What problem does it solve?
Turning kept Slate Autoresearch work into reviewable output is risky: accidental branch creation, commits, or pushes can happen when finalization commands are ambiguous. This Skill enforces a safe, preview-first finalization contract so nothing mutates the repository without explicit approval.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Preview-Only Finalization: Runs
finalize-preview --cwd .tmp/slate-v2 by default and treats the output as read-only evidence.
- Readiness Reporting: Reports kept evidence, excluded session artifacts, dirty-tree warnings, semantic-safety warnings, overlap warnings, unkept commits, and final-tree coverage.
- Strict Mutation Gating: Review branches are opt-in only; the user must explicitly say "review branches" or equivalent wording, and plain "go", "ok", "ship", or "next" never approves branch creation.
- Use Case: After a Slate v2 Autoresearch session, ask for finalization to get a read-only readiness report, then explicitly request review branches only when you are ready to create
autoresearch-review/* branches.
Quick Start
Ask the assistant to finalize the Slate v2 Autoresearch session in preview mode and report readiness before creating any review branches.