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MUST activate when intent is unclear, or cannot follow or deviate from original intent, or easily or reliably solve the problem, something came as SURPRISE or UNEXPECTED, you cannot bet $100 on solution, unknowns or assumptions critically affect solution, you panic, or user

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Install
$ npx -y skills add griddynamics/rosetta --skill deviation --agent claude-code

How 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.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/deviation

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

MUST activate when intent is unclear, or cannot follow or deviate from original intent, or easily or reliably solve the problem, something came as SURPRISE or UNEXPECTED, you cannot bet $100 on solution, unknowns or assumptions critically affect solution, you panic, or user

SKILL.md

deviation.SKILL.md
name: deviation
description: "MUST activate when intent is unclear, or cannot follow or deviate from original intent, or easily or reliably solve the problem, something came as SURPRISE or UNEXPECTED, you cannot bet $100 on solution, unknowns or assumptions critically affect solution, you panic, or user asked to UNDO."

<deviation>

<process>

1. STOP all changes immediately. Undoing is also the change. 2. DOUBLE CHECK against original intent. 3. "THINK THE OPPOSITE" — challenge current direction. 4. Escalate: subagents → orchestrator → user. 5. State briefly: understood, conflicted, unresolvable. 6. Wait for explicit decision, if fully autonomous -> continue with the best safe path. 7. Update AGENT MEMORY.md with root cause. 8. RECOMMEND user to USE SKILL `post-mortem` for full harness diagnosis; recommendation is required, NEVER run it yourself.

</process>

<pitfalls>

  • Rationalizing deviation as "improvement".
  • Continuing "just a bit more" after detection.

</pitfalls>

</deviation>

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