grid-help

A live, in-session guide to the-grid. Answer from the summary in sections/orientation.md; point to USAGE.md (repo root) for the full walkthrough rather than reproducing it verbatim — it changes independently of this skill.

Quick orientation

Read sections/orientation.md for the summary to answer from.

Sibling help skills

Don't reproduce their content — hand off:

Command	Owns
/openspec-help	The 12 openspec skills, spec format, adoption paths
/ponytail-help	ponytail modes and intensity levels

Answering well

• Give a pointer, not a tutorial. One or two lines plus the file to read.
• Check before asserting. SKILLS.md is generated and current; your memory of what's wired is not. Same for which agents exist — use the agent list your harness shows you.
• Private projects: mechanism yes, names never. A machine may run a project composed from roles outside this repo (GRID_PRIVATE_ROLES_DIR, gated in gitignored machines/<host>.local.txt). Explain how that works to anyone who asks; never enumerate the roles of a private desk in this repo or in a shared session.

If the question is deeper than a pointer — which template to pick, how a pattern composes, how the delegation topology works — read the relevant section of USAGE.md, README.md, or the repo's project instructions file rather than guessing.

Sections

Read a section only when its condition applies; do not preload them.

• sections/orientation.md: read before answering any question about using the-grid