Fabric Contribution Flow Skill

This skill defines the end-to-end workflow for contributing to Cloud Foundation Fabric. It supports two entry modes:

Mode A: Issue Triage & Bug Fix: You are addressing an assigned or reported GitHub Issue. Start at Step 1.
Mode B: Proactive Development & PR Prep: You are actively building a feature, refactoring code, or preparing an existing branch for a Pull Request. Jump directly to the Design Sign-off Gate before Step 2.

If it is unclear which mode applies, ask the user before proceeding.

Human-in-the-Loop Gates

Gate on steps that are hard to reverse, costly, or where your judgment is likely to diverge from a maintainer's. Keep mechanical, reversible steps (linting, tests, doc and inventory regeneration) autonomous. Gates are blocking: if you are running non-interactively and cannot get an answer, stop — never assume approval.

Gate	When	What the human decides
Triage Disposition	End of Step 1 (Mode A)	Whether the issue is in scope and worth pursuing: proceed, reject, or escalate.
Design Sign-off	Before Step 2	Approves the proposed design and scope. Mandatory for new features and interface changes; skippable for trivial fixes where the design is self-evident.
E2E Opt-in	Step 5	Whether to run live cloud verification. Providing a sandbox project ID is the consent to deploy to it.
Behavioral Verification Opt-in	Step 5, after read-back verification	Whether to also verify runtime behavior of the deployed resources, given the described extra time and cost.
PR Approval	Step 6	Reviews the final sanitized PR body before submission.