Reference Overview

The Reference section is information-oriented: exact facts, tables, and definitions you look up rather than read linearly. Use this section when you already understand AID and need a specific answer quickly.

What is in this section

Page	What it covers
CLI & subcommands	Every aid command and flag — add, update, remove, status, version, self; exit codes; environment variables; tool auto-detect
Skills	All 76 AID skills — 18 curated pipeline, on-demand and router skills (including /aid-triage), plus the 58-row shortcut catalog’s skills: 34 verb-first shortcut skills (/aid-fix, /aid-create-api, …) and 24 hand-authored repurpose skills (including /aid-ask for Q&A) — what each does and its source definition in canonical/. (In the Skills section, not this one.)
Shortcut engine	How the verb-first shortcut skills work — the shared engine every one of them delegates to, and its INTAKE → CAPTURE → SPEC → PLAN → DETAIL → GATE → APPROVAL-HALT sequence
Agents	All 9 AID pipeline agents — role, tier, tools allowed, and source definition
Knowledge Base doc types	The 14 standard KB document templates and what each captures
Settings keys	Every .aid/settings.yml key — path, current value, and description
Artifacts	Every named file the AID methodology produces — what it is and where it lives
Repository structure	How the AID repository is laid out — canonical/, profiles/, docs/, bin/, and more
Glossary	Definitions of AID terms, phases, artifact names, and install terms

Looking for how-to content?

The Reference section deliberately contains no tutorials or procedural steps. For installation instructions see Installation guide, and for pipeline execution see Working the pipeline.

For conceptual background — what AID is and why it works the way it does — see the Concepts section.