# Paseo advisor Human Guide

## What This Is For
Spin up a single agent as an advisor — second opinion on the current task. It gives the agent a clearer input/output frame for search and SEO workflows: what context to ask for, what decisions to make, and what usable artifact to return.

Use this as a human-readable version of the Paseo advisor agent skill. It is meant for marketers, operators, founders, and other non-coders who want the workflow without reading agent-specific implementation instructions.

## When To Use This
- Use this when you need a repeatable process for paseo advisor.
- Use this when the task needs judgment, examples, constraints, or a clear output format rather than a one-off prompt.
- Use this when you want to hand an AI assistant enough context to produce a usable marketing artifact.

## When Not To Use This
- Do not use this when you only need a quick factual answer.
- Do not use this when the work depends on private data you cannot share with the assistant.
- Do not use this as a replacement for legal, compliance, financial, or medical review.

## What You Need Before Starting
- The goal or business outcome you want.
- The audience, customer segment, or market context.
- Any source material the assistant should respect, such as notes, briefs, examples, URLs, or brand guidance.
- Constraints such as tone, length, channel, deadline, region, or approval requirements.
- A clear definition of what a good final answer should look like.

## Step-By-Step Workflow
1. State the job clearly: "Use the Paseo advisor guide to help me with..."
2. Add context: audience, goal, offer, channel, source material, and constraints.
3. Ask the assistant to identify missing inputs before producing the final output.
4. Have the assistant follow the skill-specific guidance below.
5. Review the result against the final checklist and ask for revisions where needed.

## Skill-Specific Guidance
- **User named a profile** (`--profile UI Work`) → select it by name.
- **Otherwise** choose the profile whose `notes` best fit the question. Match the actual work: design and approach, audit and review, or research and root-cause analysis.
- **Contrast helps.** When several profiles fit, prefer a different provider family from your own so the second opinion is genuinely fresh.
- What you've considered and what you've ruled out.
- Relevant files by path (don't paste — let the agent read).
- Explicit ask: "give me a recommendation, with reasoning."
- `/paseo-advisor /unslop` → advisor runs `/unslop` on the current diff.
- `/paseo-advisor /unslop-risk` → advisor does an unslop-risk review.
- `/paseo-advisor $diagnose this build failure` → advisor invokes `/diagnose`.

## Decision Points And Nuance
The original skill emphasizes: Prerequisites, Picking the advisor, The briefing, Forwarded skills, Launch and synthesize, Persistent advisor.

Use these questions to steer the work:
- What is the intended audience or buyer?
- What source material must be preserved?
- What should the assistant optimize for: clarity, persuasion, accuracy, speed, creativity, or conversion?
- What examples represent the desired quality bar?
- What should the assistant avoid?

## Common Mistakes
- Read the **paseo** skill. Call `list_profiles` before choosing the advisor. Do not create the advisor until you have read the configured profiles and their `notes`.
- Relevant files by path (don't paste — let the agent read).
- This is analysis only. Do NOT edit, create, or delete any files. Do NOT write code.

## Copy-And-Paste Prompt
```text
Use the Paseo advisor human guide.

My goal:
[Describe the business outcome]

Audience:
[Describe who this is for]

Context and source material:
[Paste notes, examples, links, or existing copy]

Constraints:
[Tone, length, channel, timeline, must-include items, must-avoid items]

Before producing the final output, ask me for any missing information that would materially improve the result.
```

## Final Checklist
- [ ] The output matches the original goal.
- [ ] The audience and context are reflected in the answer.
- [ ] Important constraints and source material were preserved.
- [ ] The assistant made the relevant decisions explicit.
- [ ] The final artifact is ready to use, review, or hand to the next person.

## Source
This guide was generated from the getpaseo/paseo skill entry for `paseo-advisor`.

## Source Skill Notes
These notes preserve the nuance from the original skill. Use them as supporting reference when the workflow above feels too generic.

# Paseo Advisor

Single agent. Reads the situation you're in. Gives a judgment. You decide what to do — the advisor doesn't drive the work.

**User's request:** $ARGUMENTS

## Prerequisites

Read the **paseo** skill. Call `list_profiles` before choosing the advisor. Do not create the advisor until you have read the configured profiles and their `notes`.

## Picking the advisor

1. **User named a profile** (`--profile UI Work`) → select it by name.
2. **Otherwise** choose the profile whose `notes` best fit the question. Match the actual work: design and approach, audit and review, or research and root-cause analysis.
3. **Contrast helps.** When several profiles fit, prefer a different provider family from your own so the second opinion is genuinely fresh.

Materialize the selected profile into `create_agent` as described by the **paseo** skill. If no profile fits, use Paseo's provider discovery fallback.

## The briefing

The advisor has zero context. Make it self-contained:

- The question, sharply.
- What you've considered and what you've ruled out.
- Relevant files by path (don't paste — let the agent read).
- Explicit ask: "give me a recommendation, with reasoning."

End with the no-edits suffix:

```
This is analysis only. Do NOT edit, create, or delete any files. Do NOT write code.
```

## Forwarded skills

If `$ARGUMENTS` contains another skill reference — `/unslop`, `/unslop-risk`, `$unslop`, etc. — the user is asking the advisor to run that skill against the current task. Examples:

- `/paseo-advisor /unslop` → advisor runs `/unslop` on the current diff.
- `/paseo-advisor /unslop-risk` → advisor does an unslop-risk review.
- `/paseo-advisor $diagnose this build failure` → advisor invokes `/diagnose`.

Parse the forwarded skill name out of `$ARGUMENTS` (`/<name>` or `$<name>`). In the briefing, tell the advisor explicitly:

```
Invoke the `<name>` skill against this task. Load it via the Skill tool before doing anything else.
```

Pass through any remaining arguments after the skill name as the skill's own input. The advisor — not you — runs the skill; you're still just the orchestrator handing it the work.

## Launch and synthesize

Create the advisor agent via Paseo with a `[Advisor] <topic>` title and the briefing as the initial prompt. Wait for it to finish. Read its response. Synthesize for the user — the advisor's verdict + your recommendation.

## Persistent advisor

If the user wants ongoing input ("keep this advisor for the next few decisions"), don't archive after the first reply. Send follow-ups when you need another take. Archive when the user says they're done, or when the topic shifts and a fresh context would serve better.