/escalate
Structured escalation when /do hits an unrecoverable blocker. Surfaces what was tried, why it failed, and what the user can decide. Called by /do when work is blocked, cannot proceed, hits an unrecoverable failure, needs a user decision, or gets stuck.
$ npx -y skills add doodledood/manifest-dev --skill escalate --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/escalate
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Structured escalation when /do hits an unrecoverable blocker. Surfaces what was tried, why it failed, and what the user can decide. Called by /do when work is blocked, cannot proceed, hits an unrecoverable failure, needs a user decision, or gets stuck.
Loop engineering for Claude Code and other agent CLIs: figure the problem out first, define what done means, then execute and verify every criterion independently.
Other skills on manifest-dev.
- /auto-optimize-prompt
Iteratively auto-optimize a prompt until no issues remain. Uses review-prompt in a loop, asks user for ambiguities, applies fixes via prompt-engineering skill. Runs until converged.
Open skill - /compress-prompt
Compresses prompts/skills into minimal goal-focused instructions. Trusts the model, drops what it already knows, maximizes action space. Use when asked to compress, condense, or minimize a prompt.
Open skill - /harden-task-file
Harden a manifest-dev task guidance file for one-shot quality — either /define''s quality-gate/Default set or figure-out''s probe set. Iterates: orthogonality gap analysis, user-approved additions, prompt review, fix, converge. Use when a task file needs comprehensive coverage
Open skill - /learn-from-session
Analyze Claude Code sessions to learn what went right/wrong and suggest high-confidence improvements to skills. Use when asked to analyze a session, learn from a session, or review workflow effectiveness.
Open skill - /optimize-prompt-token-efficiency
Iteratively optimizes prompts for token efficiency by maximizing information density - reduces verbosity, removes redundancy, tightens phrasing while preserving semantic content. Use when asked to compress, shorten, reduce tokens, tighten, maximize density, increase information
Open skill - /sync-claude-code-plugins
Sync the prompt-engineering plugin from a local clone of claude-code-plugins into .claude/ so the repo is self-contained for isolated/web environments. Copies agents/skills, removes only previously-synced items that disappeared upstream. Other content in .claude/ is left alone.
Open skill