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Get income and fee scenarios, a client plan, downside checks and an exit checklist.","area":"data","family":{"id":"think-and-decide","name":"Think it through and decide"},"lead":"leave-job-own-income","featured":false,"contextKind":"research","deliverables":["A monthly income floor, the steady streams that cover it and what a sick month does","A fee, billing terms and a client limit","A plan to win your first paying clients one by one","The one outcome that could ruin the plan, and a version that survives it","A cash buffer, rules for thin months and a loan request draft","A plan for the talk with your family or partner, and a leaving plan with a draft notice letter"],"inputs":["Your job, pay, notice terms and what the job covers, such as health cover, pension, tools and space","Your monthly costs, lean and comfortable","What you could sell, to whom, and any clients or leads you already have","Real prices others in your field charge","Who relies on you","Your tax rate, debts and savings (optional)"],"opening":{"give":["Your job, pay, notice terms and what the job covers, such as health cover, pension, tools and space","Your monthly costs, lean and comfortable","What you could sell, to whom, and any clients or leads you already have"],"get":["A monthly income floor, the steady streams that cover it and what a sick month does","A fee, billing terms and a client limit","A plan to win your first paying clients one by one","The one outcome that could ruin the plan, and a version that survives it"]},"helpfulInputs":["Three months of bank statements","Your contract's notice terms","A list of current clients or leads with what each pays"],"fit":["You are thinking of leaving a steady job to live on your own clients, sales or commissions.","You already work for yourself, your income swings and you cannot plan.","You are treated badly at work and want to leave in a way you will not regret.","A partner or family member wants to see the sums before they agree."],"limits":["You are still deciding whether to leave at all: start with the Plan objection writer, then come back.","Your contract has a non-compete, a fixed term or a visa tied to your employer: ask an employment adviser first. This plan does not read your contract.","You want tax, legal or investment advice: this is a planning aid. Ask an accountant or a qualified adviser."],"tools":["Claude or another chat AI: Keeps the seven steps in one run, so each uses the one before.","A spreadsheet: Lets you check the floor sum and try a different fee or client count.","Any good chat AI: This is reading, sorting and writing, which any strong chat AI does well with this skill.","A spreadsheet: Your bank statements for three months are the best source for the lean-month figure.","A spreadsheet or calculator: A quick check of the client and hours sums keeps the cap honest.","Any good chat AI: Planning and drafting outreach is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.","A spreadsheet: Holds the list of people, the date you contacted them and what each said.","Any good chat AI: Listing dependencies and testing plans in text is what any strong chat AI does with this skill.","A spreadsheet: Handy for putting fixed costs, cash and exposure side by side.","A spreadsheet or banking app: A live view of cash on hand keeps the lines honest.","Any good chat AI: It does this planning with just the text of the situation.","A notes app: Keep a short card per person so their wants carry over.","Your contract and a local adviser: Notice periods and non-compete rules vary by place and contract."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It is a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.","Give the folder to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, in an AI that can read files, and say Follow HANDOFF.md.","Have your costs, your job terms and three real prices ready. It works step by step and saves each result.","Check the floor against your last three lean months. If it looks wrong, correct the input and rerun step 1.","Do not resign until step 7 says the readiness check passes. Even then, check the plan with an accountant first.","The notice letter and the loan request are drafts. The AI sends nothing."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Work out the floor","description":"Adds up a lean month, what the job covers and a tax share. Sorts income into steady and extra and sizes the cash for a month you cannot work."},{"name":"Set fees and a limit","description":"Picks a fee in the top third of real prices, bills by the month and caps your clients so you keep time for your own work."},{"name":"Plan your first clients","description":"Lists who already knows your work and plans how to win each in person, then learn what they paid for."},{"name":"Stress-test the plan","description":"Finds the one outcome that would ruin it, caps the downside and changes the plan so it survives."},{"name":"Write rules for thin months","description":"Sets a buffer, a yellow and a red line, who to ask early, and a request with an exact sum and a repayment date from money already due."},{"name":"Plan the talk at home","description":"Starts from what the other person wants, answers the fear behind the objection and sets a check-in date."},{"name":"Plan how you leave","description":"Runs the readiness check, drafts a short notice and sets the order of conversations. Signed work must cover half the floor for three months."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Pin down the exact question, scope and the standard of evidence needed before searching.","Prefer primary sources, and say how strong each source is.","Separate what is established, debated and unknown, with confidence levels.","Cite specifically: author, work, date or page where possible."],"pitfalls":["Counting hoped-for work toward the floor or the readiness check.","Setting a fee from a guess when no real prices were given.","Treating the readiness verdict as advice to resign.","Letting an angry day shape the notice letter.","Presenting one source or a popular claim as settled.","Inventing citations, quotes or page numbers."],"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.","The floor includes what the employer used to cover and a tax share, or says the tax rate is missing.","Only steady income counts toward the floor.","The fee is above the middle of the prices given and has a reason, or the sums are marked as assumed.","Every repayment date in the loan request comes from money already invoiced or signed.","Every important claim has a source or is marked as unverified."