workflow-creator — a workflow is a set of parameters, not a program

This skill designs workflows. It does not carry its own lifecycle: the lifecycle is work, and workflow-creator supplies the domain — the CLARIFY axes, the lens, the mechanical checks, the authority text.

!d=${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}; command -v skill-toc >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec skill-toc "$d"; s=$HOME/.claude/skills/plugin-utils/bin/skill-toc; [ -x "$s" ] && exec "$s" "$d"; echo "(skill-toc unavailable: references and scripts are NOT listed here — install the plugin-utils plugin, or start a new session so its bin/ reaches PATH)"

The names and headings are the index; for a subject none of them carries, grep -il <term> over the skill's own references/ directory.

work's mechanics live in work and are stated once. Everything below is a delta against them: where a phase has no domain variation, this file says so and adds nothing. Restating them here is how they drift — this file has already shipped a stale copy of work's Phase 3 once.

So work is not something you are asked to go read. It is inlined here, in full, before you see anything else: