What problem does it solve? Choosing the wrong architecture for an automation request wastes money and effort — running deterministic checks through expensive AI sessions, or polling every minute with heavyweight scheduled tasks. This Skill forces a structured assessment before building any automation, scheduled task, bot, or webhook-driven system, so the implementation matches the actual requirements for frequency, judgment, cost, and durability. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Structured Request Assessment: Eight diagnostic questions classify the task by execution nature (AI judgment vs. deterministic code), trigger type (time-based vs. event-driven), scale trajectory, data source, and delivery target. - Route Selection Matrix: Maps assessment answers to concrete architectures — scheduled AI execution, web app with cron jobs, webhook handlers, persistent polling services, or full cloud computers — with explicit cost and capability boundaries for each. - Comparison-First Recommendation: Requires presenting at least two viable options with tradeoffs, cost, and setup complexity in user-facing language before any building begins. - Use Case: A user asks for a bot that checks competitor prices every 5 minutes and posts alerts to Slack. The Skill identifies this as deterministic, high-frequency, event-delivered work and routes it to a hosted web app with cron jobs and a Slack webhook instead of costly per-run AI sessions. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to evaluate your automation idea — for example, "I want to monitor a website daily and email me a summary" — and let it walk you through the architecture options before building anything.
