Start Task

Start Task

Contract: vulpora.start-task-profile/v1; vulpora.start-task/v1 applies only to audit.

Invoke $start-task (Codex, also /skills) or /start-task (Claude Code) with one non-empty task description. Accept exactly one leading --lightweight, --standard, or --audit token; otherwise use auto. Remove that token once and preserve the remaining host-parsed description as data. Never evaluate or shell-split task text. Reject empty or malformed input before discovery.

Select once

If these instructions are already supplied in context, use them without rereading the entry. Inspect the relevant repository files and instructions. Run the bundled scripts/select-execution-profile.js with this JSON shape on stdin, adjusting every signal to observed facts and the requested profile. Resolve the script relative to this installed skill; no source-code or reference read is needed to invoke it.

{
  "schema": "vulpora.start-task-profile-input/v1",
  "requested_profile": "auto",
  "task": {
    "scoped_target": true,
    "acceptance_known": true,
    "verification_known": true,
    "material_unknown_count": 0,
    "independent_lane_count": 1,
    "broad_change_scope": false,
    "shared_public_contract_or_schema": false,
    "risk": {
      "destructive_or_irreversible": false,
      "security_or_authorization_boundary": false,
      "credential_access": false,
      "production_data_migration_or_backfill": false,
      "production_deployment_or_multi_service_release": false,
      "external_side_effects_not_easily_reversible": false,
      "regulatory_or_audit_evidence_required": false
    }
  }
}

The values above illustrate a clear, reversible task, not defaults for unknown facts. Mark unresolved scope, acceptance, or verification false and count material unknowns. Count coupled changes as one lane. Any true risk signal forces audit, even with explicit --lightweight. Ordinary shared contracts, broad scope, unknowns, or independent lanes select standard automatically. Correct rejected input; never invent a successful decision. Rerun only when new facts change the signals, escalating before the affected action. Selection grants no authority.

Once inspection supports an expected lightweight result, batch the selector, prepared edit, and checks in one conditional tool call. Print the decision; require selector exit zero and parsed profile === "lightweight" before any write. A failed, malformed, or different decision must stop the batch; follow the selected path before implementation. Never run selection and writes concurrently. Keep the guard in the tool call, without adding a wrapper file or another confirmation turn.

Execute the selected profile

• Lightweight: these instructions are complete; no additional workflow references are required. Keep one concise brief in session context: goal, scope, decisions, acceptance, verification, risks. The existing progress message can serve as the brief. Implement directly with one primary owner; no execution child. Ask only about material blockers or new authority; an implementation request already authorizes ordinary in-scope edits.
• Standard: read the standard path. Keep coupled work with one owner; use a short plan and batch material questions. Load transport/model references only for actual delegation.
• Audit: read the operating contract and runtime fast path, then follow the full v1 contract.

For lightweight/standard, do not create run directories. Do not create a ledger, frozen DAG, route receipt, hash projection, or formal orchestration report. Standard delegation may create its bounded transport records. Run the narrowest repository-native checks proving the changed behavior; repeat only after new changes, failures, or evidence that existing results are insufficient. Inspect the diff, preserve user changes, and report changed files, observed verification, and material remaining risk. Resolve known in-scope errors before finishing; if verification is blocked, report the verified subset and exact blocker without claiming completion.