Choosing A Workflow

Choosing a Workflow

The root router of the workflow family in packages/pi-thinkrail-workflow. It classifies the incoming work and names the workflow skill that governs it — nothing more. A routed skill's steps live in that skill alone; read it, don't run it from memory.

Classify

Read the request and the workspace, then answer two questions — usually silently, from what is already in front of you:

1. Is this project onboarding? No spec graph yet — an empty (or effectively empty) workspace where

the user brings a raw idea, or an existing codebase being set up / specced for the first time.

1. Does the work create or change anything in the project? A new feature, added functionality, a

behavior change, a nontrivial design decision — anything that alters what the project is or does.

If the route is genuinely ambiguous from the request alone, ask one short clarifying question (ask_user_question, composed per the asking-user-questions concept skill) rather than guessing.

Route

| Classification | Route | |---|---| | Project onboarding — no spec graph yet: an empty workspace with a raw idea, or an existing codebase to set up / spec | Read and follow setting-up-a-project — a dispatcher that routes on the workspace's state | | The work creates or changes anything in the project — a new feature, added functionality, a behavior change, a nontrivial design decision | Read and follow brainstorming — however small it looks; that skill owns the "too small" judgment | | Anything else — answering questions, explaining code, running commands or checks, work that changes nothing | No matching workflow. Say so in one line (e.g. "No workflow skill covers this; proceeding directly.") and proceed with your own judgment. Never stretch a route to fit — a forced route is worse than none. |

One route per piece of work. If a request bundles work from different rows (e.g. "explain X, then change Y"), route the part that changes the project and handle the rest directly.

Red flags — stop and re-route

• You started designing or editing before naming a route — routing comes first.
• You are following a routed skill's steps from memory instead of reading that skill.
• You classed a change as "anything else" because it looked small or mechanical — size is

brainstorming's call, not the router's.

Handoff

This skill ends by naming exactly one of: setting-up-a-project, brainstorming, or no matching workflow (proceed with judgment). Adding a workflow to the family adds a row to the table above — see the writing-workflow-skills skill.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: JetBrains
• Source: JetBrains/thinkrail
• License: Apache-2.0
• Homepage: https://thinkrail.ai/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.