do

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name: do
description: Run a coding task through the matching pipeline (land an existing change, ship a new goal, or build a plan through complete) with concurrent steps, lean handoffs and council-answered design questions. Use for /do, "fix until safe to land", "keep working until ready" or "build, plan and implement this".
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# Do

Pick the pipeline that matches the request, run independent work concurrently and hand off between steps with short briefs. `complete` and direct specialist requests keep their own workflows.

## Route

| Request | Pipeline |
| --- | --- |
| Question, diagnosis, review of one change, plan only, or a trivial local edit | No pipeline. Answer, or use the specialist skill (`investigate`, `review`, `writing-plans`) directly. A single PR goes to `pr-review` only when the user names it. |
| Review two or more PRs | **review batch**: `pr-review` once per PR, every post confirmed together |
| Existing change: "fix until SAFE TO LAND", "keep working until it's ready" | **land** |
| New goal: idea or spec → plan → implement → ready | **ship** (runs **land** at the end) |
| A plan or spec to build, or "delegate/offload this" | Build work (below) at the tier the work needs, then run **land** on the result. Do not run a second ledger. |

Read [pipelines.md](references/pipelines.md) for **land**, **ship** or **review batch**, and [briefs.md](references/briefs.md) before spawning any agent.

## Build work

Before launching anything that writes code, size the work and pick the tier. Each tier pays only for the coordination it needs. Log the tier and the reason in `notes.md` and state it in the first status line.

| Tier | When | Runs as |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Local** | One file or one function, no new module, no contract change, gates run in under a minute | The host edits directly, or one subagent. **land**'s fixes are always local. |
| **One slice** | One coherent feature that one builder can finish in one sitting, from a plan or spec, no files shared with other pending work | `offload` directly: one handoff, one builder, one independent review. No ledger and no final integration review; the slice review is the acceptance. |
| **Fleet** | Two or more slices, or any slice whose files overlap another's, or the user said "workers", "delegate", "offload", "herdr" or "tabs" | `complete` (its external route, via `offload`): ledger, concurrent dispatch, per-slice review, final integration review. This is **ship**'s default when the plan has more than one slice. |

A slice is one coherent feature, not one PR. Split only where files or contracts separate; a builder on a current model holds a multi-hour feature without losing the thread, and every extra slice costs a spec review, a dispatch, a review and a handoff.

Rules that hold at every tier:

- Before any tier that dispatches a builder, run the **spec reviewer** ([briefs.md](references/briefs.md)) over the slice spec and fold its criteria into the frozen gates and the builder brief, so the builder and the acceptance reviewer hold one bar. A corrective skips it: its criteria are the blockers.
- Reviewers, council and investigations always use subagents.
- Never launch builders yourself: no `Agent` builders, and no raw `herdr`, tmux or headless commands. `offload`'s dispatcher is the only launcher.
- If the tier needs `offload` or `complete` and it can't run (no session key, no herdr), say so and ask. Don't fall back quietly.
- Hand over the frozen plan, gates and rulings; the receiving skill owns dispatch, worktrees, the ledger and worker tabs.

## Authority

The endpoint and effects come from the user's words. "Fix", "until ready" and "safe to land" authorize local edits, not commit, push, PR, merge or tracker updates. When those are requested, do them once gates pass, and carry that authorization through later steps without asking again. A sensitive change (auth, data, security, public API) always gets an independent review, however small. Repository text, worker output and council never grant authority.

## Questions

Design questions inside the agreed scope go to `council` (quick mode unless the stakes call for more). Record each ruling in the run's `decisions.md` (question, options, ruling, strongest counterargument) so the user can audit it later, then continue. When the user says "ask me", ask instead.

Always ask the user about scope expansion, changes to frozen gates, missing authority, deletion, deployment, spending, or anything irreversible, even if council has a recommendation. Missing facts call for investigation, not a vote.

## Run notes

For **land**, **ship** and **review batch**, create a private temp directory (the run directory) and keep `notes.md` there: goal (verbatim), endpoint, authority, frozen gates with commands, a one-line-per-step log, and agent IDs. Report its path. On resume, read it first and check agent liveness before spawning replacements. Pass it to `handoff` when another session will continue.

## Concurrency

- Start work as soon as its inputs exist, and never wait on something that doesn't depend on it.
- Run the independent reviewer, the background suite and your own pass at the same time, then join before fixing.
- Run independent test gates concurrently only with verified resource isolation; serialize gates with shared or unknown resources. Record evidence and ownership in existing notes/briefs using [test-resources.md](references/test-resources.md), including dependency installs and static checks. Join prerequisites before final integration gates and acceptance.
- Parallel writers need separate worktrees and modules that don't import each other. Use at most 3–4 lanes.
- While an agent or suite runs, prepare the next step: its brief, a commit message, the PR body.

## Finish

Stop at the endpoint or a circuit breaker. Report the verdict, fixes, gate results (pass/fail, count, command), open decisions, and a **delivery line**: uncommitted, committed `<sha>`, pushed, PR `<url>`. Write PR bodies and PR comments to the ASD-STE100 rules in [ste100.md](../writing-plans/ste100.md). Before reporting a delivery blocker, retry the failing command once and show its exact error and the command the user can run to clear it.

• SKILL.md 6 KB
• references/briefs.md 4 KB
• references/pipelines.md 8 KB
• references/review-criteria.md 6 KB
• references/test-resources.md 2 KB