Intent Preflight
Adaptively clarify ambiguous, complex, long-running, expensive, or high-impact requests before execution. Use when different interpretations would change product behavior, architecture, scope, cost, risk, user experience, or acceptance criteria; when a user asks to be interviewed or challenged; or when the agent is silently filling material gaps. Skip trivial questions, clear mechanical changes,…
Using Agent Preflight
Route non-trivial, ambiguous, costly, long-running, or high-risk agent work through adaptive intent clarification, capability gap analysis, tool discovery and review, and context budgeting. Use at the start of build, change, diagnosis, research, creative, data, or automation tasks when wrong assumptions, missing capabilities, large context, irreversible actions, or meaningful time or money are pl…
Context Budget
Control token and attention cost for tasks involving large files, logs, search results, repositories, datasets, tool outputs, long conversations, or repeated context. Use before reasoning over content likely to exceed roughly 2,000 tokens or when output quality degrades from context overload. Reduce at the source first, preserve provenance, use recoverable compression only when beneficial, and re…
Tool Review Gate
Review a proposed skill, plugin, MCP server, CLI, package, API, connector, application, or service before installation or use. Use when a new capability may execute code, access files or accounts, receive project data, require secrets, cost money, change configuration, or create external effects. Present a decision-ready approval card and wait for explicit, scoped user approval.
Agent Preflight
Adaptive preflight skills for AI agents: clarify intent, find capability gaps, review tools, and control context cost.
Capability Gap Analysis
Determine whether an agent already has the capabilities required for a task before recommending or installing anything new. Use when a task may require unfamiliar file formats, external services, browsers, desktop apps, media generation, databases, deployment access, specialized runtimes, large-context handling, or verification tools. Produce a capability map and hand only proven gaps to tool dis…
Tool Discovery
Find a small shortlist of task-fit skills, plugins, MCP servers, CLIs, libraries, APIs, or applications for a proven capability gap. Use only after the required capability and current environment are understood. Search trustworthy and current sources, prefer official evidence, compare viable fallbacks, and return candidates for review without installing or enabling them.