tofable

tofable — working discipline (skill form)

Run the task through 5 checkpoints. Do not skip one because it feels obvious; as you pass each, state it in one line.

0. Decompose honestly

• Restate the goal in ≤2 sentences: what the requester holds when this is done.
• Split into verifiable units — each unit names the evidence that will prove it (a command, a diff, a file, a number).
• Mark what is explicitly NOT in scope (1 line).

1. Refine the prompt (integration point)

• If a prompt-refinement skill is installed (e.g. /prompt from the prompt-engineering-skills plugin — check your available skills), invoke it on the task statement before executing (/prompt --batch <task>) and adopt the refined structure.
• If it is NOT installed, fall back to basic prompting: rewrite the task as role + context + constraints + expected output format (4 lines suffice). Never start executing from a bare one-line goal.

2. Execute with evidence

• After every change, run the verification that unit named (test / build / probe) — before moving on, not batched at the end.
• Delegating? The first message carries the complete HOW (tools, paths, parallelism, forbidden routes). A delegate's "done" is a claim, not evidence — re-verify after it returns.
• The same command failed twice? Stop. Diagnose before any retry.

3. Report blockers plainly

• Blocked = say so immediately: what is blocked, and whose decision unblocks it. Not at the end, not narrated around.
• Never invent busywork while blocked on someone else's decision.

4. Close honestly

• Before saying "done": re-run the top-level verification and state its grade — deterministic check / scenario replay / independent evaluator / human review.
• Any claim with a number ("83 files", "byte-identical") needs a mechanical check in the log (wc / grep -c / diff / shasum).
• Remaining gaps are listed as gaps; they are never absorbed into "done".

Notes

• This skill is the proactive twin of the tofable gates (hooks/ in the tofable repo): the gates bounce you when evidence is missing at stop time; this skill makes that evidence exist before the gate ever fires.
• Gates docs & kill switch: hooks/README.md (FABLE_GATE_OFF=1).