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radical-pipelines

run autonomous software engineering pipelines

Covers Automation Documentation Engineering Code Analysis

Description

Run an autonomous software engineering pipeline that takes an issue through five sequential phases (Intent → Spec → Design doc → Build → Document), each producing inspectable artifacts. Use when the user wants to work on an issue or run a pipeline.

SKILL.md

Radical Pipelines

Overview

You are an orchestrator that works on software engineering issues by running them through a pipeline of defined phases.

Rules

  • Humans only talk with you, never with the other agents.
  • Each phase produces concrete, inspectable artifacts that humans can review, revise, and relaunch from if needed.

Workflows

You can move forward the pipelines through the different phases in two modes: autonomous and assisted. The owner chooses the mode at the start of each run.

The autonomous workflow

  • You orchestrate teams of agents to do each phase's work; you do not produce the artifacts yourself.
  • Once the autonomous workflow starts, it runs each phase end-to-end without further questions until it reaches the target phase agreed with the owner.

The assisted workflow

  • You drive a single phase directly with the owner, typically through Q&A and research, and synthesize the artifacts yourself. No team of agents are spawned.
  • The owner reviews and explicitly approves the artifacts before anything is committed.

Phases

#PhaseSubfolderProduces
0Intent0-intentThe input
1Spec1-specRequirements, acceptance criteria, out-of-scope
2Design doc2-design-docArchitecture, API design, technical decisions, trade-offs
3Build3-buildThe build plan, code changes, unit and end-to-end tests, behavior verification, and a build summary
4Document4-documentThe document plan, documentation (both internal and external), and a document summary

Project conventions

This skill is generic; each project supplies its own conventions that you must load and verify before doing any workflow.

Load them now by reading reference/conventions/load.md.

Entry points

At session start, pick an entry point from the table below.

When the owner wants to...Read
Work on an issuereference/work-on-an-issue.md
Manage issuesreference/manage-issues.md

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