Agent skill

Factory Queue

by tikalk in tikalk/adlc-team-skills

A skill your agent uses when managing mission brief intake — triage, AI-assisted advisory scoring, gating label stamping, and milestones or epics generation (plan mode).

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Install Factory Queue

skills CLI
$ npx skills add tikalk/adlc-team-skills --skill factory-queue -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install tikalk/adlc-team-skills factory-queue --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tikalk/adlc-team-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/factory/factory-queue .claude/skills/factory-queue && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
factory-queue
GitHub stars
141
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
602 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
44
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when managing mission brief intake — triage, AI-assisted advisory scoring, gating label stamping, and milestones or epics generation (plan mode).

  • Works in 2 steps: Ingestion & Triage Mode (default) → Plan Mode
  • Managing mission brief intake — triage
  • SKILL.md covers What this skill does, When to use, Operating Modes and Invariants & Safety Constraints
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Factory Queue is an agent skill from tikalk/adlc-team-skills. Use when managing mission brief intake — triage, AI-assisted advisory scoring, gating label stamping, and milestones or epics generation (plan mode).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Planning, User stories and Project management. The repository describes itself as: Agent skills for the Agentic SDLC: team lifecycle (team-boot, team-learn, team-init, team-repair), software factory, evals, CDR lifecycle with confidence scoring, and… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Managing mission brief intake — triage
  • AI-assisted advisory scoring
  • Gating label stamping
  • Epics generation (plan mode)

Example prompts

  • “/factory-queue”

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Ingestion & Triage Mode (default)
  2. Plan Mode

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2dbed36. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Factory Queue loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 41 tokens; SKILL.md has 602 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~41
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from tikalk/adlc-team-skills at commit 2dbed36, republished under its MIT licence (© tikalk). 602 words, ~1,264 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/factory-queue/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
factory-queue
description
Use when managing mission brief intake — triage, AI-assisted advisory scoring, gating label stamping, and milestones or epics generation (plan mode).

factory-queue

What this skill does

factory-queue manages the ingestion, triage, and planning boundaries of the software factory. It operates directly against the external issue tracker (the Queue) as the single source of truth using the tracker-agnostic integration layer (factory-mission/references/tracker-integration.md).

It performs two primary control-plane operations:

  1. Advisory Triage & Ingestion (default triage mode): Pulls un-triaged candidate briefs, runs stateless AI triage scoring, presents the Intent Gate to the human, and stamps gating/dispatch labels.
  2. Product Planning (plan mode): Reads accepted product/architecture decisions and the PRD/AD, generates milestones (done-means) and epics, and pushes them as structured, labeled issues to the Q.

When to use

  • At product intake, to triage candidate briefs and approve them for execution.
  • After a product/architect lifecycle converges, to decompose the specification into prioritized tracker issues.
  • You want to run an advisory-only Intent Gate with automatic label transition gating.

When NOT to use:

  • For inner-loop feature execution (use factory-mission instead).
  • As a standalone markdown generator (this requires issue-tracker connectivity).

Operating Modes

1. Ingestion & Triage Mode (default)

Operates on candidate issues (labeled intent) or local draft briefs:

  1. Pull Candidate Briefs: Discover the active tracker provider and fetch issues with status intent (factory-mission/references/tracker-integration.md).
  2. AI Triage Scoring: Compute stateless advisory scores on three dimensions:
    • Risk: Blast radius, data sensitivity, and architectural impact (Low / Medium / High).
    • Complexity: Scope and cross-service dependencies (Low / Medium / High).
    • Agent Confidence: Estimation of end-to-end execution success (0-100%, High/Medium/Low bands).
  3. Intent Gate Presentation: Present candidate briefs + advisory scores to the human. If running unattended (no active human terminal), publish the Intent Gate presentation and AI scores as a structured comment with marker <!-- factory-queue:triage:proposal --> on the candidate issue. The queue run pauses. The human reviews the proposal, and approves by commenting "approve" or changing the label to spec-gated. When resumed, the queue reads the comment/label state and continues. The Human Intent Gate is non-negotiable; no brief is auto-approved or auto-rejected.
  4. Label Stamping:
    • On approval: Transition lifecycle label intent ──► spec-gated. Stamp automation-gating (agent-can-execute or human-required) and dispatch (autonomous | supervised | interactive) labels.
    • On rejection: Transition intent ──► cancelled (or delete draft).
    • On deferral: Move to backlog.
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2. Plan Mode

