What problem does it solve? Managing a catalog of Markdown-based studies involves many coordinated steps—registration, PDF rendering, Draft/Released transitions, companion decks and notes, catalog synchronization, and CI validation—and doing any of them out of order produces stale artifacts or failed checks. This Skill routes each study lifecycle task to the correct focused skill or script and enforces the shared finishing workflow. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Lifecycle Routing: Maps each task (add, rename, retire, restore, status change, companion management) to its dedicated skill and lifecycle script such as _add_study.py or _set_study_status.py. - Artifact Finalization: Runs _finalize_study_artifacts.py to synchronize catalog entries, companion inventories, search shards, and offline manifests after rendering. - Pre-Review Validation: Commits changes, then validates the committed HEAD with _validate_study_change.py, _verify_studies_index.py, and _verify_companion_outputs.py before opening a labeled PR. - Use Case: When moving a study from Draft to Released, use this Skill to regenerate the PDF without the watermark, refresh the catalog and search artifacts, run reference checks, and open a status-change PR that passes CI verification. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to transition the study with slug MyStudy from Draft to Released and prepare the validated pull request.