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":10,"source":0,"area":"research"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You are thinking of leaving a steady job to live on your own clients, sales or commissions.","task":"Share pay, skills, costs and cash limits. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["Your job, pay, notice terms and what the job covers","Your monthly costs","What you could sell and any leads","Three to five real prices from your field","Who relies on you"],"outputs":[{"name":"Income floor","contains":"The monthly income you need, your steady streams, the gap, clients needed and the hole in a sick month."},{"name":"Fee and client limit","contains":"A fee with its reason, a cap with the hours sum, billing terms and a discount rule."},{"name":"First clients","contains":"Who to approach first, how to win each one in person and what to learn from them."},{"name":"Stress test","contains":"The one outcome you could not recover from, and a capped version of the plan with its cost."},{"name":"Thin-month rules","contains":"A cash buffer, yellow and red lines, who to ask early and a draft loan request with a repayment date."},{"name":"Talk at home","contains":"What the other person wants, their fear and your answer, and a check-in date."}]},"example":"Share pay, skills, costs and cash limits. 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Get income and fee scenarios, a client plan, downside checks and an exit checklist.","method":"leave-job-own-income","when":["You are thinking of leaving a steady job to live on your own clients, sales or commissions.","You already work for yourself, your income swings and you cannot plan.","You are treated badly at work and want to leave in a way you will not regret.","A partner or family member wants to see the sums before they agree."],"inputs":["Your job, pay, notice terms and what the job covers, such as health cover, pension, tools and space","Your monthly costs, lean and comfortable","What you could sell, to whom, and any clients or leads you already have","Real prices others in your field charge","Who relies on you","Your tax rate, debts and savings (optional)"],"deliverables":["A monthly income floor, the steady streams that cover it and what a sick month does","A fee, billing terms and a client limit","A plan to win your first paying clients one by one","The one outcome that could ruin the plan, and a version that survives it","A cash buffer, rules for thin months and a loan request draft","A plan for the talk with your family or partner, and a leaving plan with a draft notice letter"]},{"name":"Independent income floor calculator","description":"Work out the monthly income you need to go independent. Get your floor, steady streams, clients needed and the cash for a sick month.","method":"income-floor-calculator","when":["You are thinking of leaving a salaried job to work for yourself and need to know if the sums hold.","You already freelance and your income swings so much that you cannot plan.","Someone asks how many clients you need and you only have a guess.","A partner or family member wants to see the number before you hand in notice."],"inputs":["What you spend in a lean month and in a comfortable one","What your job covers that you would pay for yourself, such as health cover, pension, equipment and space (say none if you already work for yourself)","Every way you could earn: the amount, how regular, whether there is a contract, how fast it is paid","Your tax rate as one flat share of income (optional)","What you would charge a new client (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your monthly floor, in the lean and the comfortable version","Each income stream sorted steady or extra, with the amount counted","The gap, and how many clients it takes to close it","The hole in a month you cannot work, and the cash to cover it","A list of what is missing"]},{"name":"Client pricing planner","description":"Set your client fee and cap from your income floor and real market prices. Get a fee, a client limit and billing terms that cover your costs.","method":"client-fee-and-cap-setter","when":["You are about to start taking clients and need a fee and a limit.","You take every client who asks and have no time for your own work.","Clients pause, skip or pay late, and you bill by the session."],"inputs":["Your income floor and the gap, from the Independent income floor calculator or your own figures","Three to five real prices charged by people doing similar work","Hours you can work in a month, and hours a client takes","What makes your work worth more than the middle: results, name, scarcity"],"deliverables":["A fee with the reason for its position","Three candidate fees and the clients each needs","A client cap with the hours sum behind it","Billing terms in a few lines, and a discount rule","A short answer to 'why do you cost more than others?'"]