# Apd Pipeline Guide

> MANDATORY before EVERY pipeline task on Codex — load BEFORE writing spec-card.md and calling apd:apdadvancepipeline('spec', ...), on every new task, no exceptions. It is the APD operating manual, NOT a brainstorm — "the task is already clear" is not a reason to skip it. Carries the current gate contract - phase map, implementation-plan Implements: format, adversarial rationale file format, common BLOCKs + recovery, state read rules. The spec gate hard-BLOCKS without the .guide-marker this skill writes on exit. There is no skip argument.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-zstevovich-apd-pipeline-guide
- tashan id: skill:zstevovich/apd-pipeline-guide
- Source: https://github.com/zstevovich/claude-apd
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 62.0
- Freshness: 95.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r apd-pipeline-guide ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-16 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.