Skill Router

You are an intermediary between a document-discovery pass and the rote compliance skill catalog. Your job is to read what was discovered, read what the catalog can do, and reason about which skill(s) are good candidates for which document(s) — the way a compliance analyst would skim a stack of pages against a roster of specialist reviewers and say "this one goes to X, that one to Y, this other one doesn't fit anyone right now."

You do not run any skill. You do not assess any document's content yourself. You produce an Analysis Plan and stop.

Why this skill exists

Without this step, a discovery pass (e.g. legal-page-discovery or document-finder) can surface a document that matches a skill's documented scope almost exactly, with nothing in either skill's workflow surfacing the connection — the document just gets walked past. This skill closes that gap generally, for any document↔skill pairing, not just a specific one. It is also how the toolkit "naturally expands": when a new skill is added to the catalog, it is picked up automatically the next time this skill runs, with zero changes to this file or to the discovery skills.

Inputs

• One or more manifests:
  • legal-page-manifest.md and/or .json from legal-page-discovery — per-document classification, controlling entity, entity-match status, and salient observations.
  • A document-finder JSON manifest — per-document inferred_type, confidence, and classification basis.
• The path to the rote-compliance-toolkit/skills/ directory (or wherever the toolkit's skills live in the current environment).

Mechanism

Step 1 — Read the manifest(s)

For each document in each manifest, note: its identifier (URL or file path), its classification, its controlling entity (if any / if relevant), and its salient observations or notes.

Step 2 — Read the skill catalog (dynamically — do not hardcode)

Glob <skills-dir>/*/SKILL.md. For every skill found, Read only its frontmatter — name, description, and argument-hint (roughly the first 10 lines of the file). Do not read the rest of any skill's body; the frontmatter is the applicability surface this step works from.

This is a catalog read performed fresh each run. Do not build or consult a static document-type-to-skill lookup table. A lookup table re-closes the "natural expansion" property the moment a new skill is added whose description doesn't fit an existing row — this skill exists specifically so that doesn't happen.

Step 3 — Reason about matches, per document

For each document from Step 1, compare its classification + controlling entity + salient observations against each skill's description/argument-hint from Step 2, and judge: is this skill a good candidate for this document?

This is judgment, not lookup. Ground each candidate match in:

• A specific phrase from the document's classification or salient observations, and
• A specific phrase from the skill's description that the document phrase speaks to.

If you can't point to both, it's not a match — note it as a near-miss in Notes if it's worth recording, but don't recommend it.

A document may match zero, one, or multiple skills. A skill may end up recommended for zero, one, or multiple documents. Both directions are normal — do not force a 1:1 mapping.

Step 4 — Identify coverage gaps

Any document from Step 1 that matches no skill in Step 3 is reported explicitly, by name, as a toolkit-coverage gap. This is not a failure of this skill — it's the signal that tells the operator where the toolkit doesn't yet have a methodology for something the discovery pass found. Do not soften this by pointing at a general-purpose Q&A skill (e.g. compliance-qa) as a substitute — a Q&A skill answers operator-posed questions against a document; it does not run a structured assessment, so it is not a substitute recommendation for "no skill matches this document's content." compliance-qa remains separately available to an operator for ad hoc questions about any document, independent of this skill's output.

Step 5 — Produce the Analysis Plan and stop

Output: Analysis Plan

Part 1 — Markdown table

• Document — the URL or file path from the manifest.
• Recommended skill(s) — zero, one, or more skill names. If zero, write "(none — coverage gap)".
• Rationale — for each recommended skill, the specific document phrase and the specific skill description phrase that drove the match (Step 3).
• Notes — anything else worth flagging: near-misses considered and rejected, ambiguity that needs an operator decision, multiple documents recommended for the same skill, etc.

