Wayfinder (Matt Pocock skill)
For the effort too big for one agent session and still in fog. The skill charts a shared map on your issue tracker: a parent issue labelled wayfinder:map, with decision tickets as children. A decision ticket asks a question whose resolution is a decision, not a slice of a build. The map is an index, never a store: each decision lives in its ticket, the map gists it in one line and links. A session claims a ticket by assigning it before any work, blocking uses the tracker's native relationship, and the frontier is the open, unblocked, unclaimed tickets. When the fog lifts it hands off to /to-spec, it does not build.
Strengths
- The map lives on the tracker, so it outlives the session and stays readable by the whole team
- Index map, not store map: each decision has exactly one home, which prevents diverging copies
- Claiming a ticket by assignment before any work: two concurrent sessions do not collide
- Blocking via the tracker's native relationship, so the frontier is visible in its own UI without opening the map
Limitations
- High cognitive cost and slow: pulling it on a well-scoped feature is an anti-use the skill flags itself
- Assumes a tracker configured with native blocking relationships: on a poor tracker you fall back to a text convention
- Builds nothing: at the end you hold a decision map, the whole build still remains via /to-spec then /implement
Best for
- A greenfield or a rebuild where the destination is known but the route invisible
- Efforts spread over weeks and sessions, with decisions to keep between them
- Teams who want scoping decisions visible on the tracker, not buried in a chat