CLI ↔ Skills Wiring Map

HISTORICAL SNAPSHOT (2026-04) — predates the 2026-06/07 skill consolidations; names herein (vibe, retro, autodev, flywheel, curate, recover, …) may be retired. Regenerate before trusting.

Which ao commands are called by which skills — and vice versa.

Auto-audited 2026-04-24; targeted runtime-proof update 2026-04-28. 32 generated CLI command headings, 69 source skills. (AgentOps 3.0 is hookless — there is no runtime hook surface; lifecycle work is driven by skills + the ao CLI, with the installed local cockpit pre-push gate as routine authority and CI as tag/PR/manual backstop telemetry.)

Registry-first note: /plan, /pre-mortem, /research, /vibe, and /post-mortem now also read or write .agents/findings/registry.jsonl directly via skill contract. Those file-native prevention reads are intentionally not counted as ao command invocations in the tables below.

Summary

Category	Count
Generated CLI command headings	59
CLI command entries with skill callers	32
Orphan/hidden command entries (user utilities, hidden, CI-only)	21
Known phantom subcommands	0

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CLI Commands → Callers

Every ao command that is actively called by at least one skill.

Command	Skill Callers
ao inject	crank, evolve, implement, inject, recover, research, retro
ao forge	flywheel, forge, post-mortem, retro, vibe, evolve, crank
ao ratchet	crank, handoff, implement, plan, pre-mortem, ratchet, rpi, status, vibe
ao goals	goals, evolve
ao search	crank, inject, plan, pre-mortem, provenance, research, using-agentops, vibe
ao rpi — removed in 3.0 (f61c5f0e7); the RPI engine is gone. The loop is now the seven-move operating loop driven in-session by the /rpi skill, with out-of-session runs on the NTM + MCP Agent Mail substrate (AgentOps ships no daemon)	autodev, council, crank, plan, quickstart, research, rpi, shared, swarm
ao autodev	autodev
ao flywheel	crank, evolve, flywheel, post-mortem, quickstart, retro, status
ao pool	crank, status
ao lookup	crank, implement, inject, plan, pre-mortem, research, using-agentops
ao context	crank, implement, swarm
ao codex	autodev, brainstorm, crank, discovery, handoff, implement, quickstart, recover, research, rpi, status, using-agentops, validation
ao compile	compile
ao maturity	flywheel
ao constraint	flywheel, post-mortem, retro
ao badge	flywheel, status
ao eval bench	flywheel
ao seed	quickstart
ao notebook	retro
ao dedup	flywheel
ao contradict	flywheel
ao metrics	flywheel
ao init	quickstart
ao session	post-mortem, retro
ao temper	post-mortem
ao curate	flywheel
ao status	flywheel, quickstart
ao task-feedback	retro
ao task-status	status
ao anti-patterns	flywheel

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Skills → Commands

Which ao commands each skill invokes.

Skill	ao Commands Used
autodev	autodev init, autodev validate, codex ensure-start, evolve, rpi
brainstorm	codex ensure-start
compile	compile
crank	codex ensure-start, context assemble, flywheel close-loop, flywheel status, forge transcript, inject, lookup, pool list, ratchet record, ratchet status, rpi phased, search
discovery	codex ensure-start
evolve	forge, goals measure, inject
flywheel	badge, constraint review, contradict, curate status, dedup, maturity, metrics cite-report, metrics health, anti-patterns, retrieval-bench, status
forge	forge markdown, forge transcript
goals	goals add, goals drift, goals export, goals history, goals init, goals measure, goals meta, goals migrate, goals prune, goals steer, goals validate
handoff	codex ensure-stop, ratchet status
implement	codex ensure-start, context assemble, lookup, ratchet record, ratchet skip, ratchet spec, ratchet status
inject	inject, lookup, search
plan	lookup, ratchet record, rpi cleanup, rpi status, search
post-mortem	constraint activate, flywheel close-loop, forge, forge markdown, forge transcript, session close, temper validate
pre-mortem	lookup, ratchet record, search
provenance	search
quickstart	codex ensure-start, codex ensure-stop, codex status, flywheel status, hooks install, hooks test, init, quick-start, quickstart, rpi phased, seed, status
ratchet	ratchet check, ratchet record, ratchet skip, ratchet status
recover	codex ensure-start, codex status, lookup
research	codex ensure-start, inject, lookup, rpi phased, search
retro	constraint activate, constraint review, flywheel close-loop, forge, forge markdown, notebook update, session close, task-feedback
rpi	codex ensure-start, ratchet record, rpi cancel, rpi cleanup
status	badge, codex ensure-start, flywheel status, pool list, pool promote, pool stage, ratchet status, task-status
swarm	context assemble, rpi phased
using-agentops	codex ensure-start, codex ensure-stop, codex status, lookup, search
validation	codex ensure-stop, forge transcript
vibe	forge markdown, ratchet record, search
council	rpi phased
shared	rpi phased

Skills with no ao commands: beads, brainstorm, bug-hunt, codex-team, complexity, converter, doc, heal-skill, llm-wiki, openai-docs, pr-implement, pr-prep, pr-research, pr-validate, product, release, reverse-engineer-rpi, security, security-suite, standards, trace.

Conceptual slash commands such as /knowledge are documented elsewhere in the product docs, but they are not counted as source skill directories in this map.

Repo-Native Prevention Surfaces

These are active skill-level reads or writes that do not go through an ao subcommand:

• /plan reads .agents/findings/registry.jsonl before decomposition and cites Applied findings:
• /research persists reusable findings to .agents/findings/registry.jsonl
• /pre-mortem reads .agents/findings/registry.jsonl in both quick and deep modes, injects known_risks, and can persist reusable findings
• /vibe reads .agents/findings/registry.jsonl before council review and can persist reusable findings
• /post-mortem writes normalized reusable findings to .agents/findings/registry.jsonl

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Orphan Commands

Commands that exist in the Go CLI but are not called by any skill. All are intentionally uncalled — user utilities, hidden internals, or CI-only. (ao session memory and ao extract were previously invoked only by runtime hooks, which AgentOps 3.0 no longer ships; they remain available as direct commands.)

Command	Category	Notes
ao completion	User utility	Shell completion generation
ao config	User utility	Config management
ao demo	User utility	Council-first AgentOps 3.0 demonstration
ao doctor	CI/install	Called by install.sh and release-smoke-test.sh
ao eval	CI/test	Public AgentOps canary suites and baseline comparisons
ao version	User utility	Version query
ao quick-start / ao quickstart	User utility	Golden path for repo seed; /quickstart routes users to the next action
ao vibe-check	User utility	/vibe skill orchestrates directly
ao trace	User utility	Artifact tracing
ao gate	CI/test	Promotion gate — called in test scripts
ao session memory	Internal	Memory sync (previously a hook caller)
ao extract	Internal	Learning extraction (previously a hook caller)
ao feedback	Hidden	UI for providing feedback on learnings
ao feedback-loop	Internal	Async feedback processing
ao batch-feedback	Hidden	Batch feedback processing
ao eval session-outcome	Hidden	Session outcome recording
ao store	Hidden	Vector store management
ao index	Hidden	Indexing utility
ao task-sync	Hidden	Task synchronization
ao migrate	Hidden	Migration utility (migrate memrl)
ao worktree	Hidden	Worktree GC utility

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Phantom Subcommands

No known phantom subcommands are present in the current map. scripts/validate-cli-skills-map.sh fails if removed paths or the known stale gate/forge calls reappear.

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Session Lifecycle Flow (hookless)

AgentOps 3.0 ships no runtime hooks. Session-boundary maintenance is driven explicitly by skills calling ao commands. For Codex, the entry/closeout skills replace what runtime hooks used to do:

Codex Thread Entry
  → entry skill runs ao codex ensure-start
      → first call performs ao codex start semantics once per thread
      → later calls no-op for the same thread
      → ao flywheel close-loop (safe maintenance)
      → ao lookup citation writes for surfaced artifacts

During Session
  → ao lookup
      → appends citations to .agents/ao/citations.jsonl
  → ao search --cite <type>
      → appends citations to .agents/ao/citations.jsonl when search results are adopted

Post-Mortem Closeout
  → post-mortem closeout runs ao session close --auto-extract
      → resolves the current transcript, forges the session, extracts learnings
      → fallback when transcript discovery must be explicit: ao forge transcript <path-or-glob> --queue
  → ao flywheel close-loop --quiet
      → ingests pending knowledge and runs close-loop maintenance

If you want a runtime hook of your own (e.g. a PostToolUse gate), author one with the hooks-authoring skill — AgentOps ships none by default.

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Regenerating

When skills or command usage changes, refresh this map as follows:

1. Re-scan source invocations in: skills/*/SKILL.md, skills-codex/*/SKILL.md.
2. Update the relevant rows in this document, keeping hidden/subcommands aligned with the live command tree (ao anti-patterns, ao context assemble, etc.).
3. Update the audit header date above.

Maintaining This Document

Re-audit when:

• Adding a new ao CLI command (check it has skill callers or is intentionally orphaned)
• Adding a new skill that calls ao commands (verify the commands exist)
• Running scripts/generate-cli-reference.sh (companion to this doc)