
Accelerate your agents into overdrive with Karpathy-based global instructions, 160 curated skills, a router that picks the right ones, and a project state management system that survives sessions. Simple to install for everyone.
Install · How it works · v2 project state · Safety · What's inside · Docs · Credits
I built Overdrive over the years as my own daily AI coding-agent setup and I'm releasing it completely for free for the community to use. I've built many different websites, web-apps and mobile apps with it across Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity, including Overdrive itself: the system plans, builds, and audits its own upgrades, and it has evolved that way from the start. If you build something with it, tag me on X @StefanDumitruX, connect on LinkedIn, find me on GitHub, send feedback on Reddit at u/StefanDumitru or open an issue/PR.
Special thanks to my friend and business partner Eugen Bulboaca (GitHub), who has massively helped shape Overdrive, including designing
ovd-workflow, the project state management system.I'm just a recent uni grad that likes coding in his spare time. If you want to buy me a coffee, you can do so here :) - Anything is much appreciated!
- Stef
Overdrive is a complete, plug-and-play system for upgrading AI coding agents with global instructions built on Karpathy's system prompt, a curated catalog of 160 of the top skills as of 2026 plus custom skills built specifically for Overdrive, a skill router that picks only the right skills for the job, and a project state management system that keeps track of your decisions and progress across long-running sessions. It works across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity and Cursor on macOS with Windows support coming soon.
Overdrive is built for anybody at any skill level. It's easy to install and just runs in the background. For more experienced users, they can use the ovd commands, which were deliberately kept very simple and easy to use, as opposed to other similar systems that overcomplicate things. The new models are very good at doing certain things on their own. Overdrive was built to be flexible and work long-term, without unnecessarily overwriting functions built straight into the LLMs. It just builds on top of what's already there.

Overdrive is not just another skill pack. The pieces work as one system:
- Global instructions, based on Andrej Karpathy's Claude system prompt and adapted to fit Overdrive, keep agents cautious, objective, docs-aware, and verification-oriented.
- Skills teach agents how to do specific kinds of work.
skill-routerchooses the smallest useful skill set for the current request.ovd-workflowruns the project state management system: project context in.overdrive/, from requirements and preferences to decisions and codebase maps.ovd-planadds a human-readable project plan inOVERDRIVE.mdso work survives across sessions.- Installer safety uses pinned sources, dry-runs, non-destructive conflict handling, and managed markers.
The practical goal is better agent output with less repeated prompting, without loading a giant context dump into every chat.
Install In 60 Seconds
Preview first. This prints the install plan without changing files:
npx -y github:radustefandumitru/overdrive -- --dry-run
Install globally:
npx -y github:radustefandumitru/overdrive
Or install from npm:
npx -y overdrive-cli@latest --dry-run
npx -y overdrive-cli@latest
Or install from a clone:
git clone https://github.com/radustefandumitru/overdrive.git
cd overdrive
./install.sh --dry-run
./install.sh
Restart or reload your coding agent after install so it re-indexes the skill folders.
The CLI exposes three equivalent binaries:
overdrive --help
ovd --help
overdrive-cli --help
What Changes After Install
You keep prompting normally. For non-trivial work, the global guide asks the agent to run a lightweight router check. The router can then load the relevant skill sequence instead of loading the whole catalog.
| You ask | The router might use |
|---|---|
| "Review this for security holes before I deploy." | security-review |
| "Find and fix problems in my React app." | react-doctor |
| "Make this drawer feel smooth and natural." | fluid-animations + emil-animation-polish |
| "Make this prompt sharper before I send it to another AI." | prompt-master |
| "Make this paragraph sound less AI-written but keep the facts." | humanizer |
| "Extract the design language from this public website." | design-extract |
| "Watch this screen recording and tell me where the UI breaks." | claude-video |
| "Virtualize 100k variable-height text rows without layout thrash." | pretext |
| "SEO-audit my site before launch." | jack-seo-launch-audit |
| "Design a premium landing page and verify it in-browser." | design-taste-frontend + impeccable + playwright-cli |
You can also name skills directly:
Use prompt-master to tighten this launch prompt before I send it.
Use graphify to map how this codebase fits together before editing.
Use liquid-glass-web for this navigation component.
Explicit user-named skills win for that part of the task.
