Discovery Workflow

Discovery Workflow

Sequences the reusable, domain-neutral discovery and parity-definition workflow end to end. This skill is the entry point: it establishes the stage order, directs each stage to its owning skill, and holds the single canonical registry of upstream contract names (analyzer CLI commands, agent slugs, schema paths, and validators).

All domain specificity is read at runtime from the consumer repository's domain profile (discovery-profile.yaml) via dev.discovery.profile. This skill names no concrete repository, path, or technology stack.

When to Use This Skill

• You are onboarding the discovery and parity-definition workflow in a consumer repository and need the documented stage order.
• You need the canonical list of upstream contract names to reconcile a renamed analyzer command or agent slug at epic fan-in.
• You need to know which stage skill owns which artifact and validator.

Prerequisites

• A discovery-profile.yaml domain profile exists in the consumer repository and loads cleanly via dev.discovery.profile.
• The analyzer framework CLI and the four generic agent roles are available in the consumer environment (referenced here by name only).

Stage Order

Run the workflow in this fixed order. Each stage validates its artifacts before the next stage proceeds:

1. profile — load and echo the domain profile via dev.discovery.profile.
2. inventory — drive the language-neutral repository/project inventory analyzer (discovery-repo-inventory).
3. coverage — produce feature contracts and the coverage ledger (discovery-coverage-ledger).
4. runtime — produce runtime characterization scenarios and evidence references (discovery-runtime-characterization).
5. parity — produce or refresh the parity matrix (discovery-parity-matrix).
6. reconciliation — capture unspecified or contradictory behavior and reconcile it into product decisions (discovery-behavior-reconciliation).
7. validation gate — run the per-stage validators and the completion gate (discovery-validate-artifacts).

Compact form: profile -> inventory -> coverage -> runtime -> parity -> reconciliation -> validation gate.

Worker Routing

The four generic agent roles are routed by slug from their owning stage skills. The routing table below is the canonical mapping; each stage skill repeats only the single slug it routes to.

Referenced Contracts

This registry is the single canonical location for upstream contract names. Stage skills name only the specific contract(s) they use and defer to this registry for the full set. Indirect reference by skill name is not duplication.

Domain profile (config contract, issue #360 / epic #9001)

• Config artifact: discovery-profile.yaml.
• CLI: dev.discovery.profile.

Schemas (issue #359 / epic #9002)

Seven schemas under schemas/discovery/v1/:

• schemas/discovery/v1/feature-contract.schema.json
• schemas/discovery/v1/coverage-ledger.schema.json
• schemas/discovery/v1/runtime-characterization-scenario.schema.json
• schemas/discovery/v1/parity-matrix.schema.json
• schemas/discovery/v1/unspecified-behavior-record.schema.json
• schemas/discovery/v1/product-decision-record.schema.json
• schemas/discovery/v1/evidence-reference.schema.json

Validators (issue #361 / epic #9003)

Nine dev.discovery.validate-* console scripts. Each yields a list[str] of errors; an empty list is a pass.

• dev.discovery.validate-profile
• dev.discovery.validate-feature-contract
• dev.discovery.validate-coverage-ledger
• dev.discovery.validate-runtime-scenario
• dev.discovery.validate-parity-matrix
• dev.discovery.validate-unspecified-behavior
• dev.discovery.validate-product-decision
• dev.discovery.validate-evidence-reference
• dev.discovery.validate-all

Analyzer framework (epic #9006, in preparation)

• Language-neutral repository/project inventory command: dev.discovery.inventory.

  Fan-in reconciliation assumption: the inventory command name dev.discovery.inventory is assumed. It is not fixed by the prepared upstream summaries and is the epic #9006 owner's decision. This assumption is isolated to this single registry line plus one fragment in discovery-repo-inventory. If #9006 lands a different command name, update those two locations only.

Agent roles (epic #9007, in preparation)

Four generic agent personas, referenced by slug in the Worker Routing table above:

• legacy-parity-analyst

• runtime-characterization-analyst

• requirements-reconciler

• migration-coverage-reviewer

  Fan-in reconciliation assumption: the four agent slugs are assumed to be the kebab-case of the persona titles. Final slugs are the epic #9007 owner's decision. The assumption is isolated to this registry and the per-stage ## Worker Routing fragments; reconciling a renamed slug at fan-in is a bounded edit.

Referenced Skills

• discovery-repo-inventory — inventory stage mechanics.
• discovery-coverage-ledger — coverage stage mechanics.
• discovery-runtime-characterization — runtime stage mechanics.
• discovery-parity-matrix — parity stage mechanics.
• discovery-behavior-reconciliation — reconciliation stage mechanics.
• discovery-validate-artifacts — canonical validation-gate mechanics.

Notes

• No skill in this workflow asserts the existence of upstream analyzer or agent files; upstream contracts are referenced by name only, so this workflow stays correct regardless of upstream merge order.
• Domain specificity (source and target roots, technology stack, artifact conventions) is read from the domain profile at runtime, never hard-coded.