# Askit Build Workflow

> Creates and improves workflows (an ordered multi-skill arc) for a plugin to the Advanced Skill Library Standard. Use when a recurring sequence of skills is worth formalizing as a workflow, when you need to author a _workflows file with steps and exit criteria, or to resolve S5 workflow findings.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-product-on-purpose-agent-skills-toolkit-askit-build-workflow`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [product-on-purpose](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/product-on-purpose)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [product-on-purpose](https://github.com/product-on-purpose)
- **Source:** https://github.com/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit/tree/main/skills/askit-build-workflow
- **Website:** https://product-on-purpose.github.io/agent-skills-toolkit

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-product-on-purpose-agent-skills-toolkit-askit-build-workflow
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# askit-build-workflow

## Purpose
Author a plugin's workflows: ordered arcs that chain multiple skills toward an outcome (Standard sec 3.4). Two modes: `create` authors `_workflows/.md` (steps, inputs/outputs handed between steps, exit criteria); `improve` resolves findings. Authoring depth is in [references/authoring-workflows.md](references/authoring-workflows.md). Follows the shared builder contract ([../../docs/reference/builder-pattern.md](../../docs/reference/builder-pattern.md)).

## When to use
When the user asks to author, scaffold, or improve a workflow, or to formalize a recurring multi-skill sequence into an ordered arc.

## create mode
1. Identify the recurring arc: the ordered skills, what is handed between steps, and the exit criteria. Skip the interview if in context.
2. Author `_workflows/.md` (copy `templates/workflow.md`): frontmatter `steps` (each naming the skill it invokes) plus a body describing the handoffs and exit criteria.
3. Every referenced skill MUST exist (S5). Every chaining step MUST be permitted by the chain contract (sec 3.4); use `askit-build-chain-contract` to add the permission if needed.
4. A workflow SHOULD declare which agent targets it supports.
5. Evaluate (`node scripts/evaluate.mjs . --json`) until S5 is clean.

## improve mode
1. Run evaluate and read findings.
2. For an S5 finding (a step references a skill not on disk), fix the skill name or create the skill. Tighten the handoffs and exit criteria.
3. Re-run to confirm.

## Scope
A workflow is `_workflows/.md` with ordered steps and exit criteria (sec 3.4). Referenced skills must exist (S5) and chaining steps must be chain-permitted (sec 3.6). The deterministic workflow-step chain-permission check (step orphans) is a planned enhancement; today S5 enforces step skill-existence and the chain contract governs component-to-component invocation.

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [product-on-purpose](https://github.com/product-on-purpose)
- **Source:** [product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit](https://github.com/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Homepage:** https://product-on-purpose.github.io/agent-skills-toolkit

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

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-product-on-purpose-agent-skills-toolkit-askit-build-workflow
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/product-on-purpose
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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