What problem does it solve? SDD phase skills need consistent rules for artifact persistence, naming conventions, and sub-agent coordination, but duplicating these rules in every skill creates drift and maintenance burden. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Persistence Contract: Defines the four artifact store modes (engram, openspec, hybrid, none) and their read/write behavior per mode. - Naming Conventions: Provides deterministic Engram topic_key patterns and OpenSpec directory structures for all SDD artifacts. - Common Phase Protocol: Supplies shared boilerplate for skill loading, artifact retrieval, return envelopes, and review workload guards. - Use Case: When an orchestrator launches an sdd-propose sub-agent, the sub-agent reads these shared references to know exactly how to persist its proposal and structure its return envelope. ## Quick Start Read the shared reference files in this directory before executing any SDD phase skill to apply the correct persistence and status contracts.