name: autopilot description: Autonomous end-to-end execution skill. Use when the user gives a broad directive (improve, audit, fix, ship, polish) that should run from audit through deploy without check-ins. This skill codifies the loop-until-live pattern and the stop conditions.
Autopilot execution
Autopilot runs a directive from audit → implementation → verify → ship → confirm-live without stopping. This skill is the execution pattern; the slash command wrapper is .claude/commands/autopilot.md.
When to engage
Broad directives (engage autopilot):
- "improve the subpages"
- "audit and fix everything"
- "ship the best UX you can"
- "fix whatever's broken"
- "proceed with all of it"
- "do whatever you need to do"
- Any follow-up "proceed" after an audit
Narrow directives (do NOT engage autopilot):
- "change this one button"
- "what do you think about X?"
- "explain how Y works"
- "plan out the approach" (that's
/plan)
The five phases
Phase 1: Classify
Read the directive and categorize it. Common patterns:
| Directive pattern | Workflow |
|---|---|
| "improve UI/UX", "subpages look bad", "polish the site" | F (full-spectrum) + G (UI/UX deep) |
| "fix accessibility" | A11y-focused subset of F |
| "improve SEO" | SEO-focused subset of F |
| "audit and fix CI" | D (CI) |
| "ship the content changes" | A (content) |
| "what's wrong with X" (report only) | /full-audit — NOT autopilot |
If ambiguous, default to Workflow F.
Phase 2: Parallel audit
Launch every relevant specialist agent in a single message, multiple Agent calls (concurrent execution):
Agent(subagent_type="seo-auditor", prompt="...")
Agent(subagent_type="a11y-reviewer", prompt="...")
Agent(subagent_type="design-token-auditor", prompt="...")
Agent(subagent_type="visual-polish-reviewer", prompt="...")
Agent(subagent_type="release-engineer", prompt="...")
For content directives, also include content-guardian and copywriter. For harness directives, also harness-optimizer.
Wait for all to return, then consolidate into a single P0/P1/P2 list.
Phase 3: Implement
Do not present the list for approval. Move directly to implementation.
Parallelize Edit operations across independent files. When 10+ changes span multiple files, delegate a chunk to an implementation subagent (general-purpose with specific file scope and rules).
Implementation rules:
- Make the smallest change that achieves the goal
- Preserve ALL existing content (cardinal rule)
- Never touch
src/pages/index.astro - Use
section-title*,section-kicker,.button-primary/secondary,argmin-*tokens — never raw Tailwind palette - Match patterns from other subpages when adding something new
Phase 4: Verify
Run the full chain:
npm run check
npm run build
npm run audit:site
PUBLIC_FORMSPREE_URL=https://formspree.io/f/test000 npm run validate:contact-configured
If ANY step fails:
- Read the error message carefully
- If root cause is obvious (typo, missing import, broken selector), fix directly
- If unclear, run the underlying script with verbose output to understand
- Re-run the full chain
- Max 3 iterations. If still failing after iteration 3, surface to user with diagnosis.
Phase 5: Ship and confirm live
git addspecific files (nevergit add .)- Commit with structured message: summary line + sections per category (a11y, SEO, design, CI, content, docs)
git push -u origin main(or feature branch if branch protection)- Poll deployment via
gh run list --branch main --limit 1until it shows "completed success" (max 5 min) curl -I https://argmin.co/<changed-page>to confirm live response contains the change (header or body)- Report: what shipped, live URL, deferred items (if any)
Stop conditions (CRITICAL only)
Pause only when:
- Change would alter a claim's meaning (factual assertion, metric, name)
- Change would delete content, even a paragraph
- Change would restructure navigation or URL routes
- Change touches CSP beyond tightening, auth, secrets, IAM
- Change requires force-push or main branch reset
- Target file is
src/pages/index.astro
All other changes: proceed. Example safe-to-proceed changes:
- Contrast fixes (color swap via token)
- Radius normalization
- Shadow token migration
- Focus ring restoration
- Meta tag rewrites
- Canonical URL fixes
- JSON-LD additions
- Heading level corrections
- Typography class substitution (section-title for raw text-*)
- CI threshold adjustments
- Validator additions
- Component radius/spacing/border tweaks
- Documentation updates
- Hover/active/focus state additions
- Mobile responsive fixes
Anti-patterns to avoid
- ❌ "Here's the plan, should I proceed?" → proceed.
- ❌ "Found 15 issues, want me to fix them?" → fix them.
- ❌ "Deploy looks done, should I verify?" → verify.
- ❌ "Which option do you prefer?" → if it's mechanical, pick the one that best matches the existing design system.
- ❌ Running one validator and stopping → run the FULL chain.
- ❌ Stopping at "pushed to main" → continue to deploy verification.
Success criteria
An autopilot run is complete when:
- All validators pass
- Commit is on
main(or merged PR if branch protection) - Cloudflare Workers Builds reports success
- The live URL reflects the change
- A consolidated summary is delivered to the user
Example invocations
/autopilot improve subpage UI/UX
/autopilot fix all WCAG failures
/autopilot polish the platform page
/autopilot deep audit and ship all P0/P1 fixes
Each should run audit → fix → verify → ship → confirm-live without further prompts.