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Generate a human-readable manifest for an AIWG skill chain — agent assignments, requires/ensures contracts, data flow, and parallelization opportunities.

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Contract Manifest Skill

Generate a manifest showing how a chain of AIWG skills connects — mapping each skill's ensures: outputs to the next skill's requires: inputs.

Triggers

  • "show the contract manifest for [skill1] → [skill2] → [skill3]"
  • "how does [workflow] wire together?"
  • "generate manifest for this skill chain"
  • "show data flow for [issue-planner] → [address-issues]"
  • "what does [skill] produce and what does [skill] need?"

Parameters

Skills list (positional)

Ordered list of skill names or paths:

/contract-manifest issue-planner address-issues
/contract-manifest prose-detect prose-run forme-manifest

--workflow <file> (optional)

Path to a YAML workflow definition:

# workflow.yaml
name: Issue Planning Pipeline
steps:
  - skill: issue-planner
  - skill: address-issues
  - skill: issue-sync

--mermaid (optional)

Include a Mermaid LR diagram of the skill chain.

--json (optional)

Output the manifest as machine-readable JSON instead of Markdown.

Behavior

Step 1: Resolve Skills

For each skill name, find the canonical SKILL.md:

  1. Check agentic/code/frameworks/sdlc-complete/skills/{name}/SKILL.md
  2. Check agentic/code/addons/*/skills/{name}/SKILL.md
  3. Check .claude/skills/{name}/SKILL.md
  4. If path given directly: read that file

Step 2: Extract Contracts

From each skill's YAML frontmatter, extract:

  • requires: — inputs the skill needs
  • ensures: — outputs the skill commits to deliver
  • errors: — failure conditions
  • invariants: — always-true properties

If a skill has no contract fields, note it as "contract not yet defined."

Step 3: Build Wiring Table

For each skill's requires: entry, find the upstream source:

  1. Exact match: Another skill's ensures: entry with the same name → direct wire ✓
  2. Semantic match: Another skill's ensures: entry that means the same thing (e.g., issues-filed ↔ issues) → semantic wire ⚠️ (flag as warning)
  3. External input: The workflow's own requires: (user provides it) → external →
  4. No match: Nothing upstream provides it → unresolved ❌

Step 4: Determine Execution Order

  • Skills with only external inputs can execute first
  • Skills depending on upstream ensures: must wait for that skill
  • Skills with no dependencies between them can execute in parallel

Step 5: Output Manifest

## Contract Manifest: {workflow name or skill list}

### Skills

| Skill | Requires | Ensures | Errors |
|-------|----------|---------|--------|
| issue-planner | objective, tracker | issues-filed, research-brief | no-tracker-access, research-failed |
| address-issues | issues, tracker | cycle-comments, aggregate-report | tracker-unavailable |

### Data Flow

| Source Skill | Output | → | Target Skill | Input | Match |
|-------------|--------|---|-------------|-------|-------|
| (external) | objective | → | issue-planner | objective | ✓ exact |
| issue-planner | issues-filed | → | address-issues | issues | ⚠️ semantic |
| issue-planner | tracker | → | address-issues | tracker | ✓ exact |

### Execution Order

1. issue-planner (requires: external inputs only)
2. address-issues (requires: issue-planner.issues-filed, issue-planner.tracker)

**Parallel groups**: [issue-planner] → [address-issues]

### Warnings

- `issue-planner.issues-filed` → `address-issues.issues`: semantic match only (names differ; verify intent)

### Issues

- None

Optional: Mermaid Diagram (--mermaid)

graph LR
    Input[External Input] --> A[issue-planner]
    A -->|issues-filed| B[address-issues]
    A -->|tracker| B
    B --> Output[Aggregate Report]

Output Formats

FlagFormatUse Case
(default)MarkdownHuman review
--jsonJSONTooling, CI integration
--mermaidMarkdown + embedded MermaidDocumentation

Model

Runs on Sonnet — contract extraction and matching is structural analysis.

References

  • @$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/sdlc-complete/README.md — SDLC framework context and skill catalog
  • @$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/addons/aiwg-utils/rules/research-before-decision.md — Research-first approach for contract resolution
  • @$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/addons/aiwg-utils/rules/diagram-generation.md — Mermaid diagram generation standards
  • @$AIWG_ROOT/docs/extensions/overview.md — Extension system and skill architecture
  • @$AIWG_ROOT/docs/cli-reference.md — CLI reference