Using Agentic Engineering
Entry point and router for the Agentic Engineering suite. Use when starting work in a project that uses (or should use) the documentation chain, when unsure which chain document or skill comes next, or when asked where the project stands. Triggers on "use agentic engineering", "using-agentic-engineering", "where does this project stand in the chain", "what's the next step", "assess the chain", "h…
Implementation Plan
Use when specs are approved and work needs to be broken into independently executable tasks, when sequencing dependencies across modules, when sizing milestones, or when a project is about to start coding but lacks a milestone breakdown. Triggers on "let's plan the implementation", "break this into tasks", "sprint plan", "what should we build first", "milestones", "task ordering", "estimate the w…
Independent Verification
Use when a task or milestone claims completion and must be verified before being marked done, when acting as a verifier sub-agent checking a producer's work, or when a "done" claim needs evidence. Triggers on "verify this task", "is this actually done", "acceptance check", "run verification", any completion claim, any 🔍 → ✅ status transition, or dispatching a maker-checker review loop.
Existing Project Onboarding
Use when an existing or legacy codebase needs to enter the agentic-engineering workflow but has no chain documents (or only scattered legacy docs — README, wiki, design notes). Triggers on "onboard this repo", "migrate this project to agentic-engineering", "reverse-engineer the docs", "adopt this workflow on an existing codebase", "we already have a codebase, set up the docs", "document what we a…
Git Workflow
Use when implementation work is about to touch code (branch before the first commit), when a built task needs to ship as a pull request, when defining how branches, commits, and PRs map to plan tasks, or when parallel agents share one repository. Triggers on "create a branch", "commit this", "open a PR", "ship this task", "how do we merge", task start or completion during an implementation plan,…
Status Tracker
Use at the start of every coding session (read docs/status.md before any other action), at the end of every session (append handoff log entry), or when checking current progress, last-done work, in-flight tasks, or what's blocked. Triggers on session start/end, "where are we", "pick up where we left off", "handoff", "what was done last session", "resume", or recovering after context loss / new ag…
Documentation Maintenance
Use when something said or decided in conversation makes a chain document (PRD, SPEC, ADR, IMPL PLAN, AGENTS.md) stale, contradicted, or incomplete, or when the user proposes a new feature or scope change mid-project. Triggers on "I want to add a feature", "let's also support X", "change the architecture", "switch from X to Y", "we decided to...", "the spec is out of date", "keep the docs in sync…
Project Kickoff Prd
Use when starting a new project or feature from scratch, when a rough idea needs to be turned into a structured product spec, or when scope, target users, or success metrics are undefined. Triggers on "let's build X", "new project", "kick off", "write a PRD", "product brief", "what should we build", vague feature requests, or when no PRD exists yet for the work about to start.
Technical Specification
Use when the PRD is finalized and precise implementation contracts are needed, when defining API shapes, data models, state machines, error taxonomies, or acceptance criteria, or when ambiguous "handle this gracefully" requirements need to be hardened into testable specs. Triggers on "write the spec", "define the API", "what's the data model", "state diagram", "error contract", "acceptance criter…
Run Loop
Chain-aware unattended loop driver for the Agentic Engineering suite. Use ONLY when the user explicitly asks to run multiple implementation-plan tasks unattended — "run the loop", "run-loop M2", "work through milestone M2 without stopping", "run the next N tasks", "keep going until blocked". Never self-trigger for a single task or an ordinary coding request. Branch → build → draft PR → dispatch t…
Agents Md Template
Use when bootstrapping a new repo for AI-assisted development, when no AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / copilot-instructions.md / .cursorrules exists yet, or when consolidating scattered tool-specific config into one source of truth. Triggers on "create AGENTS.md", "set up agent instructions", "new project setup", "configure Claude/Cursor/Copilot/Codex", "onboarding a repo", or noticing duplicated agent c…
Architecture Decision Record
Use when a technical choice has multiple valid options and the decision has lasting consequences, when revisiting or superseding a prior architectural decision, or when about to lock in a technology, pattern, or constraint that will be hard to reverse. Triggers on "should we use X or Y?", "REST vs GraphQL", "monorepo vs polyrepo", "PostgreSQL vs DynamoDB", "event sourcing vs CRUD", technology sel…