Agent Capability Standard

Create an executable plan with steps, dependencies, verification criteria, checkpoints, and rollback strategies. Use when preparing changes, designing workflows, or structuring multi-step operations before execution.

Produce a comprehensive audit trail of actions, tools used, changes made, and decision rationale. Use when recording compliance evidence, tracking changes, or documenting decision lineage.

Retrieve prior decisions, rationale, and learned patterns from memory to apply consistently. Use when needing context from previous interactions, looking up past decisions, or ensuring consistency with prior reasoning.

Find relevant items under uncertainty across repositories, databases, web sources, or any searchable corpus. Use when exploring unknown territory, finding related information, or discovering relevant resources.

Check correctness against tests, specs, or invariants; produce pass/fail evidence. Use when validating changes, testing hypotheses, checking invariants, or confirming behavior matches expectations.

Run code or scripts deterministically with captured output. Use when running tests, executing build commands, invoking tools, or performing read-only operations that produce results.

Produce clear reasoning with assumptions, causal chains, and evidence. Use when clarifying decisions, teaching concepts, justifying recommendations, or documenting rationale.

Find failure modes, edge cases, ambiguities, and exploit paths in plans, code, or designs. Use when reviewing proposals, auditing security, stress-testing logic, or validating assumptions.

Find latent patterns, relationships, anomalies, or insights not explicitly specified. Use when exploring unknown structure, finding hidden connections, or uncovering emergent phenomena.

Combine heterogeneous data sources into a unified model with conflict resolution, schema alignment, and provenance tracking. Use when merging data from multiple systems, consolidating information, or building comprehensive views.

Create a safety checkpoint marker before mutation or execution steps. Use when about to modify files, execute plans, or perform any irreversible action. Essential for the CAVR pattern.

Define how state changes over time through rules, triggers, and effects. Use when modeling state machines, defining workflows, specifying event handlers, or documenting system dynamics.

Execute the Debug Code Change workflow end-to-end with safety gates. Use when debugging code changes, investigating issues, or performing root cause analysis with audit trail.

Analyze a task description to detect required capabilities from the ontology, identify gaps, and synthesize a valid workflow automatically. Trigger: "discover capabilities", "what capabilities do I need", "analyze task", "synthesize workflow"