# prath-mode

Routes user goals to the right skill or execution playbook. It manages multi-step engineering workflows from design checks to pull requests.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 600 installs · ★ 6
- Author: prathamdby
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/prathamdby/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/engineering/prath-mode/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/prath-mode

## What it does

The skill directs incoming tasks into predefined playbooks. Routes include phased design, diff cleanup (`deslop`), commit generation, and PR management. An immediate single action takes priority over a full workflow chain.

Work happens in two clear stages: route matching and step execution. It copies playbook steps directly into the agent checklist and verifies that required leaf skills exist on disk. If a referenced `SKILL.md` is missing, the run stops immediately and asks for `npx skills@latest add prathamdby/skills`.

Delivery chains require a clean Git working tree before opening a PR. The process halts whenever a step reports an awaiting-user or blocked state.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add prathamdby/skills --skill prath-mode -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/prath-mode/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/prath-mode/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add prathamdby/skills --skill prath-mode -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/prath-mode/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add prathamdby/skills --skill prath-mode -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/prath-mode/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install prathamdby/skills prath-mode
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/prath-mode/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add prathamdby/skills --skill prath-mode -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/prathamdby/skills --path skills/engineering/prath-mode
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/prath-mode/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add prathamdby/skills --skill prath-mode -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/prathamdby/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/engineering/prath-mode/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- route complex goals to specific execution playbooks
- run complete delivery workflows from design to pull request
- enforce diff cleanup prior to committing changes
- verify required playbook files before starting an execution chain

## Example prompts
- Design this feature and run the ship workflow to open a PR
- Clean up recent diffs and commit current changes
- Map the repository structure using the understand-repo playbook

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: prath-mode
description: Route a goal to a skill or delivery chain.
disable-model-invocation: true
---

# Prath mode

Leaves own invocation, options, procedures, and terminals. Read the selected
leaf; playbooks own predetermined order, not copies of leaf behavior.

## Matchers

- `design`: phased design or milestone check, `playbooks/design.md`
- `autoplan`: autonomous plan, `playbooks/autoplan.md`
- `review-plan`: proposal review, `playbooks/review-plan.md`
- `deslop`: diff cleanup, `playbooks/deslop.md`
- `commit`: commit only, `playbooks/commit.md`
- `open-pr`: publish/update PR, `playbooks/open-pr.md`
- `finish-pr`: feedback fixes, `playbooks/finish-pr.md`
- `inspect-pr`: PR/CI inspection or reply, `playbooks/inspect-pr.md`
- `understand-repo`: map/read saved map, `playbooks/understand-repo.md`
- `research-external`: local external source, `playbooks/research-external.md`
- `orchestrate`: delegated work, `playbooks/orchestrate.md`
- `session`: handoff/resume, `playbooks/session.md`
- `cursor-agent`: Cursor CLI, `playbooks/cursor-agent.md`
- `claude-code`: Claude CLI, `playbooks/claude-code.md`
- `codex`: Codex CLI, `playbooks/codex.md`
- `todoist`: task creation/preview, `playbooks/todoist.md`
- `use-skill`: remote skill execution, `playbooks/use-skill.md`
- `restate`: plain restatement and catch-up, `playbooks/restate.md`
- `ship`: implement/deslop/commit/PR, `playbooks/ship.md`
- `design-then-ship`: design and delivery, `playbooks/design-then-ship.md`
- `save-work`: optional cleanup/commit, `playbooks/save-work.md`

An immediate action outranks a chain. Review does not prepend to ship.
Inspection/reply stays inspect-pr; fixing feedback selects finish-pr.
Neither inspect-pr nor gh escalates into fix-pr; fix-pr owns its gh call.
Deslop is required in ship, optional in save-work; resolve mixed index/worktree
paths before it. Parent owns implementation.

## 1. Match and verify

Record `route | owner | completed | design | diff/tests | terminal`.
Open one playbook and copy its steps into todos verbatim. Two matching actions/
chains → one clarification; no match → one outcome question, then design if large.
From playbooks resolve leaves as `../../<name>/SKILL.md` or
`../../../personal/<name>/SKILL.md`; check all before starting and each again
before its turn. Missing → name paths, stop, offer
`npx skills@latest add prathamdby/skills`.
Done when route, completion condition, and installed owners are fixed.

## 2. Execute and resume

Read each current leaf in full; run it to a terminal. A reported terminal ends
an action route, but does not necessarily succeed. Advance a chain only on the
leaf's evidenced success/no-op. Blocked/waiting/awaiting-push pauses regardless
of a playbook's terminal-observed completion wording.

For upfront-design, DIRECT is no-op; DESIGNED/CHECKED are success;
AWAITING_USER/BLOCKED never advance. Parent implementation records planned
diff and test evidence. Before make-pr require a clean tree.
On interruption revalidate the last owner's artifacts before continuing.
Done when the route's successful completion condition holds or a pause is
reported with its owner; reporting a blocker is not successful delivery.
```
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