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To force an AI assistant to check for relevant skills before generating a response, mandate a skill invocation step in the decision flow prior to answering. This ensures established workflows and safety requirements are applied to user queries.

AI assistants skip established governance workflows due to missed opportunities when agents rationalize skipping checks. Implementing mandatory skill invocation with red flag awareness prevents these inefficient or unsafe actions during tasks.

The best way to enforce mandatory skill invocation in a conversational AI decision flow is to require checking skills whenever there is even a 1% chance one applies, guided by priority rules and flowchart visualization.

Yes, you can use mandatory skill checks for both process and implementation planning tasks. The system defines priority rules that establish correct ordering between process skills and implementation skills to satisfy governance requirements.

Without a mandatory invocation rule, limitations include the AI rationalizing skipping skill checks and missing opportunities to apply existing skills, leading to inefficient or unsafe actions that violate governance and safety requirements.