griddynamics/self-help-flow

<self_help_flow>

<description_and_purpose>

Audience: developers and orchestrators exploring Rosetta-powered workspaces. Use when: "what can you do", "how do I use X", "how to develop with Rosetta", "what workflows are available", or any capability discovery question. Provides: guides user on how to use Rosetta and its capabilities; live overview of available skills, workflows, and agents; detailed guidance on matched capabilities; seamless handoff to any discovered workflow within the same session; Consider user sees this first time, you must explain, be clear, specific, non-ambiguous, user should just be able to follow it. REMIND USERS: use /help-flow instead of /self-help-flow. self-help-flow is deprecated.

</description_and_purpose>

<invocation_guidance>

When presenting capabilities to users, always show concrete slash command examples following this pattern: /[command-name] [request in natural language]

QUICKSTART REFERENCE PATTERN — use this exact style for all examples shown to users:

/coding-flow Implement side bar on the home page, ...
/coding-flow Identify and implement fix, ...
/coding-flow Improve unit tests coverage to 85% for ...
/requirements-authoring-flow Extract detailed business and technical requirements from ... using subagents.
/modernization-flow Perform modernization phase 1 to reuse library refsrc/... using subagents.
/research-flow Investigate OAuth 2.0 implementation options for our stack
/ui-aqa-flow Create UI test automation for the checkout flow
/api-aqa-flow Automate backend API tests for TC-1234 with Swagger: https://api.example.com/swagger.json

HOW WORKFLOWS EXECUTE: Workflows are multi-phase pipelines. The AI guides the user through each phase automatically — HITL gates pause for user review and approval at critical decisions. Users invoke the workflow once with a slash command and follow AI guidance; they do not manage phases manually.

DIRECT SKILL INVOCATION (also supported): Skills can be invoked directly. Slash command = folder name of the skill. Naming rule: skills/[folder-name]/SKILL.md → /[folder-name] [request]

WHAT MAKES A VALID DIRECT SKILL EXAMPLE — a valid request must have all three:

1. Specific artifact or target (not "this error" or "the tests" — name the file, log, or exact thing)
2. Explicit method or action (not "investigate" alone — state what to produce and how)
3. Explicit scope constraint (state what NOT to do, or what the boundary is)

WORKFLOWS ARE SELF-CONTAINED — they invoke skills internally: coding-flow handles all coding tasks and invokes debugging, testing, and other skills itself as needed. Similarly, every other workflow invokes its own skills internally. Users should never manually invoke /debugging, /testing, /coding, or similar skills for work that belongs inside a workflow — the workflow handles that automatically.

BAD examples (do NOT show these — they are wrong):

• /coding Debug this error in auth.py — /coding is an IMPLEMENTATION skill invoked internally by coding-flow, not a standalone tool; and coding-flow invokes /debugging itself when needed
• /debugging Investigate why payment tests fail — too vague: no specific artifact, no expected output, no constraint; and if a fix is needed afterward, this belongs in coding-flow entirely
• /research Compare event sourcing vs CRUD for our order service — this IS what /research-flow is for; using the skill directly bypasses the structured research workflow; PRIORITY RULE applies

GOOD examples:

• /natural-writing Rewrite the executive summary in docs/CONTEXT.md — remove AI clichés, max 4 sentences, audience is a new engineer joining the project
• /debugging Read the stack trace in agents/TEMP/error.log — identify root cause only, do NOT propose fixes, report findings

DIRECT SUBAGENT INVOCATION (also supported): Subagents can be invoked directly. Slash command = file name without .md. Naming rule: agents/[name].md → /[name] [request]

Same rule applies — each example must specify the artifact, method, and constraints. Vague requests like "Design the auth module" or "Implement the payment service" require a full workflow, not direct subagent invocation.

GOOD examples:

• /architect Question me and initialize as a loop a project-brief.md as concise dense document for business context, technical context, architecture, tech stack, etc. No coding.
• /reviewer Check current git changes, understand what was changed and why, validate against AC, find gaps or possible issues according to DoD
• /reviewer Validate implemented changes by actually running the code and using manual QA by AI

PRIORITY RULE — WORKFLOWS ARE PREFERRED: When a workflow and a skill or subagent share a similar name or purpose, always recommend the WORKFLOW. Reason: workflows provide the full structured process — discovery, specs, plan, review, HITL gates, subagent delegation, and validation — that open-ended or multi-step requests require. Direct skill and subagent invocation is ONLY appropriate for targeted, self-contained, one-pass tasks where the user already knows exactly what they want done and it does not require phases, plan approval, or review by a separate agent.

</invocation_guidance>

<workflow_phases>

<prerequisites phase="0", applies="ALL">

1. All Rosetta prep steps MUST be FULLY completed, SKILL load-project-context loaded and fully executed.
2. MUST use todo tasks for reliability
3. Phases are sequential. Orchestrator coordinates; trust skills and subagents to execute.
4. Scale: conversational — output is a message, no files, no state tracking.

<prerequisites phase="0", applies="ALL">

<list_capabilities phase="1" subagent="discoverer" role="KB catalog lister">

1. List capabilities from KB with XML format:

• LIST workflows
• LIST skills, then LIST skills/<name> for each.
• LIST agents

1. Build Capability Catalog: name, type (workflow/skill/agent), description — from frontmatter only.
2. Input: user request. Output: Capability Catalog.
3. Recommended skills: any currently useful.

</list_capabilities>

<match_and_acquire phase="2" subagent="discoverer" role="Capability matcher">

1. Match user request against Capability Catalog.
2. For each match, load it: READ FLOW <name>.md / READ SKILL <name> / READ SUBAGENT <name> per its type (e.g., READ FLOW coding-flow.md).
3. Extract: purpose, when to use, what to expect, inputs/outputs, HITL gates.
4. Input: user request + Capability Catalog. Output: Matched Capabilities.
5. Recommended skills: any currently useful.

</match_and_acquire>

<guide phase="3" subagent="discoverer" role="Capability guide">

1. Synthesize Capability Catalog and Matched Capabilities into developer-friendly guidance at 101 level.

• Brief table of all capabilities.
• Matched: what it does, when to use, what to expect, how to invoke.
• For "how to invoke": MUST follow the slash command pattern in <invocation_guidance> — show real examples using the QUICKSTART format.
• Concrete next actions relevant to user request.
• Do not give templates => apply it yourself and give fully correct instruction

1. Input: Capability Catalog + Matched Capabilities + user request. Output: guidance message.
2. USE SKILL natural-writing for final user-facing output.
3. Recommended skills: reasoning, and any currently useful.
4. HITL: present guide; ask if deeper drill-down is needed.

</guide>

<handoff phase="4" optional="true" type="orchestrator">

1. Triggered when user shifts from help to action (e.g., "run that workflow", "let's do coding").
2. READ FLOW <selected workflow>.md if not already loaded.
3. Adopt acquired workflow as active flow; start from its phase 1.
4. Self-help-flow yields control — does not wrap the adopted workflow.

</handoff>

</workflow_phases>

</self_help_flow>