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Mandatory skill usage establishes a required workflow where you announce and activate applicable skills before starting any task. This reduces wasted effort by ensuring the right skills are applied first through checklist-driven execution and pre-action verification.

Organize skills by category and dispatch them quickly using a registry lookup. Announce skill usage, enforce TodoWrite checklists, and validate versions to maintain strict workflow adherence across planning, debugging, testing, and collaboration tasks.

Implement TodoWrite-enforced checklists that announce each skill as it's activated. This ensures pre-action verification, meets registry and version validation requirements, and halts execution if prerequisites aren't met before the task begins.

Yes. Mandatory skill workflows apply to brainstorming and efficiency tasks by requiring skill lookup and announcement before execution. This checklist-driven approach improves efficiency by preventing duplicate effort and ensuring systematic skill selection.

The workflow halts execution. Checker agents enforce strict adherence by blocking task progression until all prerequisites pass registry validation and version checks, ensuring only properly verified skills proceed.