Groundwork (Check)

Source: hooks/ways/softwaredev/delivery/groundwork/groundwork.check.md

Frontmatter

Field	Value
description	writing or editing an agent skill, agent definition, prompt, or project instruction file that describes how work is done here
vocabulary	skill agent definition prompt file instructions claude.md agents.md system prompt persona onboarding the agent
files	(SKILL.md|CLAUDE.md|AGENTS.md|.cursorrules|.claude/(agents|commands|skills|ways)/.*.md|/agents/[^/]+.md)$
scope	agent

anchor

You are about to describe how work gets done here. Instructions that describe a process which cannot run are a premature primitive: they look like progress and deliver nothing.

check

Before writing this:

• Does what it describes run today? The build command, the test command, the deploy path, the rollback. Name them. If you cannot, the instruction is describing a wish.
• Is fixing the missing step the smaller change? A working make test beats a paragraph telling the agent to test carefully.
• Is this a workaround for something you are not permitted to fix? Then the finding is the permission boundary. Report it; do not encode it.
• Write it down the moment the process runs.