Project State Management System
Overdrive v2 introduces structure on top of the existing 160-skill catalog. It gives your agent one readable project plan plus four commands:
| Command | Purpose | Use when... |
|---|---|---|
/ovd-workflow |
Initialize or inspect project workflow state. | You are starting a project or want to understand current state. |
/ovd-plan |
Build, display, research, edit, or quality-check the project plan. | You know the goal but need the work broken into executable contracts. |
/ovd-go |
Orient and continue the active leaf of work. | You want the agent to pick up where it left off. |
/ovd-log |
Save progress, capture concerns, create handoffs, and close approved work. | You are pausing, finishing a milestone, or handing off context. |
The mental model is simple:
OVERDRIVE.md human-readable project tree
.overdrive/ project state: preferences, requirements, decisions, sessions, handoffs
skills/ specialist playbooks
skill-router chooses skill guidance at planning or execution time
A leaf in OVERDRIVE.md is meant to be an executable contract: scope, skills, success criteria, dependencies, and verification. Leaves do not auto-complete. They move to awaiting-review, then close only after user approval or an equivalent clear signal.
A real plan tree is plain Markdown you can read, diff, and commit:
## II. Dashboard [in-progress]
### II.2 Stats widgets [in-progress]
#### II.2.a Widget layout design [awaiting-review] ← ACTIVE
Design the grid layout and visual hierarchy. Three sizes, responsive breakpoints.
```yaml ovd-plan
skills: [design-taste-frontend, impeccable]
scope:
in: [src/components/Dashboard/]
success:
- Grid renders at 768/1024/1440px without overflow
verify:
method: playwright_visual_regression
review_required: true
```
When you approve a leaf, closure walks up the tree: "That closes II.2. Verify, close, or hold?" Each level asks. Nothing is marked done behind your back, at any level. The skill-router runs once per leaf at planning time, so execution starts warm instead of re-routing cold.
Why "leaf"?
Overdrive says "leaf" instead of task, step, phase, or action on purpose. Those words imply a fixed planning model. In Overdrive the plan takes whatever shape the project needs: features, milestones, systems, pages, user flows, bugs, experiments. A leaf is simply the smallest implementable unit at the edge of that tree. "Implement auth" might contain leaves like "forgot password screen", "password storage", and "email confirmation", and the parent above them can be a feature, a phase, a milestone, or anything else. This keeps ovd-plan flexible for humans and agents instead of forcing every project into one rigid workflow.
If you have a v1 .overdrive/ layout, /ovd-workflow detects it and offers a one-time, opt-in migration that archives your originals first. The v2 design is documented in docs/ovd-plan-v2.md. ovd-workflow, the project state management system that anchors it, was designed by Eugen Bulboaca (GitHub).
Common Workflows
Start a new project:
ovd workflow init
ovd plan deliberate
ovd go
ovd log handoff
Resume existing work:
ovd go
Capture a decision or concern:
ovd log capture "We are keeping billing out of v1."
ovd log concerns
Check local state:
ovd status
ovd doctor
ovd verify --plan
Inspect token usage locally:
overdrive usage --days 30
The usage command is local and token-only. It prints no prompt or message content.
System Overview
Overdrive has four main runtime layers:
| Layer | What it does |
|---|---|
| Managed skills | Installs curated SKILL.md folders into selected agent roots. Each managed skill has an .overdrive.json marker. |
| Skill router | Picks relevant skills in stable order. Complex work can use more than three skills when justified, preferably in phases. |
| ovd-workflow + ovd-plan | The project state management system: .overdrive/ project context plus the OVERDRIVE.md plan. Includes knowledge vault, route traces, preferences, requirements, and handoffs. |
| Global guide | Keeps agents cautious, objective, surgical, docs-aware, context-budget-aware, and verification-oriented. Based on Andrej Karpathy's Claude system prompt, adapted to fit Overdrive. |

Skills answer how should the agent do this kind of task?
skill-router answers which specialist guidance is relevant now?
ovd-workflow and ovd-plan answer what should be happening in this project?
