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Discover available task environments and create or continue tasks when the user names an environment or computer, or refers to files or apps specifically on their computer. Excludes software engineering; use orbit:software-engineering for that.

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# Remote environments

Do not use this skill for software engineering. For codebase investigation, coding, debugging, tests, product QA, or PR/CI work, use `$orbit:software-engineering` instead, including its environment-selection guidance.

Use this skill in the parent dot for other tasks. If you are already the assigned task, work in your selected environment.

For follow-up work in a task whose environment the user already selected, go straight to **Follow through**. Keep its `threadId` and selected environment.

This skill covers both collections returned by `cloud_threads.list_environments`: existing user computers and registered remotes in `environments`, and personal and workspace-shared saved coding configurations in `codingEnvironments`. The dot cloud computer is separate and is not included in that list.

## Decide where to work

Use the dot cloud computer for all computer work unless: