Pipa Define Work

Pipa Define Work

Route fuzzy demand to one focused Define Work operation.

When present, read ~/.pipa/profile.md once for durable business context. If missing, continue without blocking and do not start setup unless the user asks or a soft setup offer is useful.

Select One Operation

Explicit operation invocation wins. Otherwise select exactly one primary operation and preserve the user's business objective:

• pipa-problem-framing: clarify the problem, affected people, desired outcomes, success criteria, constraints, or non-goals.
• pipa-stakeholder-map: map stakeholders, RACI roles, decision authority, approvals, communication, or escalation paths.
• pipa-project-charter: assess charter readiness and make a go, go-with-conditions, or no-go viability decision.
• pipa-requirements-brief: turn notes or a broad project-planning ask into requirements, acceptance boundaries, and unresolved decisions.
• pipa-scope-baseline: baseline deliverables, exclusions, milestones, schedule assumptions, tolerances, and change triggers.
• pipa-roadmap: sequence candidate work into now/next/later or another requested prioritization method.
• pipa-decision-log: set up RAID, RACI, decision records, ownership, and review cadence.
• pipa-daily-plan: brief one specific workday around due work, active priorities, goals, and calendar commitments.

Tie-Breakers

• “Plan this project” or similarly broad project planning selects pipa-requirements-brief, not pipa-daily-plan.
• Select pipa-daily-plan only when one specific workday's priorities are central. Incidental today wording does not override project requirements, scope, milestone, or roadmap intent.
• Recurring or scheduled Daily Plan setup goes to pipa-manage.
• Start-readiness or go/no-go intent selects pipa-project-charter; problem clarity selects pipa-problem-framing.
• Ownership of the engagement selects pipa-stakeholder-map; governance controls across workstreams select pipa-decision-log.
• Defining acceptance criteria, checks, or boundaries selects pipa-requirements-brief; assessing delivered work for final acceptance, approval, or signoff goes to pipa-improve-operations.
• If multiple operations apply, run the one needed first and name the others only as follow-ups.

If the selected operation is unavailable, name that missing skill and stop. Do not imply a fallback or recreate its workflow inline.

Load references/examples/define-work.md only when an example shape helps.

Boundaries

• Pipa onboarding, business profile, preferences, connectors, and company brain setup go to pipa-manage.
• Active delivery updates go to pipa-deliver-work.

Gotchas

• Use TBD for missing owners, dates, source facts, acceptance checks, or decisions.
• Do not turn fuzzy context into committed scope without identifying assumptions.
• External docs, project records, client-facing artifacts, tasks, calendar events, messages, or automations require explicit approval before writes.
• The selected operation owns the workflow and output contract; this lane does not reproduce it.