/ase-help-skill

name: ase-help-skill
argument-hint: "[--help|-h] [<skill-name>]"
description: >
    Show the manual page of an ASE skill, addressed by its full name, by
    any abbreviation of it, or by a description of its purpose, and list
    the entire skill catalog when no name is given. Use when the user
    wants the "manual", "man page", "manpage", or "help" of a particular
    ASE skill, or asks what a certain `ase-xxx-xxx` skill does.
user-invocable: true
disable-model-invocation: false
effort: medium
allowed-tools:
    - "Read"

@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-dialog.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md

<purpose name="ase-help-skill"> Show the Manual Page of an ASE Skill </purpose>

<expand name="getopt" arg1="ase-help-skill" arg2=""> $ARGUMENTS </expand>

<objective> *Show* the *manual page* of the ASE skill addressed by the following skill name, abbreviation of it, or description of its purpose: <skill-ref><getopt-arguments/></skill-ref> </objective>

The following <catalog/> is the index of all ASE skills -- one `⎈ **<group/>**` entry per skill group and one ``○ `<name/>`: <purpose/>`` entry per skill -- and this is the *sole* index <skill-ref/> is resolved against:

<catalog> @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/catalog.md </catalog>

<flow>

1. <step id="STEP 1: Resolve Skill Name">

1. <if condition="<skill-ref/> is empty"> No particular skill was addressed, so render the *entire* <catalog/> as a browsable list with the following <template/> -- one list entry per catalog entry, in catalog order, where <name/> and <purpose/> are the two fields of the entry (and <name-padded/> is <name/>, padded to 22 characters with spaces on the right) -- and then immediately *STOP* processing the entire current skill:

<template> <ase-tpl-head title="SKILL CATALOG"/>

<catalog/>

<ase-tpl-foot title="SKILL CATALOG"/> </template>

The rendered <catalog/> itself was explicitly requested and hence is *always* emitted. Only the trailing pointer to the per-skill manual page is a *hint*, so emit it by expanding the following (which, depending on the configured <ase-guidance-level/>, may expand into nothing):

<ase-tpl-hint level="normal"> run `/ase-help-skill ase-xxx-xxx` for manual page of individual skill </ase-tpl-hint> </if>

2. Set <skill-ref-raw/> to <skill-ref/> with only its leading and trailing whitespace stripped, as the *verbatim* wording of the user is required later on.

*Normalize* <skill-ref/> by stripping all leading and trailing whitespace and then, repeatedly, any leading `/` and `ase:` prefix, so that `ase-code-lint`, `/ase-code-lint`, `ase:ase-code-lint`, and `/ase:ase-code-lint` all normalize to `ase-code-lint`. Do not output anything.

3. Resolve the normalized <skill-ref/> against <catalog/> in *three* tiers and store the outcome in <candidates/>. Each tier is tried only if all preceding tiers yielded *no* candidate at all:

1. *Exact Name Tier*:

If a catalog *name* is *equal* to <skill-ref/>, set <candidates/> to exactly that *single* name.

2. *Substring Name Tier*:

Set <candidates/> to *all* catalog *names* *containing* <skill-ref/> as a substring, in alphabetical order.

3. *Fuzzy Purpose Tier*:

Set <candidates/> to *all* catalog names whose *purpose* -- the part *after* the colon of the catalog entry -- *fuzzily* matches <skill-ref-raw/>, in *descending* order of match quality. Match against <skill-ref-raw/>, and *not* against <skill-ref/>, as this tier matches free-text wording, which the normalization of sub-step 2 would distort.

A purpose matches fuzzily if it shares the topic, the wording, or evident synonyms with <skill-ref-raw/>, so that e.g. `manpage` matches `Show the Manual Page of an ASE Skill` and `root cause` matches `Five-Whys Root-Cause Analysis`. Include *plausible* matches only -- if none is plausible, leave <candidates/> empty.

Set <count/> to the number of entries in <candidates/>. Do not output anything.

</step>

2. <step id="STEP 2: Dispatch Resolution">

1. <if condition="<count/> is equal 0"> Only output the following <template/> and then immediately *STOP* processing the entire current skill:

<template> ⧉ **ASE**: ✪ skill: **ase-help-skill**, ▶ ERROR: unknown skill: **<skill-ref-raw/>** </template> </if>

2. <elseif condition="<count/> is equal 1"> Set <name/> to the single entry of <candidates/> and continue processing. Do not output anything. </elseif>

3. <else> The abbreviation is *ambiguous*, so let the user pick the intended skill.

Set <shown/> to the *first* 9 entries of <candidates/>, as the dialog renders at most *nine* answer lines.

<if condition="<count/> is greater than 9"> Set <truncation> (showing 9 of <count/> candidates)</truncation> </if> <else> Set <truncation></truncation> (set to empty) </else>

In the following, you *MUST* *NOT* use your built-in <user-dialog-tool/> tool! Instead, you *MUST* just show a custom dialog according to the expanded `custom-dialog` definition. You *MUST* closely follow this definition.

Let the user select the intended skill by raising a question with the following custom dialog, where each answer line corresponds to one entry of <shown/>, using the catalog *name* as the