8 skills tagged pragmatism · capability axis.
Master workflow for any change touching an existing project. Walks the Aparigraha gates end-to-end — onboarding, dependency awareness, style detection, reuse-first authoring, surgical diff, post-execution audit — by orchestrating the foundation `pragmatism` philosophy and the `25-pragmatism` category skills. Contains no implementation logic.
Structured first-touch protocol for understanding an existing codebase before contributing to it. Reads the README, ADRs, most-changed and most-recent files, dependency manifests, build/CI config, and test layout, and emits an onboarding cheat-sheet other Aparigraha skills (style-conformance, reuse-first, minimal-diff, chesterton-fence) consume on subsequent tasks.
Before deleting, refactoring, or "cleaning up" code that looks unused, redundant, or weird, investigate why it exists. Produces a why-it-exists memo plus an edge-case checklist that must be confirmed before any change to the existing code is committed. Implements the Chesterton's-Fence side of Validate-Before-Trust under Aparigraha.
Mine the project's declared dependencies (BOM, package.json, requirements.txt, Pipfile, go.mod, Cargo.toml, etc.) and produce a curated inventory of the utilities they expose, so reuse-first and other Aparigraha skills can decide quickly without rediscovering the graph each time. Consults; never auto-rewrites.
Generate the smallest correct change that solves the stated problem. No drive-by formatting, no opportunistic renames, no "while I'm here" expansions. Implements the Surgical-Before-Sweeping gate of Aparigraha with diff-size guardrails, scope checks, and reversibility validation.
Direction-of-thought protocol for working on real, ongoing business projects. Implements the Aparigraha pillar — non-accumulation of code, utilities, and refactors beyond what the task requires. Forces the agent to check before creating, conform within scope, stay surgical, and validate edge cases before trusting any reuse or improvement of existing code. Always loaded alongside the Constitution.
Before authoring any new utility, helper, wrapper, or abstraction, scan the project's existing source and declared dependencies for an equivalent. Reuse only after fit and edge-case validation; otherwise document why nothing fit and write fresh. Implements the Check-Before-Create and Validate-Before-Trust gates of Aparigraha.
Detect the project's existing coding conventions — naming, formatting, error handling, logging, test structure, comment style, module layout — and produce a "house style profile" that downstream skills consult when writing or modifying code. Awareness, not enforcement: the agent conforms within the scope of the change and surfaces deviations rather than auto-fixing them.