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A flow is a path through the skills. Most paths run along one main flow, and two on-ramps merge onto it. Everything else is standalone, or a vocabulary layer that runs underneath.

The main flow: idea → ship

The route most work travels. You have an idea and want it built.

1. /grill-with-docs sharpens the idea by interview. Start here whenever you are working in a working directory: it's stateful, retaining what it learns in CONTEXT.md and ADRs. (No working directory? Use /grill-me instead, covered under Standalone. Both run the same /grilling primitive; grill-with-docs is the one that leaves a paper trail, which makes it the better of the two whenever a repo is there to leave it in.)
2. Branch: can you settle every question in conversation? If a question needs a runnable answer (state, business logic, a UI you have to see), detour through a prototype, bridged by /handoff in both directions (a prototype lives in its own directory, which is exactly what /handoff is for; see Phase boundaries):
   • /handoff out, then open a fresh session against that file,
   • /prototype to answer the question with throwaway code,
   • /handoff back what you learned, and reference it from the original idea thread.
3. Branch: is this a multi-session build?
   • Yes → /to-spec (turn the thread into a spec), then /to-tickets to split it into tracer-bullet tickets, each declaring its blocking edges. On a local tracker that's one file per ticket under .scratch/<feature>/issues/, worked blockers-first by hand; on a real tracker the edges become native blocking links, so any ticket whose blockers are done can be grabbed: kick off /implement per ticket, /clearing context between each one. Each ticket is self-contained, so the last one's context is disposable. Or hand the whole parent issue to /orchestrate (installed separately) to run those packages concurrently instead of by hand.
     • Serial or parallel? /implement per ticket keeps you in the loop at every step: the default, and the only option on a local tracker. /orchestrate is for a parent issue whose sub-issues are genuinely independent: it spawns one /implement agent per sub-issue on its own worktree and owns the mechanical tail (sequencing, relay, merge order, cleanup), but it never re-slices the work; the sub-issues /to-tickets published are the packages. Needs native sub-issues, so GitHub, not local files.
   • No → /implement right here, in the same context window.