What problem does it solve? Dispatched Kanban workers often fail silently by producing poor handoffs, hallucinating card IDs, blocking with vague reasons, or retrying blindly after a crash. This Skill provides the deeper operational detail beyond the auto-injected KANBAN_GUIDANCE lifecycle so workers complete, block, and hand off tasks correctly. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Structured Handoffs: Defines good summary and metadata shapes for coding, research, and review tasks, including the review-required block pattern using kanban_comment plus kanban_block. - Workspace and Tenant Handling: Explains how to work in scratch, dir, and worktree workspaces, and how to prefix memory entries with $HERMES_TENANT to prevent cross-tenant leakage. - Retry Diagnostics: Interprets prior run outcomes (timed_out, crashed, spawn_failed, reclaimed, blocked) so retries take a different path instead of repeating failures. - Use Case: A worker finishes a rate limiter implementation, posts structured metadata as a comment, blocks with a review-required reason, and a human reviewer unblocks it after approval. ## Quick Start Load the kanban-worker skill and follow its guidance to complete your current Kanban task with a proper summary, metadata, and heartbeat.