Guide Execution

Use this skill as the execution-layer entrypoint when you need to decide the next step for one execution slice.

Responsibilities

1. Resolve or initialize the active slice.
2. Verify required files, registry state, and slice metadata.
3. Decide whether work belongs in the planning layer or the slice-scoped execution layer.
4. Route slice-scoped work to brief, blueprint, active repository implementation, review-execution, or close-slice.
5. Update slice readiness status when a phase is complete.

guide-execution owns orchestration and readiness only. It should not absorb artifact authoring that belongs to brief, blueprint, review-execution, or close-slice.

When .skills/execution.json sets auto_start_implementation to true, treat blueprint_ready as an automatic handoff into implementation: once blueprint.md is complete, update the slice through manage_execution.py set-status <slice> blueprint_ready, let the tooling advance the slice to execution_ready, and continue directly into code changes instead of stopping for a second manual handoff.

Entry Decision Guide

Use guide-execution when a slice already exists or you need to decide the next step for execution-layer work.