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Handles workflow verification and setup after build-workflow succeeds, or when the message contains workflow-verification-follow-up or workflow-setup-required. Load after direct builds, when verificationReadiness requires action, or on orchestrator verify/setup follow-up turns.

Load before build-workflow and before scoping or planning new workflows and feature additions, including requests spanning multiple workflows. Implement one increment per user message. Finish setup and inspect a successful real execution before offering another increment. Then wait for the next user reply. Partial setup is incomplete. A first setup or test refusal pauses building. Follow the skill's full-build exceptions. Also supports workflow edits and repairs. For workflows that create or write Data Tables, load data-table-manager first. Requests only to run, inspect, or manage existing resources use their normal tools and skills.

Offer the three most common automations for a user as a single-choice card, from your own knowledge of their team and their apps, then build the one they choose once they confirm, or offer more. The system preloads it on onboarding threads, where the opening card already asked the user about themselves. Use it on other threads when the user asks what they could automate or wants ideas for a first workflow.

Load before calling build-workflow. Default path for all single-workflow work: new one-off workflows, existing-workflow edits, verification repairs, and workflow-local data tables. Write or edit a workspace source file, run workflow-sdk validate via workspace_execute_command, then call build-workflow with filePath. When the workflow creates or writes Data Tables, load data-table-manager first, then this skill. Do not load planning or create-tasks first. Load planning only when multiple coordinated workflows or shared cross-task data tables require a dependency-aware task graph. Don't use this skill for explicit one-off tasks that can be done by a single node execution: load one-off-operations and run the node with nodes(action="execute"). Also load for a workflow's evaluations, model choices, credential setup, and post-build verification: this skill lists the references for those steps.