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To enforce skill routing before every reply, you need a workflow mechanism that parses skill metadata and applies an invoke-before-respond priority to all user inputs. This ensures the agent loads applicable skills systematically before generating any response or clarifying questions.

The invoke before respond priority is a workflow rule ensuring conversational agents discover, load, and execute relevant skills at the start of every interaction. It maintains consistency by enforcing skill routing across user prompts, clarifying questions, and plan-generation steps before any output.

To select and prioritize skills based on user instructions, the system parses SKILL.md frontmatter for name and description data. It then applies priority rules to match task context, honoring explicit user directives when instruction conflicts arise during skill routing.

Yes, the invoke before respond rule explicitly scopes all user inputs, clarifying questions, and plan-generation steps. It ensures proper skill routing and adherence to user instructions across the entire conversational AI interaction, not just the initial prompt.

Platform-specific runtimes load and apply skills correctly by following guidance provided for their environment. The skill routing mechanism defines how to parse metadata frontmatter and enforce the invoke-before-respond priority within the specific runtime context of the platform.

You should not use automated skill routing when explicit user directives conflict with the invoke-before-respond priority and require overriding. The system honors user instructions when conflicts arise, but direct manual control may be preferred for highly constrained workflows.