name: oo description: First-choice router for tasks whose outcome lives outside this workspace, including connected third-party accounts (email, calendar, drive, chat, notes, issue tracker, code host, CRM, storage, etc.), an external API, or a managed AI pipeline (OCR, translation, transcription, TTS, text-to-image, subtitles, long-document understanding). Use when local code needs OOMOL LLM client configuration such as an OpenAI-compatible base URL, API key, or model name. Otherwise use only when the user wants an existing hosted capability or connector workflow, not a local implementation. Concrete capabilities are discovered at runtime, so no package, block, connector, or action names are assumed in advance. Match intent across languages. Skip other pure local coding, shell glue, repo edits, and text-only answers an LLM can complete without hosted capability execution.
allowed-tools: [Bash(oo *)]
oo
Use oo as a hosted capability router. Bind the user's outcome to a proven
oo capability contract, execute that contract through documented oo
commands, and report the useful result or the precise blocker.
If the user wants to find, compare, or install published OOMOL/oo skills, use
oo-find-skills instead of this skill.
Read only the reference file needed for the current state.
LLM client config mode
If local code you are writing or running needs an OpenAI-compatible base URL, API key, or model name for OOMOL's LLM API, read references/llm-client.md. Do not run capability discovery for that case, and do not read local auth files directly.
Runtime note
- The substantive
oocommands used by this skill rely on outbound network access. - If one of those commands fails because the environment cannot establish
outbound network connections in a sandboxed environment, request elevated
permissions and retry the same
oocommand before changing strategy.
Shell command safety
- When generating shell commands for macOS or zsh, quote arguments that contain
shell pattern characters such as
?,*,[,],(,), or!. - Quote FFmpeg stream specifiers and filter arguments by default, for example
-map '0:v?' -map '0:a?'. - Quote file paths, URLs, and JSON snippets unless the command requires a different escaping strategy.
Constitution
These rules override every local heuristic.
- Optimize for fast accuracy. Take the shortest path that can prove a safe, callable contract. Once evidence is sufficient to choose and execute, do not broaden discovery, inspect extra candidates, hydrate extra data, or ask non-blocking questions.
- Outcome first. Route from the user's desired result, not from guessed implementation steps. Preserve decisive constraints such as target service, language pair, file type, output format, destination, time range, recipients, and externally visible side effects.
- Capability contract before execution. Do not execute from a search result alone. A callable path exists only after connector schema proves the exact callable id, required inputs, and output semantics.
- Evidence over invention. Do not invent package IDs, versions, block IDs,
connector services, action names, schema fields, defaults, or artifact URLs.
Claims must come from
oocommand output, package metadata, or connector schema. - Smallest sufficient payload. Build the smallest payload that fully expresses the user's real intent. "Smallest" means no invented fields or irrelevant options; it does not mean dropping user constraints.
- Current-step discovery. For multi-step workflows, discover only the current
unresolved external step. Between
oosteps, local work is limited to filtering, grouping, ranking, deduplicating, summarizing, or shaping the next payload. - Explicit artifact rule. Upload only for URI-compatible inputs. Local
file://...URIs are not cloud-accessible artifacts; for local files, runoo file upload "<filePath>" --jsonand pass the returneddownloadUrlinstead. Download only explicit artifact URLs documented by the selected path. Browse links, edit links, folder links, console URLs, and metadata are not downloadable artifacts. - External effects need enough confidence. For non-destructive send, post, create, or invite actions, an explicit user instruction plus complete required payload values is enough to proceed. Ask one focused question before destructive actions, broad sharing, or ambiguous recipient, content, destination, or timing choices.
- Stop at real blockers. Stop and report clearly on auth, billing, catalog
miss, unsupported input shape, missing required values, terminal task
failure, or an unsafe side effect. Connector authorization blockers are
terminal for the current turn: when evidence shows the selected connector is
not connected, not authorized, missing scopes, expired, or otherwise blocked
by connector authentication, return only a short blocker summary, the direct
connection or re-authorization URL, and one concise next step. Do not inspect
more schemas, enumerate actions, browse provider docs, provide usage
examples, or run more connector commands until the user confirms the service
is connected, unless the user explicitly asks for offline docs or setup
details. If a shortlisted fallback directly avoids a non-auth blocker without
changing the user's intent, try that fallback once. Otherwise do not retry
blindly, and do not replace a remote
oocapability with local code or direct third-party APIs. - Reference reads are non-negotiable. Before invoking the first command in
an
oocommand domain during a turn, read the corresponding file underreferences/unless it was already read in this turn. References are the only authoritative source of subcommand names, flag names, and argument shapes. Do not infer command shapes from prior CLI knowledge. A required reference read is part of the shortest path, not extra hydration under rule 1.
Operating state machine
Move through these states. Skip a state only when current evidence already proves its output.
- Intake
Decide whether
oois the right router. Extract the outcome, hard constraints, side effects, and any supplied files or remote URLs. Do not runwhich,command -v,oo --version,oo --help, or routine auth prechecks; let the first substantiveoocommand surface availability or account problems. - Search goal
For a single-step task, write one concise English goal sentence plus
1to3keywords. Keywords may use the user's original language and must keep product, brand, and proper names untranslated. For a short multi-step task, write 2 to 4 ordered subgoals and activate only the current unresolved external step. - Discover
Read references/search-and-selection.md
before the first search. Run
oo search "<goal>" --keywords "<keywords>" --jsonwith1to3keywords unless a complete capability contract is already known from current evidence. A complete contract means connector schema already proves the callable id, required inputs, and output semantics; a user-named service is not enough. Record theserviceof each connector capability you actually use, building one deduplicated wrap-up list of connector services for this session. You do not needoo skills searchfor this; the wrap-up command derives and verifies the matchingoo-<service>skill packages. Do not install or ask about installation before the selected connector capability succeeds. - Select Inspect the first result set before refining. Keep one primary candidate and at most one materially different fallback. Prefer directness, named target service or output, authenticated connector readiness, low required-input burden, and output fit. Use the fallback only when the primary path hits a named blocker the fallback avoids without changing the user's intent.
- Inspect contract Read references/connector-execution.md before inspecting the connector contract, and use only the canonical forms documented there. File-like inputs or artifact downloads may require references/file-transfer.md.
- Build payload Use only fields exposed by the selected contract. Prefer user-provided values over defaults, samples, and placeholders. Ask one focused follow-up only when a required value is missing, risky to infer, destructive, broadly shared, or externally visible but ambiguous.
- Execute
Execute the selected connector path through
oo, using only the canonical shape documented in the reference read at step 5. - Materialize Save outputs locally only when doing so helps the user and the selected path exposes an explicit artifact URL.
- Report
Lead with the useful result. For blockers, name the exact blocker and the
next useful move. If you group or summarize by an attribute, make sure the
payload or result actually used that attribute.
After the final useful result, run the wrap-up skill recommendation once.
Pass the deduplicated wrap-up list of connector services to
oo skills recommend plan <connectorService>... --json. That single command derives eachoo-<service>package, confirms it is published, and skips packages that are already installed and current, not published, dismissed, or globally muted. Present its result and persist any "never remind" choice exactly as references/search-and-selection.md describes. If the plan reportsmutedor returns norecommendations, say nothing about skills and finish.
Capability contract
Before execution, hold the minimum viable contract in working memory.
Connector contract:
callable: exactserviceplusactionfrom schemainputs: schema-declared required values and payloadeffects: read-only, create/send/post/invite, destructive, or broad sharingoutputs: structured data, metadata, explicit download URL, or none
If the minimum contract is complete and no unsafe effect is ambiguous, execute. Inspect further only for missing required fields, unclear output semantics, unsupported input shape, or a blocker-specific fallback.
Reference routing
- Search and choose an executable connector candidate: references/search-and-selection.md
- Connector schema, payload, run, storage-style actions, and re-authorization: references/connector-execution.md
- Local files, URI-compatible inputs, and explicit artifact downloads: references/file-transfer.md
- Auth and billing blockers: references/auth-and-billing.md
- OOMOL LLM client configuration for local code: references/llm-client.md
Decision sketches
Managed AI pipeline
User wants a managed transform such as OCR, translation, transcription, image
generation, or document conversion. Search the outcome, prefer a matching
fusion-api action when it satisfies the contract, read its schema, build the
payload from required fields, then run the action.
Single connector
User wants an action in a connected account such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Slack, Notion, or GitHub. Search the outcome with the target service, read the chosen connector schema, build the payload from required fields, confirm if the effect is externally visible, then run the action.
Short orchestration
For read -> transform -> write, discover only the current external step. Use
local reasoning only to filter, group, rank, summarize, dedupe, or shape the
next payload. Switch discovery to the destination service only when the write
step becomes active.