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Use at the start of new project onboarding, PR lifecycle work including PR checks, or changes that require choosing product scope, user-visible behavior, or architecture. Not for continuing work already routed to a workflow, non-PR questions, checks, explanations, or localized fu
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Use at the start of new project onboarding, PR lifecycle work including PR checks, or changes that require choosing product scope, user-visible behavior, or architecture. Not for continuing work already routed to a workflow, non-PR questions, checks, explanations, or localized fully specified work.
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Choosing a Workflow
The root router of the workflow family in packages/pi-thinkrail-workflow. It classifies new
workflow-eligible work and names the workflow skill that governs it — nothing more. Work already routed
resumes its active workflow instead. A routed skill's steps live in that skill alone; read it, don't run
it from memory.
Classify
For a new piece of work, read the request and use what is already known to answer three questions:
- Is this project onboarding? No spec graph yet — an empty or effectively empty workspace where the user brings a raw idea, or an existing codebase being set up or specced for the first time.
- Is this the PR lifecycle? Finished work shipping as a pull request, or an existing PR being tended — created, brought up to date, given screenshots, its checks watched, or its review comments addressed. Fixes that flow from a PR's own review comments belong here.
- Does the work require a product or design choice? The request leaves scope, user-visible behavior, or architecture to decide before implementation.
If none applies, no workflow is needed: proceed directly without a workflow announcement. A fully specified fix, mechanical refactor, documentation or configuration-only change, question, explanation, or check normally belongs here.
If the route is genuinely ambiguous from the request alone, ask one short clarifying question
(ask_user_question, composed per the asking-user-questions concept skill) rather than guessing.
Route
| Classification | Route |
|---|---|
| Project onboarding — no spec graph yet | Read and follow setting-up-a-project |
| PR lifecycle work | Read and follow shipping-a-pr |
| A change requiring a product or design choice | Read and follow brainstorming |
| None of the above | No matching workflow; proceed directly without announcing the routing result |
One route per piece of work. If a request bundles unfinished implementation with PR work, route the implementation first and return to shipping-a-pr only after it lands.
Red flags — stop and re-route
- You started implementation while a required product or architecture choice is still unresolved.
- You loaded brainstorming for work whose observable result and implementation constraints are already specified.
- You re-entered this router while continuing work already assigned to a workflow.
- You are following a routed skill's steps from memory instead of reading that skill.
Handoff
This skill ends by naming exactly one of: setting-up-a-project, shipping-a-pr, brainstorming, or no matching workflow (proceed directly). Adding a workflow to the family adds a row to the table above — see the writing-workflow-skills skill.
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name: choosing-a-workflow description: "Use at the start of new project onboarding, PR lifecycle work including PR checks, or changes that require choosing product scope, user-visible behavior, or architecture. Not for continuing work already routed to a workflow, non-PR questions, checks, explanations, or localized fully specified work."
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- JetBrains/thinkrail
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- Oct 7, 2026
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- Oct 7, 2026
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69/100
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Trust
72/100
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Audit
82/100
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