What Is Included
| Area | Examples |
|---|---|
| Planning and project state | clarify-and-plan, planning-first, ovd-workflow, ovd-plan |
| Frontend and design | Taste skills, impeccable, Emil skills, fluid-animations, liquid-glass-web, pretext |
| Product reasoning | Jamie Mill Layers product-design skills such as layers-intro, layers-conceptual-model, and layers-interaction-flow |
| Research and docs | last30days, reddit-research, convert-to-markdown, MarkItDown guidance, Graphify optional code intelligence |
| Launch and growth | Corey Haines marketing skills, seo-audit, jack-seo-launch-audit, pre-launch-checklist |
| Safety and quality | security-review, react-doctor, playwright-cli, router benchmark and scorecard docs |
| Prompt/content work | prompt-master, humanizer, stop-slop, fact-checker, copywriting skills |
| Media and video | claude-video, media-download, brag-video, Remotion guidance |
| Engineering methods and intake | grill-me, interview-me, Addy Osmani's engineering skills such as doubt-driven-development and test-driven-development |
| Agent and harness engineering | autoresearch-harness, harness-engineering, self-improvement-loops, context-engineering skills |
| Artifacts and creative coding | web-artifacts-builder, webapp-testing, canvas-design, algorithmic-art, theme-factory, clone-website-guide |
The skill-readiness breakdown is in docs/skill-readiness.md. The router evaluation protocol is in docs/evaluation.md, with the v0.6 scorecard template in docs/scorecard-v0.6.md. Route-frequency analysis uses npm run analyze:routes and writes docs/catalog-health.md.
Where The Skills Come From
Every third-party skill is imported directly from its official open-source repository and pinned to a verified commit. Upstream authors keep their licenses and credit: the full source map lives in docs/VERIFIED_SOURCES.md and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, with per-skill provenance in docs/SKILLS_SUMMARY.md.
The current manifest pulls from 24 pinned upstream repositories. On top of those, 23 skills were built specifically for Overdrive:
- Core system:
skill-router,clarify-and-plan,planning-first,what-should-i-consider - Workflow, quality, and safety:
security-review,pre-launch-checklist,convert-to-markdown,reddit-research - Frontend, design, and motion:
fluid-animations,emil-animation-polish,design-extract,liquid-glass-web,pretext - Media:
media-download - Premium website stack:
jack-premium-site-system,jack-website-intelligence,jack-scroll-asset-prompts,jack-scroll-3d-sites,jack-seo-launch-audit - Safety wrappers around credited ideas:
brag-video,autoresearch-harness,clone-website-guide,fact-checker
Install Modes
Global install is the default:
./install.sh --scope global
Local project install:
./install.sh --scope local --project-dir .
Install only selected skills:
./install.sh --skills prompt-master,humanizer,security-review
./install.sh --skip-skills banana,connect,connect-apps
Useful safety flags:
./install.sh --dry-run
./install.sh --conflict preserve
./install.sh --conflict replace-managed-only
./install.sh --no-tool-install
--no-tool-install skips optional helper setup and official installer-backed sources. Without it, Overdrive may attempt safe, non-privileged setup for tools such as graphifyy==0.1.14, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, or Playwright Chromium when the selected skills need them. Graphify setup uses pipx or a managed user-space virtualenv where possible, not global pip, sudo, or --break-system-packages.
Safety, Privacy, And Updates
Overdrive is conservative by default:
- Dry-runs are supported before writes.
- Existing unmanaged user files are preserved unless you explicitly choose a stronger conflict policy.
- Managed skill folders get
.overdrive.jsonmarkers. - Uninstall removes only managed files and managed instruction blocks.
- No telemetry is collected.
- No API keys, OAuth state, browser profiles, cookies, MCP secrets,
.envfiles, or account sessions are copied. - If an existing agent settings file (for example
~/.claude/settings.json) is malformed, Overdrive refuses to touch it and tells you, instead of rewriting it and losing your settings. - Hook setup adds a statusline and session hooks for the ovd-workflow runtime; your own hooks and settings keys are preserved, and uninstall removes only the Overdrive-managed entries.
- Cursor personal skills use
~/.cursor/skills; Overdrive does not touch Cursor's reserved~/.cursor/skills-cursorfolder. - Native skills, third-party plugin skills, or MCP servers remain separate from Overdrive-managed skills.
Update checks:
overdrive check-updates
overdrive self-update --dry-run
./update.sh --dry-run
Uninstall (removes managed files and managed instruction blocks only):
./uninstall.sh --dry-run
./uninstall.sh
Default installs and updates use the verified pinned sources listed in docs/VERIFIED_SOURCES.md. If you intentionally want live tracking refs or latest installer packages instead of this release's verified pins, use --allow-upstream-drift and review the warning output before applying changes.
Context guidance is documented in docs/prompt-caching.md and docs/context-runtime-matrix.md.
