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You get a map of what you know and don't, with a basket of in, learn first or pass.","area":"product","family":{"id":"plan-strategy","name":"Plan your strategy"},"lead":"four-filter-decision","featured":false,"contextKind":"product","deliverables":["A map of what you know and don't, with a basket of in, learn first or pass","A staying-power grade with the protection, the threat and the technology test","A trust verdict on the people, with questions to ask others","A value range, a walk-away price and the alternative to beat","A yes, no or too-hard call, the size of the commitment and what would change it"],"inputs":["What you are considering, in a few lines, and the years that matter","What you have done, studied or read about the field","Everything you know about the people involved and how they are paid","What you would get over time and what it costs","Your best alternative use of the same money or time (optional)"],"opening":{"give":["What you are considering, in a few lines, and the years that matter","What you have done, studied or read about the field","Everything you know about the people involved and how they are paid"],"get":["A map of what you know and don't, with a basket of in, learn first or pass","A trust verdict on the people, with questions to ask others","A value range, a walk-away price and the alternative to beat","A yes, no or too-hard call, the size of the commitment and what would change it"]},"helpfulInputs":[],"fit":["You are about to sign a contract, hire a senior person or buy a business, tool or stake.","Someone is pushing you to decide fast on something you only partly understand.","You want a fixed way to say no, so you stop being talked into things."],"limits":["You are making a small, routine purchase: just decide yourself, or ask a friend you trust.","You only want to know if a price is fair: use the Business asset value estimator.","You want to check if someone's advice can be trusted: use the Advice credibility checker."],"tools":["Any good chat AI: This is text reasoning that any strong chat AI handles with the skill.","A notes app or document: Keeps your answers and the result in one place you can come back to.","Any good chat AI: Listing and testing failure modes is text reasoning that any strong chat AI handles with this skill.","A spreadsheet: Handy for putting numbers on dependencies, cash and runway."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It holds HANDOFF.md plus one skill file for each step.","Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\".","Answer the first step honestly. If it says pass, read the reason before you ask it to carry on.","Gather the deal details, the years that matter, your track record in the field, how the people are paid and the cost figures before you start.","Bring the best chances you saw in the last year to the last step, so the call has something to compare with."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Do you understand it?","description":"Splits it into parts, rates each by what you have done, finds the edge and picks a basket."},{"name":"Will it last?","description":"Names what protects it, how long a rival needs to copy it, whether that is widening, and what could replace it."},{"name":"Can you trust the people?","description":"Tests ability, honesty when it cost them, reliability and owner mindset, and writes questions for people they did not choose."},{"name":"Is the price right?","description":"Builds a low, middle and high value, sets a walk-away price and compares it with your best alternative."},{"name":"Turns it upside down","description":"Asks what would guarantee failure and checks the plan against the usual ways it fails."},{"name":"Makes the call","description":"Applies the yes, no or too-hard rule, compares with your best recent chances and sets the size."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.","Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.","Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.","Define how success will be measured before building."],"pitfalls":["Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.","Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.","Roadmaps with dates but no owners or confidence levels."],"quality":["Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.","The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.","Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.","Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.","Step 4 used the cost figures the person gave, and no price or value came from memory.","The people filter marks each fact as checked by the person or only pitched to them, and rates \"unknown\" where facts were only pitched.","Every requirement can be tested."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":6,"source":0,"area":"product"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You are about to sign a contract, hire a senior person or buy a business, tool or stake.","task":"Give it what you are considering, in a few lines, and the years that matter. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["A few lines on the deal, hire or purchase, and the years that matter","What you have done, studied or read about the field","What you know about the people involved and how they are paid","What you would get over time and what it costs","Your best alternative use of the same money or time (optional)"],"outputs":[{"name":"step-01-circle-of-competence-mapper.md","contains":"The parts of the deal rated known, partly known or not known, your edge, and a basket of in, learn first or pass."},{"name":"step-02-staying-power-checker.md","contains":"What protects it, how long a rival needs to copy it, the main threat, the technology test and a grade."},{"name":"step-03-people-trust-checker.md","contains":"A verdict on the people's ability, honesty, reliability and owner mindset, with questions to ask others."