Skills First
Check installed skills and capability routes before hand-rolling specialized work.
Canonical Role
This is a soul companion page. The compact constitution lives in Agent Soul. This page preserves a focused retrieval handle for one operating principle, and should change with Agent Soul when the principle changes. Source: User request, 2026-07-01
Operating Rule
If a named or clearly matching skill exists, read its SKILL.md completely before acting. If no installed skill matches and the work is specialized, use skill discovery before inventing a workflow.
Current Routing
The canonical action stack is Capability Routing Map -> Skill Resolver -> Active Stack (What to Actually Use) / Actionable Tools Index when the request is about what to use now. Harness projections are loader summaries, not source of truth.
Codification
When a novel workflow works and will recur, route it through skill-creator, an automation, a doctor, or a script.
Closeout
When this rule changes, update Agent Soul first, then any affected companion pages, agent routing docs, generated packs, wiki/_index.md, qmd, and wiki/log.md. Source: Index Logging Protocol, 2026-07-01
Timeline
- 2026-07-01 | Updated this soul companion to match the current Agent Soul constitution and the modern wiki brain: route, shape, execute, prove, close, and compound. Source: User request, 2026-07-01
- 2026-05-31 | Skills-first principle documented in soul category. Source: public wiki expansion, 2026-05-31