AI-Native Backend Contract

Reference skill for loading the configured workflow state backend contract.

Use it before an AI-native workflow skill reads, writes, validates, or reasons about workflow state. This skill loads the contract; it does not perform the workflow operation.

Process

1. Read and validate the repository's .and/config.yml.

   • It must be a YAML mapping with version: 1.
   • It must contain only version and workflow_state_backend.
   • workflow_state_backend must be github-native or markdown-file-based.
   • If missing, malformed, unsupported, extended, or ambiguous, route to setup-ai-native-development.
   • Completion criterion: one supported backend is known.

2. Read backend-contract.md.

   • Use it for backend-neutral concepts, operations, relationship vocabulary, State Reason, receipt, lifecycle, and invariant rules.
   • Completion criterion: the calling skill's operation is expressed in backend-neutral terms.