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Propose what to stop and draft a team decision note with the trade-offs and disagreement kept clear.","area":"product","family":{"id":"plan-strategy","name":"Plan your strategy"},"lead":"cut-your-product-line-to-the-few-that-pay-and-commit-the-team","featured":false,"contextKind":"product","deliverables":["The product line cut to the few that pay, with the numbers behind each cut","Every programme reviewed as keep or cut","A give-up list: what you will no longer do, said plainly","A disagree-and-commit note for the team"],"inputs":["Your products and programmes with revenue, margin and the attention each takes","What you believe the business is for","Who on the team owns which product","Your brand file (optional)"],"opening":{"give":["Your products and programmes with revenue, margin and the attention each takes","What you believe the business is for","Who on the team owns which product"],"get":["The product line cut to the few that pay, with the numbers behind each cut","Every programme reviewed as keep or cut","A give-up list: what you will no longer do, said plainly"]},"helpfulInputs":["Margin after discounts and returns by product","Team hours by product, even rough","Customer words about which products they would miss"],"fit":["You have thirty products and five of them make most of the money.","Every meeting is about a product nobody would launch today.","You tried to cut before and the team quietly kept the old products alive."],"limits":["You sell one product. Use a pricing review, or talk it through with an adviser you trust.","You want to decide which big choices to make first. Use the Decision priority planner.","You only want to say what you will give up, with no product numbers. Use the Brand focus trade-off planner."],"tools":["Any good chat AI: Every step is a plan or a piece of writing.","A spreadsheet: Holds revenue, margin and attention per product so the cut is a sort, not a fight.","Any good chat AI: Sorting a product list and writing a grid are text tasks any strong chat AI does well.","A spreadsheet: Gives it clean sales and margin by product to paste in.","Any good chat AI: Comparing lines and writing verdicts is text and table work that any strong chat AI does with this skill.","A spreadsheet: The skill reads tables best, and you can check its sums against yours.","Any good chat AI: Sorting a list against one word and writing rules is text work any strong chat AI does with this skill.","A spreadsheet: Revenue by item lines up best in a sheet before you paste it in.","Any good chat AI: Writing fair summaries of views and a short team note is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with 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\".","Paste your products and programmes with revenue, margin and team hours, what the business is for, and who owns each one. It ranks and cuts.","Read the cuts and the give-up list. Argue with any, then decide.","Read the commit note with the people who disagreed, then send it."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Cut the line","description":"Ranks products by what they earn and the attention they take, and cuts to the few that pay, in the manner of Jobs's 1997 cull."},{"name":"Review every programme","description":"Reviews each programme as keep or cut on its results, in the manner of Bezos and Buffett."},{"name":"Write the give-up list","description":"Writes what you will no longer do, sell or chase, naming the customers and revenue given up, following Ries and Trout."},{"name":"Write the commit note","description":"Writes a note that states the decision, records the disagreement and asks everyone to commit, in Bezos's manner."}],"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. Step 2 used step 1's plan, step 3 used step 1's shortlist and plan, and step 4 used step 3's give-up list.","Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.","Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.","Every cut names its numbers, and the commit note records the disagreement rather than hiding it.","Every requirement can be tested.","Assumptions and risks are listed with how each will be checked."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":5,"source":0,"area":"product"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You have thirty products and five of them make most of the money.","task":"Review products and recurring work. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["Your products and programmes, with revenue, margin and team hours for each","What you believe the business is for","Who owns each product","Your brand file (optional)"],"outputs":[{"name":"Step 1: The cut line","contains":"Each product marked keep or cut, with what it earns, the attention it takes and the reason."},{"name":"Step 2: Programmes","contains":"Each programme or recurring effort marked keep or cut, with its result and the reason."},{"name":"Step 3: Give-up list","contains":"What you will no longer do, the customers and revenue you give up, and what you give them up for."},{"name":"Step 4: Commit note","contains":"The decision, who disagreed and why, what everyone commits to, and what each team does on Monday."},{"name":"Hand-back summary","contains":"Each step's file, any step not run, and every MISSING line in one list."}]},"example":"Review products and recurring work. 