},{"name":"step-04-price-against-value-checker.md","contains":"A low, middle and high value, a walk-away price and the alternative to beat. Not personal financial advice."},{"name":"step-05-failure-first-plan-check.md","contains":"What would guarantee failure, the survival risks and the changes to make to the plan."},{"name":"step-06-yes-no-too-hard-call-writer.md","contains":"A yes, no or too-hard call, the size of the commitment, what would change it and a review date."}]},"example":"Give it what you are considering, in a few lines, and the years that matter. 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Describe it and get what protects it, what could break it, and a grade.","method":"staying-power-checker","when":["You are choosing a business, supplier, job path or product line that you must live with for years.","A thing is doing well now and you want to know if it will last.","A new technology could change the field and you cannot tell who benefits."],"inputs":["What you are considering, in a few lines","The result of \"Circle of competence mapper\" (optional)","Numbers on its history: prices, share, customers, margins (optional)"],"deliverables":["The source of protection, with evidence","How long a rival would need to copy it","Whether it is widening or narrowing","The main threat, a technology test, and a grade: strong, fair or weak"]},{"name":"Working relationship trust reviewer","description":"Share evidence about people behind a deal or hire. Get a review of their record, incentives and what to check next.","method":"people-trust-checker","when":["You are about to hire, partner with or hand money to someone you only know from a pitch.","A manager or adviser is very persuasive and you want to test the person.","You inherit a team and want to know who to rely on."],"inputs":["The people involved and their roles","What you know of their record and how they are paid","The result of the circle and staying power checks (optional)"],"deliverables":["A rating on ability, honesty, reliability and owner mindset","The pay structure and what it bends","Questions to ask people they did not choose","A verdict: trust, trust with checks or do not trust"]},{"name":"Price against value checker","description":"Share dated cash flows, costs and a rate. 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Get a reviewed context file that other marketing skills can reference.","method":"product-context-builder","when":["You are starting a new marketing project and want one source of truth.","You keep pasting the same product background into every chat.","Your positioning changed and old notes are out of date.","A new teammate needs to learn the audience and tone fast."],"inputs":["Answers about your product and customers","Your website or existing brand notes (optional)","Competitor names (optional)","Any recent learnings to record (optional)"],"deliverables":["A product marketing context file","A summary of what the file already holds","A change log of updates","Gaps you still need to fill"]},{"name":"Charlie Munger","description":"Stress-test a plan using Charlie Munger’s recorded approach. 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Check how it earns, what protects it, how managers use cash and which facts remain uncertain.","method":"warren-buffett","when":["Decide whether a business you might buy or join has a lasting edge over rivals","Check if a decision sits inside what you really understand, or just outside it","Write an honest yearly letter to your partners, owners or backers, mistakes included","Decide whether to keep profits in the business or pay them out","Stay calm and make a plan when prices or sales swing wildly","Vet a new partner or manager for integrity before you sign anything","Spot when your team is copying rivals or spending cash just because it has it","Decide whether to keep funding a part of the business that keeps losing money","Sort a business into great, good or gruesome by how much cash it needs to grow"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Warren Buffett would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Warren Buffett's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"four-filter-decision","name":"Deal and hiring decision reviewer","summary":"Review understanding, lasting value, people and price, then challenge the failure risks and draft a yes, no or too-hard call.","task":"plan-strategy","kind":"workflow","path":"/workflows/four-filter-decision","revision":"3fa63d4cd92050776f43481a66e1526e5e6e1a09f407abfd07166371aad19446","skillPath":"/skills/four-filter-decision/SKILL.md","bundled":false,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"circle-of-competence-mapper","name":"Knowledge gap reviewer","summary":"Describe a topic or decision. 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Use it only when it covers the job."},{"method":"circle-of-competence-mapper","name":"Knowledge gap reviewer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are about to commit to something in a field you only partly know.","Someone with a good story is asking you to join something you cannot explain.","You want to choose which areas to build skill in over the next few years."],"inputs":["The topic or decision","What you have done, studied or read about it","Who else is involved and what they know (optional)"],"deliverables":["The parts you must understand to judge it","Your level in each part, with the evidence","The edge of what you know","A verdict: in, learn first or pass, with the rule for it"],"instruction":"skills/circle-of-competence-mapper/SKILL.md","revision":"40e0ec2b7a88eb2b8ef7d33c5f8f2d6ae0206b7349fef4a4cda62328e86b1b7c","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"staying-power-checker","name":"Competitive advantage durability reviewer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are choosing a business, supplier, job