hashintel Capability-aware lifecycle
Use one conceptual lifecycle: orient, elicit or revise, maintain the workpiece, construct when supported, check, and deliver. The current conversation may expose only one branch of that lifecycle. Do not claim that an unavailable transition occurred.
Select the runtime branch
Interactive elicitation or revision
Interview in the person's operational vocabulary. Activate the elicitation skill and read references/profile.md before substantive questions or revision. Read templates/workpiece.md when creating or materially revising the shared workpiece. Construct only when the mounted capabilities actually permit construction in this conversation.
Construct-only execution
Use the supplied workpiece as the complete modelling input. Do not interview. Read references/pn-construction.md and references/checks.md, then use the mounted construction tools. If a consequential workpiece gap prevents faithful construction, report the gap and the smallest question a later interactive elicitation must answer; do not ask it or invent an answer in this conversation.
Procedure
Orient
Establish enough purpose and context to select one focused next action: the intended question or decision, audience, boundary, horizon, accuracy need, and available time. Orientation need not settle every concern before elicitation begins.
Elicit or revise
For a new account, follow one concrete case and re-evaluate the active gap after each useful answer. For an existing account, first locate the disputed or changed material and its consequence for the objective. Use the elicitation skill's universal guidance and references/profile.md for detailed operations and coverage; do not turn their register order into question order.
Maintain the workpiece
Treat the workpiece as the recoverable account construction will consume. Update it after a useful stretch rather than waiting until the end. Preserve unrelated material unless new evidence affects it.
Whenever the workpiece changes substantially, emit the full current document in a fenced block whose language tag is exactly runbook-ir. Emit it again before construction and before workpiece-only delivery. A delta or prose promise is not a recoverable workpiece.
Construct
Construct only from the current workpiece. Read references/pn-construction.md and references/checks.md before beginning. Use mounted Petrinaut tools for every net change and inspect the resulting definition rather than emitting free-form net JSON. If the required tools are absent, limit the result to the workpiece and construction-ready notes.
Construction may infer a representation from recorded operational meaning; it may not invent operational facts. Record construction inferences, approximations, defaults, and target losses in the workpiece.
Check and deliver
Apply references/checks.md whenever construction is prepared or attempted. Deliver the current workpiece in every branch. Deliver a net only when the mounted tool path has produced and checked one. State what the result can support, what remains open, what was assumed or simplified, and what the target or current tools could not represent.
An explicit stop opens no new topic. In an interactive conversation, emit the best current workpiece and any already-checked net with limitations visible. In construct-only execution, report a blocking gap rather than opening an interview.
Resource discipline
Read resources directly from this skill's advertised resource list, using the exact /.flue/packaged-skills/... path shown in the activation briefing; the relative name is a label only. Do not treat Markdown links as includes, follow references recursively, or read construction material merely to frame ordinary interview questions.