How to work in a Software Lifecycle project (the `software-lifecycle` starter pack): proposals → decisions → specs → postmortems, plus guides. Read when the project has these folders, or when asked how this project is organized. Carries the doc lifecycle, status flows, and per-folder agent behaviors so that guidance does not live inside template bodies or folder descriptions. The five workflows — frame a proposal, write a spec, record a decision, write a postmortem, review a design — each ship as their own sibling skill in this pack. Complements the platform `open-knowledge` skill; does not replace it.
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This project holds the doc lifecycle for an engineering team or OSS project. The flow is proposals → decisions → specs → postmortems, with guides as the how-to bucket. This skill holds the workflow so templates and folder descriptions stay clean.
This skill is pack guidance. The platform
/open-knowledgeskill (read/write/preview/linking/grounding rules) still governs every markdown operation — this layers the lifecycle conventions on top.
proposals/ in-flight RFC-shape design proposals
↓ accepted
decisions/ frozen ADRs (the record of what was decided)
↓ derived
specs/ implementation specs for accepted proposals
↓ when things break
postmortems/ blameless incident write-ups
guides/ how-to / onboarding / runbooks (referenced throughout)
proposals/ — One file per proposal (0001-feature-name.md). Status flows draft → fcp → accepted/rejected. An accepted proposal graduates to a record in decisions/. Shape: Motivation / Design / Drawbacks / Alternatives / Unresolved questions. Agent: when a proposal sits at status: draft more than 14 days, surface it for the author to advance, park, or close.
decisions/ — Architecture Decision Records (MADR / Nygard shape). Frozen once accepted. One file per decision (NNNN-title.md); status proposed/accepted/deprecated/superseded. A new decision that supersedes an older one links back via Supersedes:. Agent: on a new decision, scan existing records touching the same subsystem and surface Supersedes: candidates before commit.
specs/ — Implementation specs derived from accepted proposals. Prefer the github/spec-kit shape: one folder per spec (specs/NNN-name/) with spec.md + plan.md + tasks.md (the pack ships all three templates). References the parent proposal. Agent: when a spec moves to status: shipped, suggest a postmortem template if the owner reports an incident in the spec's subsystem.
postmortems/ — Blameless incident write-ups, one file per incident (YYYY-MM-DD-name.md): Summary / Timeline / Root cause / What went well / Action items (Google SRE shape). Agent: surface a Related: block linking prior postmortems that share subsystems.
guides/ — How-to guides, onboarding docs, and service-bound runbooks (Diátaxis how-to). Ships guide, onboarding-guide, and runbook templates. Carries last_verified so stale guides surface in periodic reviews. Agent: when a postmortem is published, scan its action items for guide-shaped follow-ups and stub a guide pre-filled with the symptom and timeline excerpt.
Authoring in this project is procedural, not conventional. Each workflow ships as its own skill so it loads only when the work calls for it — reach for the one that matches the task rather than writing into a folder from scratch.
| Workflow | Sibling skill | When |
|---|---|---|
| Frame a proposal | /frame-a-proposal | A change needs designing and arguing before anyone builds it. |
| Write a spec | /write-a-spec | An accepted proposal needs scoping into an implementable spec. |
| Record a decision | /record-a-decision | A decision was actually made and needs its context and consequences preserved. |
| Write a postmortem | /write-a-postmortem | An incident happened and the team needs a blameless write-up. |
| Review a design | /review-a-design | An existing proposal, spec, or decision needs pressure-testing for soundness. |
Create docs with write({ document: { path, template: "<name>" } }). Templates carry only structure (headings + frontmatter scaffold); what each section is for is described above, not repeated in the document body.
anthropics/skills180kUse this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.
Docs & office
anthropics/skills180kAfter you give a substantive answer or draft that the user may act on — advice or recommendations, drafted artifacts such as goals, plans, pitches, proposals, or emails, estimates or projections, analysis or interpretation of data, factual claims they may rely on, or a multi-step argument — invoke this skill BEFORE finalizing your reply and then, if it applies, append 2-3 short follow-up questions, each tied to something specific in what you just produced, that help the user check key facts, probe the reasoning or assumptions, and notice missing context. Do this at most once per conversation. Skip it when the user asked a trivial how-to or simple lookup, wants a purely educational explanation, asked you only to format, convert, or assemble a file from content they provided, is writing code they will run, is doing creative writing or casual chat, or already asked you to double-check, cite, or review — the skill file explains these boundaries and the exact output format.
Docs & office
anthropics/skills180kGuide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.
Docs & office
anthropics/skills180kUse this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files) or Word templates (.dotx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word document', '.docx', '.dotx', or requests to produce professional documents with formatting like tables of contents, headings, page numbers, or letterheads. Also use when extracting or reorganizing content from .docx or .dotx files, inserting or replacing images in documents, performing find-and-replace in Word files, working with tracked changes or comments, or converting content into a polished Word document. If the user asks for a 'report', 'memo', 'letter', 'template', or similar deliverable as a Word or .docx file, use this skill. Do NOT use for PDFs, spreadsheets, Google Docs, or general coding tasks unrelated to document generation.
Docs & office
anthropics/skills180kUse this skill any time a .pptx or .potx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or presentations; reading, parsing, or extracting text from any .pptx or .potx file (even if the extracted content will be used elsewhere, like in an email or summary); editing, modifying, or updating existing presentations; combining or splitting slide files; working with templates (.potx), layouts, speaker notes, or comments. Trigger whenever the user mentions "deck," "slides," "presentation," or references a .pptx or .potx filename, regardless of what they plan to do with the content afterward. If a .pptx or .potx file needs to be opened, created, or touched, use this skill.
Docs & office
anthropics/skills180kCreate beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.
Docs & office