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prompt-builder

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by microsoft · part of microsoft/hve-core

Create or update prompt artifacts through the full prompt-builder phase loop, routing refactor and analyze requests to the specialized skills.

🧩 One of 7 skills in the microsoft/hve-core package — works on its own, and pairs well with its siblings.

This is the playbook your agent receives when the skill activates — you don't need to read it to use the skill, but it's here to audit before installing.

Prompt Builder Compatibility Skill

Goal

Preserve legacy prompt-builder activation while routing all source changes, review, behavior testing, validation, and outcome resolution through the hve-builder skill.

Flow

  1. Translate promptFiles to targets. Treat files as reference context unless the caller explicitly includes them in the write boundary.
  2. Resolve create when an approved target is missing and improve when targets already exist. Route explicit cleanup to the prompt-refactor compatibility skill and read-only analysis to prompt-analyze.
  3. Activate hve-builder with the targets, selected mode, requirements, reference context, and any caller-owned evidence root.
  4. Return the hve-builder final response without adding a second author, test, or evaluation loop.

Inputs

  • promptFiles: target prompt-engineering artifacts; defaults to current open or attached files
  • files: reference artifacts used to derive requirements
  • requirements: explicit objectives, constraints, and acceptance criteria
  • evidenceRoot: optional caller-owned HVE Builder evidence path

Success Criteria

  • Legacy inputs map to an explicit HVE Builder target set and write boundary.
  • hve-builder completes every required gate for the selected mode.
  • The returned overall outcome is unchanged from hve-builder.

Constraints

  • Do not dispatch retired named lifecycle workers.
  • Do not maintain a second sandbox, status vocabulary, or quality rubric.
  • Do not treat reference files as write targets without explicit approval.

Stop Rules

  • Stop when hve-builder returns Pass, Revise, Deferred, or Blocked.
  • Ask only when target identity or write authority cannot be inferred safely.

Handoff

Use prompt-analyze for a legacy read-only request and prompt-refactor for a legacy behavior-preserving cleanup request. Both route back to hve-builder.

Final Response Contract

Return the mode, targets, changed files, static verdict, behavior-test fidelity and verdict, validation result, overall outcome, evidence links, and next action.