Dev-Guides Navigator

Route to the correct online guide and enforce guide application.

Three modes

The navigator exposes three independent routing modes over three separate published catalogs:

• Guide search (llms.txt) — atomic, mechanics-level decision guides. The original flow. See Core Workflow below.
• Recipe search (agentic-recipes.txt) — goal-oriented, prescriptive capability deliveries that sequence existing guides/plays end-to-end and carry a verifier. See Recipe Search below.
• Process-recipe lookup (process-recipes.txt) — resolved by ai-dev-assistant at lifecycle phase boundaries, keyed by (phase, framework). See Process-Recipe Lookup below. Never matched during free task routing.

The navigator does not hardcode an order. The caller owns ordering — typically recipe-search first (is there a prescriptive end-to-end recipe for this capability?), then guide-search (fall back to raw mechanics). Recipe search never fabricates a recipe: a miss cleanly defers to guide search. Process-recipe lookup is invoked only by ai-dev-assistant, not during free task routing.

When to Use