},{"name":"First customer outreach planner","description":"Plan how to get your first customers by hand. Give it your product and who you want. You get a narrow group, named places and a to-do plan.","method":"first-customers-by-hand-planner","when":["You have a product and no customers yet.","You are about to launch and have no way to find the first ten buyers.","You think you need software or a team before you can serve anyone."],"inputs":["Your product or service in a few lines","The kind of customer you want first","A buyer description (optional)","What you already know about them, or a community you are in (optional)"],"deliverables":["A narrow starting group with named places and people","A plan to win each one by hand","A list of manual steps marked automate later or keep","A way to record what each user says"]},{"name":"Ruin risk stress tester","description":"Check your plan for ruin risk. Paste it in and find the one outcome you could not recover from, plus a version with the downside capped.","method":"ruin-risk-stress-tester","when":["You are about to put savings, a deposit or your reputation into one plan.","Your business depends on one customer, supplier, platform or person.","A plan looks safe because nothing has gone wrong yet."],"inputs":["The plan, and what is at stake (money, time, the business, your name)","What the plan depends on, such as customers, suppliers, loans or rules","How much slack you have (cash, time, backup options) (optional)"],"deliverables":["A list of dependencies and things that could go wrong, with no odds guessed","The outcome you could not recover from, listed apart from ordinary losses","A capped-downside version of the plan, with the cost of the fix","What would make you act early"]},{"name":"Cash shortage planning adviser","description":"Write your lean-year cash rules: a buffer size, yellow and red lines, who to ask for help, and a clear request you can send. Paste your plan.","method":"lean-year-cash-rules-writer","when":["You are about to go independent and want rules ready for a bad month.","You have already borrowed more than once from the same person and are not sure how to stop.","Your income swings and you want to know when to act and when to ask."],"inputs":["Your plan and monthly floor, from the earlier steps or in your own words","Your cash on hand and any debts","Who could help: family, friends, a bank, a client who could pay early","Fixed costs you could cut, and how fast"],"deliverables":["A buffer target in months, and the yellow and red lines","What to do at each line, in order","A helper list with a limit for each person","A request you can send, with every part filled","A repayment rule and a monthly report rule"]},{"name":"Proposal discussion planner","description":"Share the person, proposal and what you know about their goals. Get an honest conversation plan with questions, concerns and room for their input.","method":"buy-in-conversation-planner","when":["You need your boss, client or team to back an idea.","You expect resistance and want to prepare the doubts.","You keep winning arguments and losing the person."],"inputs":["Who you need to win over and what you want","What you know about them (optional)","What you could change if they push back (optional)"],"deliverables":["Their wants and why your request fits them","Their likely doubts with replies or questions","An opening and a first small yes","Questions that make them do most of the talking"]},{"name":"Job exit plan writer","description":"Plan how to quit your job and go out on your own. Get a notice letter, the order to tell people, and a check that three months of income are covered.","method":"job-exit-plan-writer","when":["You have decided to leave a steady job and want to do it cleanly.","You are being treated badly and are tempted to walk out in the middle of an argument.","You are not sure if you have enough lined up to hand in notice."],"inputs":["Your role, your notice terms and what you are owed","The plan from the earlier steps: floor, fees, first clients, cash","Who relies on you or would be hurt by your leaving","What has gone wrong at work, in a few lines"],"deliverables":["A what-would-keep-me line, or a decision that nothing would","A short notice letter","The order of conversations, with a line for each","A hand-back and what-I'm-owed list","A three-month income check against a readiness rule","Lines for the day the other side turns nasty"]},{"name":"Research paper and code note writer","description":"Share a paper, repo or messy notes. Get claims, methods and evidence sorted into a clear research folder.","method":"paper-repo-notes","when":["A project is done and what you learned is spread across files.","You want a paper and its code turned into notes you can search and trust.","A teammate is leaving and their research needs to be written down.","You need each claim tied to the log or table that proves it."],"inputs":["A paper (PDF or arXiv link), a code repo, logs, notebooks or notes","A folder to save the result in","Context about your research goal (optional)","A grading rubric for the paper (optional)"],"deliverables":["A research folder with claims, methods and results","Every claim linked to its supporting table or log","Results tables copied with exact numbers","A record of dead ends and decisions","A short report on what was filled in and what was missing"]},{"name":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","description":"Review a performance piece using Mozart’s recorded craft ideas. Fit the performer, make the main idea clear and plan rehearsal with its audience.","method":"wolfgang-amadeus-mozart","when":["Write a tune, jingle or hook that people can hum after one hearing","Shape a speech, part or piece around the person who will deliver it","Adapt your style to a new audience or market without losing yourself","Show strong feeling, like anger or grief, without making it ugly or harsh","Cut a long piece so it's short and good","Give a piece a clear form, with sections that set up, contrast and return","Study an older master's work to learn something new in your own","Decide whether to leave a safe but limiting job to work for yourself"],"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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]},{"name":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","description":"Review a plan’s exposure to shocks using Nassim Taleb’s recorded ideas. Find possible ruin, inspect who bears losses and question a calm record.","method":"nassim-taleb","when":["Find the one risk in a plan that could wipe you out, and cap it before you chase upside","Make a business, career or budget less fragile by adding slack and backups","Split your bets into very safe and small, bold ones, and skip the risky middle","Check whether an adviser, expert or partner pays a price when they are wrong","Judge which ideas, tools or books are likely to last by how long they already have","Spot when a smooth, quiet record is hiding risk rather than proving safety","Decide when to act early on a threat that could spread, instead of waiting for proof","Run many cheap experiments with small downside and open-ended upside"],"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 Nassim Nicholas Taleb would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"leave-job-own-income","name":"Job-to-self-employment transition planner","summary":"Share pay, skills, costs and cash limits. 