version: "1.0.0" name: dt-rpi-integration description: Design Thinking handoff knowledge for research-ready rpi-research inputs and DT-aware rpi-plan, rpi-implement, and rpi-review context user-invocable: false metadata: authors: "microsoft/hve-core" last_updated: "2026-07-15"

Design Thinking → RPI Integration — Skill Entry

This skill is the entry point for Design Thinking to RPI integration knowledge.

The DT coach loads these references when Design Thinking coaching graduates into the RPI workflow. Every DT exit produces research-ready input for rpi-research. The retained downstream phases, rpi-plan, rpi-implement, and rpi-review, consume the resulting context. RPI Agent is the lifecycle wrapper when end-to-end coordination is needed; it does not replace rpi-research as the handoff target.

Integration references

Skill layout

• SKILL.md — this file (skill entrypoint).
• references/ — the DT-to-RPI integration reference documents.
• rpi-handoff-contract.md — DT-to-RPI handoff contract: exit points, artifact schemas, RPI input contracts, and confidence markers.
• rpi-research-context.md provides DT-aware rpi-research context.
• rpi-planning-context.md provides DT-aware rpi-plan context.
• rpi-implement-context.md provides DT-aware rpi-implement context.
• rpi-review-context.md provides DT-aware rpi-review context.
• subagent-handoff.md provides the subagent dispatch workflow for handoff readiness, compilation, and validation.
• image-prompt-generation.md provides Method 5 lo-fi image prompt generation guidance.