Claude Plugin Wrapper
The repo includes a thin Claude Code plugin wrapper under .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and plugins/overdrive/. It helps Claude users discover the installer and /ovd-* helper commands.
It does not bundle all 160 skills. The full cross-agent install remains the CLI/GitHub/npm path.
Architecture

For v2 details, read docs/ovd-plan-v2.md. For package verification, run:
npm test
npm run test:full
./verify.sh
npm pack --dry-run
Repository Layout
overdrive/
├── README.md · CHANGELOG.md · SECURITY.md start here
├── LICENSE · NOTICE · THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md licensing and attribution
├── install.sh · update.sh · uninstall.sh
├── verify.sh · check-updates.sh thin wrappers around bin/overdrive.js
├── manifest.json the skill catalog: sources, pins, policies
├── bin/ · lib/ the CLI and installer/runtime code
│ └── lib/ovd-plan/ the v2 planning engine
├── skills/ locally authored skills (incl. skill-router)
├── global-instructions/ the operating guide that gets installed
├── plugins/ · .claude-plugin/ thin Claude Code plugin wrapper
├── scripts/ tests, consistency checks, benchmarks
├── evals/ router benchmark data
├── docs/ everything else: v2 design, sources,
│ skills summary, publishing, MCP guidance
└── assets/ logo and diagrams
Advanced: Exact Installed Instructions
Overdrive installs a managed global operating guide and the skill-router skill. The guide is based on Andrej Karpathy's Claude system prompt, adapted to fit Overdrive, and it is the behavioral core of the system: the layer every request passes through. Both are included here so users can inspect the actual behavior before installing.
<!-- overdrive:global-guidelines:start -->
# Global Coding Agent Guidelines
These guidelines are adapted from the Karpathy-inspired coding-agent guidance in `multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills`. They apply across projects and should be merged with more specific project instructions.
Tradeoff: bias toward caution, clarity, and small diffs on non-trivial work. For obvious one-line fixes, use judgment and keep moving.
## Think Before Coding
- Do not silently choose an interpretation when the request is ambiguous.
- State important assumptions briefly before relying on them.
- Ask when uncertainty would materially change the implementation.
- When multiple viable approaches exist, present 2-3 options with tradeoffs and recommend one.
- Surface tradeoffs and push back when a simpler or safer approach exists.
- Stop and name confusion instead of coding around it.
## Objectivity And Pushback
- Default to objective, evidence-based reasoning. Do not blindly agree with the user, and say plainly when a plan, claim, or assumption is likely wrong.
- When the user asks to pressure-test, critique, or stress-test a plan, attack the plan first: find weak assumptions, failure modes, missing decisions, and hidden costs. Then steelman the best version and give an honest recommendation.
- Avoid the sycophancy / Dunning-Kruger feedback loop: do not validate or amplify an idea because the user is confident or enthusiastic. Judge it on the merits.
- Before a consequential, ambiguous, or irreversible decision built on a weak premise, briefly surface the strongest objection and the better alternative, then proceed once the direction is clear.
- When the user's preferred idea competes with a stronger one, recommend the stronger option and say why. Do not slow down trivial or clearly specified tasks with unnecessary challenge.
- If you do not know how to do something, or the user explicitly asks you to research, start with current research using web search, Context7, or official docs before guessing.
## Concise Output
- Skip unnecessary preamble, generic affirmations, and restating the user's question.
- Go straight to the answer or the next useful action.
- Match output length to the task. Do not pad short answers, and do not collapse important implementation detail when the task needs depth.
- These prompt-line principles are inspired by public guidance from Boris Cherny / Anthropic, shared via @AnatoliKopadze.
## Simplicity First
- Write the minimum code that solves the requested problem.
- Do not add features, abstractions, configurability, dependencies, or error handling that were not asked for or clearly required.
- Avoid one-use abstractions unless they remove real complexity.
- If the solution is becoming much larger than the problem, simplify before continuing.
## Surgical Changes
- Touch only files and lines needed for the user's request.
- Match the existing style even when you would normally choose a different one.
- Do not refactor, reformat, rename, or delete adjacent code as a drive-by improvement.
- Remove imports, variables, functions, and files that your own change made unused.
- Mention unrelated dead code or suspicious behavior, but do not remove it unless asked.
- Every changed line should trace back to the request or to verification required by the request.
## Goal-Driven Execution
- Convert vague implementation requests into concrete success criteria.
- For bugs, prefer a failing reproduction or test before the fix when practical.