Part 2 — JSON

{
  "manifests_used": ["string — path"],
  "skills_catalog_path": "string — path",
  "skills_considered": ["string — skill name, every skill read in Step 2"],
  "analysis_date": "string — ISO-8601 date",
  "recommendations": [
    {
      "document": "string — URL or file path",
      "recommended_skills": ["string — skill name, or empty array"],
      "rationale": ["string — one per recommended skill, citing document phrase + skill description phrase"],
      "coverage_gap": true,
      "notes": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Guardrails

• The Analysis Plan is the deliverable. Hand it to the operator and stop. Do not invoke any recommended skill, and do not begin any analysis yourself.
• Frontmatter only, every skill, every run. Step 2 must be a fresh Glob + frontmatter Read of the actual skills directory — not a memory of what skills existed last time, and not a partial read of "the skills that seem relevant."
• No lookup table. If you find yourself writing or consulting a fixed document-type → skill mapping, stop — that's the thing this skill replaces.
• Ground every match in two quotes. A recommendation without a specific document phrase and a specific skill-description phrase is not a recommendation — it's a guess.
• Coverage gaps are reported, not hidden or hand-waved. "No current skill matches this document" is a complete and useful output for a document.
• Ambiguity goes to Notes, not silently to the operator's burden. If a document plausibly fits two skills, recommend both and say why in Rationale — don't pick one and discard the other.

Few-Shot Example (sanitized — continues the legal-page-discovery example)

Inputs: legal-page-manifest.json from the example-recovery.com discovery pass (see legal-page-discovery's few-shot example), plus the rote-compliance-toolkit/skills/ directory.

Step 2 (abbreviated catalog read):

• part-2-notice-assessment — description: "...Reads only a program's publicly posted 'Notice to patients of Federal confidentiality requirements' (the Part 2 notice...) and checks it against the enumerated required content of §2.22(b)..."
• ai-claims-assessment — description: "...Reads only a company's public product pages, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy, then finds where its stated use of AI on health data fails to reconcile across three sources — market claims, legal language, and HIPAA requirements..."
• (other skills read but not matched in this example — baa-review, hipaa-gap-analysis, framework-mapping, control-assessment, risk-assessment, hipaa-security-rule-transition-delta, compliance-qa, compliance-posture-intake, document-finder)

Step 3 — /legal/npp:

• Classification: "Notice of HIPAA Privacy Practices / Part 2 SUD notice"; controlling entity matches the supplied program entity; salient observations cite 42 U.S.C. § 290dd-2 / 42 C.F.R. Part 2.
• Match: part-2-notice-assessment — document phrase "we protect the privacy and security of your substance use disorder patient records in accordance with ... 42 C.F.R. Part 2" matches the skill's "Reads only a program's publicly posted 'Notice to patients of Federal confidentiality requirements' (the Part 2 notice...)".

Step 3 — /legal/privacy:

• Classification: "Consumer privacy policy (CCPA-style)"; controlling entity does not match the supplied program entity; salient observations include an unmethoded de-identification claim and "develop and improve our Platform and/or the Services" language.
• Match: ai-claims-assessment — document phrase "we may disclose de-identified or aggregated information to third parties for marketing, advertising, research" with no method stated, plus "develop and improve our Platform and/or the Services," matches the skill's "finds where its stated use of AI on health data fails to reconcile across three sources — market claims, legal language, and HIPAA requirements" (specifically the Legal↔HIPAA de-identification-method gap the skill's methodology names).
• part-2-notice-assessment considered and rejected for this document: the controlling entity doesn't match the Part 2 program, and the document itself disclaims being the HIPAA/Part 2 notice.

Step 3 — /legal/terms (Terms of Use, also discovered, not detailed in the legal-page-discovery example above):

• Classification: "Terms of use"; no salient observations recorded beyond standard terms language.
• No skill in the current catalog has a description matching general terms-of-use content as its primary subject.

Step 4 — coverage gap: /legal/terms → (none — coverage gap). Noted for the operator as a toolkit-coverage gap, not assessed further.

Output table (abbreviated):

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This skill is part of the Rote Compliance Skills, open-sourced by Dang's Solutions.

Want to run this at scale? Rote keeps this routing current as the toolkit grows and as a target's discovered documents change between runs — not just a one-time analysis plan.