## Why three skills together

`/intent-harden` is the orchestrator — a five-phase workflow (Expand · Compress · Visualize · Stress-test · Realign). Phases 1 and 2 explicitly invoke the other two skills as sub-routines:

- Phase 1 EXPAND → `/grill-me` drives the design tree to surface every silent decision.
- Phase 2 COMPRESS → `/linear-independence` collapses the grill output to the smallest set of truly independent decisions.

All three ship together in the task-workflow plugin, so `/intent-harden` always finds its two sub-routines.

## Install (one plugin)

Everything on this site installs from a single plugin — no curl, no shell. Paste these into Claude Code:

```
/plugin marketplace add blakesims/task-workflow-plugin
/plugin install task-workflow@task-workflow-marketplace
/reload-plugins
```

`/reload-plugins` activates it in the current session — no restart needed. Or use the **Copy install** button above to hand the whole job to your agent.

After install: invoke with `/task-workflow:intent-harden`, `/task-workflow:grill-me`, or `/task-workflow:linear-independence`.

## The three skills

### /intent-harden

Stress-test and tighten an intent contract before planning. Composes `/grill-me` + `/linear-independence` and adds Visualize / Stress-test / Realign.

### /grill-me

Interview relentlessly about every branch of the design tree until shared understanding is reached. Recommends an answer for every question.

### /linear-independence

Reduce questions to the smallest set of truly independent decisions. Cuts cognitive load when you're managing many agents at once.

## Using one skill on its own

The plugin namespaces every skill, so each is individually invocable — `/task-workflow:grill-me` works standalone without running the full workflow. The source files below stay readable and curl-able for review.