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Run the standard quality passes over work just done — `/dry`, then

`/tend-prose` — scoped to what the branch has changed since it was last

polished, committing what they change. These are the passes `/go` runs at its

Step 3; this skill is how work that never went through `/go` gets them. Invoke

as `/polish [focus guidance]`, or `/polish full` to re-read the branch's whole

diff against its base rather than only what it changed since the last polish

commit.

Use when the operator says "polish this", "tidy this up", or "run the checks

that come after `/go`".

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**The passes run in a fresh subagent, never in the session that loads this

skill.** That session is usually the work's author, reading the diff with the

change's history in mind, so a comment narrating the edit, or two blocks it

remembers as different, reads fine to it and not to a reviewer. A subagent has

only the diff and the plan, as the reviewer will.

So launch one `general-purpose` subagent, in the foreground

(`run_in_background: false`) since it edits, commits and pushes the working

tree, and touch nothing until it returns. Its prompt carries:

- `@.claude/skills/polish/passes.md`, to load and follow — the whole procedure,

which this session does not read;

- the argument, verbatim;

- the plan under `docs/plans/`, when the branch has one, as the record of

intent.

Nothing else: no account of what was built or why.

**It reports, and the session relays.** Answer the intent questions this

session's context settles and act on them, committed under the type the edit

would carry anyway: a `polish:` subject would put the edit below the next run's

floor (`passes.md` § "The floor"), unreviewed. The rest go to the operator with

`/dry`'s calls.

## Where it runs

- **`@.claude/skills/go/SKILL.md` Step 3** — after implementing, before the PR.

- **`@.claude/skills/finalize/SKILL.md`, ahead of its numbered steps** — the

backstop for work that reached a PR without passing through `/go`. That skill

owns why it goes first.

- **On the operator's ask**, at any point in a session — the entry the other two

exist to make unnecessary and routinely don't. A task asked for and done

directly ends with the passes unrun unless someone names them.

- **`@.claude/skills/update-muthur/SKILL.md` Step 8**, over a port.