and docs/project-reference/docs-index-reference.md, then open the project reference docs named there. Any supported AI tool may execute when this shared context and local docs are available.

  1. DETECT: Match prompt against workflow catalog
  2. ANALYZE: Find best-match workflow AND evaluate if a custom step combination would fit better
  3. ASK (REQUIRED FORMAT): Use a direct user question with this structure unless the user explicitly invoked a workflow/skill and the local protocol treats explicit invocation as confirmation:
    • Question: "Which workflow do you want to activate?"
    • Option 1: "Activate [BestMatch Workflow] (Recommended)"
    • Option 2: "Activate custom workflow: [step1 → step2 → ...]" (include one-line rationale)
  4. ACTIVATE (if confirmed): Call $workflow-start <workflowId> for standard; sequence custom steps manually
  5. CREATE TASKS: task tracking for ALL workflow steps
  6. EXECUTE: Follow each step in sequence [CRITICAL-THINKING-MINDSET] Apply critical thinking, sequential thinking. Every claim needs traced proof, confidence >80% to act. Anti-hallucination principle: Never present guess as fact — cite sources for every claim, admit uncertainty freely, self-check output for errors, cross-reference independently, stay skeptical of own confidence — certainty without evidence root of all hallucination. AI Attention principle (Primacy-Recency): Put the 3 most critical rules at both top and bottom of long prompts/protocols so instruction adherence survives long context windows. Goal-driven execution: Define success criteria first, loop until verified, and stop only when observable checks pass. Tests verify intent: Tests must protect business rules/invariants and fail when the protected intent breaks, not only mirror current behavior.

[LESSON-LEARNED-REMINDER] [BLOCKING] Task Planning & Continuous Improvement — MANDATORY. Do not skip.

Break work into small tasks (task tracking) before starting. Add final task: "Analyze AI mistakes & lessons learned".

Extract lessons — ROOT CAUSE ONLY, not symptom fixes:

  1. Name the FAILURE MODE (reasoning/assumption failure), not symptom — "assumed API existed without reading source" not "used wrong enum value".
  2. Generality test: does this failure mode apply to ≥3 contexts/codebases? If not, abstract one level up.
  3. Write as a universal rule — strip project-specific names/paths/classes. Useful on any codebase.
  4. Consolidate: multiple mistakes sharing one failure mode → ONE lesson.
  5. Recurrence gate: "Would this recur in future session WITHOUT this reminder?" — No → skip $learn.
  6. Auto-fix gate: "Could $code-review/$code-simplifier/$security/$lint catch this?" — Yes → improve review skill instead.
  7. BOTH gates pass → ask user to run $learn. [TASK-PLANNING] [MANDATORY] BEFORE executing any workflow or skill step, create/update task tracking for all planned steps, then keep it synchronized as each step starts/completes.