Follow-up Status Check

The read-only front door onto this project's backlog. follow-up-triage's flow is the action step once you already know a follow-up needs promoting or closing; this skill runs first to find out whether one does, and -- because the follow-up list itself is often empty once things have been promoted -- to say what to work on next even when it is. See Backlog Triage and Ranking for the full, self-contained decision logic this skill applies.

Mindset

A follow-up sitting ACTIVE is a weak signal by design: someone flagged it and moved on, which is not the same as it still being the right thing to do next. TYPICALLY the useful answer to "what's open" spans three sources at once (the follow-up list, the register, the tech-debt list), not just the one the command name suggests. PREFER checking all three and saying which source the recommendation came from, over answering only the literal follow-up list and calling it done -- an empty follow-up list is a completely normal outcome (every follow-up promoted and closed) and never grounds for stopping the check early.

Rules