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Capture ideas, tasks, notes, and seeds to their destination

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$ npx -y skills add open-gsd/gsd-core --skill gsd-capture --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/gsd-capture

Context preview

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

Capture ideas, tasks, notes, and seeds to their destination

SKILL.md

gsd-capture.SKILL.md
name: gsd-capture
description: "Capture ideas, tasks, notes, and seeds to their destination"
argument-hint: "[--note | --backlog | --seed | --list | --list-seeds] [text]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Write
  - Edit
  - Bash
  - Glob
  - Grep
  - AskUserQuestion

<objective> Capture ideas, tasks, notes, and seeds to their appropriate destination in the GSD system.

Mode routing:

  • **default** (no flag): Capture as a structured todo for later work → add-todo workflow
  • **--note**: Zero-friction idea capture (append/list/promote) → note workflow
  • **--backlog**: Add an idea to the backlog parking lot (999.x numbering) → add-backlog workflow
  • **--seed**: Capture a forward-looking idea with trigger conditions → plant-seed workflow
  • **--list**: List pending todos and select one to work on → check-todos workflow
  • **--list-seeds**: List/audit captured seeds (optional status filter) → list-seeds workflow

</objective>

<routing>

| Flag | Destination | Workflow | |------|-------------|----------| | (none) | Structured todo in .planning/todos/ | add-todo | | --note | Timestamped note file, list, or promote | note | | --backlog | ROADMAP.md backlog section (999.x) | add-backlog | | --seed | .planning/seeds/SEED-NNN-slug.md | plant-seed | | --list | Interactive todo browser + action router | check-todos | | --list-seeds | Read-only seed list/audit (optional status filter) | list-seeds |

</routing>

<execution_context> @~/.claude/gsd-core/workflows/add-todo.md @~/.claude/gsd-core/workflows/note.md @~/.claude/gsd-core/workflows/add-backlog.md @~/.claude/gsd-core/workflows/plant-seed.md @~/.claude/gsd-core/workflows/check-todos.md @~/.claude/gsd-core/workflows/list-seeds.md @~/.claude/gsd-core/references/ui-brand.md </execution_context>

<context> Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Parse the first token of $ARGUMENTS:

  • If it is `--note`: strip the flag, pass remainder to note workflow
  • If it is `--backlog`: strip the flag, pass remainder to add-backlog workflow
  • If it is `--seed`: strip the flag, pass remainder to plant-seed workflow
  • If it is `--list-seeds`: strip the flag, pass remainder (optional status filter) to list-seeds workflow
  • If it is `--list`: pass remainder (optional area filter) to check-todos workflow
  • Otherwise: pass all of $ARGUMENTS to add-todo workflow

</context>

<process> 1. Parse the leading flag (if any) from $ARGUMENTS. 2. Load and execute the appropriate workflow end-to-end based on the routing table above. 3. Preserve all workflow gates from the target workflow (directory structure, duplicate detection, commits, etc.). </process>

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