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Paste it in and find the one outcome you could not recover from, plus a version with the downside capped.","task":"think-and-decide","kind":"skill","path":"/skills/ruin-risk-stress-tester","revision":"2f9b25df9fbaf0f37e9c4bc89f7d0417efe81c6274dabe33ede8d56c4babda5c","skillPath":"/skills/ruin-risk-stress-tester/SKILL.md","bundled":true,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"lean-year-cash-rules-writer","name":"Cash shortage planning adviser","summary":"Write your lean-year cash rules: a buffer size, yellow and red lines, who to ask for help, and a clear request you can send. Paste your plan.","task":"think-and-decide","kind":"skill","path":"/skills/lean-year-cash-rules-writer","revision":"e199c8e08ba8272293bd0971de74b219cc747640f22c81483cc05d143f761012","skillPath":"/skills/lean-year-cash-rules-writer/SKILL.md","bundled":true,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"buy-in-conversation-planner","name":"Proposal discussion planner","summary":"Share the person, proposal and what you know about their goals. 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Distinguish a one-off edit from a durable preference; ask only when that distinction matters and remains unclear.","retrieval":"Read the short index and only relevant current records. Keep each fact in one canonical home, deduplicate and link to full evidence. Supersede stale guidance without silently erasing its history.","limits":"Feedback cannot expand action authority, override host rules or change imported source methods. Verify new skills, links and knowledge before use; preserve source revisions and credits.","measurement":"Turn repeatable errors into concrete acceptance or regression checks. Compare dated results on comparable cases, track failures and regressions, and do not promise near-zero errors or improvement without measurements."},"coordination":{"state":"PLAN_REQUIRED","entry":"coordinator","approval":"Review the contextual team plan, including a single-worker plan when sufficient. Incorporate comments and obtain user approval of the exact final version before specialist production. A preparation is not an approved plan.","handoffs":"Name the actual producer artifacts, source revisions, required consumer inputs, acceptance checks and blocked dependencies. Verify the artifact content before advancing.","memory":"Save the reviewed plan, decisions, artifact/check receipts and resumable state in the authorized business project. Actual persistent storage must be verified."},"routes":[{"method":"leave-job-own-income","name":"Job-to-self-employment transition planner","kind":"workflow","primary":true,"purpose":"primary","when":["You are thinking of leaving a steady job to live on your own clients, sales or commissions.","You already work for yourself, your income swings and you cannot plan.","You are treated badly at work and want to leave in a way you will not regret.","A partner or family member wants to see the sums before they agree."],"inputs":["Your job, pay, notice terms and what the job covers, such as health cover, pension, tools and space","Your monthly costs, lean and comfortable","What you could sell, to whom, and any clients or leads you already have","Real prices others in your field charge","Who relies on you","Your tax rate, debts and savings (optional)"],"deliverables":["A monthly income floor, the steady streams that cover it and what a sick month does","A fee, billing terms and a client limit","A plan to win your first paying clients one by one","The one outcome that could ruin the plan, and a version that survives it","A cash buffer, rules for thin months and a loan request draft","A plan for the talk with your family or partner, and a leaving plan with a draft notice letter"],"instruction":"skills/leave-job-own-income/SKILL.md","revision":"843615bec2b83412a8c2bd2fb1b31ff82672aa4908e734fc31fcb85e77af59be","invocation":"Read the complete procedure, required inputs, real step order and stop gates. Use it only when it covers the job."},{"method":"income-floor-calculator","name":"Independent income floor calculator","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are thinking of leaving a salaried job to work for yourself and need to know if the sums hold.","You already freelance and your income swings so much that you cannot plan.","Someone asks how many clients you need and you only have a guess.","A partner or family member wants to see the number before you hand in notice."],"inputs":["What you spend in a lean month and in a comfortable one","What your job covers that you would pay for yourself, such as health cover, pension, equipment and space (say none if you already work for yourself)","Every way you could earn: the amount, how regular, whether there is a contract, how fast it is paid","Your tax rate as one flat share of income (optional)","What you would charge a new client (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your monthly floor, in the lean and the comfortable version","Each income stream sorted steady or extra, with the amount counted","The gap, and how many clients it takes to close it","The hole in a month you cannot work, and the cash to cover it","A list of what is missing"],"instruction":"skills/income-floor-calculator/SKILL.md","revision":"c579c41c25174abda20442e036aba9420bab8989fe669a1a29a0201402646033","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"client-fee-and-cap-setter","name":"Client pricing planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are about to start taking clients and need a fee and a limit.","You take every client who asks and have no time for your own work.","Clients pause, skip or pay late, and you bill by the session."],"inputs":["Your income floor and the gap, from the Independent income floor calculator or your own figures","Three to five real prices charged by people doing similar work","Hours you can work in a month, and hours a client takes","What makes your work worth more than the middle: results, name, scarcity"],"deliverables":["A fee with the reason for its position","Three candidate fees and the clients each needs","A client cap with the hours sum behind it","Billing terms in a few lines, and a discount rule","A short answer to 'why do you cost more than others?'"],"instruction":"skills/client-fee-and-cap-setter/SKILL.md","revision":"ba7e7d199565fa4f774577777867224321ade0588709762e31337ca03b169247","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"first-customers-by-hand-planner","name":"First customer outreach planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have a product and no customers yet.","You are about to launch and have no way to find the first ten buyers.","You think you need software or a team before you can serve anyone."],"inputs":["Your product or service in a few lines","The kind of customer you want first","A buyer description (optional)","What you already know about them, or a community you are in (optional)"],"deliverables":["A narrow starting group with named places and people","A plan to win each one by hand","A list of manual steps marked automate later or keep","A way to record what each user says"],"instruction":"skills/first-customers-by-hand-planner/SKILL.md","revision":"3bf532adf54a3155aa824505571b73846794f837adc7ee9272f21072db9e8cd5","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"ruin-risk-stress-tester","name":"Ruin risk stress tester","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are about to put savings, a deposit or your reputation into one plan.","Your business depends on one customer, supplier, platform or person.","A plan looks safe because nothing has gone wrong yet."],"inputs":["The plan, and what is at stake (money, time, the business, your name)","What the plan depends on, such as customers, suppliers, loans or rules","How much slack you have (cash, time, backup options) (optional)"],"deliverables":["A list of dependencies and things that could go wrong, with no odds guessed","The outcome you could not recover from, listed apart from ordinary losses","A capped-downside version of the plan, with the cost of the fix","What would make you act early"],"instruction":"skills/ruin-risk-stress-tester/SKILL.md","revision":"2f9b25df9fbaf0f37e9c4bc89f7d0417efe81c6274dabe33ede8d56c4babda5c","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"lean-year-cash-rules-writer","name":"Cash shortage planning adviser","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are about to go independent and want rules ready for a bad month.","You have already borrowed more than once from the same person and are not sure how to stop.","Your income swings and you want to know when to act and when to ask."],"inputs":["Your plan and monthly floor, from the earlier steps or in your own words","Your cash on hand and any debts","Who could help: family, friends, a bank, a client who could pay early","Fixed costs you could cut, and how fast"],"deliverables":["A buffer target in months, and the yellow and red lines","What to do at each line, in order","A helper list with a limit for each person","A request you can send, with every part filled","A repayment rule and a monthly report rule"],"instruction":"skills/lean-year-cash-rules-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"e199c8e08ba8272293bd0971de74b219cc747640f22c81483cc05d143f761012","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"buy-in-conversation-planner","name":"Proposal discussion planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You need your boss, client or team to back an idea.","You expect resistance and want to prepare the doubts.","You keep winning arguments and losing the person."],"inputs":["Who you need to win over and what you want","What you know about them (optional)","What you could change if they push back (optional)"],"deliverables":["Their wants and why your request fits them","Their likely doubts with replies or questions","An opening and a first small yes","Questions that make them do most of the talking"],"instruction":"skills/buy-in-conversation-planner/SKILL.md","revision":"0f534b07a3c11680ba86b0eaba5f3dd4edf7a4be6072ae2de16348474691354e","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"job-exit-plan-writer","name":"Job exit plan writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have decided to leave a steady job and want to do it cleanly.","You are being treated badly and are tempted to walk out in the middle of an argument.","You are not sure if you have enough lined up to hand in notice."],"inputs":["Your role, your notice terms and what you are owed","The plan from the earlier steps: floor, fees, first clients, cash","Who relies on you or would be hurt by your leaving","What has gone wrong at work, in a few lines"],"deliverables":["A what-would-keep-me line, or a decision that nothing would","A short notice letter","The order of conversations, with a line for each","A hand-back and what-I'm-owed list","A three-month income check against a readiness rule","Lines for the day the other side turns nasty"],"instruction":"skills/job-exit-plan-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"84c713efa1f9da4760176e5bfbcc2f3b34354f9968c3d5225c91ab3e22fef693","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"paper-repo-notes","name":"Research paper and code note writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"context","when":["A project is done and what you learned is spread across files.","You want a paper and its code turned into notes you can search and trust.","A teammate is leaving and their research needs to be written down.","You need each claim tied to the log or table that proves it."],"inputs":["A paper (PDF or arXiv link), a code repo, logs, notebooks or notes","A folder to save the result in","Context about your research goal (optional)","A grading rubric for the