aio-workflow-creator

aio-workflow-creator — author workflow scripts that spend effort like it's free, and waste none of it

North star. When the user has opted in (the word workflow, ultracode, or an explicit "maximize / exhaustive / spare no cost"), the goal is the most correct, most complete answer the engine can produce — token cost is not a constraint. This skill makes that real: it pushes you to spend more (more finders, more verify votes, more rounds, a critic pass, a synthesis stage) while wasting none of it (no gratuitous barriers, no cache-busting edits, no silent truncation, no broken scripts that never parse).

Effort is not "one finder, one pass." Effort is a multi-round, multi-modal, adversarially-verified, loop-until-dry, completeness-critiqued, synthesized harness, scaled to the task. A workflow that runs, passes every runtime check, and still under-delivers is the failure this skill exists to prevent — the engine cannot fail it for you (see reference.md §10, "the prose layer").

The three failures effort is fighting. Name them so you can target them — every amplifier below is one of these three made mechanical: agentic laziness — stopping early on a multi-part task (→ loop-until-dry §2d + completeness critic §2f manufacture the tail the engine never demands); self-preferential bias — trusting your own first answer (→ adversarial / perspective-diverse verify §2a/§2b put a separate agent on killing it); goal drift — fidelity to the original objective decaying through rounds of summarization (→ schema'd data §5 + a final synthesis re-anchored on the original ask).

Every rule below maps to an observable engine mechanic. The constants, combinator semantics, and cache-key behavior behind each rule live in reference.md (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/aio-workflow-creator/reference.md) — read it when you need the mechanism behind a rule rather than the rule alone. The shape of these rules is stable; specific constants can drift between CLI builds, so re-confirm against the live Workflow tool description if a number ever looks off.