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Skills, rules, and guardrails

The agent’s behavior on your site is steered by three kinds of context, all managed under Delta → Context.

Skills

Skills are playbooks for one kind of work. The agent loads a skill when the task calls for it. Delta ships a default set; each site holds its own copy, so you or the agent can edit them, add new ones, or restore the defaults. The agent asks for confirmation before it changes an existing skill.

Skill Purpose
build-from-prompt Build a new site from a written brief.
clone-from-url Recreate a live site from its URL (requires a browser tool).
build-from-visual Build from screenshots, mockups, or Figma exports.
design Change tokens, site CSS, components, or notes.
components Define and maintain design-system components.
site-foundation Set up headers, footers, navigation, and site identity.
blog-and-conditions Set up blogs, archives, singles, and CPT listings.
content-types Custom post types and fields through a supported plugin.
contact-forms Contact forms through a supported plugin.
woocommerce Shop, product, cart, and checkout work.
wordpress-objects Users, comments, terms, meta, options, plugins.
mobile-first / mobile-responsiveness Mobile-first or desktop-first build process.
polish-and-verify Visual, spacing, and accessibility finish pass.
troubleshooting Failure diagnosis and support reports.
session-router Internal: picks the right skill on ambiguous requests.

Rules

Rules are short constraints that always apply, with the same editing model as skills. Delta ships five, including entry-html-no-loops (no {{#posts}} in page HTML) and semantic-accessible (landmarks, heading order, accessible labels).

Guardrails

Guardrails belong to the theme. You can switch each one on or off under Context → Guardrails, but their text is not editable, by you or by the agent. Most of them make the agent ask before sensitive actions:

Guardrail Effect
Session protocol Sets the required call order at session start.
Design scope Decides when a session includes design work.
List paging Keeps reads paged instead of full-catalog dumps.
Layer hierarchy Prefers design system → components → templates over one-off styles.
WordPress and Delta truth Cross-layer facts the agent must respect.
Prefer design tokens Tokens over hard-coded values.
Verify before done Read back and check after every meaningful write.
Design notes Ask before changing the design-system notes, or before a snapshot restore (which overwrites them).
Confirm primary guideline changes Ask before changing existing skills or rules.
Confirm plugin installs Ask before installing, activating, updating, or deleting plugins.
Destructive care Confirm before replace or fan-out operations.

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