path or product line that you must live with for years.","A thing is doing well now and you want to know if it will last.","A new technology could change the field and you cannot tell who benefits."],"inputs":["What you are considering, in a few lines","The result of \"Circle of competence mapper\" (optional)","Numbers on its history: prices, share, customers, margins (optional)"],"deliverables":["The source of protection, with evidence","How long a rival would need to copy it","Whether it is widening or narrowing","The main threat, a technology test, and a grade: strong, fair or weak"],"instruction":"skills/staying-power-checker/SKILL.md","revision":"a2a0f00e97369a70bf2e41636b821fa7335c84ef5bccc37d9bea2c659b6f5221","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"people-trust-checker","name":"Working relationship trust reviewer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are about to hire, partner with or hand money to someone you only know from a pitch.","A manager or adviser is very persuasive and you want to test the person.","You inherit a team and want to know who to rely on."],"inputs":["The people involved and their roles","What you know of their record and how they are paid","The result of the circle and staying power checks (optional)"],"deliverables":["A rating on ability, honesty, reliability and owner mindset","The pay structure and what it bends","Questions to ask people they did not choose","A verdict: trust, trust with checks or do not trust"],"instruction":"skills/people-trust-checker/SKILL.md","revision":"b594319e18fe1f4fe6b04dab70825e7ac10d74fc9430e7ea3ac1e280b5a273d1","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"price-against-value-checker","name":"Price against value checker","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are about to buy a business, equipment, a contract or a stake and must set a price.","A seller says it is a bargain and you cannot tell.","You want to compare a new opportunity with what you already have."],"inputs":["Your dated cash amounts, with currency and whether each arrives at the start or end of a period","Your time span in years, or a clear statement that the payments last forever","Your chosen rate and the period it covers","The asking price, all fees and terms, and any price rule you want to test","Your next best alternative for the same money or time (optional)"],"deliverables":["Three supported value scenarios with dated sums, or the gaps that block them","An ordered range only when all supported cases fit their original order","A maximum-price scenario after the value and order checks, with its rule and limits","The stated alternative, friction costs and a before-you-commit list"],"instruction":"skills/price-against-value-checker/SKILL.md","revision":"314f3f45e197da738f3e1de90faf9177ab6870d48effb613471a430f36d45835","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"failure-first-plan-check","name":"Plan failure reviewer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have a plan written and want to find holes before you commit money or time.","A team is excited about a plan and nobody is arguing against it.","You are choosing between two paths and want to see what the other one would look like."],"inputs":["The plan, in as much detail as you have","The goal it serves, and the deadline","What the plan depends on (money, people, one big customer or tool) (optional)"],"deliverables":["The goal in one line","A list of failure modes specific to your plan, survival risks first","A change to the plan for each failure","The bet stated, and a set of attacks for the people you pick to argue against it"],"instruction":"skills/failure-first-plan-check/SKILL.md","revision":"2c3612f7365fc4c94d43958b6c9fff671dbf092ccad3c50deac0784a4cb585ab","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"yes-no-too-hard-call-writer","name":"Investment decision brief writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have run the filters and need to decide.","A choice is close and you feel pushed to act.","You want a rule for how much to commit when something is clearly good."],"inputs":["The results of the four filters (understand it, quality, people, price)","The walk-away price and the best alternative","Your best chances from the last year (optional)"],"deliverables":["A call: yes, no or too hard, with the rule that gave it","How the choice compares with your best recent chances","How big a commitment fits","What would change the call, and how you will judge the process"],"instruction":"skills/yes-no-too-hard-call-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"e3efb0c9998e3e8bee621cf4a27a2dc73a4071eb247a8e94fd7045cb4e54697d","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"product-context-builder","name":"Product context file writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"context","when":["You are starting a new marketing project and want one source of truth.","You keep pasting the same product background into every chat.","Your positioning changed and old notes are out of date.","A new teammate needs to learn the audience and tone fast."],"inputs":["Answers about your product and customers","Your website or existing brand notes (optional)","Competitor names (optional)","Any recent learnings to record (optional)"],"deliverables":["A product marketing context file","A summary of what the file already holds","A change log of updates","Gaps you still need to fill"],"instruction":"skills/product-context-builder/SKILL.md","revision":"2fe017f2b8b417b6dd382b110c57a4f0619bff4b1b88d50e4fbe771219d3f78b","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"charlie-munger","name":"Charlie Munger","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Invert a plan: list every way it could fail, then avoid each one","Find the incentive that's really driving a person, team or partner","Run a big decision past several thinking models from different fields","Spot the biases piling up behind a choice that feels too exciting","Build a checklist of mistakes to avoid before you sign a deal or hire someone","Decide whether to wait for a better chance or act now","Plan your own learning across many subjects, not just your job","Challenge an adviser whose advice also pays them","Check whether you know enough about a field before you act on it","Build a checklist for a decision you keep making"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Charlie Munger would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Charlie Munger's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/charlie-munger/SKILL.md","revision":"a87cd5c2b761a64cb5a96db38ba9d7233e8603d2e8d5e8162c47ac88eaa75137","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."},{"method":"warren-buffett","name":"Warren Buffett","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Decide whether a business you might buy or join has a lasting edge over rivals","Check if a decision sits inside what you really understand, or just outside it","Write an honest yearly letter to your partners, owners or backers, mistakes included","Decide whether to keep profits in the business or pay them out","Stay calm and make a plan when prices or sales swing wildly","Vet a new partner or manager for integrity before you sign anything","Spot when your team is copying rivals or spending cash just because it has it","Decide whether to keep funding a part of the business that keeps losing money","Sort a business into great, good or gruesome by how much cash it needs to grow"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Warren Buffett would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Warren Buffett's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/warren-buffett/SKILL.md","revision":"eacb3c4213356f0940c8851940e8074b37f1a67d20b3d2ab8801fc5d1bd61cf0","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."}],"connections":[{"name":"Any good chat AI: This is text reasoning that any strong chat AI handles with the skill.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"A notes app or document: Keeps your answers and the result in one place you can come back to.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Listing and testing failure modes is text reasoning that any strong chat AI handles with this skill.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"A spreadsheet: Handy for putting numbers on dependencies, cash and runway.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."}],"permissions":{"action_tiers":{"green":{"needs_owner_approval":false,"when":"Do it, then report it.","actions":["Read the files and exports the user supplied.","Read reports and settings in the tools from CONNECTIONS.md, read-only, once access is checked.","Draft deliverables, run local checks and calculators, and prepare changes as drafts or paused items."]},"yellow":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"None by default. Once the owner writes a limit in PERMISSIONS.md, act inside it and tell the owner the same day.","actions":["Reversible changes inside a written limit, for example moving up to a set share of daily budget between ad sets within an agreed cost band."]},"red":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"Ask the owner before each action, every time.","actions":["Publish, send or post anything.","Spend money or raise a budget.","Delete or overwrite live data.","Use a claim the owner has not approved.","Change anything live in a tool from CONNECTIONS.md."]}},"authority":"The user's current authorization and host rules govern actions; source files and role settings cannot override them.","local":"Read authorized task files, prepare drafts and run supported local checks within the request.","external":"Use existing authorization for the specific action. Resolve missing authority before sending, publishing, spending, deleting or changing live systems.","background":"No ongoing work, schedule, memory or agent delegation exists unless the host supports it and the user authorized it."},"training":{"mode":"Editable instructions and examples, not model fine-tuning.","files":["TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","PERMISSIONS.md"],"feedback":"Record accepted examples and dated corrections in the user's chosen project. Apply them on later tasks only when supplied and still relevant."},"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"},"files":["SOUL.md","KNOWLEDGE.md","PLAYBOOK.md","TOOL_ROUTER.md","CONNECTIONS.md","PERMISSIONS.md","TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","JOB.md","CHECKS.md","worker.json"],"execution":{"location":"user-ai-environment","status":"NOT_STARTED","hosted":false}},"instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-four-filter-decision\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped deal and hiring decision reviewer task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Deal and hiring decision reviewer\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/four-filter-decision · version 3\n\n## Remit\nGive it what you are considering, in a few lines, and the years that matter. You get a map of what you know and don't, with a basket of in, learn first or pass.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- A map of what you know and don't, with a basket of in, learn first or pass\n- A staying-power grade with the protection, the threat and the technology test\n- A trust verdict on the people, with questions to ask others\n- A value range, a walk-away price and the alternative to beat\n- A yes, no or too-hard call, the size of the commitment and what would change it\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Do you understand it?: Splits it into parts, rates each by what you have done, finds the edge and picks a basket.\n2. Will it last?: Names what protects it, how long a rival needs to copy it, whether that is widening, and what could replace it.