Ask Career Skills

Recommend a next step in Career Skills. This is a manual navigation skill, not a required orchestrator. Users can run any other skill directly, with or without setup.

Contract

• Input: The user's current goal, prior actions and any available workspace index or supplied context.
• Scope: Choose an appropriate next task and skill. Do not execute other skills, edit records or start a sequence.
• Output: One primary skill recommendation with a reason and ready-to-use request; up to two distinct alternatives if helpful.

Steps

1. Identify the user's immediate goal and last completed task from the conversation. Check a workspace index or existing records only when needed to avoid recommending already-completed work. When an index exists, read its setup status: in progress or paused setup is unfinished, so offer resuming it as an option rather than calling setup complete. Work without setup or workspace access; use stated assumptions instead of making the user repeat answers.
2. Route by the outcome, not by a fixed sequence:
   • Initialize a clean standardized career/ or discover prior documents to import: setup-career-skills; explicitly align/migrate an occupied legacy workspace or repair broken paths: validate-workspace (if installed); changed career facts: maintain-profile; uncertain direction: reflect.
   • Career growth: plan-development to create a plan or review progress.
   • Public presentation (role to put forward, target surfaces, headline, bio, LinkedIn/GitHub text): personal-brand; check live surfaces: audit.
   • Look (palette, fonts, logo, banners, design review): visual-identity.
   • Opportunities: find-companies for target employers, find-jobs for live vacancies, build-resume for application documents.
3. Recommend the most useful next action, why it fits, the input it needs and a concrete invocation example. When the user explicitly names a goal, route there without forcing prerequisites. When the goal is open-ended, suggest addressing unreliable facts first, then unclear direction, then the user's preferred branch; show at most two meaningful alternatives.
4. A missing installed skill is an option to install, not an action already performed. If no career skill is relevant, say so. Ask one concise question only if selecting a useful next step truly depends on an unanswered preference.

Done when

• The user has a clear, evidence-grounded next action and the matching skill name or an explicit no-skill recommendation.
• Already completed work is respected; setup, profile maintenance and reflection are suggested only when useful.
• No other skill, tool workflow, file mutation or recurring process was triggered by this routing session.