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Get a keep list, a cut list and a simple grid.","method":"product-line-cutter","when":["You sell more items than your team or buyers can keep straight.","Two or three products seem to do the same job.","You need to free up cash and focus before a new season or year."],"inputs":["A list of every product or service, with sales and margin for each","Who buys each one, and in what format or size","Cash tied up in stock or work in progress (optional)","Your brand file or brief, and what is already planned (optional)"],"deliverables":["Every product placed in one group with a reason","The two splits that matter, and a grid of the plan","A keep list with the star products marked","A cut list where each cut has a plain reason the team can repeat"]},{"name":"Program keep-or-cut reviewer","description":"Paste results for each project you run. This program keep-or-cut review marks every one keep, cut or double down, judged on cash and customers.","method":"program-keep-or-cut-reviewer","when":["You run several products, campaigns, clients or services and cannot fund all of them well.","A budget review is coming and you need a clear reason for each line.","A program has run for a year and nobody has asked if it should continue."],"inputs":["A table of programs with what each cost and returned over a period","Cash figures where you have them, not only profit on paper","Customer signals such as repeat rate or referrals (optional)"],"deliverables":["A verdict for each line, either keep, cut or double down","Earnings and new cash needed side by side","The four tests for each line, and a note on what customers are doing","A lesson for every cut line, and a reason short enough to share"]},{"name":"Brand focus trade-off planner","description":"Share your brand positioning and products. Get a focused list of what to cut, prioritize and protect.","method":"give-up-list-planner","when":["You have picked a word and your range still says many things.","You sell to several groups and your message tries to please all.","A new product, boss or target pulls you off your position.","Your position changes every budget cycle."],"inputs":["The word you chose, such as the pick from \"Ownable word picker\"","A list of your products, offers, groups and channels","Revenue or sales by item (optional)","Your current plan (optional)"],"deliverables":["Each item marked feeding, neutral or diluting","A cut list in order, with dates","One target, separate from the whole market","A rule against changing the position","Three questions to ask of every new idea"]},{"name":"Team decision and dissent note writer","description":"Share a decision and each person’s reasons. Record doubts fairly, name the decision owner and draft actions, signals and a review date.","method":"disagree-and-commit-note-writer","when":["A decision has been argued in three meetings with no end.","One person keeps reopening a call after it was made.","You are the boss and you disagree with a call your team wants to make.","Two people want different things, such as speed against quality, and more talk is not fixing it."],"inputs":["The decision and the options","Each person's view, with their reason, in a line or two","Who owns the decision (optional)","The deadline (optional)","Notes from the meetings where it was argued (optional)"],"deliverables":["One fair line of dissent per person, including the boss if they disagree","Each dissent sorted as a difference of view or a clash of aims","A named decider, a time limit and what each side brings, if the aims clash","A commit line each person says back, with an action in it","A signal that would show the decision is wrong, and a review date","A short note for the team"]},{"name":"Product context file writer","description":"Share product facts, audience and positioning. 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":"Jeff Bezos","description":"Review a product or stuck decision through Jeff Bezos’s recorded approach. Start with the customer, test what can be undone and write the reasoning.","method":"jeff-bezos","when":["Write the press release and FAQ for a new product or service before you build it","Decide if a choice is a one-way door (go slow) or a two-way door (go fast)","Turn a slide deck into a short narrative memo your team can read in silence","Find the places where a process or a metric has quietly replaced the real goal","Plan a bold experiment and decide how much failure you can afford","Set a realistic bar for a hard skill, and how long it should take to reach","Check whether a plan serves your customers or just reacts to a competitor","Weigh a short-term gain against what it does to trust over five years"],"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 Jeff Bezos would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Jeff Bezos's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]},{"name":"Al Ries","description":"Clarify what a brand should stand for using Al Ries’s recorded approach. Examine its category, focus, name and launch story.","method":"al-ries","when":["Find the one word your brand could own in a customer's mind","Decide if a new product should carry your current name or get a new one","Name a new category you could be first in, instead of fighting a leader head-on","Position a small business against the market leader, the way Avis did with Hertz","Cut a sprawling product list down to the focus that makes you known for something","Plan a launch that starts with press coverage before you spend on ads","Spot when your brand is tied to a fading category, and what to do about it","Choose the customers you want before launch, so the brand takes on their character"],"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 Al Ries would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Al Ries's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"cut-your-product-line-to-the-few-that-pay-and-commit-the-team","name":"Product and team priority planner","summary":"Review products and recurring work. 