What problem does it solve?
It prevents silent drift when unanticipated obstacles, tradeoffs, or emergent complexity would cause impactful architectural or agent-driven decisions to be made without alignment.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Obstacle escalation with clear context: Forces a pause and a structured explanation of what changed and why it matters.
- Decision and tradeoff alignment: Surfaces multiple options and their tradeoffs before committing to adaptations that could alter planned functionality.
- Guardrails for risky moves: Triggers consultation when new coupling/imports, substantial debugging/research, or policy/“heresy”-like ambiguity is at risk.
- Use Case: During implementation, an agent proposes adding a new import/module that would change coupling and introduce ambiguity; this skill guides you to stop, summarize the findings, and request guidance before proceeding.
Quick Start
If you hit an unexpected blocker, tell the AI to stop, summarize the current context and discoveries, list the options and tradeoffs, and ask for guidance before continuing.