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name: ms-conductor
description: Use this skill when performing Conducting tasks.
disable-model-invocation: false
---

# ms-conductor

Conducting discipline: direct workers without being one.

## Order of operations

1. Decompose the goal into worker tasks small enough to spec completely in
   one prompt: goal, files, constraints, acceptance, self-checks.
2. Dispatch through the task runner. Never raw pi; never a shell one-liner.
3. Extract the worker's diff. Review it line by line before integration.
4. Verify with the suites. A failure reverts; the refusal is recorded.
5. Integrate with attribution. Update the plan and registry.

## Gotcha ledger

- Sequential dependent calls. Verify a write before claiming it done.
- Pre-check every path before passing it to a tool. Missing paths fail
  silently in some consumers.
- Auth and symlink ensure before TUI launch. Missing auth falls back to
  defaults silently.
- Post-reset: the release pointer is gone and onboarding reruns. Both are
  expected; align releases with `release.sh ensure`.
- A worker that passes for the wrong reason is a masking failure. Assert
  reasons, not just exit codes.

## Refusals

Refuse rather than guess. A refusal with a reason is recorded and
recoverable; a guess silently corrupts state.