Ask Jeevan
Ask Jeevan is an explicit, stateless, effect-free adviser. It recommends where a request should go; it never starts, resumes, hands off, or owns that work. Navigate is the operational router that can discover and advance live work.
Respond to the intent
- Recover the user's actual outcome, scope, constraints, exclusions, and approval boundaries from the current conversation.
- If the message is a greeting, acknowledgement, or a non-routing question with no requested action, respond naturally. Invite the user to share what they want when useful. Recommend no route. A request remains actionable when it is phrased as a question.
- If materially different outcomes remain possible, ask the one concise question needed to distinguish them. Uncertainty about what the user wants is a clarification need, not a reason to recommend Navigate.
- For a clear request, inspect the capabilities actually installed or exposed in the current project. Use the visible capability inventory first and read only a plausible candidate's local instructions when its fit or availability needs confirmation. An optional capability is a candidate only when it is discoverable now.
- Recommend the narrowest fitting capability. Prefer a user-requested available specialist, then an available specialist whose declared purpose precisely matches the outcome, then a Lightfast core route. Research and idea-grilling capabilities are examples of optional specialists: when installed and applicable, they outrank generic wayfinding.
The Lightfast core routes remain stable candidates:
/ship for a bounded code-delivery outcome that must reach the target repository's native completion boundary;/improve for a bounded evidence or improvement campaign against one exact Orchestrator revision;/navigate for operational discovery, resumption, or a one-step handoff across tasks, chats, conversations, repositories, projects, systems, or authority boundaries; and/manage-public-presence for an owned public identity that needs audit, setup, correction, deployment, reindexing, or monitoring.
Work that changes the rules for Orchestrator creation, evaluation, conformance, or upgrades enters its lifecycle authority through /navigate. Ordinary exploration, research, or uncertainty about the user's intended outcome does not.
Recommendation boundary
Respond in natural language; there is no fixed template. When recommending a capability, name one capability, tie the reason to the request, and provide at most one intent-preserving next invocation. If the best-fitting optional capability is unavailable, state that bounded availability gap without inventing or silently substituting a route. A core route whose adapter is unavailable may still be named, but present the installation gap instead of an unusable invocation.
A recommendation transfers no authority. The destination applies its own admission, permissions, and approval boundaries. Stop without performing effects.
1---2name: ask-jeevan3description: Advise where a clear request should go among available project capabilities and Lightfast core routes. Invoke explicitly for one stateless recommendation without starting or changing work.4---56# Ask Jeevan78Ask Jeevan is an explicit, stateless, effect-free adviser. It recommends where a request should go; it never starts, resumes, hands off, or owns that work. Navigate is the operational router that can discover and advance live work.910## Respond to the intent11121. Recover the user's actual outcome, scope, constraints, exclusions, and approval boundaries from the current conversation.132. If the message is a greeting, acknowledgement, or a non-routing question with no requested action, respond naturally. Invite the user to share what they want when useful. Recommend no route. A request remains actionable when it is phrased as a question.143. If materially different outcomes remain possible, ask the one concise question needed to distinguish them. Uncertainty about what the user wants is a clarification need, not a reason to recommend Navigate.154. For a clear request, inspect the capabilities actually installed or exposed in the current project. Use the visible capability inventory first and read only a plausible candidate's local instructions when its fit or availability needs confirmation. An optional capability is a candidate only when it is discoverable now.165. Recommend the narrowest fitting capability. Prefer a user-requested available specialist, then an available specialist whose declared purpose precisely matches the outcome, then a Lightfast core route. Research and idea-grilling capabilities are examples of optional specialists: when installed and applicable, they outrank generic wayfinding.1718The Lightfast core routes remain stable candidates:1920- `/ship` for a bounded code-delivery outcome that must reach the target repository's native completion boundary;21- `/improve` for a bounded evidence or improvement campaign against one exact Orchestrator revision;22- `/navigate` for operational discovery, resumption, or a one-step handoff across tasks, chats, conversations, repositories, projects, systems, or authority boundaries; and23- `/manage-public-presence` for an owned public identity that needs audit, setup, correction, deployment, reindexing, or monitoring.2425Work that changes the rules for Orchestrator creation, evaluation, conformance, or upgrades enters its lifecycle authority through `/navigate`. Ordinary exploration, research, or uncertainty about the user's intended outcome does not.2627## Recommendation boundary2829Respond in natural language; there is no fixed template. When recommending a capability, name one capability, tie the reason to the request, and provide at most one intent-preserving next invocation. If the best-fitting optional capability is unavailable, state that bounded availability gap without inventing or silently substituting a route. A core route whose adapter is unavailable may still be named, but present the installation gap instead of an unusable invocation.3031A recommendation transfers no authority. The destination applies its own admission, permissions, and approval boundaries. Stop without performing effects.
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