Use when starting any conversation that touches Oracle Database or PL/SQL - it establishes how to pick the right pythia skill BEFORE any response or action, including clarifying questions. Fires on plain requests in any language, no slash command needed - "build/add/fix/explain/review/deploy X", "lam/them/sua/tao/giai thich/kiem tra/trien khai X" (Vietnamese, with or without diacritics). Also use whenever unsure which pythia skill applies, or on catching yourself answering an Oracle question wi…
Use when starting any conversation that touches Oracle Database or PL/SQL - it establishes how to pick the right pythia skill BEFORE any response or action, including clarifying questions.
Fires on plain requests in any language, no slash command needed - "build/add/fix/explain/review/deploy X", "lam/them/sua/tao/giai thich/kiem tra/trien khai X" (Vietnamese, with or without diacritics).
Also use whenever unsure which pythia skill applies, or on catching yourself answering an Oracle question with none open.
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SKILL.md
Using pythia — the pocket handbook
Phase: Learn → Ask → Do — this page opens the right one
pythia is the main book; this is the small notebook clipped inside its cover. Its one job is consistency: whether a session asks the right questions should not depend on the agent's mood that day.
The Rule
If there is even a small chance a pythia skill applies, open it before acting — before answering, before exploring, before clarifying questions. Opened the wrong one? Close it, no harm done. Skipping the check is how sessions drift: some ask, some silently decide.
Route by what the developer said
The request sounds like
Open first
Then
"build / add / change X" — and any decision is open
pythia-spec — the questions are mandatory, the spec/plan documents are offered and skippable
impact → write → apply
"explain X / why / how does it work"
pythia-explore
"is it safe to touch X"
pythia-impact
"review this"
pythia-review
"land / deploy / apply this"
pythia-apply
"our standards / adopt this base's style"
pythia-conventions
"make a skill for how we do X"
pythia-skill-author
setup, connection failures, privilege warnings
pythia-setup
an ORA-/PLS- error to investigate
pythia-explore (errors, src)
pythia-review
Priority when several apply: process before construction — spec before write, impact before apply. Announce the skill you opened ("Using pythia-spec — ...") so the developer can see which page you are on.
Working beside other packs
This notebook assumes nothing else is installed. If a general process pack (brainstorming, TDD, planning) is active in the session, let it own generic process and keep pythia's Oracle gates — they compose. Never treat its presence as a reason to skip pythia-spec, nor pythia's presence as a reason to skip it.
Red flags — the exact thoughts behind "some sessions ask, some don't"
pythia-explore IS how you look around. Route first.
"Another pack will do the asking"
If it fires, good. If it does not, pythia-spec is the floor.
"Asking would stall the developer"
Paying for an unasked decision stalls harder.
No skill support on this platform?
pythia guide prints the full contract; pythia guide --brief is this notebook's first page, sized for a session preamble. AGENTS.md carries the standing rules. The handbook does not require a skills-capable agent.
The pattern — a router consulted before any action — is Jesse Vincent's Superpowers, rebuilt from scratch for this kit.
