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Find The Path by hmbown — Agent Skill

Name: Find The Path
Author: Hmbown

Find The Path

In D&D, Find the Path reveals the shortest route to a destination, even through mazes and across planes. The real-world version is wayfinding through complexity: navigating a sprawling codebase to find where a change should go, plotting the fastest path through a bureaucratic process, mapping the decision tree to get from current state to desired state, or finding the critical path through a project dependency graph.

Hmbown 720f23e 2.2 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

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Find the Path

Find the shortest, safest route to a destination through a complex space.

Overview

Find the Path is interpreted here as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now execution model.

Canonical source: Find the Path (spell)

Provider target: OpenClaw

When To Use

You know where you want to end up but the path through the system, process, or codebase is unclear.
A project has tangled dependencies and you need to find the critical path or the right order of operations.
You need to navigate a complex process — regulatory, bureaucratic, or organizational — and want the most direct route.

Workflow

Define the destination: what does 'done' look like? Be specific.
Map the terrain: what are the major obstacles, dependencies, and decision points between here and there?
Find the shortest viable path: not the most thorough, not the most cautious — the shortest one that actually works.
Identify the single biggest risk on the path and a fallback if it is blocked.
Deliver turn-by-turn directions: the ordered sequence of steps from here to the destination.

Deliverables

A step-by-step path from current state to destination, in execution order.
The critical dependency or risk on the path — the one thing most likely to block progress.
An alternate route if the primary path is blocked.

Guardrails

The shortest path is not always the best path. Flag when a faster route has significantly higher risk than a slightly longer one.
Do not confuse the path with the destination. Find the Path gives directions, not guarantees of arrival.

Default Invocation

Use $find-the-path to map the route from where I am now to this [goal/destination/state]. Give me turn-by-turn steps and flag the biggest risk.

---name: find-the-pathdescription: In D&D, Find the Path reveals the shortest route to a destination, even through mazes and across planes. The real-world version is wayfinding through complexity: navigating a sprawling codebase to find where a change should go, plotting the fastest path through a bureaucratic process, mapping the decision tree to get from current state to desired state, or finding the critical path through a project dependency graph.---# Find the PathFind the shortest, safest route to a destination through a complex space.## OverviewFind the Path is interpreted here as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now execution model.Canonical source: Find the Path (spell)Provider target: OpenClaw## When To Use- You know where you want to end up but the path through the system, process, or codebase is unclear.- A project has tangled dependencies and you need to find the critical path or the right order of operations.- You need to navigate a complex process — regulatory, bureaucratic, or organizational — and want the most direct route.## Workflow1. Define the destination: what does 'done' look like? Be specific.2. Map the terrain: what are the major obstacles, dependencies, and decision points between here and there?3. Find the shortest viable path: not the most thorough, not the most cautious — the shortest one that actually works.4. Identify the single biggest risk on the path and a fallback if it is blocked.5. Deliver turn-by-turn directions: the ordered sequence of steps from here to the destination.## Deliverables- A step-by-step path from current state to destination, in execution order.- The critical dependency or risk on the path — the one thing most likely to block progress.- An alternate route if the primary path is blocked.## Guardrails- The shortest path is not always the best path. Flag when a faster route has significantly higher risk than a slightly longer one.- Do not confuse the path with the destination. Find the Path gives directions, not guarantees of arrival.## Default InvocationUse $find-the-path to map the route from where I am now to this [goal/destination/state]. Give me turn-by-turn steps and flag the biggest risk.

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