Read ../ticket-up/references/AUTHORITY.md before acting. Keep this assignment, its applicable
authority and retained decisions in every skill handoff; an isolated caller must receive them
explicitly, with the useful intent and evidence.
Run the flow for the task given or inferable from the conversation; with neither, halt with usage.
Where shared understanding is missing, invoke figure-out with the task and
--autonomous; invoke define with --autonomous; invoke do with the exact
Manifest path define reports. No path → stop and report.
figure-out and define each end by stopping and leaving the next step to their caller. You are that caller: figure-out's read and define's handoff are checkpoints that return control to this flow, so invoke the next step in the same turn rather than ending it or offering the step to the user. The run ends when do finishes or escalates, or when define reports no path.
The chain runs the same with or without a project — a chat with no workspace, a home or scratch folder. Each skill it invokes decides whether any project surface applies.
Do not set or print a continuation goal during understanding or definition. /do owns the completion backstop. Automatic continuation begins at execution; an interrupted earlier phase must be restarted by the caller.
