Using Slipbox

using-slipbox is the shared runtime engine. A specialist decides what an artifact means; this engine owns recoverable work, validation hand-offs, and bookkeeping; .slipbox/bin/slipbox performs atomic filesystem operations. Read .slipbox/AGENTS.md before acting and treat it as the vault's runtime contract.

Caller skills state the natural imperative action and append /using-slipbox. Write “Record the link /using-slipbox,” never “Run /using-slipbox” or “record the link through /using-slipbox.”

Start or resume work

• Trigger: An artifact operation may be interrupted or an existing work item must continue.
• Inputs: Artifact kind, activity, source/target identity, and any known affected paths.
• Guarantee: Work is isolated under .slipbox/work/, inspectable, and resumed only after identity/fingerprint checks.
• Reference: references/work-lifecycle.md.

Checkpoint work