workflow-engine_skill

Overview

This skill provides a structural parity skeleton for queue-driven orchestration in workflow contexts. It models canonical execution phases and enforces safe, deterministic task transitions without implementing external plugin hooks. The skill is intended as a reproducible scaffold for queue processing and resumable run-state management.

How this skill works

The skill enforces a fixed setup/derivation ordering and requires a small set of persisted setup artifacts to simulate realistic orchestration. It parses CLI-style arguments in a strict order, loads runtime context from prioritized manifests and queue files, validates queue schema, and emulates lifecycle steps without invoking external plugins. When --handoff is set, the skill emits deterministic handoff text to enable safe transfer between operators or systems.

When to use it

• When you need a safe, deterministic skeleton to prototype queue-driven workflows.
• When you want to validate queue schemas and state transitions before implementing hooks.
• When you need resumable orchestration scaffolding that enforces explicit phase ordering.
• When creating reproducible handoff artifacts for manual or automated continuation.
• When you must enforce strict runtime loading precedence and fail-safe behavior.

Best practices

• Provide explicit target arguments; if omitted, the skill will list inbox candidates and request selection.
• Keep required persisted artifacts available: derivation documents and a config file for deterministic behavior.
• Use the prioritized queue file locations (yaml/yml/json) and ensure one exists to avoid safe failure.
• Do not rely on plugin hooks; emulate lifecycle behaviors inside the skill for consistent testing.
• Validate queue structure before any state transition and restrict mutations to declared schema fields.

Example use cases

• Rapidly scaffold an orchestration flow for testing state transitions and failure modes.
• Archive or back up queue definitions while preserving deterministic handoff metadata.
• Prototype a batch handoff process where reproducible handoff text is required.
• Enforce a strict derivation-to-validation ordering in onboarding or training materials.
• Integrate into CI tests that check queue schema validation and resumability semantics.