Manages project slices by promoting them from the queue to the active state.

Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/choose-slice && curl -L -o skill.zip "https://agentskills.codes/api/skills/download/19012" && unzip -o skill.zip -d .claude/skills/choose-slice && rm skill.zip

Installs to .claude/skills/choose-slice

Activation

This is the description your AI agent reads to decide when to run this skill — the better it matches your request, the more reliably it fires.

choose the next slice from next-slices.md and move it to current-slice.md
73 charsno explicit “when” trigger
Beginner

Key capabilities

  • Read current and next slice documents
  • List available slices for user selection
  • Copy selected slice content to current-slice.md
  • Remove selected slice from next-slices.md
  • Report the newly current slice

How it works

The skill reads available slices from `next-slices.md`, prompts the user to choose one, then moves the chosen slice's content to `current-slice.md` and removes it from `next-slices.md`.

Inputs & outputs

You give it
User selection of a slice from `docs/next-slices.md`
You get back
The chosen slice content in `docs/current-slice.md` and the updated `docs/next-slices.md`

When to use choose-slice

  • Select next project task
  • Promote slice to active work
  • Manage task backlog

About this skill

Steps

  1. Read docs/current-slice.md, and docs/next-slices.md.

  2. List remaining slices and ask user to choose next:

    • In docs/next-slices.md, slices are identified by the ## Slice: prefix.
    • Find all ## Slice: headings in docs/next-slices.md ordered by occurrence in the doc
    • Provide a UI that allows the user to select which Slice they'd like to pick
    • Remember which they picked as "next slice"
  3. Promote the next slice to current-slice.md:

    • Copy that slice's content verbatim (heading and all sub-content) into docs/current-slice.md, replacing its entire contents. Use the heading format: # Current Slice: followed by the tasks exactly as they appear.
    • Remove that slice (heading and all its content, up to the next slice heading or end of file) from docs/next-slices.md.
  4. Clean up: If docs/next-slices.md is now empty (only the # Next Slices heading remains with no slice content), leave it with just the heading.

  5. Report what you did: which Slice is now current

When not to use it

  • When there are no slices defined in `docs/next-slices.md`
  • When the user does not want to choose a next slice

Limitations

  • Slices must be identified by `## Slice:` prefix.
  • Relies on specific file paths: `docs/current-slice.md` and `docs/next-slices.md`.

How it compares

This skill automates the process of selecting and promoting a task slice, ensuring proper file updates and content transfer, unlike manually copying and deleting content.

Compared to similar skills

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