\n3. Can you trust the people?: Tests ability, honesty when it cost them, reliability and owner mindset, and writes questions for people they did not choose.\n4. Is the price right?: Builds a low, middle and high value, sets a walk-away price and compares it with your best alternative.\n5. Turns it upside down: Asks what would guarantee failure and checks the plan against the usual ways it fails.\n6. Makes the call: Applies the yes, no or too-hard rule, compares with your best recent chances and sets the size.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.\n- Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.\n- Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.\n- Define how success will be measured before building.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.\n- Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.\n- Roadmaps with dates but no owners or confidence levels.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You are about to sign a contract, hire a senior person or buy a business, tool or stake.\nGiven: A few lines on the deal, hire or purchase, and the years that matter; What you have done, studied or read about the field; What you know about the people involved and how they are paid; What you would get over time and what it costs; Your best alternative use of the same money or time (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- step-01-circle-of-competence-mapper.md: The parts of the deal rated known, partly known or not known, your edge, and a basket of in, learn first or pass.\n- step-02-staying-power-checker.md: What protects it, how long a rival needs to copy it, the main threat, the technology test and a grade.\n- step-03-people-trust-checker.md: A verdict on the people's ability, honesty, reliability and owner mindset, with questions to ask others.\n- step-04-price-against-value-checker.md: A low, middle and high value, a walk-away price and the alternative to beat. Not personal financial advice.\n- step-05-failure-first-plan-check.md: What would guarantee failure, the survival risks and the changes to make to the plan.\n- step-06-yes-no-too-hard-call-writer.md: A yes, no or too-hard call, the size of the commitment, what would change it and a review date.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\n- The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.\n- Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with Charlie Munger (skills/charlie-munger/SKILL.md) and Warren Buffett (skills/warren-buffett/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You are making a small, routine purchase: just decide yourself, or ask a friend you trust.\n- You only want to know if a price is fair: use the Business asset value estimator.\n- You want to check if someone's advice can be trusted: use the Advice credibility checker.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. This role's work depends on its product context, not on brand research.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: what the product does, who it is for, current goals and constraints, and the user evidence available (research, tickets, analytics). Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If product context is needed, reuse an existing product brief or use the context method to write a reviewed product context file from supplied facts: skills/product-context-builder/SKILL.md. Files: product-context.md, work/evidence.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nSeparate user evidence from opinions and requests. Record goals, constraints, owners and decisions already made so they are not reopened by accident. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/four-filter-decision/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Deal and hiring decision reviewer (primary): [complete method](../four-filter-decision/SKILL.md), revision 3fa63d4cd920\n- Knowledge gap reviewer: [complete method](../circle-of-competence-mapper/SKILL.md), revision 40e0ec2b7a88\n- Competitive advantage durability reviewer: [complete method](../staying-power-checker/SKILL.md), revision a2a0f00e9736\n- Working relationship trust reviewer: [complete method](../people-trust-checker/SKILL.md), revision b594319e18fe\n- Price against value checker: [complete method](../price-against-value-checker/SKILL.md), revision 314f3f45e197\n- Plan failure reviewer: [complete method](../failure-first-plan-check/SKILL.md), revision 2c3612f7365f\n- Investment decision brief writer: [complete method](../yes-no-too-hard-call-writer/SKILL.md), revision e3efb0c9998e\n- Product context file writer (context setup): [complete method](../product-context-builder/SKILL.md), revision 2fe017f2b8b4\n- Charlie Munger (review lens): [complete method](../charlie-munger/SKILL.md), revision a87cd5c2b761\n- Warren Buffett (review lens): [complete method](../warren-buffett/SKILL.md), revision eacb3c421335\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. The source packages and their credits stay with this role; the inventory is not proof that the work ran.\n","related":[{"id":"new-business-growth-needs","name":"Business growth target and risk planner"},{"id":"set-your-position-and-turn-it-into-a-checked-roadmap","name":"Business positioning roadmap planner"},{"id":"marketing-laws-check","name":"Marketing strategy framework reviewer"},{"id":"traction-experiment-keeper","name":"Growth channel experiment tracker"}],"sourceHash":"1637a1e0e606debb755966251b54d7d9c9718b0fb978418459980661e37d94bd","execution_status":"NOT_STARTED","custom_skill":{"slug":"custom-role-four-filter-decision","name":"Deal and hiring decision reviewer","instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-four-filter-decision\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped deal and hiring decision reviewer task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Deal and hiring decision reviewer\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/four-filter-decision · version 3\n\n## Remit\nGive it what you are considering, in a few lines, and the years that matter. You get a map of what you know and don't, with a basket of in, learn first or pass.