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 "$SKILL_BASE_DIR/functions/feature_manager.py" show
This displays the feature table (one row per configurable Navigator feature, current version's number in the header):
v<version> Features:
┌─────────────────────────┬────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Feature │ Status │ Description │
├─────────────────────────┼────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ task_mode │ [x] │ Auto-detects task complexity, defers to sk... │
│ tom_features │ [x] │ Verification checkpoints, user profile, di... │
│ loop_mode │ [ ] │ Autonomous loop execution (enable when nee... │
│ simplification │ [x] │ Post-implementation code cleanup with Opus │
│ auto_update │ [x] │ Auto-updates on session start │
│ knowledge_graph │ [x] │ Unified project knowledge + experiential m... │
│ multi_agent │ [x] │ Parallel agent orchestration (nav-multi sk... │
│ multi_claude_scripts │ [*] │ External shell scripts for multi-Claude wo... │
│ compact_hook │ [x] │ Injects rich summary into compacted sessions │
│ workflow_enforcer_hook │ [x] │ Enforces WORKFLOW CHECK block before task ... │
│ read_guard_hook │ [x] │ Warns on excessive Reads (push to agents) │
│ workflow_state_hook │ [x] │ Tracks current task/phase across the session │
│ task_graph_sync_hook │ [x] │ Auto-syncs task files into the knowledge g... │
│ profile_sync_hook │ [x] │ Auto-captures preferences/corrections into... │
└─────────────────────────┴────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
All v<version> features configured.
Step 2: Handle Toggle Request (If Applicable)
If user requested to enable/disable a feature:
# Enable a feature
python3 "$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:
Core (config-toggled):
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 startknowledge_graph- Unified project knowledge + memories (v6.0.0)multi_agent- Parallel agent orchestration vianav-multi(v6.0.0)
Hooks (config-toggled, edit with caution):
compact_hook- Pre-compact summary injectionworkflow_enforcer_hook- Mandatory WORKFLOW CHECK block (disabling weakens guardrails)read_guard_hook- Anti upfront-loading guardworkflow_state_hook- Tracks task/phase across the sessiontask_graph_sync_hook- Auto-syncs tasks into knowledge graphprofile_sync_hook- Auto-captures profile corrections
Install-based:
multi_claude_scripts- External shell scripts (navigator-multi-claude.shon PATH)
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: lists all available feature names (see Supported features section above). The error message is generated dynamically from the FEATURES dict, so it stays current as features are added.
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.