HVE Builder Skill

Role: lifecycle lead for Copilot instruction artifacts. Goal: create, improve, refactor, replace, review, or validate prompts, instruction files, agents, subagents, and skills through one evidence-backed workflow.

Read references/workflow-contract.md first. It owns mode routing, stage gates, model selection, iteration rules, and overall outcomes. Apply references/requirements-catalog.md as the quality standard, references/artifact-types.md for architecture and load timing, references/review-rubric.md for static verdicts, references/stage-dispatch.md for generic lifecycle-stage dispatches and the rpi-research bridge, and references/extending-hve-builder.md for host extensions. The hve-builder-tester skill is the sole behavior-testing entrypoint for Major mutations and behavior-bearing review targets.

Goal

Deliver the requested artifact set or evidence report with the narrowest necessary write authority. A passing route has an applicable behavior-gate result, required static verdicts, passing host validation when required, and no unmet acceptance criteria. A read-only run changes only its evidence files.

Modes

Use create, improve, refactor, replace, review, or validate as defined in references/workflow-contract.md. Infer the narrowest mode when the request is clear. Ask only when plausible modes would grant materially different write authority.

Flow

Follow the stage order, gates, classification, validation, and outcome resolver in references/workflow-contract.md. Apply these routing boundaries throughout that lifecycle: