What problem does it solve? New features often stall because integration risk is discovered late. This Skill forces you to define the thinnest end-to-end slice of a feature — one trivial happy path wired through every architectural layer — so integration and architecture are proven before real business logic is built. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Structured skeleton capture: Collects layers crossed, the thinnest happy path, proof-of-life, and an explicit in/out scope boundary through one-question-at-a-time conversation. - Taxonomy guidance: Distinguishes the walking skeleton (kept, production-shaped) from throwaway spikes and prototypes, redirecting when the wrong technique is chosen. - Handoff to /to-issues: Produces a confirmed structured plan with acceptance criteria and passes it to /to-issues for ticket filing. - Use Case: Before building a new orders service, use this Skill to define a slice where POST /orders with a hardcoded line item returns 201 and writes one row, proving UI, API, domain, and datastore layers are wired end to end. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to run /walking-skeleton for the feature or service you want to prove end to end, then answer its questions one at a time.
