worktrail

Internal SDD workflow executor invoked by /go only. Do not call directly. Executes classified routes A–J: feature planning, implementation (parallel orchestration, PR generation), defect repair, refactoring, spec changes, investigation, and workflow evolution.

Bootstrap a new repo, or migrate an existing single-branch repo, onto the workspace's repo-standards doctrine (~/rules/CLAUDE.repo.md): the AGENTS.md-is-truth/CLAUDE.md-imports-it split, a dev/prd or dev/stg/prd branch model with matching GitHub rulesets, an OpenSpec scaffold, an auto-merge workflow, and a seeded .worktrail/policy.yaml. Trigger phrases: "onboard this repo", "apply repo standards", "initialize repo standards", "set up this repo like the rest of the fleet", "bring this repo into line with the repo standards doctrine".

Show the Worktrail front-door commands and accepted positional arguments. Use when the user asks how to invoke worktrail-go, wants the available handoff, spec, pr, repo, or route forms, invokes worktrail-go with help or with a bare noun, or asks how to answer a filed product decision (worktrail-decision).

Capture a discovered problem, gap, tech debt, or deferred work into a local work queue so a future agent session can pick it up cold. Use mid-session whenever you set work aside instead of doing it now — a fix you judge out of scope for this PR, work that belongs in a follow-up or a separate/later PR, an item you're deferring, or something worth fixing you won't tackle now — so the outstanding item isn't lost without derailing current work; can be called multiple times per session. Trigger phrases: "defer this", "item deferred", "out of scope for this PR", "follow-up work", "leave for another PR", "capture for later", "outstanding item". This skill captures only. Picking a brief back up is the front door's job: worktrail-go <brief-id>.

Use when the user invokes worktrail-go, asks to pick up queued work, resume active specs, implement or fix a spec, route engineering work, or orient across repositories. Renders the orientation dashboard, classifies free-text requests, claims/resumes handoff briefs, and dispatches SDD work without requiring the user to know sdd-workflow. Grammar: worktrail-go [REPO] <noun> <verb>, nouns handoff / spec / pr / decision. Triggers: worktrail-go, worktrail-go help, worktrail-go spec fix, worktrail-go spec implement, worktrail-go spec route F, worktrail-go handoff new, worktrail-go handoff auto, worktrail-go decision answer, worktrail-go BRIEF-ID, bare worktrail-go, multi-repo orientation.

Update an OpenSpec change by revising its existing planning artifacts and keeping them coherent with one another. Use when the user wants to revise a change's plan, fold new decisions into it, or reconcile its artifacts after an edit. Never edits code.

Sync delta specs from a change to main specs. Use when the user wants to update main specs with changes from a delta spec, without archiving the change.

Propose a new change with all artifacts generated in one step. Use when the user wants to quickly describe what they want to build and get a complete proposal with design, specs, and tasks ready for implementation.

Enter explore mode - a thinking partner for exploring ideas, investigating problems, and clarifying requirements. Use when the user wants to think through something before or during a change.

Archive a completed change in the experimental workflow. Use when the user wants to finalize and archive a change after implementation is complete.