Navigator Features Skill
Display and toggle Navigator features with an interactive table. Helps users understand what's enabled and customize their setup.
When to Invoke
Invoke this skill when the user:
- Says "show my features", "navigator features", "what features are enabled"
- Says "enable [feature]", "disable [feature]", "turn on/off [feature]"
- Says "configure navigator", "my navigator settings"
- Asks "what can navigator do?", "what features are available?"
DO NOT invoke if:
- User is asking about project features (not Navigator)
- User is in middle of implementation
- Just starting session (use nav-start instead)
Execution Steps
Step 1: Read Current Configuration
python3 "$SKILL_BASE_DIR/functions/feature_manager.py" show
This displays the feature table:
v5.6.0 Features:
┌─────────────────┬────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Feature │ Status │ Description │
├─────────────────┼────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ task_mode │ ✅ │ Auto-detects task complexity, defers to skills │
│ tom_features │ ✅ │ Verification checkpoints, user profile, diag... │
│ loop_mode │ ⏸ Off │ Autonomous loop execution (enable when needed) │
│ simplification │ ✅ │ Post-implementation code cleanup with Opus │
│ auto_update │ ✅ │ Auto-updates on session start │
└─────────────────┴────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
All v5.6.0 features configured.
Step 2: Handle Toggle Request (If Applicable)
If user requested to enable/disable a feature:
# Enable a feature
python3 "$SKILL_BASE_DIR/functions/feature_manager.py" enable task_mode
# Disable a feature
python3 "$SKILL_BASE_DIR/functions/feature_manager.py" disable loop_mode
Supported features:
task_mode- Unified workflow orchestrationtom_features- Theory of Mind (verification checkpoints, profile, diagnostics)loop_mode- Autonomous loop executionsimplification- Code cleanup before commitauto_update- Auto-update on session start
After toggle, show updated table.
Step 3: Explain Feature (If Asked)
If user asks about a specific feature, provide details:
task_mode:
Task Mode (v5.6.0)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Auto-detects task complexity and routes appropriately:
- Simple tasks → Direct execution
- Skill matches → Defers to skill workflow
- Substantial → Task Mode phases (RESEARCH→COMPLETE)
Config: task_mode.enabled, complexity_threshold (0.5)
tom_features:
Theory of Mind (v5.0.0)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Human-AI collaboration improvements:
- Verification checkpoints for high-stakes skills
- User profile (nav-profile) - remembers preferences
- Quality detection (nav-diagnose) - catches drift
Config: tom_features.verification_checkpoints, profile_enabled
loop_mode:
Loop Mode (v5.1.0)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"Run until done" capability:
- Structured completion signals (NAVIGATOR_STATUS)
- Dual-condition exit (heuristics + EXIT_SIGNAL)
- Stagnation detection prevents infinite loops
Trigger: "run until done", "loop mode"
Config: loop_mode.enabled, max_iterations (5)
simplification:
Code Simplification (v5.4.0)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Automatic code clarity improvements:
- Runs post-implementation, before commit
- Clarity over brevity, functionality preserved
- Uses Opus model for best results
Trigger: "simplify this code"
Config: simplification.enabled, trigger, scope
auto_update:
Auto-Update (v5.5.0)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Automatic plugin updates on session start:
- Checks for newer version
- Updates silently if available
- Never blocks session start
Config: auto_update.enabled, check_interval_hours (1)
Predefined Functions
functions/feature_manager.py
Purpose: Display and toggle Navigator features
Usage:
# Show all features
python3 feature_manager.py show
# Show for first session (includes welcome message)
python3 feature_manager.py show --first-session
# Enable a feature
python3 feature_manager.py enable task_mode
# Disable a feature
python3 feature_manager.py disable loop_mode
# Get feature details
python3 feature_manager.py info task_mode
Output: Formatted feature table or status message
Error Handling
Config not found:
❌ .nav-config.json not found
Run "Initialize Navigator in this project" first.
Unknown feature:
❌ Unknown feature: xyz
Available features:
task_mode, tom_features, loop_mode, simplification, auto_update
Success Criteria
- [ ] Feature table displayed correctly
- [ ] Toggle updates config file
- [ ] Updated table shown after toggle
- [ ] Feature details available on request
Notes
This skill is triggered on first session (via nav-start) to help users understand available features and optionally disable unused ones to save tokens.