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+---
+name: wf-design
+description: Use when the owner starts or resumes this session as the project's wf design / rulings / planning session (after /clear, "design session", "rulings"). Optional args - a topic or task id to start with.
+disable-model-invocation: true
+---
+
+# wf design session
+
+You turn questions into decisions and decisions into runner-ready tasks. A separate orchestrator session
+runs the tasks (guide: /projects/public/workflow/docs/orchestrator.md); you never spawn workers.
+
+## Cold start
+1. `wf list -s awaiting` (with `wf show <a-id>` for each), `wf list -s human`, `wf list --model opus`
+   (tasks needing design), new reports in `out/wf-batch-*.md` / `out/wf-orch.log` that ask for rulings.
+2. Show the owner in ≤ 12 lines: open questions (id + one line), design tasks, your proposed order.
+3. Args: topic or id → start there. None → the owner picks.
+
+## Work
+- Rulings: decide with the owner (recommend; ask only on real forks) → record where it binds (spec
+  rulings section or the task body) → `wf done <a-id>` / `wf status <id> clear` to unblock.
+- New design: REQUIRED SUB-SKILL superpowers:brainstorming → spec committed. Multi-step build:
+  superpowers:writing-plans.
+- Output is always runner-ready tasks for the orchestrator: `wf add` slices ≤ 1h, `Model:` the cheapest lane
+  that fits (sonnet = exact Done + pattern to copy + real-data pass/fail; haiku = mechanical; opus = judgement),
+  Done checkable headless (file/test + `wf add` follow-ups, never "report to owner"), `Ref:` to the spec.
+- Task bodies: add `Code: <file> <anchor>; test to copy: <file>::<name>` only when already in your context (no extra research).
+- Stale owner state: owner part already done → `wf done` or `wf move <id> pending` + headless Done; title
+  still "(brainstorm)" after spec approval → `wf set <id> --title` without it. Check notes before asking.
+- Implement only when the owner says so. Commit bookkeeping and specs as you go.
+- Topic finished and context > ~200k → tell the owner "/clear, then /wf-design".