Make Campaign

Campaign Recipe Authoring Skill

Guides users through a 6-phase interactive workflow to decompose a campaign goal into a validated campaign recipe YAML.

When to Use

• User says "make campaign", "create campaign", "author campaign", "new campaign recipe"
• User wants to decompose a campaign goal into dispatches
• User wants to orchestrate multiple recipe runs as a campaign
• User says "decompose into dispatches"

Critical Constraints

NEVER:

• Modify or write to any source code files
• Create files outside .autoskillit/recipes/campaigns/ (final output) or {{AUTOSKILLIT_TEMP}}/make-campaign/ (temp/validation drafts)
• Write the final campaign YAML without first passing validate_recipe in Phase 5
• Use recipe names not confirmed by find_recipe_by_name or list_recipes
• Accept ingredient keys that do not exist in the target recipe's declared ingredients

ALWAYS:

• Use find_recipe_by_name to confirm dispatch targets exist before accepting a recipe name
• Use load_recipe to inspect each target recipe's ingredients schema before populating dispatch ingredients
• Validate the campaign YAML with validate_recipe before writing the final manifest
• Emit the structured output token campaign_path as the absolute path to the written campaign YAML:

  campaign_path = /absolute/path/to/.autoskillit/recipes/campaigns/<name>.yaml
  

  Use $(pwd) to resolve the absolute path when writing the output file.
• Run cycle detection on depends_on before proceeding to Phase 5

Phase 1 — Goal Clarification

Prompt the user for the following information interactively:

1. Campaign name (kebab-case, e.g. my-feature-campaign)
2. Description (1–2 sentences describing the campaign's purpose)
3. Target outcome (what the campaign achieves when all dispatches succeed)
4. Rough dispatch count (how many dispatch phases the user anticipates)
5. continue_on_failure — should the campaign proceed if a dispatch fails? (default: false)
6. categories — which recipe family this campaign targets (default: orchestration-family)
7. requires_recipe_packs — which recipe pack(s) the dispatches will draw from (e.g. implementation-family)

Produce a Goal Artifact with: name, description, categories, requires_recipe_packs, continue_on_failure.

Phase 2 — Dispatch Decomposition

For each dispatch (repeat until the user signals done):

1. Ask the user to describe the dispatch's task in one sentence.
2. Call list_recipes to show available recipes matching the declared packs.
3. Ask the user which recipe this dispatch targets.
4. Verify the recipe exists by calling find_recipe_by_name (or confirming from list_recipes results).
   • If not found: show available options and re-prompt.
   • If found: accept the recipe name.
5. Capture:
   • name — kebab-case dispatch name (e.g. phase-1-implement)
   • recipe — confirmed recipe name
   • task — non-empty task description
6. Optionally allow the user to add entries to allowed_recipes for dispatches that use recipes outside the declared packs.

Do not proceed to Phase 3 until all dispatch names, recipes, and tasks are confirmed.

Phase 3 — Ingredient Population

For each dispatch captured in Phase 2:

1. Call load_recipe on the target recipe to inspect its ingredients schema.
2. Present the ingredient table: name, description, required, default.
3. For each ingredient the user wants to set:
   • Ask for the value (string) or a campaign-level pass-through using ${{ inputs.<name> }} syntax.
   • Validate that the key exists in the target recipe's schema — reject unknown keys immediately.
4. Collect all key-value pairs as ingredients: {key: "value"} under the dispatch.

Proceed to Phase 4 only after all dispatches have their ingredients populated (even if empty).

Phase 4 — Dependency Ordering

1. Present all dispatches in capture order with their names.
2. For each dispatch, ask: "Which earlier dispatches does this one depend on?" (comma-separated names, or none).
3. Build the depends_on adjacency map.
4. Run cycle detection (DFS):
   • If a cycle is found: report the full cycle path (e.g. a → b → c → a) and re-prompt affected dispatches.
   • Loop until the dependency graph is acyclic.
5. Suggest the topological sort order; ask the user to confirm or adjust dispatch ordering.

Phase 5 — Schema Validation

1. Assemble the complete campaign YAML from all captured data (Phases 1–4).
2. Write a draft file (relative to the current working directory) to {{AUTOSKILLIT_TEMP}}/make-campaign/<name>_draft.yaml.
3. Call validate_recipe with the draft path.
4. If validation returns errors:
   • Display each error with its rule name and message.
   • Guide the user through the correction.
   • Update the draft and re-call validate_recipe.
   • Repeat until validation passes (structural + all 14 campaign semantic rules clean).
5. Proceed to Phase 6 only when validate_recipe reports no errors.

Phase 6 — Manifest Write

1. Ensure the .autoskillit/recipes/campaigns/ directory exists (create with mkdir -p if absent).

2. Write the validated YAML to .autoskillit/recipes/campaigns/<name>.yaml.

3. Print the absolute path of the written file.

4. Print the next-step hint:

   Campaign recipe written. Use the dispatch_food_truck MCP tool (with kitchen open)
   to execute this campaign.
   

Output

Emit the structured output token on its own line:

campaign_path = {absolute_path_to_campaign_yaml}

Example:

campaign_path = /home/user/project/.autoskillit/recipes/campaigns/my-campaign.yaml