board-canon

Consult this skill before any card transition, claim push, branch name, or WIP check. It answers "what is the contract" — it does not perform actions itself. Read the relevant § below to settle the rule, then return to the calling skill to act.

How to apply this skill

What you need to do	Look up here
Validate a card transition (e.g., Backlog → Ready)	§ State machine + `references/state-machine.md`
Resolve a claim conflict or release a stale claim	§ Claim protocol + `references/claim-protocol.md`
Generate a claim branch name from a card	§ Branch naming + `references/branch-naming.md`
Compute a Consumer's WIP count vs cap	§ WIP counting + `references/wip-counting.md`
Validate a card body's section shape	§ Card body schema + `references/card-body-schema.md`

State machine

A card lives in exactly one of six Status field values at any moment. Every transition writes one entry to the plugin's audit log (a local JSON-lines file at ~/.board-superpowers/repos/<normalized>/audit-local.jsonl).