leeovery Act as precise intake coordinator. Follow each step literally without interpretation. Do not engage with the subject matter — your role is preparation, not processing.
⚠️ ZERO OUTPUT RULE: Do not narrate your processing. Produce no output until a step or reference file explicitly specifies display content. No "proceeding with...", no discovery summaries, no routing decisions, no transition text. Your first output must be content explicitly called for by the instructions.
Workflow Context
You are in the Research phase — exploring ideas, feasibility, market, and viability. Where Research sits in the pipeline depends on the work type:
| Work type | Pipeline |
|---|---|
| Epic | Discovery → Research → (Experiment) → Discussion → Specification → Planning → Implementation → Review |
| Feature | Research (optional) → (Experiment) → Discussion → Specification → Planning → Implementation → Review |
| Cross-cutting | Research (optional) → (Experiment) → Discussion → Specification (terminal) |
Stay in your lane: Explore freely. This is the time for broad thinking, feasibility checks, and learning. Surface options and tradeoffs — don't make decisions. When a topic converges toward a conclusion, that's a signal it's ready for discussion phase, not a cue to start deciding. Park it and move on.
Instructions
Load framework.md and follow its instructions as written.
Step 1: Parse Arguments
Arguments: work_type = $0, work_unit = $1, topic = $2 (optional).
Resolve topic: topic = $2, or if not provided and work_type is not epic, topic = $1.
Store work_unit for the handoff.
Resolve filename:
If topic resolved
resolved_filename = {topic}.md
→ Proceed to Step 2.
If no topic
Output the next fenced block as markdown (not a code block):
What topic would you like to research?
STOP. Wait for user response.
Kebab-case the response, store as {topic}. resolved_filename = {topic}.md.
A name already on the map is not a new topic — the menu row is the way in. Fetch the gate:
node .claude/skills/workflow-engine/scripts/engine.cjs render direct-entry-gate {work_unit}.research.{topic}
If a DISPLAY: entry blocker section is returned:
Emit both sections verbatim per their markers.
STOP. Do not proceed — terminal condition.
If the output is empty:
Silently derive direct_entry_summary (one-line) and direct_entry_description (one or two paragraphs) from the user's response. Do not render anything — these are local variables passed to ensure-discovery-item in Step 2. The derivation is part of the same Claude turn that kebab-cases the response; no separate STOP gate.
→ Proceed to Step 2.
Step 2: Check Phase Entry
Load ensure-discovery-item.md with work_type = {work_type}, work_unit = {work_unit}, topic = {topic}, routing = research. On the direct-entry path (no topic supplied as $2), also pass summary = {direct_entry_summary}, description = {direct_entry_description}. When the topic was provided by the caller, omit both — the caller didn't derive them.
Read the research phase status:
node .claude/skills/workflow-engine/scripts/engine.cjs manifest get {work_unit}.research.{topic} status
Store the result as phase_status.
If output is empty (no research entry)
→ Proceed to Step 4.
Otherwise
→ Proceed to Step 3.
Step 3: Validate Phase
Load validate-phase.md with phase_status = {phase_status}.
If phase_status is triaged
A first start — the session's triage check surfaces the parked concerns; seed context as for a fresh topic.
→ Proceed to Step 4.
Otherwise
→ Proceed to Step 5.
Step 4: Gather Context
Decide whether a context interview is needed. The durable inputs — the carrier and the discovery brief — are seeded by the processing skill, never from here; any read below only decides the route.
If work_type is not epic
Single-phase work (feature, cross-cutting) shaped in discovery leaves its carrier in the discovery session log. Single-phase work has exactly one, at a fixed path — it has no resumable loop to create others. Read .workflows/{work_unit}/discovery/sessions/session-001.md and check its Exploration section. A legacy work unit may have no log, or a placeholder log whose Exploration is absent or (none).
If the log's Exploration section has content (not absent or (none)):
A usable carrier exists — nothing to gather.
→ Proceed to Step 5.
Otherwise:
No usable carrier — the log is missing or has no Exploration. Gather context.
Load gather-context.md and follow its instructions as written.
→ On return, proceed to Step 5.
If work_type is epic
The map item's source says whether the topic was shaped on the discovery map or started fresh from this entry. Read it, storing the result as map_source:
node .claude/skills/workflow-engine/scripts/engine.cjs manifest get {work_unit}.discovery.{topic} source
If map_source is exactly direct-start:
The topic was started fresh, not shaped on the map — there is no curated carrier, so gather context.
Load gather-context.md and follow its instructions as written.
→ On return, proceed to Step 5.
Otherwise:
The topic was shaped on the discovery map — its discovery brief is the starting context, read by the processing skill at initialisation. Nothing to gather.
→ Proceed to Step 5.
Step 5: Invoke the Skill
Load invoke-skill.md and follow its instructions as written.