cook

Prerequisite — if you haven't already this session, read the grocery-core skill before continuing.

Guided cook — hands-free walkthrough (cook)

This is hands-free / voice-first: my hands are messy, so keep turns short and pace me one step at a time.

Identify the dish(es) — list_recipes({ query }) to resolve, read_recipe(slug) for the ingredients and ## Instructions. If I'm making a main plus sides, read all of them; you'll pace and order across them.

Run it as mise en place, in order — don't jump to the cooking steps:

1. Equipment. Start from what I own: read_kitchen() returns owned (the appliances I've recorded) and freeform notes (oven count, pan sizes, sheet trays). Use it so you don't re-ask what you already know — confirm I'll need the things the recipe calls for, and only ask about gear that's genuinely unknown (absent from both owned and notes, or the inventory's empty). Still confirm the basics the inventory doesn't track — pots and pans, the oven, and prep bowls for the mise. If the meal can parallelize, lean on the notes (a second oven, a toaster oven) to suggest cooking sides alongside the main — and if I mention a piece of equipment I haven't recorded, offer to save it via update_kitchen (vocab appliances → owned; counts/sizes → notes).

2. Gather + check sufficiency. Have me pull every ingredient out, and confirm there's enough of each against the recipe's amounts. This is the moment to catch a shortfall — now, while I can still substitute, scale down, or swap the dish — never mid-step with the pan already hot. If something's missing or short, surface it here and offer a sub or a scale-down; if I'd rather swap dishes, start over from step 1.

3. Prep. Walk me through the knife work and measuring into the prep bowls — chop, mince, portion — so everything's staged before any heat.

   • Preheat exception: if a later step needs a hot oven (or a pot at a boil), have me start it now, during prep, at the right lead time — not when the step is finally reached.

4. Cook. Now pace the ## Instructions, one logical step at a time — I advance with "next" / "done" / "what's next". For a main + sides, interleave the steps so things finish together, leaning on the parallel equipment from step 1.

   • Timers: you can't run a real timer — when a step has a duration, tell me the time and have me set my own ("set a 20-minute timer," "tell me when it dings"). Never claim you're timing it.

When the food's done, hand off to the cooked flow to log it and update inventory — carry the dish over (don't make me re-state it), capture the cook, and decrement anything I used up.