Atomic Skills Beats

Accepted Beat Path

1. Open with the distinction: atomic skills do one bounded move, while phase wrappers coordinate lifecycle flow.
2. Explain why atomic skills need their own docs surface: the reference table lists them, but operators need judgment about when to invoke them.
3. Use parallel-research as the first example because it changes analysis behavior. It widens readonly discovery across independent questions and then forces synthesis before action.
4. Name the parallel-research boundary: readonly, split-friendly work. Keep coding, tight debugging, and tiny questions local.
5. Use handoff as the second example because it changes context management. It supports a clean restart before a new long phase.
6. Name the handoff boundary: use it between phases or before a fresh long run. Avoid using it inside the same active phase.
7. Close by routing readers to Skill Reference for lookup and Context Engineering for the deeper context-decay model.