diff --git a/pstack/skills/principle-build-the-lever/SKILL.md b/pstack/skills/principle-build-the-lever/SKILL.md index b866f41..de0f285 100644 --- a/pstack/skills/principle-build-the-lever/SKILL.md +++ b/pstack/skills/principle-build-the-lever/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: principle-build-the-lever -description: "Apply when work is repetitive or bulk: many similar edits, a check you'll rerun, a population to transform. Build the tool that amortizes it (codemod, script, generator) once you know the recipe, instead of grinding by hand." +description: "Apply when work is repetitive or bulk: many similar edits, a check you'll rerun, a population to transform, a fan-out to subagents. Build the tool that amortizes it (codemod, script, generator, or a skill your subagents follow) once you know the recipe, instead of grinding by hand." disable-model-invocation: true --- # Build the Lever @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ When the work repeats, build the tool that does it instead of grinding by hand. - Do the first few by hand to learn the exact recipe, then build the tool. Don't build on a guess. - Codemod or script for bulk edits, generator for repetitive files, a dump-to-sqlite query for repeated analysis, a rerunnable check for repeated verification. +- When you fan work out to subagents, write the lever as a skill they all read: the recipe, the verification contract, and the do-not-touch fences in one artifact, so every delegate inherits the same hardened version instead of re-explaining it per prompt and watching each one drift. Harden it the moment a delegate games or drops the contract, then re-dispatch. Keep it outside the delegates' write scope so they can't quietly edit the contract. - Commit it when the work outlives the session, so the next run reruns it instead of redoing it. **Balance:** Leverage, not gold-plating. The [Laziness Protocol](../principle-laziness-protocol/SKILL.md) still holds. Build the lever only when it pays for itself across the remaining work, never for a one-off.