shinpr Task Analyzer
Use references/skills-index.yaml as the available workflow-skill catalog.
Task Analysis Process
1. Understand Task Essence
Identify the fundamental purpose beyond the surface request.
- What problem or outcome is the user actually asking to resolve?
- What observable result marks completion?
- Which superficial response could miss that result?
Return the essence as a concise purpose, not a restatement of the requested operation.
2. Identify Task Type
Classify the immediate work as implementation, fix, refactoring, design, documentation, quality/review, diagnosis, research, or continuation. Preserve an explicitly invoked recipe or supplied governing artifact as the entry point.
3. Match Skills by Task Evidence
Extract task tags and match them to skills-index.yaml. Consider implicit relationships that materially change execution:
| Task evidence | Consider |
|---|---|
| Observed failure or error handling | ai-development-guide, testing |
| Code implementation or refactoring | coding-rules, testing |
| Design or implementation planning | documentation-criteria, implementation-approach |
| Real boundary proof | integration-e2e-testing |
| Spawning, waiting for, or steering a subagent | subagent-delegation |
| Agent handoff content | llm-friendly-context |
| Workflow phases, specialist routing, or approval gates | subagents-orchestration-guide |
Select skills in this priority order:
- Essential — changes the primary action.
- Quality — changes proof or failure handling.
- Process — governs the explicitly selected workflow.
- Supplementary — resolves a concrete remaining risk.
Select the smallest set whose rules change execution or verification. A recipe's Required Skills already define its set.
4. Generate Metacognitive Guidance
Generate only questions and warnings that can change the current approach. Cover, when applicable:
- the task's essential quality criterion;
- evidence needed before the first change;
- a likely superficial or local-only failure;
- a dependency, boundary, or verification risk;
- the smallest useful first action and its rationale.
Warning patterns include symptom-only repair, unsupported broad changes, implementation without observable proof, and planning that does not preserve the requested outcome. Describe the applicable mitigation rather than forcing a fixed ceremony.
5. Common Decision Points
| Decision | Owning skill or evidence |
|---|---|
| Documentation needed | Explicit recipe or documentation-criteria |
| Implementation strategy | implementation-approach |
| Test boundary | testing and, when a wider boundary is indispensable, integration-e2e-testing |
| Root cause or impact | ai-development-guide |
| Frontend-specific rules | selected skill's frontend reference after loading that skill |
Task analysis does not own Structural Scale, file-count estimation, documentation requirements, approval gates, implementation phases, or subagent topology.
Output
taskAnalysis:
essence: <fundamental purpose>
taskType: <implementation|fix|refactoring|design|documentation|quality|diagnosis|research|continuation>
extractedTags: [<task evidence tag>]
selectedRules:
- skill: <skill name>
priority: <essential|quality|process|supplementary>
reason: <how it changes execution or verification>
sections: [<relevant section name>]
metaCognitiveGuidance:
taskEssence: <fundamental purpose>
pastFailures: [<applicable known failure pattern>]
potentialPitfalls: [<task-specific risk>]
firstStep:
action: <smallest evidence-gathering or execution action>
rationale: <why it comes first>
metaCognitiveQuestions: [<question that can change the approach>]
warningPatterns:
- pattern: <applicable warning>
mitigation: <proportionate response>
unresolvedRouting: <material workflow choice and effect | null>
Completion Check
- Task essence, type, tags, and first action are evidence-linked.
- The selected set is the smallest set that changes execution or verification.
- Warnings and questions are task-specific and proportionate.
- Output contains skill names and relevant section names, not copied skill bodies or filesystem paths.