designing-workflow-skills

Design multi-step AI workflows by selecting proven patterns like Safety Gate or Sequential Pipeline, enforcing numbered phases with explicit entry and exit criteria to ensure deterministic execution and safe subagent delegation.

Structure agentic pipelines using structural guardrails with explicit entry and exit criteria, applying least-privilege tool assignment and progressive disclosure to maintain state and sequence for safety-critical operations.

You need phased execution patterns when simple prompting fails to maintain state or sequence during complex task automation, such as automated security auditing or complex code refactoring requiring precision and scalability.

Yes, subagent delegation supports complex code refactoring and database migrations by applying a structural framework with deterministic execution, progressive disclosure, and least-privilege tool assignment across numbered workflow phases.

Multi-agent systems fail to maintain state when lacking structural guardrails; enforce numbered phases with explicit entry and exit criteria and adopt patterns like Task-Driven or Sequential Pipeline to ensure deterministic execution.