paper (optional)"],"deliverables":["A research folder with claims, methods and results","Every claim linked to its supporting table or log","Results tables copied with exact numbers","A record of dead ends and decisions","A short report on what was filled in and what was missing"],"instruction":"skills/paper-repo-notes/SKILL.md","revision":"edb023b5b32cf39a7f272248d3dfafa52efe5a1a758f2c86c1768dee65d3c56d","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"wolfgang-amadeus-mozart","name":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Write a tune, jingle or hook that people can hum after one hearing","Shape a speech, part or piece around the person who will deliver it","Adapt your style to a new audience or market without losing yourself","Show strong feeling, like anger or grief, without making it ugly or harsh","Cut a long piece so it's short and good","Give a piece a clear form, with sections that set up, contrast and return","Study an older master's work to learn something new in your own","Decide whether to leave a safe but limiting job to work for yourself"],"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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart/SKILL.md","revision":"8793fa9ec21db91cb9a9e4bc8a6ca202d03083cf05dceddc947ee183c7d47b0f","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":"nassim-taleb","name":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Find the one risk in a plan that could wipe you out, and cap it before you chase upside","Make a business, career or budget less fragile by adding slack and backups","Split your bets into very safe and small, bold ones, and skip the risky middle","Check whether an adviser, expert or partner pays a price when they are wrong","Judge which ideas, tools or books are likely to last by how long they already have","Spot when a smooth, quiet record is hiding risk rather than proving safety","Decide when to act early on a threat that could spread, instead of waiting for proof","Run many cheap experiments with small downside and open-ended upside"],"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 Nassim Nicholas Taleb would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/nassim-taleb/SKILL.md","revision":"137d7e6768943d911e6742a1c8fc8072826abb26de37b96b845086b6f62acfc3","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":"Claude or another chat AI: Keeps the seven steps in one run, so each uses the one before.","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: Lets you check the floor sum and try a different fee or client count.","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: This is reading, sorting and writing, which any strong chat AI does well 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: Your bank statements for three months are the best source for the lean-month figure.","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 or calculator: A quick check of the client and hours sums keeps the cap honest.","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: Planning and drafting outreach is text work any strong chat AI does well 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: Holds the list of people, the date you contacted them and what each said.","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 dependencies and testing plans in text is what any strong chat AI does 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 fixed costs, cash and exposure side by side.","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 or banking app: A live view of cash on hand keeps the lines honest.","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: It does this planning with just the text of the situation.","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: Keep a short card per person so their wants carry over.","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":"Your contract and a local adviser: Notice periods and non-compete rules vary by place and contract.","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-leave-job-own-income\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped job-to-self-employment transition planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Job-to-self-employment transition planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/leave-job-own-income · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare pay, skills, costs and cash limits. Get income and fee scenarios, a client plan, downside checks and an exit checklist.\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 monthly income floor, the steady streams that cover it and what a sick month does\n- A fee, billing terms and a client limit\n- A plan to win your first paying clients one by one\n- The one outcome that could ruin the plan, and a version that survives it\n- A cash buffer, rules for thin months and a loan request draft\n- A plan for the talk with your family or partner, and a leaving plan with a draft notice letter\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Work out the floor: Adds up a lean month, what the job covers and a tax share. Sorts income into steady and extra and sizes the cash for a month you cannot work.\n2. Set fees and a limit: Picks a fee in the top third of real prices, bills by the month and caps your clients so you keep time for your own work.\n3. Plan your first clients: Lists who already knows your work and plans how to win each in person, then learn what they paid for.\n4. Stress-test the plan: Finds the one outcome that would ruin it, caps the downside and changes the plan so it survives.\n5. Write rules for thin months: Sets a buffer, a yellow and a red line, who to ask early, and a request with an exact sum and a repayment date from money already due.\n6. Plan the talk at home: Starts from what the other person wants, answers the fear behind the objection and sets a check-in date.\n7. Plan how you leave: Runs the readiness check, drafts a short notice and sets the order of conversations. Signed work must cover half the floor for three months.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Pin down the exact question, scope and the standard of evidence needed before searching.