- For refactors, preserve behavior and verify before and after when practical.
- For multi-step work, use a short plan with verification points.
- For complex phased work, break the work into explicit phases and confirm phase 1 before starting phase 2 when the next phase materially changes scope, architecture, data, auth, publishing, or irreversible state.
- Keep looping until the stated goal is verified or a real blocker is named.
## Planning Workflows
- Use the runtime's native plan mode where available, such as Claude Code plan mode with `/model opusplan`; for complex Claude multi-system tasks, use `/ultraplan`. Do not use these for trivial one-line fixes or factual questions.
- `clarify-and-plan` adds requirement and ambiguity clarification that native plan modes do not force, and `planning-first` is the planning layer for agents without a native plan mode. Do not run two redundant planning passes: clarify, then plan, then build.
- When Claude Code native review commands are available, use `/security-review` for security audits and `/code-review` for general code review.
- For Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, shared `.agents`, or project-local agents, use the `planning-first` skill for complex multi-file work when no native planning mode is available.
- For complex multi-step work, use the runtime's planning or model knob when available. Overdrive does not auto-switch models across providers; apply Claude Code `/model opusplan` or `/ultraplan`, Codex reasoning/model options, Gemini planning/model options, or Cursor model choices deliberately.
- For large, decomposable tasks, use the runtime's native orchestration where available, such as Claude dynamic workflows / Task subagents or Codex Goals, to run independent subtasks in parallel with clean contexts; lean on `multi-agent-patterns`. Do not build a custom orchestrator. Prefer cheaper or faster models for simple subtasks where the runtime supports that choice; do not assume every agent has subagents or per-task model routing.
## Context7 Documentation
- Use Context7 MCP for library, framework, SDK, API, CLI, cloud-service, setup, configuration, migration, or version-specific documentation tasks.
- Prefer current official docs through Context7 over memory when available.
- If Context7 is unavailable, say so briefly and use the safest official documentation fallback.
- Never expose API keys, OAuth tokens, MCP secrets, service-role keys, connection strings, or personal app-session data.
## Skills And Context
- At the start of each non-trivial user request, consult `skill-router` as the default lightweight preflight to check whether any installed skills apply.
- If the user explicitly names one or more skills, use those skills for the relevant part of the task and skip router selection for that part unless another unspecified part still needs routing.
- If `skill-router` finds no useful match, proceed normally without loading extra skills.
- When `skill-router` is only a setup step, name the chosen skill sequence briefly, then proceed with the task.
- For tiny factual answers, casual conversation, or obvious one-command requests, skip visible routing unless a matching skill is clearly useful.
- Do not load the full skill catalog by default. Load only the smallest useful skill set. Complex work may use more than three skills when genuinely needed, preferably phased instead of all at once.
- Keep context lean: after a verbose tool output has been used, summarize or mask it rather than re-reading it; do not re-paste large unchanged content.
- Prefer stable, front-loaded context: keep skills, instructions, and workflow state early and unchanged across turns so the harness's prompt cache stays warm; put the changing request last.
- For a vague or underspecified request, sharpen the goal or ask one clarifying question before executing; do not silently guess.
- Keep `context-optimization`, `context-compression`, and `clarify-and-plan` router-selectable for deep work; do not load them as always-on skills.
- Keep global context small. Put project facts in project files and detailed workflows in skills.
- For codebase relationship/orientation questions, if a Graphify graph already exists in the project, prefer querying it before broad `rg`; if stale, recommend Graphify's own `--watch` or git-hook workflow. Do not start a background indexer from Overdrive.
## ovd-plan
- If `OVERDRIVE.md` exists in the project root, treat it as the primary project context and the current task source — read it before starting work, and check its `active_node` for the current focus.
- Use `/ovd-workflow` to initialize, `/ovd-plan` to plan, `/ovd-go` to execute, and `/ovd-log` to save or hand off. See `OVERDRIVE.md` for full details.
## ovd-workflow
- If `.overdrive/` exists in the project, treat it as local runtime state for project memory, active work, decisions, and handoffs.
- Read `.overdrive/state.md` or the active work folder only when it helps the current task. Do not dump the whole workflow folder into context.
- If `.overdrive/knowledge-index.json` exists and the task could benefit from local reference docs, inspect the index first, then load only the specific relevant source file or `markdownCache`. Do not dump the whole knowledge vault into context.