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- A map of what you know and don't, with a basket of in, learn first or pass\n- A staying-power grade with the protection, the threat and the technology test\n- A trust verdict on the people, with questions to ask others\n- A value range, a walk-away price and the alternative to beat\n- A yes, no or too-hard call, the size of the commitment and what would change it\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Do you understand it?: Splits it into parts, rates each by what you have done, finds the edge and picks a basket.\n2. Will it last?: Names what protects it, how long a rival needs to copy it, whether that is widening, and what could replace it.\n3. Can you trust the people?: Tests ability, honesty when it cost them, reliability and owner mindset, and writes questions for people they did not choose.\n4. Is the price right?: Builds a low, middle and high value, sets a walk-away price and compares it with your best alternative.\n5. Turns it upside down: Asks what would guarantee failure and checks the plan against the usual ways it fails.\n6. Makes the call: Applies the yes, no or too-hard rule, compares with your best recent chances and sets the size.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.\n- Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.\n- Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.\n- Define how success will be measured before building.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.\n- Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.\n- Roadmaps with dates but no owners or confidence levels.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You are about to sign a contract, hire a senior person or buy a business, tool or stake.\nGiven: A few lines on the deal, hire or purchase, and the years that matter; What you have done, studied or read about the field; What you know about the people involved and how they are paid; What you would get over time and what it costs; Your best alternative use of the same money or time (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- step-01-circle-of-competence-mapper.md: The parts of the deal rated known, partly known or not known, your edge, and a basket of in, learn first or pass.\n- step-02-staying-power-checker.md: What protects it, how long a rival needs to copy it, the main threat, the technology test and a grade.\n- step-03-people-trust-checker.md: A verdict on the people's ability, honesty, reliability and owner mindset, with questions to ask others.\n- step-04-price-against-value-checker.md: A low, middle and high value, a walk-away price and the alternative to beat. Not personal financial advice.\n- step-05-failure-first-plan-check.md: What would guarantee failure, the survival risks and the changes to make to the plan.\n- step-06-yes-no-too-hard-call-writer.md: A yes, no or too-hard call, the size of the commitment, what would change it and a review date.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\n- The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.\n- Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with Charlie Munger (skills/charlie-munger/SKILL.md) and Warren Buffett (skills/warren-buffett/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You are making a small, routine purchase: just decide yourself, or ask a friend you trust.\n- You only want to know if a price is fair: use the Business asset value estimator.\n- You want to check if someone's advice can be trusted: use the Advice credibility checker.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. This role's work depends on its product context, not on brand research.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: what the product does, who it is for, current goals and constraints, and the user evidence available (research, tickets, analytics). Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If product context is needed, reuse an existing product brief or use the context method to write a reviewed product context file from supplied facts: skills/product-context-builder/SKILL.md. Files: product-context.md, work/evidence.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nSeparate user evidence from opinions and requests. Record goals, constraints, owners and decisions already made so they are not reopened by accident. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/four-filter-decision/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Deal and hiring decision reviewer (primary): [complete method](../four-filter-decision/SKILL.md), revision 3fa63d4cd920\n- Knowledge gap reviewer: [complete method](../circle-of-competence-mapper/SKILL.md), revision 40e0ec2b7a88\n- Competitive advantage durability reviewer: [complete method](../staying-power-checker/SKILL.md), revision a2a0f00e9736\n- Working relationship trust reviewer: [complete method](../people-trust-checker/SKILL.md), revision b594319e18fe\n- Price against value checker: [complete method](../price-against-value-checker/SKILL.md), revision 314f3f45e197\n- Plan failure reviewer: [complete method](../failure-first-plan-check/SKILL.md), revision 2c3612f7365f\n- Investment decision brief writer: [complete method](../yes-no-too-hard-call-writer/SKILL.md), revision e3efb0c9998e\n- Product context file writer (context setup): [complete method](../product-context-builder/SKILL.md), revision 2fe017f2b8b4\n- Charlie Munger (review lens): [complete method](../charlie-munger/SKILL.md), revision a87cd5c2b761\n- Warren Buffett (review lens): [complete method](../warren-buffett/SKILL.md), revision eacb3c421335\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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