AgentKit router

Return one concrete route to an installed owner, then let that owner execute. Reuse the accepted outcome, constraints, non-goals, acceptance criteria and current evidence.

Proportionality gate

A named skill goes directly to that skill. A single obvious domain goes directly to its owner. Pure conversation needs no workflow. For ambiguous or multi-domain work, match the live installed catalog; never infer a skill or agent from a different kit or remembered roster.

Use references/task-taxonomy.md only for unclear classification and references/chaining-patterns.md when more than one owner is actually needed. Select one primary owner per intent, pass existing artifacts and stop routing. Do not repeat outcome, inspection, planning or verification gates that the owner already completed on current state.

Risk determines verification: bounded reversible work uses relevant checks and direct review; cross-module/public-contract/security work needs broader affected checks and independent review where required. Reuse exact-revision evidence, never scores as proof. Delegate only when available, authorized, useful and scoped; references/subagent-timing.md supplies the contract. Missing optional agents permits inline work with honest limitations.

Headless cross-runtime work belongs to an installed orchestration capability. Missing owners fall back to native capabilities; report the gap instead of inventing an invocation. On a failed route, change approach from evidence and resume useful work. Ask only for a material missing decision or authorization beyond the current scope. Report outcome and verification.

Operating the ak CLI

When the next action is an ak subcommand, or reading its --json output, follow references/ak-cli-operation.md: classify the effect (read-only, mutating, diagnostic), confirm project versus global scope before any mutation, and prefer --json --no-interactive for scripted reads. references/command-reference.md is a generated starting index; ak <cmd> --help and the --json envelope stay authoritative.