Implement an approved spec or focused task through stale-safe source edits. Use this skill when the user says "implement this", "cook this spec", or "fix this bug". Use it for `/cook .cheese/specs/<slug>.md`. Also use it when the user says "go" or "ship it" with clear acceptance criteria. Run it alo

/cook Contract cook(spec ref, correction = false) handoff(next = press age mold) . Cook returns next: mold only for a specification failure. A red required gate disposition identifies behavior work. Run the inner RED → GREEN TDD loop against the approved spec before you change production code. A closed not applicable disposition identifies non behavior work. Use its implementation and verification path for the requested documentation, refactor, test, or appearance change. N/A does not remove requested work. Use correction = true only for the active Press correction loop. Do not weaken an existing test. Phase entry Run python3 skills/cook/scripts/cook.pyz wheypoint resolve ref <slug . authoritative uses the record; its working context is the first batched tilth read . not found proceeds cold; legacy shows its source and slug, then proceeds. gated , ambiguous , and error stop and show the payload. Show advisory stale commit and grounded path missing findings. Inputs Accept a pasted spec or issue, focused acceptance criteria, or an unambiguous task. Read explicit spec paths verbatim. Resolve a bare slug with SPEC=$(python3 skills/cook/scripts/cook.pyz artifact path specs <slug ) . Use python3 skills/cook/scripts/cook.pyz accept <pointer for a Mold handoff pointer; it verifies the route and referenced artifacts first. Flags: auto chains /press → /age → /cure . hard propagates through /plate . open pr lets terminal /plate publish. Auto mode never adds this flag. resume <slug resumes a typed fan handoff and its referenced artifacts. spec <spec path names the approved spec for a Mold pointer. A plan whose dependencies cross landing.layers is refused before any coder dispatch. Optional context payload: handoff context.wiki hits carries {page, line, why} entries from the repository wiki corpus. The key is optional, and its default is absent. Reject an entry that omits page , line , or why . Show every accepted hit in the Contract step so the user can challenge a stale decision; prefer these decisions over an invented approach. [ ../cheese/references/handoff gate.md ](../cheese/references/handoff gate.md) defines the payload. Read references/auto mode.md , references/fan pathway.md , and ../cheese/references/formatting.md for these policies. Standalone fast path /cook bypasses /mold only when the inputs, outputs, scope, and verification are clear. The task must name a bug or call site in one or two files and have a failing test or an expected output check. No leverage trigger may fire; see ../cheese/references/routing policy.md § Leverage triggers. Derive a slug, then restate the Contract . Route the task to /mold if an ambiguity check fails. Flow 1. Contract — Confirm behavior, non goals, scope, gates, and applicability. Print the shape check block from ../mold/references/shape check.md inside the Contract, or the line shape check skipped: single module change per shape check.md § When to skip. No block, no code. If .cheese/glossary/<slug .md exists, use its canonical terms. 2. Implement — Use inner RED → GREEN for behavior changes. Use the requested non behavior path for closed N/A work; change only the applicable surface. 3. Validate — Run the relevant quality gates again. Read the complete gate output; for closed N/A, verify the requested non behavior path. 4. Taste test — Use a fresh context review for multi file or public surface diffs. Otherwise use an inline review, limited to two rounds. Read references/tdd loop.md for details. 5. Hand off — Write the package report and slug. Route behavior work through /press → /age → /cure . A closed N/A change has no adversarial contract for Press. Route it directly through /age → /cure . Fan pathway /cook routes a spec through one of three shapes. The available typed planner result selects the shape. Read [ references/fan pathway.md ](references/fan pathway.md) for the complete topology. Fast path. Use the ordinary single coder path when the curd count hint is 1 with low or medium blast radius. Curded. Load the typed PlannerResult or CurdPlan . Run validate curd plan . Treat the validated plan as the semantic authority. Run behavior curds through cook(CurdPlan) → reviewer(age) → cure(CurdPlan, binding) → reviewer(final age) without Press. After you wire the curds, run one global /press → /age → /cure chain. Closed N/A bypasses Press. Use python3 skills/cook/scripts/cook.pyz worktree teardown for worktree cleanup. The fan pathway reference defines its arguments and lifecycle. Un curded. Keep small work in the single coder path. For big work, ask "12 ACs 5 curds, 2 waves, up to 25 agent dispatches. Go?" unless auto . Keep waves at a maximum of four. Legacy decomposition is only a lossless projection. It is never live workflow state. Follow [ decomposer.md ](../cheese/references/decomposer.md) for sizing and decomposition. Before orchestration, read [ references/fan pathway.md ](references/fan pathway.md). It defines sizing, topology, phase execution, recovery, resume, Milknado integration, worktree teardown, and resolution provenance. Propagate auto through each dispatched phase when it is active. Baseline capture Fan mode records its quality debt comparison before any curd cooks; bare mode records it on the pre change tree. [ references/quality gates.md ](references/quality gates.md) defines exact capture, classification, intentional RED exclusion, and baseline artifact rules. For source changes, follow [ code intelligence routing.md ](../cheese/references/code intelligence routing.md) and [ harness portability.md ](../cheese/references/harness portability.md). slash commands are host renderings, not the