Atomic Skills Shape

Page Promise

The reader should understand how to use individual atomic skills with proper weight, especially parallel-research for analysis and handoff for clean phase transitions.

Structure

1. What Atomic Skills Do: define atomic skills as bounded operating contracts.
2. How They Enter Work: explain explicit triggers through user request, scoped guidance, plans, handoffs, or phase delegation.
3. Parallel Research: teach the use case, boundaries, and expected output.
4. Handoff: teach the use case, boundaries, and expected output.
5. Choosing The Right Weight: explain that some skills deserve a full workflow moment while others stay as small lenses.
6. Related Mechanics: link to Skill Model, Skill Reference, Context Engineering, and Phase Wrappers.

Format Decisions

• Use short sections with concrete examples. This page should teach judgment, not catalog every skill.
• Use bullets for fit, avoid, and output because those fields repeat for each example.
• Keep the full catalog in Skill Reference.