---
name: synthesis-skill-router
description: Route a request to the correct synthesis engineering, coding, writing, project-management, knowledge, operations, or agent-governance skill while keeping specialist metadata out of Codex's bounded prompt. Use when a task appears to match a synthesis workflow but the user did not name the exact skill.
license: "CC0-1.0"
depends_on: []
metadata:
  author: "Rajiv Pant"
  version: "1.5.0"
  source_repo: "github.com/synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills"
  source_type: "public"
---

# Synthesis Skill Router

Choose the narrowest matching workflow, then read its sibling `SKILL.md` completely before acting. Resolve every path relative to this skill's directory. Load multiple skills when the request crosses categories; their `depends_on` declarations remain authoritative.

Route by the requested outcome and the current stage. Load operative references when their task shape applies, without copying entire catalogs into each run. Preserve mandatory evidence, authority, coordination and domain checks. Loading a skill does not reopen a settled decision or turn delegated implementation choices into user approval gates; use the [decision-ownership contract](../synthesis-thinking-framework/references/decision-ownership.md) when instructions appear to disagree.

## Route by outcome

### Projects, context, and agent ecosystems

- Create, find, resume, or manage a project: `../synthesis-project-management/SKILL.md`
- Compact, archive, or repair project context: `../synthesis-context-lifecycle/SKILL.md`
- Refresh state during a long session: `../synthesis-checkpoint/SKILL.md`
- Execute explicit end-to-end delegation: `../synthesis-autopilot/SKILL.md`. Engage for a whole task or explicit invocation, not a single-step approval, an autonomy keyword or a discussion about the skill. Retain normal supervised work when delegation is ambiguous.
- Install or upgrade the ecosystem: `../synthesis-onboarding/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-skills-manager/SKILL.md`
- Audit Claude, Codex, hooks, plugins, catalogs, or capability parity: `../synthesis-agent-conformance/SKILL.md`
- Configure an LLM workspace or agent: `../synthesis-llm-setup/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-technical-advisor/SKILL.md`
- Sync machines or protect repository state: `../synthesis-mac-sync/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-repo-guard/SKILL.md`
- Select model roles: `../synthesis-model-tiers/SKILL.md`

### Software engineering and review

- AGENT HEURISTIC — Conduct a bounded adversarial review, rotate differently shaped
  reviewers, or maintain a finding ledger: `../synthesis-adversarial-review/SKILL.md`
- Plan implementation: `../synthesis-code-planning/SKILL.md`; for material unresolved architecture choices also load `../synthesis-preplan/SKILL.md`. Determine the decision owner before requesting review; delegated technical choices can be evaluated and executed by the agent.
- Audit code or a codebase: `../synthesis-code-audit/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-codebase-review/SKILL.md`
- Integrate multi-contributor work: `../synthesis-code-integration/SKILL.md`
- Review, prioritize, or merge a change request: `../synthesis-pr-review/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-review-triage/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-bitbucket/SKILL.md` as applicable
- Run merge-readiness gates: `../synthesis-preflight/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-implementation-integrity/SKILL.md`
- Install or diagnose repository policy hooks: `../synthesis-git-hooks/SKILL.md`

### Writing, research, and publishing

- AGENT HEURISTIC — Configure or run a rendered-output publication boundary,
  publishable-range contract, or promotion receipt: `../synthesis-promotion-gate/SKILL.md`
- Write or refresh an article: `../synthesis-article-writing/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-article-refresh/SKILL.md`
- Frame a topic or brief its readers: `../synthesis-content-framing/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-reader-briefing/SKILL.md`
- Check quality and revise prose: `../synthesis-content-quality/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-writing-pitfalls/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-writing-craft/SKILL.md`
- Fact-check or research links: `../synthesis-fact-checking/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-link-research/SKILL.md`
- Distribute content: `../synthesis-content-distribution/SKILL.md`
- Write executive or very concise communication: `../synthesis-executive-communication/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-concise-messaging/SKILL.md`
- Profile a voice or coach creative writing: `../synthesis-voice-profiler/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-creative-writer/SKILL.md`
- Remove text artifacts: `../synthesis-clean-text/SKILL.md`
- Record text integrity, lineage, generation receipts, or provenance without making authorship or watermark-absence claims: `../synthesis-text-provenance/SKILL.md`

### Knowledge and information operations

- Edit and ship a configured knowledge base: `../synthesis-kb-edit/SKILL.md`
- Preserve session facts: `../synthesis-knowledge-capture/SKILL.md`
- Author or validate Open Knowledge Format: `../synthesis-okf/SKILL.md`
- Sync or derive meeting records: `../synthesis-meeting-transcripts/SKILL.md`
- Sync Slack records: `../synthesis-slack-sync/SKILL.md`
- Clean inboxes: `../synthesis-inbox-cleanup/SKILL.md`
- Merge several model responses: `../synthesis-response-merger/SKILL.md`

### Workload, coordination, and communication

- Run day-start, day-end, or gap recovery: `../synthesis-daily-rituals/SKILL.md`, `../synthesis-catchup-ledger/SKILL.md`
- Coordinate an absence: `../synthesis-absence-coordination/SKILL.md`
- Act as chief of staff: `../synthesis-chief-of-staff/SKILL.md`
- Review an explicitly authorized local Messages or WhatsApp window: `../synthesis-local-messaging/SKILL.md`. Loading this route grants no discovery, collection, or send authority.
- Compose or send agent correspondence: `../synthesis-agent-correspondence/SKILL.md`
- Enforce outbound-message safety: `../synthesis-message-guard/SKILL.md`
- Govern disclosure: `../synthesis-disclosure-policy/SKILL.md`

### Reasoning and execution quality

- Structure a non-trivial decision: `../synthesis-thinking-framework/SKILL.md`
- Explore independent expert branches: `../synthesis-tree-of-thought/SKILL.md`
- Detect shortcut reasoning: `../synthesis-anti-shortcuts/SKILL.md`; the effort side, where output does less than the work requires
- Verify a claim, check quote provenance, or prove an absence: `../synthesis-grounding-discipline/SKILL.md`; the truth side, where output claims more than the evidence supports

Do not substitute this routing summary for the selected skill's instructions.