nav-pilot

Productivity

Dispatch a Navigator task doc to Pilot as a labeled GitHub issue. Use when user says "dispatch TASK-XX to Pilot", "hand off to Pilot", "send to Pilot", or "queue for Pilot". One-way handoff (Navigator authors the spec, Pilot executes autonomously).

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Navigator → Pilot Dispatch Skill

Hand a finished Navigator task doc off to Pilot by creating the pilot-labeled GitHub issue Pilot polls, then record the issue back into the doc.

This skill does NOT validate the doc. Spec checking is Pilot's job (its spec_validator). nav-pilot only resolves the doc, creates the labeled issue, and records the result. It consumes what nav-task authored — it does not author or archive docs itself.

When to Invoke

Invoke when the user says:

"Dispatch TASK-XX to Pilot"
"Hand this off to Pilot" / "send to Pilot"
"Queue TASK-XX for Pilot" / "create the Pilot issue"

DO NOT invoke when:

User is authoring/archiving a task doc (that's nav-task)
User wants Pilot worker status (out of scope — this skill is one-way)
No task doc exists yet (tell them to create one with nav-task first)

Execution Steps

Step 1: Resolve the Target Task Doc

Explicit ID ("TASK-07"): use .agent/tasks/TASK-07-*.md.
No ID: pick the active/in-progress task. If ambiguous, list candidates (ls .agent/tasks/*.md) and ask which one.
If the file does not exist, stop and tell the user to author it first.

Read the doc and extract:

Title = the first H1 (# TASK-XX: <name>), stripped of the TASK-XX: prefix if present (or keep the full H1 — match what Pilot expects).
Body file path = the doc itself (passed via --body-file, never inlined).

Step 2: Load Pilot Config

Read pilot from .agent/.nav-config.json:

"pilot": {
  "enabled": true,
  "label": "pilot",
  "repo": null
}

label (default "pilot"): the label Pilot polls for.
repo (default null): target owner/name. When null, gh uses the current git repository's origin — do NOT pass --repo.

If pilot.enabled is false, stop and tell the user to enable it.

Step 3: Build the Command

gh issue create \
  --title "<H1 title>" \
  --label "<pilot.label>" \
  --body-file ".agent/tasks/TASK-XX-<slug>.md" \
  [--repo "<pilot.repo>"]   # only when pilot.repo is set

Step 4: Pre-flight Confirmation (ToM Checkpoint — high-stakes)

Creating a GitHub issue is an outward-facing action. ALWAYS confirm first:

About to dispatch to Pilot:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Repo:  <pilot.repo or "current origin (gh default)">
Title: <H1 title>
Label: <pilot.label>
Body:  .agent/tasks/TASK-XX-<slug>.md (<N> lines)

Command:
  gh issue create --title "..." --label "pilot" --body-file "..."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Create this issue? [Enter to dispatch / "dry-run" / corrections]

--dry-run mode: if the user asked for a dry run (or says "dry-run" here), print the exact gh command and STOP. Do not execute.

Step 5: Dispatch

Run the gh issue create command. Capture the returned issue URL from stdout (gh issue create prints the URL on success).

If gh fails:

not authenticated → tell the user to run gh auth login
label missing on the repo → offer gh label create pilot
no git remote / repo not found → ask for pilot.repo in config

Step 6: Record Back Into the Doc

Edit the task doc:

Add the issue URL under ## Refs: - Pilot issue: <url>
Update the status line to **Status**: 🚀 Dispatched to Pilot.
Update **Last Updated**: to today.

Step 7: Confirm

✅ Dispatched to Pilot

Issue:  <url>
Label:  pilot
Task:   TASK-XX — <title>

Recorded back into .agent/tasks/TASK-XX-<slug>.md (status → 🚀 Dispatched).
Pilot will pick it up on its next poll of `pilot`-labeled issues.

If the knowledge graph is enabled, the Edit will sync via the normal PostToolUse hook — no extra action needed.

Error Handling

Situation	Response
No task doc found	Ask which task; suggest `nav-task` to create one
`pilot.enabled: false`	Stop; tell user to enable in `.nav-config.json`
`gh` not authenticated	Prompt `gh auth login`
`pilot` label missing	Offer `gh label create pilot`
No remote / repo unknown	Ask user to set `pilot.repo`

Success Criteria

Correct task doc resolved and H1 used as the issue title
Pre-flight confirmation shown before any network call
--dry-run prints the command without executing
Issue created with the pilot label
Issue URL recorded back into the doc; status → 🚀 Dispatched

Notes

One-way by design: monitoring Pilot workers and pulling results back are out of scope (see .agent/tasks/TASK-54-nav-pilot-dispatch-skill.md).
Validation is intentionally absent — Pilot's spec_validator owns that.
Pairs with nav-task (authors the doc) → nav-pilot (dispatches it).