Delegate

delegate

The router. Growth OS does diagnosis and context extremely well, but "growth" is a huge surface — copywriting, paid ads, lifecycle email, pricing, referrals, retention. delegate takes a concrete task and points it at the right executor: a Growth OS native skill when one fits, or an external marketing skill pack by reference when the user has one installed and it's the better tool.

What it does

• Interprets the growth task and locates it on the AARRR funnel (acquisition, activation, retention, revenue, referral).
• Looks up the task in core/knowledge/atomic-skills-map.md.
• Recommends the native Growth OS skill if one covers it.
• If the task falls outside Growth OS's native set and the user has an external marketing skill pack installed, notes that "a pack you have can handle this" and names the category of capability — never reproducing, quoting, or paraphrasing that pack's content.
• Passes along the relevant context from the hub so whatever executes the task starts informed.

When to use

• An audit finding needs action and it's not obvious which skill owns it.
• The user has a specific growth job and wants the fastest right tool.
• Someone asks "can Growth OS do X?" — delegate answers honestly (native / via a pack / not covered).

Steps

1. Clarify the task in one line. "Improve the pricing page's conversion," "get more email signups," "win back churned users." If it's fuzzy, ask one sharpening question.

1. Place it on the funnel. Which AARRR stage — and which sub-job. This is the lookup key into the skills map.

1. Look it up in atomic-skills-map.md. The map lists common growth jobs and, for each, the native Growth OS skill (if any) plus a neutral note about delegating to an installed pack.

1. Recommend, in priority order:

• a) Native Growth OS skill — if context, audit, geo-audit, geo-content, connect, or dashboard covers it, route there. Growth OS's own house first.
• b) External marketing pack (by reference only) — if it's a job Growth OS doesn't natively do (write ad variations, build a cold-email sequence, design a paywall, plan an A/B test) and the user has a compatible pack installed, tell them: "This is a job for a dedicated marketing skill pack — if you have one installed, it can take this, and Growth OS will feed it your context." Name the capability type, point to their pack, and stop there. Do not copy, summarize, or restate anything from that pack. Growth OS links; it never redistributes.
• c) Not covered — if nothing fits, say so plainly rather than forcing a bad match.

1. Hand off context. Whatever executes the task, make sure it gets the positioning from .agents/product-marketing.md and any relevant audit findings, so it doesn't start cold.

Which adapters / CLI it calls

None directly. delegate is pure routing. It reads core/knowledge/atomic-skills-map.md and the hub, then points at an executor. Any data pulls happen inside the skill it routes to.

How it delegates

That's the whole job. Two lanes:

• Native — invoke the matching Growth OS skill.
• External — reference an installed pack without touching its content. Growth OS and marketing packs are designed to sit side by side: Growth OS owns context + diagnosis + GEO + data plumbing; a pack owns deep execution of a given marketing craft. delegate is the seam between them.

Guardrails — licensing, non-negotiable

• Reference, never redistribute. When pointing at an external pack, Growth OS names the capability and defers to the user's own installed copy. It never bundles, copies, quotes, paraphrases, or reproduces any third-party pack's prompts, skill text, or structure. If a pack isn't installed, Growth OS does not supply its content as a substitute — it says "install a pack for that" or offers the native alternative.
• Honest coverage. Don't oversell. If Growth OS can't do something natively and the user has no pack, say it's out of scope rather than improvising a weak version.
• Context flows one way. Growth OS shares the user's own context with the executor; it never pulls content back from a pack into Growth OS's files.

Source & license

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

• Author: nocodework
• Source: nocodework/growth-os
• License: MIT

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