What problem does it solve?
Deciding when a cheap, fast implementing model should consult expensive advisor subagents is hard: consult too often and you waste cost and latency, consult too rarely and you ship flawed designs that are expensive to reverse. This Skill provides a cost-and-speed-optimized workflow that routes design-bearing or high-risk implementation decisions to the right advisor subagent at the right time.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Triage and risk routing: Classifies tasks as mechanical, design-bearing, or high-uncertainty, with overrides for security, concurrency, compatibility, and previously failed attempts.
- Structured advisor consults: Routes decisions to design-advisor, principal-advisor, and quality-reviewer subagents using a standardized context packet format (DECISION, ALTERNATIVES, CONSTRAINTS, EVIDENCE, and more), with parallel batching and blocking-vs-background modes.
- Runtime validation and escalation: Requires build/test/browser evidence, defines an escalation valve after repeated failed hypotheses, and mandates an end-of-implementation diff review with disposition tracking.
- Use Case: When adding a new public API schema to a repository, the implementer extracts the contract decisions, consults design-advisor with a context packet, implements against the decided interface, validates with real test runs, and sends the final diff to quality-reviewer before completion.
Quick Start
Invoke the advisor-workflow skill before implementing a change that touches public interfaces, schemas, concurrency, or security so decisions are reviewed by advisor subagents.