Operates post-lifecycle convergence to populate the backlog:

  1. Load Artifacts: Read accepted PDRs + ADRs and the generated docs/adlc/product/PRD.md / docs/adlc/architect/AD.md. When no team record-class index was injected at session start, read the binding records directly from docs/adlc/memory/ (ADR-401 dual-read order: docs/adlc/memory first, legacy .adlc/memory fallback) and state that fallback in one line.
  2. Generate Milestones & Epics: Extract sequencing, requirement groupings, and "done-means" definitions into prioritized epics and milestones. Gate/task issues MUST use the mission-brief format — Goal / Constraints / Non-Goals / Success Criteria (each criterion with a measurement method) — per the canonical template in factory-mission's references/mission-brief-template.md. Milestone descriptions carry the demo sentence + done-means (milestones are grouping containers, not executable units). Issue titles are short work-item names; [Gx]/Mx: prefixes are forbidden (milestone assignment carries grouping; descriptions carry references).
  3. Deduplication Check: Fetch existing issues to match task summaries and prevent duplicates.
  4. Push to Q: Push epics and milestone issues to the tracker via MCP. Stamp appropriate automation-gating and dispatch labels on each generated issue based on AI triage.
  5. Output: Write a versioned docs/adlc/product/roadmap.md linking the local spec elements to the newly created external tracker issues.

Invariants & Safety Constraints

  1. Stateless: The platform holds no queue state of its own. All queries and mutations are performed live via the tracker's MCP/CLI connectors.
  2. Dry-Run Gating: No tracker write may occur without dry-run confirmation. The skill must output a detailed preview of all issues, comments, or label changes, requiring the user to explicitly confirm before execution.
  3. Advisory Scores: Scores are advisory metadata and never bypass human gates.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/factory/factory-queue of tikalk/adlc-team-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2dbed36

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Questions about Factory Queue

What does Factory Queue do?

A skill your agent uses when managing mission brief intake — triage, AI-assisted advisory scoring, gating label stamping, and milestones or epics generation (plan mode). Factory Queue is an agent skill from tikalk/adlc-team-skills. Use when managing mission brief intake — triage, AI-assisted advisory scoring, gating label stamping, and milestones or epics generation (plan mode).

When should I use Factory Queue?

Factory Queue fits situations like: managing mission brief intake — triage; AI-assisted advisory scoring; gating label stamping; epics generation (plan mode).

How do I install Factory Queue in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add tikalk/adlc-team-skills --skill factory-queue -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/factory/factory-queue in tikalk/adlc-team-skills) into .claude/skills/factory-queue in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Factory Queue in Codex?

Run `npx skills add tikalk/adlc-team-skills --skill factory-queue -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/factory/factory-queue in tikalk/adlc-team-skills) into .agents/skills/factory-queue in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Factory Queue in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add tikalk/adlc-team-skills --skill factory-queue -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/factory-queue, .gemini/skills/factory-queue, .github/skills/factory-queue and .opencode/skills/factory-queue in your project.

What does Factory Queue need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Factory Queue is instructions for the agent only.

Does Factory Queue access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Factory Queue safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Factory Queue use?

Factory Queue is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Factory Queue use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Factory Queue?

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Who maintains Factory Queue?

tikalk (a GitHub organization) maintains it in tikalk/adlc-team-skills, which has 141 GitHub stars. The repository holds 44 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: tikalk/adlc-team-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.