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Step 2 used step 1's plan, step 3 used step 1's shortlist and plan, and step 4 used step 3's give-up list."},{"id":"c7","criterion":"Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line."},{"id":"c8","criterion":"Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes."},{"id":"c9","criterion":"States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs."}],"goldenTasks":[{"id":"g1","kind":"core","situation":"You have thirty products and five of them make most of the money.","expect":["The product line cut to the few that pay, with the numbers behind each cut","Every programme reviewed as keep or cut","A give-up list: what you will no longer do, said plainly"]},{"id":"g2","kind":"core","situation":"Every meeting is about a product nobody would launch today.","expect":["The product line cut to the few that pay, with the numbers behind each cut","Every programme reviewed as keep or cut","A give-up list: what you will no longer do, said plainly"]},{"id":"g-missing","kind":"missing-input","situation":"The request leaves out: Your products and programmes with revenue, margin and the attention each takes","expect":["Names the missing input and asks for it, or finishes only the parts that do not depend on it."]}],"note":"These checks are defined but have not been run against a model yet."},"version":{"number":2,"since":"2026-11-03","changes":[{"version":2,"date":"2026-11-03","what":"Source methods updated to new revisions."},{"version":1,"date":"2026-11-02","what":"First recorded version."}]},"learning":{"rules":[],"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%+"}},"worker":{"schema":"ai-blocks-specialist-worker/1","id":"cut-your-product-line-to-the-few-that-pay-and-commit-the-team","name":"Product and team priority planner","interface":{"inputs":[{"type":"short_text","required":true}],"outputs":[{"type":"document","required":true}],"brief":"The current task in the workflow goal and supplied context.","handoff":"work/handoff.md indexes the actual native deliverables and checks. 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Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"disagree-and-commit-note-writer","name":"Team decision and dissent note writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["A decision has been argued in three meetings with no end.","One person keeps reopening a call after it was made.","You are the boss and you disagree with a call your team wants to make.","Two people want different things, such as speed against quality, and more talk is not fixing it."],"inputs":["The decision and the options","Each person's view, with their reason, in a line or two","Who owns the decision (optional)","The deadline (optional)","Notes from the meetings where it was argued (optional)"],"deliverables":["One fair line of dissent per person, including the boss if they disagree","Each dissent sorted as a difference of view or a clash of aims","A named decider, a time limit and what each side brings, if the aims clash","A commit line each person says back, with an action in it","A signal that would show the decision is wrong, and a review date","A short note for the team"],"instruction":"skills/disagree-and-commit-note-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"ee98734c512b8efe7d71e822d547d4373be3fc44f36a0602b2841bdaee9d7541","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":"jeff-bezos","name":"Jeff Bezos","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Write the press release and FAQ for a new product or service before you build it","Decide if a choice is a one-way door (go slow) or a two-way door (go fast)","Turn a slide deck into a short narrative memo your team can read in silence","Find the places where a process or a metric has quietly replaced the real goal","Plan a bold experiment and decide how much failure you can afford","Set a realistic bar for a hard skill, and how long it should take to reach","Check whether a plan serves your customers or just reacts to a competitor","Weigh a short-term gain against what it does to trust over five years"],"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 Jeff Bezos would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Jeff Bezos's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/jeff-bezos/SKILL.md","revision":"96d3d18323421cbe512126b2637f4fb06a00fd9d3fae7f2b87d8f276f5753ca3","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":"al-ries","name":"Al Ries","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Find the one word your brand could own in a customer's mind","Decide if a new product should carry your current name or get a new one","Name a new category you could be first in, instead of fighting a leader head-on","Position a small business against the market leader, the way Avis did with Hertz","Cut a sprawling product list down to the focus that makes you known for something","Plan a launch that starts with press coverage before you spend on ads","Spot when your brand is tied to a fading category, and what to do about it","Choose the customers you want before launch, so the brand takes on their character"],"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 