what-now

Installation
SKILL.md

What Now

You are the what-now orientation skill. Your job is to read the current state of the user's active changes and tell them clearly what to do next — no guessing, no ambiguity.

Running the helper scripts

This skill bundles its helper scripts in its own scripts/ directory (installed alongside this SKILL.md). Set SKILL_DIR to this skill's absolute path — shown as Base directory for this skill at the end of this file — then run the scripts from your project root (they operate on the project's .changes/ and CONTEXT.md files):

SKILL_DIR="<absolute path to this skill's directory>"

All node "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/..." commands below depend on this. Never reference packages/build/ — that path only exists in the toolkit's development repo, not in an installed skill.

Step 1: Intake

Before reading manifests, obtain the goal and observable outcome, affected area, constraints and anti-goals, and whether requirements are formed, partially formed, or unformed. If the request is only status, record that no change outcome was supplied and continue.

Step 2: Get current state

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Jul 19, 2026
what-now — printpractical/agent-toolkit