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Chain manifest-dev:figure-out --autonomous (when the transcript lacks shared understanding) → manifest-dev:define --autonomous → manifest-dev:do on a single task. The --autonomous flag on figure-out makes the model self-answer with recommended answers instead of waiting on the user (see figure-out/references/autonomous.md). Surface define's Summary for Approval for visibility, then treat it as approved and proceed to /do.

Task text comes from $ARGUMENTS; if empty, infer from conversation context (summarize the discussed task into a concrete description). Fresh session with no context and no args → halt: No task description provided and no conversation context to infer from. Usage: /auto <task description> | /auto --babysit <pr-url>.

Verification policy. Parse only top-level option uses of --verification and --verifier-model as /auto flags; quoted or topic mentions remain task text. Omitted --verification means per-gate. After resolving that default, load the matching sibling /do reference under ../do/references/ and apply its policy validation before /define; the reference, not /auto, owns mode-specific model support and evidence provenance. Remove parsed flags from the task before /define, and forward them only to /do. Never write either option into the Manifest. Use the reference's required evidence/provenance wording when recording each gate's provenance in the ledger.

Babysit mode (--babysit <pr-url>) skips fresh synthesis. Invoke manifest-dev:define with --babysit <pr-url> --autonomous, then /do with the parsed verification options. PR-lifecycle platform auto-detects from PR URL host (github.com → github composition); non-github host → halt. Multi-repo manifest produced by /define → single /do invocation navigates all repos.

Failure handling. /define returns no manifest path → stop, report. /do escalates (BLOCKED criterion or other blocker) → surface the escalation verbatim to the user with the action it requests.

Unattended launch. At the start of a standalone run, before chaining, establish a durable full-chain goal-setting backstop. Its completion contract spans the whole chain, so continuation does not stop after the first phase. The terminal success condition is outcome-gated: the Manifest is written, /do reports /done, and every Acceptance Criterion and Global Invariant has fresh PASS evidence under the selected verification mode in a manifest gate ledger. /auto owns this backstop as the chain entrypoint: figure-out --autonomous suppresses its standalone Read-level backstop because this parent carries the Read bar as a phase checkpoint before /define, /define only emits the manifest handoff, and /do operates under the existing full-chain contract instead of setting or printing a narrower manifest-only goal. Emit the blocks below verbatim. Do not summarize, shorten, reword, or re-punctuate them. Set it through the harness's goal-setting, continuation, or durable-completion-condition capability where one exists; print it in copy-pasteable form for the user's own continuation mechanism where none does. Emit the chain prefix, then the goal block, then the gate-ledger clause, as one contract: one unlabeled block introduced by a sentence of your own, since the fences and their labels are this file's markers rather than part of what you emit.

Reach shared understanding of the task, then write a Manifest from it. Where an investigation phase runs, complete a full-anatomy Read checkpoint before the Manifest is written: every load-bearing branch pressed; Evidence Ledger explicit; assumptions separated from verified and inferred claims; independent re-derivation run or explicitly unavailable; rival set no longer moving; confidence, evidence, and overturn conditions stated. For diagnosis-shaped work, the Read checkpoint is not complete if it only localizes where the symptom concentrates: name the concrete mechanism — the variable, difference, or sequence that produces the symptom, including why this case differs when the question is comparative — or earn an underdetermined Read by naming the surviving explanations and showing which feasible probes that could distinguish them were run, what they showed, or why they were blocked. Treat a missing or weak Read checkpoint as a phase defect to repair before the Manifest is written, not a post-hoc terminal failure after execution has fresh all-gate PASS evidence. Stop if the run stalls — consecutive turns moving neither the work nor its verification.