Al Ries would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Al Ries's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/al-ries/SKILL.md","revision":"0a58850b33b5777d8715880784c8b58edcac20f9e994c5fedd0c090a7eb68d54","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: Every step is a plan or a piece of writing.","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 revenue, margin and attention per product so the cut is a sort, not a fight.","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: Sorting a product list and writing a grid are text tasks any strong chat AI does well.","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: Gives it clean sales and margin by product to paste in.","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: Comparing lines and writing verdicts is text and table work that 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: The skill reads tables best, and you can check its sums against yours.","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: Sorting a list against one word and writing rules is text work 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: Revenue by item lines up best in a sheet before you paste it in.","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: Writing fair summaries of views and a short team note 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."}],"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-cut-your-product-line-to-the-few-that-pay-and-commit-the-team\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped product and team priority planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Product and team priority planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/cut-your-product-line-to-the-few-that-pay-and-commit-the-team · version 2\n\n## Remit\nReview products and recurring work. Propose what to stop and draft a team decision note with the trade-offs and disagreement kept clear.\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- The product line cut to the few that pay, with the numbers behind each cut\n- Every programme reviewed as keep or cut\n- A give-up list: what you will no longer do, said plainly\n- A disagree-and-commit note for the team\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Cut the line: Ranks products by what they earn and the attention they take, and cuts to the few that pay, in the manner of Jobs's 1997 cull.\n2. Review every programme: Reviews each programme as keep or cut on its results, in the manner of Bezos and Buffett.\n3. Write the give-up list: Writes what you will no longer do, sell or chase, naming the customers and revenue given up, following Ries and Trout.\n4. Write the commit note: Writes a note that states the decision, records the disagreement and asks everyone to commit, in Bezos's manner.\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 have thirty products and five of them make most of the money.\nGiven: Your products and programmes, with revenue, margin and team hours for each; What you believe the business is for; Who owns each product; Your brand file (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Step 1: The cut line: Each product marked keep or cut, with what it earns, the attention it takes and the reason.\n- Step 2: Programmes: Each programme or recurring effort marked keep or cut, with its result and the reason.\n- Step 3: Give-up list: What you will no longer do, the customers and revenue you give up, and what you give them up for.\n- Step 4: Commit note: The decision, who disagreed and why, what everyone commits to, and what each team does on Monday.\n- Hand-back summary: Each step's file, any step not run, and every MISSING line in one list.\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. Step 2 used step 1's plan, step 3 used step 1's shortlist and plan, and step 4 used step 3's give-up list.\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 Jeff Bezos (skills/jeff-bezos/SKILL.md) and Al Ries (skills/al-ries/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 sell one product. Use a pricing review, or talk it through with an adviser you trust.\n- You want to decide which big choices to make first. Use the Decision priority planner.\n- You only want to say what you will give up, with no product numbers. Use the Brand focus trade-off planner.\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/cut-your-product-line-to-the-few-that-pay-and-commit-the-team/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- Product and team priority planner (primary): [complete method](../cut-your-product-line-to-the-few-that-pay-and-commit-the-team/SKILL.md), revision d03971904560\n- Product range reviewer: [complete method](../product-line-cutter/SKILL.md), revision d5413327c744\n- Program keep-or-cut reviewer: [complete method](../program-keep-or-cut-reviewer/SKILL.md), revision 0434e00c5932\n- Brand focus trade-off planner: [complete method](../give-up-list-planner/SKILL.md), revision 3726470a5971\n- Team decision and dissent note writer: [complete method](../disagree-and-commit-note-writer/SKILL.md), revision ee98734c512b\n- Product context file writer (context setup): [complete method](../product-context-builder/SKILL.md), revision 2fe017f2b8b4\n- Jeff Bezos (review lens): [complete method](../jeff-bezos/SKILL.md), revision 96d3d1832342\n- Al Ries (review lens): [complete method](../al-ries/SKILL.md), revision 0a58850b33b5\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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