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Selecting Working Methods
Routes ambiguous or multi-method tasks to the smallest ordered set of Agent Skills that owns the actual work.
Primary benefit
Prevents skill overload and overlap while preserving clear ownership between discovery, implementation, verification, review, and delivery.When to use
Use when a task could match multiple Agent Skills, the owning method is unclear, or a minimal ordered set of working methods must be chosen before execution.
When not to use
Do not use when one clearly identified specialized skill already owns the task or when normal reasoning is sufficient without a reusable method.
Use cases
Choose one primary method and only the necessary supporting methods for a complex engineering task
Resolve overlap between architecture, implementation, testing, review, and delivery skills
Example prompts
Use selecting-working-methods to choose the smallest useful sequence of skills for this task before executing it.Install this skill
Choose the command for your operating system and run it from the repository root.
Bash
./install.sh --skill selecting-working-methodsPowerShell
./install.ps1 --skill selecting-working-methodsChatGPT
Download Skill ZIPCompatibility
- Surfaces
- ChatGPT · Codex · Claude Code
- Operating systems
- Linux · macOS · Windows
- Install modes
- PluginFilesystem
Dependencies
No external dependencies
Used in evidence
Reports that explicitly list this method among the applied methods.