Skills

aid-design-integration

Frontmatter

name — aid-design-integration
description — Develop an external-service integration design as a DESIGN SEED in .aid/design/integration.md — the external service, the client/adapter surface, and the auth and failure modes. Use this skill when how to talk to an external service is still being worked out, including how failures should behave. Grounded in the Knowledge Base (.aid/knowledge/) and the project source. It WRITES NO production code and NO KB document — realize the seed into the built client/adapter with /aid-create-integration once it is ready. Produced by the aid-architect agent and independently verified by aid-reviewer (full verify). Allocates a work-NNN folder.
allowed-tools — Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, Write, Edit, Agent
argument-hint — <subject> — the integration to design (service, client surface, auth/failure)

Definition: canonical/skills/aid-design-integration/SKILL.md

Flow

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  n2["DESIGN"]
  n3["VERIFY"]
  n4["PRESENT<br/>hard stop -- the user decides"]
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Source fragments

Every node in the chart above, in chart order, with the exact canonical/ text it was derived from.

1 · INTAKE · entry

## State: INTAKE

1. **Require a subject.** Empty argument -> ask one bootstrapping question ("What
   integration do you want to design -- the service, its client surface, and its auth and
   failure modes?") and wait.
2. **Allocate** through the Work Initiation Gate exactly as the contract's Allocation rule
   requires (`canonical/skills/aid-design/SKILL.md` INTAKE step 4 is the shape), with
   `initiator: aid-design-integration`. `phase` is not driven.
3. **Acquire `.aid/design/`** per the contract, then read `.aid/design/integration.md` if a
   prior seed exists -- re-invocation iterates it rather than starting over.
4. **Classify complexity** for the `aid-architect` dispatch (verifier tier >= producer).

Source: canonical/skills/aid-design-integration/SKILL.md#L35-L45 · full step: canonical/skills/aid-design-integration/SKILL.md#L35-L47

2 · DESIGN · step

## State: DESIGN

Dispatch **`aid-architect`** (clean context, tiered) to write or iterate
`.aid/design/integration.md` in the seed shape the contract fixes (`design-seed.md`;
feature-002 §4), grounded in `.aid/knowledge/` and the project source plus any seed read
in INTAKE. What this artifact's seed must settle: **the external service, the
client/adapter surface, and the auth and failure modes**; its `## Destination` names where
the built client/adapter lands. **Never writes `.aid/knowledge/` and never writes
production code** -- the `design` invariant (`design-lifecycle.md`).

Source: canonical/skills/aid-design-integration/SKILL.md#L51-L59 · full step: canonical/skills/aid-design-integration/SKILL.md#L51-L61

3 · VERIFY · loop-back

## State: VERIFY

**Full verify**, as `design-lifecycle.md` defines it. Not clean -> loop to DESIGN; the
3-cycle circuit breaker there escalates to IMPEDIMENT + `lifecycle: Blocked`.

Source: canonical/skills/aid-design-integration/SKILL.md#L65-L68 · full step: canonical/skills/aid-design-integration/SKILL.md#L65-L70

4 · PRESENT — hard stop — the user decides · step

## State: PRESENT (hard stop -- the user decides)

Set `lifecycle: Paused-Awaiting-Input`. Present the seed clearly. Assert no resolution --
the user iterates (re-invoke this skill) or realizes it now (`/aid-create-integration`).

Source: canonical/skills/aid-design-integration/SKILL.md#L74-L77 · full step: canonical/skills/aid-design-integration/SKILL.md#L74-L79

5 · DONE · exit · UNSPECIFIED

## State: DONE

Set `lifecycle: Completed`, `updated` now, append a `## Lifecycle History` row. The seed
persists at `.aid/design/integration.md`; consumption happens at `/aid-create-integration`.

Source: canonical/skills/aid-design-integration/SKILL.md#L83-L86 · full step: canonical/skills/aid-design-integration/SKILL.md#L83-L86

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