\n- Prefer primary sources, and say how strong each source is.\n- Separate what is established, debated and unknown, with confidence levels.\n- Cite specifically: author, work, date or page where possible.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Counting hoped-for work toward the floor or the readiness check.\n- Setting a fee from a guess when no real prices were given.\n- Treating the readiness verdict as advice to resign.\n- Letting an angry day shape the notice letter.\n- Presenting one source or a popular claim as settled.\n- Inventing citations, quotes or page numbers.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You are thinking of leaving a steady job to live on your own clients, sales or commissions.\nGiven: Your job, pay, notice terms and what the job covers; Your monthly costs; What you could sell and any leads; Three to five real prices from your field; Who relies on you\nA strong result contains:\n- Income floor: The monthly income you need, your steady streams, the gap, clients needed and the hole in a sick month.\n- Fee and client limit: A fee with its reason, a cap with the hours sum, billing terms and a discount rule.\n- First clients: Who to approach first, how to win each one in person and what to learn from them.\n- Stress test: The one outcome you could not recover from, and a capped version of the plan with its cost.\n- Thin-month rules: A cash buffer, yellow and red lines, who to ask early and a draft loan request with a repayment date.\n- Talk at home: What the other person wants, their fear and your answer, and a check-in 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- The floor includes what the employer used to cover and a tax share, or says the tax rate is missing.\n- Only steady income counts toward the floor.\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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (skills/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart/SKILL.md) and Nassim Nicholas Taleb (skills/nassim-taleb/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 still deciding whether to leave at all: start with the Plan objection writer, then come back.\n- Your contract has a non-compete, a fixed term or a visa tied to your employer: ask an employment adviser first. This plan does not read your contract.\n- You want tax, legal or investment advice: this is a planning aid. Ask an accountant or a qualified adviser.\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 research notes, 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: the exact question and scope, the sources or notes you already have, the standard of evidence needed and what is invented or out of scope. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If research notes is needed, sort the supplied papers, notes and sources into claims, methods and evidence with the context method: skills/paper-repo-notes/SKILL.md. Files: research/question.md, research/sources.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 established findings, open debates and unknowns. Keep every source with its author, date and how strong it is. Never invent citations, quotes or page numbers. 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/leave-job-own-income/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- Job-to-self-employment transition planner (primary): [complete method](../leave-job-own-income/SKILL.md), revision 843615bec2b8\n- Independent income floor calculator: [complete method](../income-floor-calculator/SKILL.md), revision c579c41c2517\n- Client pricing planner: [complete method](../client-fee-and-cap-setter/SKILL.md), revision ba7e7d199565\n- First customer outreach planner: [complete method](../first-customers-by-hand-planner/SKILL.md), revision 3bf532adf54a\n- Ruin risk stress tester: [complete method](../ruin-risk-stress-tester/SKILL.md), revision 2f9b25df9fba\n- Cash shortage planning adviser: [complete method](../lean-year-cash-rules-writer/SKILL.md), revision e199c8e08ba8\n- Proposal discussion planner: [complete method](../buy-in-conversation-planner/SKILL.md), revision 0f534b07a3c1\n- Job exit plan writer: [complete method](../job-exit-plan-writer/SKILL.md), revision 84c713efa1f9\n- Research paper and code note writer (context setup): [complete method](../paper-repo-notes/SKILL.md), revision edb023b5b32c\n- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (review lens): [complete method](../wolfgang-amadeus-mozart/SKILL.md), revision 8793fa9ec21d\n- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (review lens): [complete method](../nassim-taleb/SKILL.md), revision 137d7e676894\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":"decision-checklist-keeper","name":"Decision process reviewer"},{"id":"decide-whether-to-quit-a-project-and-set-the-evidence-bar","name":"Project decision reviewer"},{"id":"plan-bias-check","name":"Decision bias and incentive reviewer"},{"id":"specialized-strategy-duel-agent","name":"Turn-based strategy debate moderator"}],"sourceHash":"212d48207231d0ff7c72a7b33ed967327f4733c684cbbc943836fc47342ea3c9","execution_status":"NOT_STARTED","custom_skill":{"slug":"custom-role-leave-job-own-income","name":"Job-to-self-employment transition planner","instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-leave-job-own-income\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped job-to-self-employment transition planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Job-to-self-employment transition planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/leave-job-own-income · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare pay, skills, costs and cash limits. Get income and fee scenarios, a client plan, downside checks and an exit checklist.\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 monthly income floor, the steady streams that cover it and what a sick month does\n- A fee, billing terms and a client limit\n- A plan to win your first paying clients one by one\n- The one outcome that could ruin the plan, and a version that survives it\n- A cash buffer, rules for thin months and a loan request draft\n- A plan for the talk with your family or partner, and a leaving plan with a draft notice letter\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Work out the floor: Adds up a lean month, what the job covers and a tax share. Sorts income into steady and extra and sizes the cash for a month you cannot work.