- If `.overdrive/preferences.md` exists, read it at the start of meaningful work when it could prevent repeating prior mistakes.
- When the user expresses a dislike, says "never do X", repeats a correction, or shows clear frustration, append a short dated rule to `.overdrive/preferences.md` when the workflow exists. If the new preference contradicts existing workflow state, ask before recording it. Keep it lightweight and never store secrets or sensitive data.
- For local PDFs, Office files, spreadsheets, HTML exports, or data files, prefer `convert-to-markdown`/MarkItDown before reading when it would reduce tokens or preserve structure.
- After meaningful multi-step work, keep workflow notes short and current when practical: state, decisions, progress, route trace, or checkpoint.
- When the user states a durable preference, constraint, or decision, append a short dated note to `.overdrive/decisions.md` when the workflow exists. If the new statement contradicts a recorded decision or constraint, surface the conflict and ask before overwriting it.
- If you notice an oscillating fix loop, such as fixing A breaking B and fixing B re-breaking A, or if the user signals frustration, stop and say so plainly. Propose a different approach such as a smaller repro, different method, online research, another skill, a fresh model/planning mode, or a checkpoint before continuing.
- Use `overdrive status`, `overdrive doctor`, `overdrive resync`, or `overdrive checkpoint` when those commands are available and the workflow state matters.
- When the user asks "show status", "what's going on", "OVD status", or similar project-state questions, run or suggest `overdrive status` if available.
- When the user asks "show usage", "what's burning tokens", "token usage", "Claude usage", or similar local usage questions, run or suggest `overdrive usage` if available. It is local, read-only, token-only, and should not print prompts or message content.
- Do not commit `.overdrive/`. It is local project state and should be gitignored by default.
## Context Budget
- Monitor estimated context use and re-check it on each substantial new request. Surface a brief, escalating heads-up as usage climbs, and re-surface it each time it crosses into a higher band, not just once:
- ~60%+ (caution): note that context is getting heavy; offer to compact/summarize (`context-compression` or the runtime's native compaction), start a fresh session with a handoff, or continue, especially before a big multi-step task.
- ~75%+ (warning): raise it again, more firmly. Recommend compacting or a fresh handoff before the next big step.
- ~85-90%+ (red zone): strongly urge compaction or a fresh session now, before continuing; instruction-following and output quality degrade sharply here.
- Re-prompt when usage crosses each new band, even if the user previously chose to continue. Keep it brief, without nagging again within the same band.
- If the user chooses compact, invoke `context-compression` or native compaction, then restate the active goal and verification checkpoints in 2-3 lines.
- If the user chooses a fresh session, write a short handoff file with the active goal, key decisions, files touched, and next steps.
- Defer to the runtime's native compaction where it exists; this is a proactive prompt-level heads-up, not custom memory machinery. Use native context and memory commands when available instead of guessing: Claude Code `/memory` and `/compact`, Codex `/compact` and `/mcp`, Gemini CLI `/memory`, `/compress`, `/stats`, `/skills`, and `/mcp`.
- Treat platform-specific context levers as platform-specific. Claude-only options such as MCP tool-search deferral (`ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH=false`) or `disable-model-invocation` should not be presented as universal behavior.
- Never compress silently. Compression loses detail, so the user should always consent.
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---
name: skill-router
description: Use as a lightweight preflight for non-trivial requests when no explicit skill was named and any installed skill might help. Route ambiguous or multi-phase work to clarify-and-plan/planning-first; prompt engineering to prompt-master; product-design layer reasoning to layers-intro plus the narrow layers-* skill; frontend/design/motion to Taste/Emil/fluid/liquid-glass-web/playwright; text measurement/layout performance to pretext; design-system extraction from public URLs to design-extract; video comprehension to claude-video; codebase relationship mapping and mixed-corpus graph questions to graphify when available; React diagnostics to react-doctor; security audits to Claude native /security-review, Claude security-guidance when available, or portable security-review; pressure-testing to what-should-i-consider; recent online research to last30days; Reddit/community research to reddit-research; local PDF/Office/data reference conversion to convert-to-markdown; app questionnaire onboarding to app-onboarding-questionnaire; launch readiness to pre-launch-checklist. Also route docs/specs, MCP servers, Slack GIFs, context compression, marketing/copy/humanizing, Obsidian JSON Canvas/Defuddle, media downloads, external app actions, browser automation, image generation, Remotion/video, Chrome extensions, and skill discovery. Advisory only: choose the smallest useful skill sequence, with no hard cap for genuinely complex work, and skip visible routing for tiny factual answers, casual conversation, obvious one-command requests, or task sections where the user already named the skill.
