One-Off Operations

Use this skill when the request is a one-off operation: a concrete effect that needs to happen once, where a workflow is only the vehicle to make it happen. Typical shapes: "put this data in a spreadsheet", "copy these rows to X", "migrate/backfill/clean up Y".

These instructions are in English, but user-visible text you write while following them stays in the user's conversation language.

Recognizing a one-off

Users rarely label a task "one-off" — infer it from the task's shape, not from explicit phrasing. It is a one-off when the deliverable is a state change, not an automation: