Every status transition is a documented agreement, not a silent flag flip — the reason lives on disk: in the body for terminal transitions, in the commit message for mid-flight ones. Mutate a card's status — everything except `done`, which is `Skill(finish-card)`'s DoD-gated contract. Read the c

Mutate a card's status (everything except done — that is finish-card's job), record relationship edges, or set the goc wait impediment overlay. AUTO-INVOKE on "I'll start on X", "mark this disproved", "supersede with Z", "make this depend on Y".

Hunt for one previously-undocumented defect, doc drift, missing test, or inconsistency; file it via Skill(create-card). AUTO-INVOKE on "find me a bug", "audit X", "check for inconsistencies", or /audit-deck. Inconsistencies are the primary lead.

Card schema reference — fields, status/stage/contribution/human_gate enums, canonical tags, DoD detection, relationship invariants, title convention. AUTO-INVOKE when other deck skills need schema context, or when the user asks about field semantics, status lifecycle, DoD format, or card titling.

Scrum's **Definition of Done** as a machine-checkable closure contract: `goc done` counts unchecked boxes and refuses to flip the status while any remain. The ticked checkbox list is the audit trail.

Codex-specific complement to the generic kickoff skill — install the GoC Codex plugin from the repo marketplace, explain hook activation, verify the goc CLI path. AUTO-INVOKE after Skill(kickoff) completes in Codex, or on "finish kickoff for Codex" / "set up Codex plugin".

File a new card with frontmatter and a DoD scaffold BEFORE implementation — the body is the briefing the next reader needs to act cold. AUTO-INVOKE on "let's do X", "implement Y", "fix Z", a described bug, a requested feature, or ANY new persistent work item.

The Andon-cord loop: `Skill(pull-card)` raises `human_gate` (`none → decision` / `session`) when it hits a question only a human can answer; this skill lowers the gate back to `none` in one cheap action. Status stays `open`, so the next `pull-card` claims and implements per the recorded decision.

Record a decision (what + why) on a parked card and lower the human gate from decision or session to none. AUTO-INVOKE on "I decided X", "let's go with Y", "approved", or any resolution of a parked card — the human's one-action handoff so pull-card can resume.

Front door for the deck — the operating substrate for ALL persistent work. AUTO-INVOKE when the user references the deck/methodology/workflow, or at session start as a reminder that persistent work flows through Skill(create-card) → Skill(advance-card) → Skill(finish-card).

A card is a self-contained briefing for the next reader — human or agent — written so the work can be picked up cold: its own evidence, its own framing, its own closure contract (the DoD). Scaffold a `deck/<title>/` dir with valid frontmatter, an empty `log.md`, and a placeholder DoD that `Skill

The generic `kickoff` skill is host-agnostic: it introduces GoC, runs the persona dialog, asks where the briefing should live (`AGENTS.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, or `CLAUDE.local.md`), and runs `goc install --briefing-target <choice>` to scaffold `.game-of-cards/`. This complement handles everything Claude C

The generic `kickoff` skill is host-agnostic: it introduces GoC, asks where the briefing should live, and scaffolds `.game-of-cards/`. This complement handles Codex-specific plugin setup.

The generic `kickoff` skill is host-agnostic: it introduces GoC, runs the persona dialog, asks about the AGENTS.md merge, and runs `goc install` to scaffold `.game-of-cards/`. This complement handles everything OpenClaw-specific that the generic kickoff intentionally leaves alone:

Close a card with DoD enforcement and a log.md closure entry — goc done refuses to close with any unchecked box. AUTO-INVOKE on "done", "close this", "finish X", "ship it", or when work satisfies a card's DoD. For every other status change, use advance-card.

Pull the highest-leverage `human_gate: none` open card off the queue, claim it, work it, close it, commit. AUTO-INVOKE when the user says "drain the queue", "pull a card", "let the agents work", "autonomous mode", "make progress", or when invoked via /loop or /schedule.

Every iteration the BOARD gets better, not just the code on it: this skill is the recurring hygiene tax that keeps the deck's read-pattern guarantee alive as filing slows down and rot accumulates. The hook above may extend the flow with project-specific categories or thresholds (scope rules in `refe

Deck hygiene pass — retag stale cards, prune 90-day unverified parks, surface defunct references, orphaned dependencies, and jargon titles. AUTO-INVOKE on "tidy up the deck", "hygiene pass", "clean up the queue", or /refine-deck. The board itself gets refactored each iteration.

Kanban's first practice (Anderson): **make work visible**. You cannot manage what you cannot see, and a swarm of /loop iterations cannot prioritize against state it has to reconstruct from chat. This skill renders the board for whoever's looking — human-supportive triage, filtered queues, kanban c

Browse the deck — supportive triage view, filtered queues, kanban board, JSON dump, decision Q&A. Read-only by default. AUTO-INVOKE on "what's open", "show me the deck", "kanban view", or "decisions to make" — and ALWAYS before Skill(create-card) to dedup against existing titles.