leaf-work
Installation
SKILL.md
LEAF Work
Leaf before tree. Validate one cheap, inspectable instance before growing it into the whole artifact. The core move is never to generate the whole artifact upfront — that is how you produce confident-looking slop and lose the way before you can even tell the direction is wrong. It is to learn first, make one instance right, then expand — closing the cheapest decisive uncertainty before starting the next kind of work.
LEAF closes four kinds of uncertainty in order:
| Phase | What it makes you able to do | Gates |
|---|---|---|
| Learn | Judge what the work needs — learned, not guessed (run in leaf-learn; inherited here) |
① Intent · ② Unknowns & Context |
| Example | Prove one cheap instance right before scaling | ③ Criteria · ④ Wireframe |
| Architect | Generalize that instance into a shippable generator | ⑤ Design · ⑥ Critic · ⑦ Tasks · ⑧ Artifact |
| Feedback | Confirm it still holds, then settle what was established and what was learned | ⑨ Review/sync · ⑩ Retrospect |