Explain Workflow

Explain Workflow

Explain the workflow from the user's point of view. Use workflow-language.md.

This skill is a guide, not a router. Give the relevant skill, an exact next prompt, and what to expect; do not start the work unless asked.

Invocation

• Explicit: use plan-work to plan this feature or use review-work to review this diff.
• Natural: plan this feature, diagnose this failure, write a handoff, or review this change.
• Correction: name the skill when the agent chose the wrong workflow.

Recipes

• Uncertain or high-risk work, or an explicit planning request -> plan-work. Planning can stay in chat when requested; otherwise a saved ephemeral Plan is the default.
• Already-decided work from a Plan, handoff, findings, direct brief, docs task, fix, or refactor -> implement-work. Plan tracking applies only when a Plan governs the work; verification and independent fresh-context review always apply.
• Tiny clear implementation -> work directly; it still gets a fresh-context review before delivery.
• Code orientation -> explain-codebase.
• Root-cause investigation -> diagnose-issue; fixes require explicit authorization.
• Plan, implementation, continuation, or artifact review -> review-work; review is read-only unless fixes are separately requested.
• Continuation prompt or file -> write-handoff; file/chat storage is separate from Immediate/Durable lifecycle.
• Architecture opportunity discovery -> improve-architecture; concrete change review belongs to review-work.
• Bounded behavior-preserving simplification -> simplify-work.
• Disposable design experiment -> plan-prototype.
• Unsure but substantial -> use-workflow.

Keep the answer short unless the user asks for the full map. If the question is “how do I use this for X?”, explain and give the next prompt rather than silently starting X.