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To enforce a skill-first workflow, you must identify and invoke applicable skills before generating a response, ensuring frontmatter metadata is discoverable and operational guidance is followed to reduce scope creep.

Skill discovery and invocation is a process governance mechanism that identifies relevant skills at the start of a conversation and executes their step-by-step operational guidance before answering.

You need skill-first workflows when handling complex tasks requiring multiple skills, safety protocols, or planning, ensuring applicable skills are prioritized and invoked to prevent misalignment.

Invoking applicable skills before answering improves prompt engineering by guaranteeing frontmatter metadata is parsed first, providing structured operational guidance that reduces misalignment and scope creep.

Yes, you can use skill-first workflows for any conversation where multiple skills may apply, including those requiring clarifications, planning, or complex task execution, to ensure process governance.

Enforcing skill discovery requires applicable skills to exist with discoverable frontmatter metadata; without pre-defined skills or operational guidance, the workflow cannot function properly and will not generate structured responses.