control model ; invoke the equivalent installed capability. Quality gates Run only existing project commands. Run the most relevant tests for the changed area. Also run lint, type, and build commands when the project defines them. Do not remove, skip, or weaken unrelated tests to make the change pass. Use the baseline for gate failures. [ references/quality gates.md ](references/quality gates.md) defines the policy, the classification terms, and the baseline artifact. Each downstream phase links to this reference instead of repeating it. [ references/writer views.md ](references/writer views.md) generates schemas for writer view payloads inline. The normalize and validate CLIs apply these schemas before agent authored JSON reaches host owned identifiers. Output Use the house style in [ ../cheese/references/formatting.md ](../cheese/references/formatting.md). Use [ references/package report.md ](references/package report.md) to report files, reasons, checks, risks, and the next skill. Handoff slug Write a minimum shape handoff slug at the top of .cheese/cook/<slug .md . Use the same file for the report; do not create a second file. This slug lets downstream phases resume or chain without rereading the full report. The fan pathway also uses it during wave orchestration. Use this schema: The [handback contract](../cheese/references/handback contract.md) defines the canonical status: grammar, including ok and halt . Only next: and the additional keyed lines are specific to a phase. artifact: names the upstream artifact that this run consumed. For a Mold route, use the approved specification pointer. Leave artifact: empty when this run consumed no upstream artifact. Do not point artifact: at this Cook report. /cheese forwards the same pointer to the next phase. Use the canonical boundary writer when you emit this handoff for the typed fan result. Carry the result schema explicitly: The writer replaces the target file. Pass body file to keep the package report in the same file. Without that flag, the writer emits the preamble alone and removes the report. For a replan or a specification failure, use next mold with the https://schemas.easy cheese.dev/planner request payload. [ references/fan pathway.md ](references/fan pathway.md) defines the request kind for each failure class. These phase and next values route only the legacy handoff file. The validated CurdPlan and normalized CurdResult remain the live fan state. In a fan run, read each phase's handoff slug file from disk. Do not infer the handoff from stdout. Set next: to the next runnable phase. Use press after red required behavior work. Use age after closed N/A. Use cook after a blocker. Use mold after a spec failure. Use done only at true completion. Do not send contractless N/A to Press. Omit taste test: when its cost gate does not apply. Set durable flags: to none by default. Record only durable changes to architecture, protocols, conventions, or rationale. Record the target wiki page for each change. Set baseline: to the path of Cook's optional comparison artifact. That artifact holds baseline identical debt and new or changed failures from the current broad gates. Use the shape in [ references/quality gates.md ](references/quality gates.md). The preamble accepts one physical line for each key, so never inline the mapping. Handoff Pipeline: culture → mold → cook → press → age → cure → plate After you write the report and slug, use the shared handoff gate. Read its Standard forward step menu in [ ../cheese/references/handoff gate.md ](../cheese/references/handoff gate.md). For behavior work, start each option with the verb. Use these options: Harden tests before review (recommended) — /press <slug . Plate it — /press <slug auto open pr : run the remaining review chain, then /plate resolves topology and publishes. Press does not apply to closed N/A. Set next: age . Replace the options with Review the change (recommended) — /age <slug . Also offer Plate it — /age <slug auto open pr . Both menus retain Checkpoint & stop — /wheypoint and Stop — dispatch none. Do not dispatch before selection. Run the selected command immediately. When the user invokes auto , skip this gate. Take the route for the applicable disposition directly. Auto mode Read [ references/auto mode.md ](references/auto mode.md) before auto mode. It defines validation, phase chains, early stops, Cure limits, publication ownership, fan isolation, and failure handling. Show each stopping report and reason; never downgrade the result. In the linear chain, Cook does not invoke /plate . In the fan pathway, the Cook orchestrator owns its own terminal /plate dispatch. No chain isolation directive A spawned phase agent does not chain forward by itself; the orchestrator controls the chain. A terminal Age is publishable only with next: done . next: cure or a missing next halts the chain. The reference also contains the final report template. Rules Keep changes scoped to the accepted contract. Prefer existing dependencies and patterns. Build for the reviewer on the first pass: references/tdd loop.md § Reviewable by construction. Keep import direction and crust integrity per [ ../cheese/references/sliced bread.md ](../cheese/references/sliced bread.md). Stop before a new crust export, a cross slice import of an internal, or a schema or contract change the spec does not name. Ask the user. Do not invent architecture that the spec already rejected. Stop and ask the user when implementation reveals a design decision that the spec does not answer. Stop and show the false premise before you write code if the spec or fast path request uses one. Do not use an incorrect approach to satisfy the request literally. Apply the shared voice kernel in ../age/references/voice.md ; start the report with the answer and name loaded assumptions in the contract. Mark residual risk as certain speculating don't know . Verification before status: ok : Identify