git:20261025.251cd2e to git:20261028.933dd9d

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name: automate-me

description: "Capture explicitly requested working preferences in a reusable local skill, using the current conversation or user-selected examples."

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# Automate me

Follow the consuming project's instructions and requested scope; use the

[portable defaults](../orbyn-workflow/references/project-policy.md) only where guidance is missing.

Locate an existing skill for the requested workflow before creating one. Use

only the conversation or records the user selected; do not mine unrelated sessions.

Distinguish explicit preferences from inferred patterns and one-off constraints.

Preserve useful defaults, tool permissions, task scope and existing authorization.

Use the available skill-authoring guidance, concise descriptions and references

loaded only when needed. Prefer a small edit over another overlapping mode skill.

Choose a repository path for shared conventions and a personal path only when

requested. Do not change global models, memory, connectors or schedules as a

side effect. Show the resulting file and the preferences it encodes.

## Preference → maintained owner

If the user repeatedly requests export readback, place that check in the export owner when they ask to encode it. Preserve what the preference actually covers: a PDF readback rule should not require application builds for a prose edit. Return the changed owner and an example of when it should not activate.

## Operational method

Use the [local operating method](references/operating-method.md) for the execution

sequence, concrete failure case, expected result and stopping condition. It is

Orbyn-authored guidance; historical source notices remain in provenance.