Product design skills

skill.yaml

A supporting file of the silver-synthesize skill, shown as source.

schema: silver/skill/v2
id: synthesize
version: 0.9.1
summary: Turn sanitized evidence into traceable findings and problem frames.
context_budget: small
inputs:
  - kind: evidence
    required: true
    role: evidence
  - kind: product
    required: false
    role: canonical
  - kind: evaluation
    required: false
    role: working
  - kind: map
    required: false
    role: working
outputs:
  - kind: finding
    scope: product
    path_pattern: design/work/findings/**
    authority: project-owned
  - kind: problem-frame
    scope: product
    path_pattern: design/work/problem-frames/**
    authority: project-owned
capabilities:
  required:
    - repository
  optional:
    - capability: research-evidence
      providers: []
      fallback: degraded
      description: Use research-evidence when configured; preserve explicit fallback
        coverage otherwise.
effects:
  - capability: repository
    actions:
      - read
      - inspect
    paths:
      - design/**
      - prototypes/**
      - presentations/**
      - production/**
      - .silver/**
  - capability: repository
    actions:
      - create
      - write
      - update
    paths:
      - design/work/findings/**
  - capability: repository
    actions:
      - create
      - write
      - update
    paths:
      - design/work/problem-frames/**
  - capability: research-evidence
    actions:
      - read
      - inspect
    external: true
guardrails:
  - authority-respected
  - effects-declared
  - no-silent-mutation
  - revision-pinned
  - followups-recommended-only
  - privacy-sanitized-evidence
  - no-fabricated-evidence
  - provenance-required
completion:
  invariants:
    - sources-pinned
    - assumptions-labeled
    - contradictions-retained
  quality_criteria:
    - id: task-quality
      description: Findings separate observation, interpretation, confidence,
        contradiction, and open question.
      evaluation: human
  unresolved_questions: block-handoff
  review:
    required: true
    reviewer: human
    checkpoint: Review and accept the result before a readiness-gated handoff.
checks:
  - id: contract-integrity
    required: true
    blocks: &a1
      - ideate
      - pitch
  - id: evidence-provenance
    required: true
    blocks: *a1
handoffs:
  - id: synthesize-to-ideate
    target: ideate
    readiness: ideate
    requires:
      - finding
      - problem-frame
  - id: synthesize-to-pitch
    target: pitch
    readiness: pitch
    requires:
      - finding
      - problem-frame
external_effects:
  - none
scripts:
  - id: invoke
    path: scripts/invoke.mjs
    purpose: Run this skill through the shared guarded invocation runtime.
recommend_after: *a1