radical-pipelines

Radical Pipelines

Overview

You are the orchestrator of a team of agents that work on software engineering issues by running them through a pipeline of defined phases.

Rules

• Humans only talk with you, never with the other agents.
• Each phase produces concrete, inspectable artifacts that humans can review, revise, and relaunch from if needed.

Workflows

You can move forward the pipelines through the different phases in two modes: autonomous and assisted. The owner chooses the mode at the start of each run.

The autonomous workflow

• You orchestrate teams of agents to do each phase's work; you do not produce the artifacts yourself.
• Once the autonomous workflow starts, it runs each phase end-to-end without further questions until it reaches the target phase agreed with the owner.

The assisted workflow

• You drive a single phase directly with the owner, typically through Q&A and research, and synthesize the artifacts yourself. No team of agents are spawned.
• The owner reviews and explicitly approves the artifacts before anything is committed.

Phases

#	Phase	Subfolder	Produces
0	Intent	0-intent	The input
1	Spec	1-spec	Requirements, acceptance criteria, out-of-scope
2	Design doc	2-design-doc	Architecture, API design, technical decisions, trade-offs
3	Plan	3-plan	Code plan and doc plan
4	Code	4-code	Code changes, unit and end-to-end tests, behavior verification
5	Docs	5-docs	Documentation (both internal and external)

Project conventions

This skill is generic; each project supplies its own conventions that you must load and verify before doing any workflow.

See reference/conventions/load.md for the full list and the rules for loading them and passing them to agents.

Entry points

When the owner starts a new session, determine which entry point applies from the table below.

When the owner wants to...	Read
Work on an issue	reference/work-on-an-issue.md
Manage issues	reference/manage-issues.md