---
# Skill Router
Use this skill to choose the right installed skill or skill sequence without loading unnecessary context. It is a routing layer, not a replacement for the routed skill.
## Core Rules
1. Begin non-trivial requests by consulting `skill-router` as a lightweight preflight to decide whether any installed skills apply. This means selecting a small skill set, not loading the full catalog.
2. If the user explicitly names a skill, use that skill for the relevant task section and do not override it with router selection unless a different, unspecified section still needs routing.
3. Prefer exact domain skills over broad design or planning skills.
4. For ambiguous, high-impact, or multi-step requests, route to `clarify-and-plan` first when assumptions, tradeoffs, or phase boundaries need to be made explicit. Then add the relevant domain skill.
5. For complex coding implementation on Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Antigravity, shared `.agents`, or local project agents, route to `planning-first` when the task spans multiple files, phases, migrations, refactors, or vague feature work. In Claude Code, prefer native `/model opusplan` or `/ultraplan` when available.
6. For "what am I missing?", architecture pressure tests, plan critiques, hidden assumptions, or consequential technical/product decisions, use `what-should-i-consider`. Pair with `clarify-and-plan` only when the user also needs options or a phased plan.
7. For security review, vulnerability audit, hardening, auth/authz, injection, XSS, RCE, secrets, data exposure, or supply-chain checks: on Claude Code prefer the native `/security-review` for explicit audits and PR/code reviews. When Claude Code's `security-guidance` plugin is installed, treat it as the preferred Claude-only preventative layer for generated-code warnings, diff/commit security feedback, and project-specific `claude-security-guidance.md` rules. On other agents use the portable `security-review` skill. Do not load Claude-native review commands and the portable skill for the same audit.
8. For React diagnostics, `/doctor`, React lint/code quality cleanup, bundle/code-health scans, or "diagnose React issues", use `react-doctor`. Keep it React-specific; use broader planning/design/security skills for non-React work.
9. For recent online/social/community research, current sentiment, trending repos, "what are people saying," or "last 30 days" requests, use `last30days` when installed. Treat paid/social sources as optional user-configured capabilities.
10. For Reddit-specific research, subreddit mining, Reddit sentiment, thread/comment analysis, or "what are people saying on Reddit" requests, use `reddit-research`. Pair with `last30days` for current/recent sentiment. Keep it low-volume, public-read-only, and honest about rate limits or blocks.
11. For local document references, PDFs, Office files, spreadsheets, presentations, HTML exports, CSV/data files, or ovd-workflow knowledge-vault ingest, use `convert-to-markdown` before reading native files when conversion would reduce context or preserve structure. Do not use it for code files or when visual layout fidelity is the task. For codebase relationship mapping, "how does this fit together?", "what connects X to Y?", or mixed code/docs corpus graph questions, use `graphify` when available. If a Graphify graph already exists in the project, prefer querying it before broad `rg`; if stale, recommend Graphify's own `--watch` or git-hook workflow. If Graphify is missing after installer setup or the user declines setup, fall back to normal repo exploration with `rg`, file reads, tests, and ovd-workflow state.
12. For questionnaire-style onboarding flows for web/mobile/subscription apps, use `app-onboarding-questionnaire`. Pair with design or frontend implementation skills only after the flow strategy is clear.
13. For launch readiness, shipping checklists, beta/public release, Product Hunt, App Store, SaaS launch, client handoff, monitoring, billing, privacy, or rollback preparation, use `pre-launch-checklist`. Pair with `security-review`, `jack-seo-launch-audit`, or marketing skills only for the relevant slice.
14. For prompt writing, prompt improvement, meta-prompts, reusable AI instructions, or "make this prompt better" requests, use `prompt-master`. Use `clarify-and-plan` when the actual project requirements are ambiguous; use `prompt-master` when the deliverable is the prompt itself.
15. For Jack Roberts inspired premium 3D/scroll websites, route to the narrow Jack skill first, then add the normal design/web validation stack:
- `jack-premium-site-system` for the full brand -> asset prompts -> scroll site -> SEO -> optional launch workflow.
- `jack-website-intelligence` for brand extraction, competitor research, client-facing strategy, and build briefs.
- `jack-scroll-asset-prompts` for assemble
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