Guide Loader

Load development guides into context when needed. Delegates to the dev-guides-navigator plugin for online guide discovery.

Activation

Activate when:

• Designing or implementing features that match guide topics
• User requests a specific guide
• Invoked by other skills (guide-integrator, task-context-loader)
• "Load the ECA guide" or "What does my guide say about..."

Workflow

1. Check for Local Guides Path (Legacy)

Read {project_path}/project_state.md and look for **Guides Path:** {path}.

If found and specific guide requested by filename, read it directly. Otherwise, proceed to step 2.

2. Delegate to Navigator

Invoke the dev-guides-navigator skill with the task keywords. The navigator handles:

• Hash-based caching of llms.txt (no redundant fetches)
• Topic matching with KG metadata disambiguation
• Routing to the correct guide via topic index.md
• Fetching the specific guide content

3. Integrate with Current Work

Based on guide content returned by the navigator, suggest:

Apply to current task:
- {Specific recommendation from guide}
- {Pattern to follow}
- {Thing to avoid}

Add these to architecture/implementation? (yes/no)

Stop Points

STOP and wait for user:

• If requested guide not found locally or via navigator
• After presenting guide content (ask if need more)