figure-it-out
Figure it out
Portability (required)
This skill is part of the portable pstack pack.
- Read the
pstackcapability contract and the adapter for the active coding agent before any helper delegation. - Prefer capability verbs (
explore,implement,review,parallel,ask_user,verify,model_role) over vendor tool names. - Resolve models through
model_role. Never require a vendor-specific model identifier. - When helper spawning is unavailable, run the work on the lead agent and state that fan-out was collapsed.
When the task matches no playbook, design one. The deliverable before any code is the workflow itself: a sequence of phases that scales rigor to the task, runs the scientific method, and leaves a decision trail a human can audit after stepping away. Bias toward more rigor. The cost of building the wrong thing dwarfs the cost of being careful.
Don't reinvent a playbook you already have. A focused single-unit task that matches Bug fix, Perf, Feature, Visual parity, Eval, or Multi-phase plan routes there. But a large or cross-cutting version of one (a migration across many call sites, an ambitious multi-part change), or work the user reviews after stepping away, belongs here even though a single-unit version would be a Feature. The rigor and the audit trail are the point.
Start
Open a todolist whose first item is to read the Principles section of the poteto-mode skill. Then add the phases below as todos.