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This works from the approved text.","You need the official reading of a rule for a dispute: ask the policy owner or a lawyer. This explains, it does not rule.","You want to know whether staff understood it after launch: use the Policy adoption support planner workflow.","You only need to answer one staff question on an existing policy: use the Company policy explainer on its own."],"tools":["A chat AI that reads documents: It can read the full policy and the change list together. In plain chat, paste the changed sections.","Any good chat AI: It only needs your notes pasted in. A tracker connection is a bonus, not a need."],"method":["Download the workflow pack and add it to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, in a chat that accepts files.","Attach the approved policy. Paste the policy owner's change list and say who is affected and when it starts.","Tell your AI to follow the pack and save each step's file.","After step 1, read each explanation against the policy. Every duty, limit and exception must still be there. Send the owner any unclear points.","After step 2, fill in the owner and date on each rollout item. Have the policy owner approve the announcement before you send it."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Company policy explainer","description":"Writes one entry per change in plain words, with a short answer, the details, exceptions and the quoted policy section. Uses examples taken only from the policy. Hands step 2 the explanations and the open questions. Check before moving on, nothing a rule requires or allows was dropped."},{"name":"Stakeholder update writer","description":"Writes the announcement for staff from the step 1 entries, and lists each acknowledgment or training that still needs an owner. Check before you send, the start date and who is affected match the policy."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Turn every request into owned actions: who, what and by when.","Work from the real calendar, notes and lists. 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Get a plain explanation, staff questions answered and a rollout action list.\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 plain explanation of each change, with a short answer, details, exceptions and the policy section\n- A draft announcement to staff for the policy owner to review\n- A rollout list of sign-offs and training, each with an owner and date still to fill\n- Questions for the policy owner where the text is unclear\n- A list of facts still MISSING\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Company policy explainer: Writes one entry per change in plain words, with a short answer, the details, exceptions and the quoted policy section. Uses examples taken only from the policy. Hands step 2 the explanations and the open questions. Check before moving on, nothing a rule requires or allows was dropped.\n2. Stakeholder update writer: Writes the announcement for staff from the step 1 entries, and lists each acknowledgment or training that still needs an owner. Check before you send, the start date and who is affected match the policy.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Turn every request into owned actions: who, what and by when.\n- Work from the real calendar, notes and lists. Never invent meetings, people or dates.\n- Put the most important decision or deadline first, then the details.\n- Prepare drafts and proposals. Sending, booking and changing records waits for approval.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Losing commitments buried in long notes.\n- Mixing confirmed facts with guesses about other people's plans.\n- Adding process when a short checklist would do.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: HR or a manager has approved a policy change and you must tell the whole team.\nGiven: The approved policy text, with its version and start date; The policy owner's list of what changed; The roles affected and the policy owner's name; Any sign-off or training the policy needs (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- outputs/step-01-company-policy-explainer.md: Each change in plain words, with short answer, details, exceptions and the policy section.\n- outputs/step-02-stakeholder-update-writer.md: The staff announcement and the rollout list of sign-offs and training, each with an owner to fill in.\n- Questions for the owner: Each unclear clause, with why it matters and who can settle it.\n- HAND-BACK SUMMARY: Files saved, sources used, MISSING lines, checks missed and one suggested next step.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Obligations and exceptions from the policy are all kept, in plain words.\n- Every date, role and number traces to the policy or the change list.\n- Unclear clauses are in the owner's question list, not decided.\n- The announcement is a draft, and nothing was sent.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Limits\n- The policy is still being drafted or reviewed: finish approval first. This works from the approved text.\n- You need the official reading of a rule for a dispute: ask the policy owner or a lawyer. This explains, it does not rule.\n- You want to know whether staff understood it after launch: use the Policy adoption support planner workflow.\n- You only need to answer one staff question on an existing policy: use the Company policy explainer on its own.\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 me.md, 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: your role and goals, working preferences, current constraints and the files or records relevant to this job. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If me.md is needed, reuse the relevant slice of an existing me.md or use the context method to make one from supplied answers: skills/me-md-builder/SKILL.md. Files: me.md, work/context-check.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\nUse only the parts of me.md that matter for this job. Keep personal and business records private and minimal. Check dates, names and figures against the supplied records. 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/make-a-new-policy-understandable-to-staff/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- Staff policy explanation and rollout writer (primary): [complete method](../make-a-new-policy-understandable-to-staff/SKILL.md), revision fe37af68378c\n- Company policy explainer: [complete method](../company-policy-explainer/SKILL.md), revision a691296277d3\n- Stakeholder update writer: [complete method](../stakeholder-update-writer/SKILL.md), revision 649339228ea3\n- Staff announcement writer (support method): [complete method](../staff-announcement-writer/SKILL.md), revision 606611904c51\n- me.md builder (context setup): [complete method](../me-md-builder/SKILL.md), revision 3d3708ece93a\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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