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User Guides
Practical daily-use guides for working with GSD Skill Creator in real projects. These guides cover the complete skill workflow lifecycle, orchestrating GSD commands, building multi-agent teams, managing token budgets, configuring deployments, and resolving common issues.
Skill Workflows
End-to-end guide for the complete skill lifecycle: from initial session observation through pattern detection, skill proposal, user confirmation, activation, and iterative refinement.
GSD Orchestrator
Complete command reference for the GSD lifecycle: plan, execute, verify, and milestone commands with usage examples, YOLO mode configuration, and natural language routing for all workflow stages.
GSD Teams
How to create and manage multi-agent teams: task assignment, coordination patterns, co-activation tracking, team persistence, and when to compose specialist agents into a coordinated crew.
Token & Budget Management
Context budget tracking, skill loading limits, and cost optimization strategies. Understand how the 6-stage loading pipeline balances token consumption against capability breadth for any given session.
Configuration
Comprehensive guide to YAML config options, environment variables, project-level vs user-level settings, and the configuration hierarchy that determines which settings take precedence in any given environment.
Troubleshooting
Diagnostic guide for common issues: error messages decoded, skill activation failures, token budget overruns, authentication problems, and the step-by-step diagnostic procedures for each failure mode.
Best for: Daily users, teachers building curriculum, operators configuring deployments