By name: workflow description: "Structured multi-phase workflows: review, debug, refactor (tidy, clean up, untangle messy code without behaviour change), deploy, create, research." user-invocable: false context: fork routing: category: meta-tooling pairs_with: - planning - feature-lifecycle - verification-before-completion triggers: - "workflow" - "multi-phase task" - "structured pipeline" - "phased execution" - "orchestrated workflow" - "tidy up" - "tidy it" - "tidy into one place" - "clean up" - "messy" - "messy code" - "structure is messy" - "reorganize" - "reorganize without changing behaviour" - "reorganize without changing behavior" - "untangle" - "consolidate duplicated" - "duplicated everywhere" - "repeated everywhere" allowed-tools:
- Read
- Edit
- Write
- Bash
- Glob
- Grep
- Agent
- Skill
Workflow
Umbrella skill for all structured multi-phase workflows. Load the appropriate workflow reference based on the task.
Terminology: "workflow" is the canonical term for these flows. "pipeline" is the retained legacy alias — kept for back-compat. Routing keys, meta.name exports, and pipeline-index.json keep their existing "pipeline" identifiers unchanged; do not rename them. Use "workflow" in new prose.
Available Workflows
| Category | Workflow | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Code Review | Comprehensive multi-wave review | references/comprehensive-review.md |
| Code Review | Systematic code review | references/systematic-code-review.md |
| Debugging | Evidence-based debugging pipeline | references/systematic-debugging.md |
| Refactoring | Safe refactoring with test gates | references/systematic-refactoring.md |
| Features | End-to-end feature lifecycle | skills/process/feature-lifecycle/references/pipeline.md |
| PR Workflow | PR creation pipeline | skills/process/pr-workflow/references/pipeline.md |
| Research | Formal research with source gates | references/research-pipeline.md |
| Research | Research to article pipeline | references/research-to-article.md |
| Content | Voice content generation | references/voice-writer.md |
| Content | Voice calibration | references/voice-calibrator.md |
| Content | Article evaluation | references/article-evaluation-pipeline.md |
| Content | De-AI content pipeline | references/de-ai-pipeline.md |
| Content | Documentation pipeline | references/doc-pipeline.md |
| Exploration | Codebase exploration | references/explore-pipeline.md |
| Exploration | Multi-perspective analysis | references/do-perspectives.md |
| Creation | Skill creation pipeline | references/skill-creation-pipeline.md |
| Creation | Hook development pipeline | references/hook-development-pipeline.md |
| Creation | MCP server pipeline | references/mcp-pipeline-builder.md |
| Creation | Pipeline scaffolding | references/pipeline-scaffolder.md |
| Creation | Domain research for pipelines | references/domain-research.md |
| Creation | Chain composition | references/chain-composer.md |
| Creation | Auto-pipeline generation | references/auto-pipeline.md |
| Upgrade | Agent/skill upgrade | references/agent-upgrade.md |
| Upgrade | System upgrade | references/system-upgrade.md |
| Upgrade | Toolkit improvement | references/toolkit-improvement.md |
| Testing | Pipeline test runner | references/pipeline-test-runner.md |
| Testing | Pipeline retro | references/pipeline-retro.md |
| GitHub | Profile rules extraction | references/github-profile-rules.md |
| Orchestration | Task orchestration | references/workflow-orchestrator.md |
| Patterns | Composable-pattern + failure-mode + cost-gate catalog | references/workflow-patterns.md |
| Patterns | Tournament (pairwise-comparison) template | references/tournament-workflow.md |
| Patterns | Quarantine (untrusted-source triage isolation) | references/quarantine-pattern.md |
How to Use (MANDATORY)
You MUST load the reference file before executing any workflow phase. The table above is a routing index — the actual methodology, phases, gates, and instructions are in the reference files.
- Identify the workflow category from the user's task using the table above
- Load the matching reference file using
Readtool on${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/<name>.md - Follow the phases and gates defined in that reference exactly — do not improvise phases
- Report using the output format specified in the loaded reference
If the task spans multiple workflows (e.g., research then write), load each reference in sequence and follow them in order.
Workflow rule: Load the reference file before executing a workflow phase. The table shows names only; the reference file contains the actual instructions, gates, artifact requirements, and quality criteria.
Reference Loading Table
| Signal | Load These Files | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Code Review | comprehensive-review.md |
Comprehensive multi-wave review |
| Code Review | systematic-code-review.md |
Systematic code review |
| Debugging | systematic-debugging.md |
Evidence-based debugging pipeline |
| Refactoring | systematic-refactoring.md |
Safe refactoring with test gates |
| Features | pipeline.md |
End-to-end feature lifecycle |
| PR Workflow | pipeline.md |
PR creation pipeline |
| Research | research-pipeline.md |
Formal research with source gates |
| Research | research-to-article.md |
Research to article pipeline |
| Content | voice-writer.md |
Voice content generation |
| Content | voice-calibrator.md |
Voice calibration |
| Content | article-evaluation-pipeline.md |
Article evaluation |
| Content | de-ai-pipeline.md |
De-AI content pipeline |
| Content | doc-pipeline.md |
Documentation pipeline |
| Exploration | explore-pipeline.md |
Codebase exploration |
| Exploration | do-perspectives.md |
Multi-perspective analysis |
| Creation | skill-creation-pipeline.md |
Skill creation pipeline |
| Creation | hook-development-pipeline.md |
Hook development pipeline |
| Creation | mcp-pipeline-builder.md |
MCP server pipeline |
| Creation | pipeline-scaffolder.md |
Pipeline scaffolding |
| Creation | domain-research.md |
Domain research for pipelines |
| Creation | chain-composer.md |
Chain composition |
| Creation | auto-pipeline.md |
Auto-pipeline generation |
| Upgrade | agent-upgrade.md |
Agent/skill upgrade |
| Upgrade | system-upgrade.md |
System upgrade |
| Upgrade | toolkit-improvement.md |
Toolkit improvement |
| Testing | pipeline-test-runner.md |
Pipeline test runner |
| Testing | pipeline-retro.md |
Pipeline retro |
| GitHub | github-profile-rules.md |
Profile rules extraction |
| Orchestration | workflow-orchestrator.md |
Task orchestration |
| Patterns / cost gate / failure modes | workflow-patterns.md |
Which named pattern + when to escalate + when NOT to use |
| Tournament | tournament-workflow.md |
Pairwise-comparison ranking template |
| Quarantine | quarantine-pattern.md |
Isolate untrusted-source readers from privileged actions |