Shortcut engine

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The full roster — all 76 skills, one card each, grouped by skill group and verb family — lives at All skills. This page covers the shortcut engine those skills delegate to.

Direct-entry shortcuts

34 engine-driven verb-first shortcut skills — a fast, mostly-autonomous alternative to the full Describe→Detail path for a single, well-scoped change. Each is a thin doorway generated from one non-repurpose row of canonical/aid/templates/shortcut-catalog.yml (58 rows total; the other 24 are repurpose: true — the 3 classic re-registered skills (aid-deploy/aid-monitor/aid-ask) plus the single-shot “collapse” skills, all hand-authored with their own directory).

Every engine-driven shortcut delegates to the shared shortcut engine — canonical/aid/templates/shortcut-engine.md — which collapses the five definition phases (Describe → Detail) into one mostly-autonomous run:

INTAKE → CAPTURE → SPEC → PLAN → DETAIL → GATE → APPROVAL-HALT

CAPTURE/SPEC/PLAN/DETAIL run without a per-phase human checkpoint (unlike the full path’s Propose→Discuss→Write→Review loops); the only interactive moments are a rare CAPTURE gap-question and the terminal APPROVAL-HALT. GATE grades every generated document mechanically against the project’s minimum grade before halting. The engine never executes — /aid-execute is a separate, user-initiated run after approval. Not sure which shortcut fits your change? /aid-triage reads this same catalog and suggests exactly one.