skills/crew/workflow/SKILL.md
Core wicked-crew v3 workflow engine with capability-based orchestration and phase progression. Drives projects through crew phases: clarify → design → test-strategy → build → test → review. Smart decisioning analyzes signals to determine which specialists to engage per phase. Use when: "crew phases", "phase plan", "workflow execution", "start a project", "clarify outcome", "design phase", "build phase", "approve phase", "crew workflow", "phase progression", "QE gate", "shift-left testing", or structured delivery guidance.
npx skillsauth add mikeparcewski/wicked-garden workflowInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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Capability-based orchestration with smart specialist engagement.
User Input → Smart Decisioning → Specialist Discovery → Engagement
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├── Signal Detection ├── Available specialists
├── Complexity Score ├── Personas
└── Ambiguity Check └── Fallback agents
clarify → design → test-strategy → build → test → review
Each phase has: Clear deliverables, specialist engagement based on signals, mandatory quality gate.
Gates are hard enforcement — not advisory. phases.json defines per-phase:
min_gate_score (0.6-0.8): gates below threshold block advancementvalid_skip_reasons: enumerated skip reasons; free-text rejectedskip_complexity_threshold: prevents skipping at high complexity (e.g., test-strategy at >= 3)Gate verdicts: APPROVE → proceed. CONDITIONAL → conditions-manifest.json written, must verify before next phase. REJECT → blocks advancement, mandatory rework.
CONDITIONAL auto-resolution (AC-4.4): spec gaps fixed inline; intent changes escalate to user/council.
Build depends on design (depends_on: ["clarify", "design"]). Rollback: CREW_GATE_ENFORCEMENT=legacy.
| Signal | Keywords | Specialists | |--------|----------|-------------| | Security | auth, encrypt, token, jwt | platform, compliance | | Performance | scale, optimize, cache | engineering, qe | | Product | user, feature, story | product | | Compliance | SOC2, HIPAA, audit | platform | | Ambiguity | maybe, should we, options | jam | | Complexity | integration, migrate, refactor | delivery, engineering |
Crew discovers specialists via specialist.json in each plugin.
| Specialist | Fallback | |------------|----------| | jam | facilitator | | qe, product | reviewer | | engineering (arch) | researcher | | engineering, platform | implementer |
Goal: Define success criteria Deliverables: Outcome statement, success criteria, scope boundaries Specialists: jam (if ambiguous), product
Goal: Architect the solution Deliverables: Architecture docs, pattern identification, technical approach Specialists: product, engineering
Goal: Define test strategy before building Deliverables: Test scenarios, risk assessment, edge cases Specialists: qe, platform (if security signals)
Goal: Implement the solution Deliverables: Working implementation, progress tracking, tests passing Specialists: engineering, platform (if infra)
Goal: Multi-perspective validation Deliverables: Review findings, recommendations, sign-off Specialists: product, qe, platform (if regulated)
Projects can be archived when complete or paused:
sh "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/_python.sh" "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/crew/crew.py" archive <name> # Sets archived=true
sh "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/_python.sh" "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/crew/crew.py" unarchive <name> # Reactivates
sh "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/_python.sh" "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/crew/crew.py" list # Excludes archived by default
sh "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/_python.sh" "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/crew/crew.py" list --include-archived
Phase operations are blocked on archived projects.
| Command | Purpose |
|---------|---------|
| /wicked-garden:crew:start | Begin project with smart decisioning |
| /wicked-garden:crew:status | View current state and engaged specialists |
| /wicked-garden:crew:execute | Run current phase with specialists |
| /wicked-garden:crew:approve | Approve and advance phase |
| /wicked-garden:crew:just-finish | Autonomous completion |
| /wicked-garden:crew:gate | Run QE gate (value/strategy/execution) |
| /wicked-garden:crew:evidence | Query evidence for a task |
crew:project:started:success
crew:specialist:engaged:success
crew:specialist:unavailable:warning (with fallback)
crew:phase:started:success
crew:phase:completed:success
crew:phase:approved:success
| Plugin | Enhancement | Fallback | |--------|-------------|----------| | wicked-garden:kanban | Persistent task board | TodoWrite | | wicked-garden:mem | Cross-session learning | Project files |
See Integration Details for usage patterns.
Gate decisions and artifacts are tracked as evidence. See Evidence Tracking for:
Customize in the wicked-crew local storage domain as config.yaml:
defaults:
always_engage: [qe] # Always use QE specialist
complexity_threshold: 4 # Lower = more specialists
development
Pattern-conformance agent-half: evaluates a produced artifact or diff against a set of architectural/design pattern rules from the conformance-rule store (wicked_governance schema). Returns structured findings with rule ID, severity, and rationale — the deterministic half (mechanical rule recall) is done by the guard pipeline; this is the semantic evaluation step. Triggered by: the guard_pipeline `outgov_pattern` check (session-close), or explicitly by an engineering review when WICKED_OUTGOV_RULES_DIR is populated. NOT a replacement for the full `engineering` review skill — focuses only on conformance to stored Pattern rules; architecture and code-quality checks live in the `engineering` skill. Semantic evaluation reuses `wicked-garden-qe-semantic-reviewer` as the designated agent-half evaluator (per garden#983 spec). This skill is the orchestrating wrapper that loads applicable Pattern rules and delegates the per-rule semantic judgment to qe-semantic-reviewer.
tools
The FOUNDATIONAL domain-model capability: extract a codebase's domain — testable business rules (with confidence + provenance), entities, requirements — as a schema-conformant model on the estate graph. The workers annotate the store; wicked-core reads it and builds the requirements graph, coverage-gating fail-closed. Steers three fork workers. A shared substrate, not a modernization tool. The `modernize` archetype DERIVES from it; build / migrate / review / specify / explore consume the SAME domain model — none OWN it. Understanding a codebase's domain is upstream of almost everything else garden does. Use when: "extract the business rules / domain model from this codebase", "build a requirements graph from the code", "what does this system actually require", "reverse-engineer the domain before we build/port/migrate". Works on ANY codebase (modern or legacy) — the value is the domain model, not the porting. NOT the code transform itself (that is the archetype consuming this model). This skill produces the DOMAIN MODEL, not new code.
development
Domain-graph fork worker for the modernize archetype. Groups the estate's Louvain communities into business domains, attaches each requirement to its cluster (advisory cluster_id provenance), and invokes wicked-core's domain-graph build (which reads the annotated estate store, recomputes coverage fail-closed, and builds the requirements graph) — then validates core's output against the vendored schema. Use when: dispatched by wicked-garden-domain after rule extraction to turn a flat rule set into cluster-keyed domains; "group these into domains", "build the requirements graph", "translate clusters into a domain model". NOT for mining the rules themselves (that is domain-extractor) or threat-modeling (that is domain-coverage).
tools
Rule-extraction fork worker for the FOUNDATIONAL domain-model capability. Mines testable business rules from a codebase — each with a numeric confidence and a provenance{source, ref, source_kinds} — and annotates them into the estate store so wicked-core can build the domain-model requirements graph (coverage-gated). This is a substrate, not a modernization tool: the `modernize` archetype DERIVES from it, and build / migrate / review / specify / explore can consume the same domain model — none OWN it. Use when: dispatched by wicked-garden-domain to mine the business_rules of a codebase (or a module); "extract the domain rules", "what does this system require", building the requirements half of a domain model. NOT for grouping into domains (that is domain-modeler) or judging coverage (that is domain-coverage — a seat-distinct evaluator).