Ase help skill
Agentic Software Engineering (ASE)
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Show the manual page of an ASE skill, addressed by its full name, by any abbreviation of it, or by a description of its purpose, and list the entire skill catalog when no name is given. Use when the user wants the "manual", "man page", "manpage", or "help" of a particular ASE skill, or asks what a certain `ase-xxx-xxx` skill does.
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@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-dialog.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md
<skill name="ase-help-skill"> Show the Manual Page of an ASE Skill </skill><expand name="getopt" arg1="ase-help-skill" arg2=""> $ARGUMENTS </expand>
<objective> *Show* the *manual page* of the ASE skill addressed by the following skill name, abbreviation of it, or description of its purpose: <skill-ref><getopt-arguments/></skill-ref> </objective>The following <catalog/> is index of all ASE skills -- one
⎈ **<group/>** entry per skill group and one
○ `<name/>`: <purpose/> entry per skill -- and this is
the sole index <skill-ref/> is resolved against:
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<step id="STEP 1: Resolve Skill Name">
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<if condition="<skill-ref/> is empty">
No particular skill was addressed, so render the *entire*
<catalog/> as a browsable list with the following <template/>
-- one list entry per catalog entry, in catalog order, where
<name/> and <purpose/> are the two fields of the entry (and
<name-padded/> is <name/>, padded to 22 characters with
spaces on the right) -- and then immediately *STOP* processing
the entire current skill:
<template>
<ase-tpl-head title="SKILL CATALOG"/>
<catalog/>
<ase-tpl-foot title="SKILL CATALOG"/>
</template>
The rendered <catalog/> itself was explicitly requested and hence is always emitted. Only the trailing pointer to the per-skill manual page is a hint, so emit it by expanding the following (which, depending on the configured <ase-guidance-level/>, may expand into nothing):
<ase-tpl-hint level="normal"> run `/ase-help-skill ase-xxx-xxx` for manual page of individual skill </ase-tpl-hint> </if> -
Set <skill-ref-raw/> to <skill-ref/> with only its leading and trailing whitespace stripped, as the verbatim wording of the user is required later on.
Normalize <skill-ref/> by stripping all leading and trailing whitespace and then, repeatedly, any leading
/andase:prefix, so thatase-code-lint,/ase-code-lint,ase:ase-code-lint, and/ase:ase-code-lintall normalize toase-code-lint. Do not output anything. -
Resolve the normalized <skill-ref/> against <catalog/> in three tiers and store the outcome in <candidates/>. Each tier is tried only if all preceding tiers yielded no candidate at all:
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Exact Name Tier:
If a catalog name is equal to <skill-ref/>, set <candidates/> to exactly that single name.
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Substring Name Tier:
Set <candidates/> to all catalog names containing <skill-ref/> as a substring, in alphabetical order.
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Fuzzy Purpose Tier:
Set <candidates/> to all catalog names whose purpose -- the part after the colon of the catalog entry -- fuzzily matches <skill-ref-raw/>, in descending order of match quality. Match against <skill-ref-raw/>, and not against <skill-ref/>, as this tier matches free-text wording, which the normalization of sub-step 2 would distort.
A purpose matches fuzzily if it shares the topic, the wording, or evident synonyms with <skill-ref-raw/>, so that e.g.
manpagematchesShow the Manual Page of an ASE Skillandroot causematchesFive-Whys Root-Cause Analysis. Include plausible matches only -- if none is plausible, leave <candidates/> empty.
Set <count/> to the number of entries in <candidates/>. Do not output anything.
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<if condition="<skill-ref/> is empty">
No particular skill was addressed, so render the *entire*
<catalog/> as a browsable list with the following <template/>
-- one list entry per catalog entry, in catalog order, where
<name/> and <purpose/> are the two fields of the entry (and
<name-padded/> is <name/>, padded to 22 characters with
spaces on the right) -- and then immediately *STOP* processing
the entire current skill:
<template>
<ase-tpl-head title="SKILL CATALOG"/>
<catalog/>
<ase-tpl-foot title="SKILL CATALOG"/>
</template>
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<step id="STEP 2: Dispatch Resolution">
- <if condition="<count/> is equal 0"> Only output the following <template/> and then immediately *STOP* processing the entire current skill: <template> ⧉ **ASE**: ✪ skill: **ase-help-skill**, ▶ ERROR: unknown skill: **<skill-ref-raw/>** </template> </if>
- <elseif condition="<count/> is equal 1"> Set <name/> to the single entry of <candidates/> and continue processing. Do not output anything. </elseif>
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<else>
The abbreviation is *ambiguous*, so let the user pick the
intended skill.
Set <shown/> to the first 9 entries of <candidates/>, as the dialog renders at most nine answer lines.
<if condition="<count/> is greater than 9"> Set <truncation> (showing 9 of <count/> candidates)</truncation> </if> <else> Set <truncation></truncation> (set to empty) </else>In the following, you MUST NOT use your built-in <user-dialog-tool/> tool! Instead, you MUST just show a custom dialog according to the expanded
custom-dialogdefinition. You MUST closely follow this definition.Let the user select the intended skill by raising a question with the following custom dialog, where each answer line corresponds to one entry of <shown/>, using the catalog name as the label and its catalog purpose as the description:
<expand name="custom-dialog" arg1="--no-other"> Ambiguous Skill: Which skill's manual page should be shown?<truncation/> <name/>: <purpose/> [...] </expand>Check the <result/> and dispatch accordingly:
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If <result/> is
CANCEL: STOP processing without any further output. -
Otherwise: Set <name/> to the selected skill name and continue processing.
</else>
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<step id="STEP 3: Render Manual Page">
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Use the
Readtool to read the manual page of the resolved skill <name/> and set <manual/> to its content. The file path is formed by joining <ase-plugin-root/> andskills/<name/>/help.mdwith exactly one/separator, as <ase-plugin-root/> may or may not carry a trailing/. Do not output anything related to this tool call. - <if condition="<manual/> is empty or could not be read"> Only output the following <template/> and then immediately *STOP* processing the entire current skill: <template> ⧉ **ASE**: ✪ skill: **ase-help-skill**, ▶ ERROR: unreadable manual page: **<name/>** </template> </if>
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Treat <manual/> as verbatim Markdown. You MUST NOT truncate, summarize, reformat, or partially show it. Only output the following <template/>:
<template> <ase-tpl-head title="MANUAL PAGE: <name/>"/> <manual/> <ase-tpl-foot title="MANUAL PAGE: <name/>"/> </template>
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