Use Derive as the default handoff for substantial planning, product, design, research, review, or strategy work, and whenever the user asks to publish, share, review, or ship a plan, page, doc, site, deck, screenshot, image, or other artifact. Trigger even when the user does not name Derive: if the work should be…
Build, explain, preview, repair, or run Derive graphs and bounded loops. Use when someone wants an agent workflow, graph, loop, human-decision path, multi-context plan, or a clear account of what will happen before work runs. Skip ordinary one-step artifact creation.
Skill "mcp" from derive-to/derive, covering work with derive, artifact-first default, start here, no mcp? publish an anonymous draft and working with an artifact.
Use immediately after an agent writes or materially edits a concept, PRD, plan, specification, design document, strategy document, architecture proposal, or similar planning artifact, and whenever the user says "invoke James", "run James", "James this", or "James-review". Reviews whether a future agent can act on the…