\n2. Set fees and a limit: Picks a fee in the top third of real prices, bills by the month and caps your clients so you keep time for your own work.\n3. Plan your first clients: Lists who already knows your work and plans how to win each in person, then learn what they paid for.\n4. Stress-test the plan: Finds the one outcome that would ruin it, caps the downside and changes the plan so it survives.\n5. Write rules for thin months: Sets a buffer, a yellow and a red line, who to ask early, and a request with an exact sum and a repayment date from money already due.\n6. Plan the talk at home: Starts from what the other person wants, answers the fear behind the objection and sets a check-in date.\n7. Plan how you leave: Runs the readiness check, drafts a short notice and sets the order of conversations. Signed work must cover half the floor for three months.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Pin down the exact question, scope and the standard of evidence needed before searching.\n- Prefer primary sources, and say how strong each source is.\n- Separate what is established, debated and unknown, with confidence levels.\n- Cite specifically: author, work, date or page where possible.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Counting hoped-for work toward the floor or the readiness check.\n- Setting a fee from a guess when no real prices were given.\n- Treating the readiness verdict as advice to resign.\n- Letting an angry day shape the notice letter.\n- Presenting one source or a popular claim as settled.\n- Inventing citations, quotes or page numbers.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You are thinking of leaving a steady job to live on your own clients, sales or commissions.\nGiven: Your job, pay, notice terms and what the job covers; Your monthly costs; What you could sell and any leads; Three to five real prices from your field; Who relies on you\nA strong result contains:\n- Income floor: The monthly income you need, your steady streams, the gap, clients needed and the hole in a sick month.\n- Fee and client limit: A fee with its reason, a cap with the hours sum, billing terms and a discount rule.\n- First clients: Who to approach first, how to win each one in person and what to learn from them.\n- Stress test: The one outcome you could not recover from, and a capped version of the plan with its cost.\n- Thin-month rules: A cash buffer, yellow and red lines, who to ask early and a draft loan request with a repayment date.\n- Talk at home: What the other person wants, their fear and your answer, and a check-in 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- The floor includes what the employer used to cover and a tax share, or says the tax rate is missing.\n- Only steady income counts toward the floor.\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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (skills/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart/SKILL.md) and Nassim Nicholas Taleb (skills/nassim-taleb/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 still deciding whether to leave at all: start with the Plan objection writer, then come back.\n- Your contract has a non-compete, a fixed term or a visa tied to your employer: ask an employment adviser first. This plan does not read your contract.\n- You want tax, legal or investment advice: this is a planning aid. Ask an accountant or a qualified adviser.\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 research notes, 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: the exact question and scope, the sources or notes you already have, the standard of evidence needed and what is invented or out of scope. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If research notes is needed, sort the supplied papers, notes and sources into claims, methods and evidence with the context method: skills/paper-repo-notes/SKILL.md. Files: research/question.md, research/sources.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 established findings, open debates and unknowns. Keep every source with its author, date and how strong it is. Never invent citations, quotes or page numbers. 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/leave-job-own-income/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- Job-to-self-employment transition planner (primary): [complete method](../leave-job-own-income/SKILL.md), revision 843615bec2b8\n- Independent income floor calculator: [complete method](../income-floor-calculator/SKILL.md), revision c579c41c2517\n- Client pricing planner: [complete method](../client-fee-and-cap-setter/SKILL.md), revision ba7e7d199565\n- First customer outreach planner: [complete method](../first-customers-by-hand-planner/SKILL.md), revision 3bf532adf54a\n- Ruin risk stress tester: [complete method](../ruin-risk-stress-tester/SKILL.md), revision 2f9b25df9fba\n- Cash shortage planning adviser: [complete method](../lean-year-cash-rules-writer/SKILL.md), revision e199c8e08ba8\n- Proposal discussion planner: [complete method](../buy-in-conversation-planner/SKILL.md), revision 0f534b07a3c1\n- Job exit plan writer: [complete method](../job-exit-plan-writer/SKILL.md), revision 84c713efa1f9\n- Research paper and code note writer (context setup): [complete method](../paper-repo-notes/SKILL.md), revision edb023b5b32c\n- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (review lens): [complete method](../wolfgang-amadeus-mozart/SKILL.md), revision 8793fa9ec21d\n- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (review lens): [complete method](../nassim-taleb/SKILL.md), revision 137d7e676894\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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Resolve task-relevant user context and tool access. Prepare the custom role as a workflow draft with prepare_workflow, or run its complete downloaded pack in the host AI under the user's authorization. No model was called and no task has run."}