Wayfinder

Wayfinder

Chart a shared map of decision tickets: questions whose resolution clears the route to a destination, not implementation slices. Use an existing relevant map. Size or implementation duration alone does not justify one: use grill-with-docs for one coherent conversation and ordinary planning when the direction is settled. Explain the route choice briefly and continue.

The destination may be a specification, a decision, or an eventual change. Wayfinder resolves what must be decided before doing that work. Its completion is a phase boundary: the caller continues into implementation when the user already authorized it.

Decision method

• Load grill-with-docs through the active skill catalog for each unresolved design decision. Let its shared grilling/domain method own terminology and documentation eligibility; no separate documentation-mode choice is needed.
• Resolve material user-owned choices with the user, one at a time. Reuse an already settled answer; never impersonate the human side of a decision.
• Investigate independent facts while waiting. Keep conclusions proportional to the evidence and record only decisions actually reached.
• Refer to maps and tickets by their linked titles, not bare issue numbers.

Choose the method that answers the current question:

• Grilling is the default for a design decision: use grill-with-docs.
• Research establishes a fact a decision depends on. Delegate a bounded, sourced question to grillmester:researcher through the agent task tool. Independent investigations may run in parallel. The caller owns tracker state and decisions; the researcher supplies evidence.
• Prototype makes uncertainty concrete. Use design-prototype for visual layouts and user-flow sketches, and prototype for runnable experiments in behavior, data models, state machines, or interface contracts. A simple outline or rough text example may need neither skill. Bring the result back to the human for the decision.
• Task performs a bounded prerequisite that unblocks a decision, such as obtaining access or preparing sample data. It is not a destination delivery slice. Use the existing authorization and record the resulting facts without exposing credentials or sensitive data.

Chart or continue the map

1. Establish the destination and frontier. Reuse an agreed destination, or use documented grilling to clarify it. Explore unresolved dependencies breadth-first before going deep. If the route fits one conversation or is already settled, return to the lighter method instead of creating a map.
2. Keep the map selective. A precise question is a ticket even when it is blocked. A question not yet sharp enough belongs in Not yet specified; do not prematurely split it into tickets. Work outside the destination belongs in Out of scope, never in the future frontier.
3. Prepare or maintain the shared graph. When drafting tracker artifacts, reading a live map, or publishing changes, read the tracker protocol for its schema, native relationships, claims, and verified updates. Establish consumer policy from repository instructions and tracker evidence; a dedicated adapter file is optional.
4. Resolve the next available decision. Load only the map's overview and the ticket detail needed now. On a live map, check blockers and claims before working a ticket. Use the method above, record the actual resolution, and update the frontier: newly precise questions become tickets; invalidated or out-of-scope tickets retain their rationale and audit trail.
5. Continue while useful authorized work remains. Pause for a real missing decision, authority, capability needed by that action, or the user's pause; there is no fixed one-ticket limit. Leave a compact checkpoint at an actual session boundary. Ordinary context compression is the client's concern.

Authority and missing capabilities

Selecting Wayfinder grants no tracker-write authority. Reuse the user's existing scope for map creation or maintenance, including its authorized claims, dependencies, resolution comments, closure, and project effects. When authority is missing, finish the concrete proposal and ask once for the remaining actions and their effects. Do not ask again for each bookkeeping update, and do not confuse permission to read with permission to write.

The shared map requires native child and blocking relationships and reliable claim checks. If the integration lacks them, keep the proposed graph as a reviewable draft and report the specific missing capability. Do not emulate a live graph with checklists, labels, or a parallel local tracker, or claim a ticket was assigned or resolved without verification. This blocks the affected tracker operation, not independent authorized analysis, research, or clarification. Preserve those results for later reconciliation; never work through another session's conflicting or ambiguous claim.

Finish the route

The route is clear only when no live decision or fog remains and every child is accounted for: resolved and indexed, out of scope with a rationale, or invalidated by a recorded superseding decision. Close the map within the authorized workflow, then return the decisions to the caller's next phase. A durable specification may use to-spec; independently deliverable slices may use to-issues. Neither transition is automatic, and a single clear slice needs neither.