start-best-practice

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SKILL.md

Start Best Practice

Entry point into grimoire. Routes any user input to the matching grimoire workflow listed in README.md. Exits silently if grimoire is not installed or no workflow applies — invisible when not needed.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: Toyota's poka-yoke principle (Shingo, 1986) is the foundation of error prevention in manufacturing — checking conditions before an action begins, not after defects appear. This principle is applied across aviation (pre-flight checklists), surgery (WHO Surgical Safety Checklist), and software (pre-commit hooks, CI gates). Impact: The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist reduced surgical complications by 36% and deaths by 47% — not by changing technique, but by systematically intercepting the moment before each critical step (Haynes et al., 2009, NEJM). Pre-commit hooks catch an estimated 30–40% of common defects before they enter the codebase (GitHub internal data). Why best: Reactive systems wait for the user to ask. Proactive interception closes the "I didn't know a best practice existed" gap — the most common reason practices aren't applied. The cost is minimal (a silent route check); the benefit is consistent practice application without requiring the user to know what to ask.

Sources: Shingo (1986) "Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System"; Haynes et al. (2009) NEJM; GitHub Engineering blog

Steps

Step 0: Route to grimoire workflow (silent)

Silently match the input to a grimoire workflow. No scoring, no output. If no row matches, exit immediately and proceed with the original request unmodified.

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Oct 22, 2026
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