Open Work

Produce one deterministic inventory, then act only through capabilities the current harness declares. Accept one optional mode: interactive or report; reject other arguments. If the mode is absent, default to interactive.

Before acquiring data, read these references completely:

1. references/rendering.md for source interpretation and exact output.
2. references/capabilities.md for mode and capability behavior.
3. references/actions.md only when interactive actions may be offered.

Use references/acceptance.md when validating or changing this skill.

Acquire one normalized snapshot

Resolve the producer root in this order:

1. An explicit OPEN_WORK_ROOT containing bin/.
2. This skill's adjacent scripts/ directory.
3. Same-named resources on PATH.

The first two producers are required for a complete inventory. Invoke readable source through named interpreters; executable bits are neither required nor permitted for packaged assets:

python3 "${OPEN_WORK_ROOT}/bin/open-items" --json
python3 "${OPEN_WORK_ROOT}/bin/triage-list-drafts" --json --include-approved

Both producers are Python; invoke each under the interpreter its shebang names. Running one under bash does not merely fail — bash reads import json as ImageMagick's import(1), emits X-server errors, and still exits 0, so the caller cannot tell that garbage from a clean run.

Run each producer once. Treat every source independently: retain available sources and one bounded warning for each unavailable source. Do not invent rows, counts, dependencies, dispositions, or progress.

Render before acting

Normalize the producer results exactly as described in references/rendering.md. Render the full report before offering or executing actions. The report is valid even when one or all sources are unavailable.

In report mode, stop after rendering. In interactive mode, inspect the binding's declared capabilities and follow references/capabilities.md. No response channel means render the report, name the unavailable actions, and stop without mutation.

Preserve authority

Offer only action classes with non-empty eligible sets. A current-invocation response must identify known items and supported actions unambiguously. Cancellation, silence, or ambiguity grants no authority. Execute confirmed actions only in the ordering and failure boundaries defined in references/actions.md.

Never reimplement a missing workflow capability inline. Never perform Git commit, push, sync, cross-repository mutation, or destructive cleanup merely because inventory was requested. Repository instructions and the invoked workflow remain authoritative.