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Give the currency, scale and the life you want to test.","Ask your AI to follow the pack, save a file for each step and stop a step when an input is missing.","After step 1, check that R&D is counted once across profit, capital and reinvestment.","After step 3, ask for the result at a shorter and a longer life, and see how far the answer moves. A spreadsheet tool is needed for the workbook. Without one, your AI gives the tables in chat."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Research spend cohort adjustment","description":"Groups R&D into yearly cohorts and amortizes each over the chosen life. Keeps the statutory treatment and cash taxes unchanged. Hands step 2 the amortization and the research asset balance for each year."},{"name":"Reinvestment-supported growth schedule","description":"Adjusts capital spending and operating investment for the expensed R&D, then links reinvestment to growth through the return on new capital. 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Cash flows are matched to the right discount rate where one is used.","Real zeros, unavailable evidence and inapplicable ratios are told apart. No statement is forced to tie with an unexplained plug.","Original source locations, assumptions, formula conventions, failed checks and actual verification results are saved. End with CHECKS MISSED: none, or the exact outstanding checks.","Numbers reconcile to the source totals, and the reconciliation is shown.","Every chart and number states its source, period and definition."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":5,"source":0,"area":"data"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You model a company that spends heavily on R&D, such as software, drugs or chips.","task":"Share research costs, useful-life evidence and model assumptions. 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Use it only when it covers the job."},{"method":"research-spend-cohort-adjustment","name":"Research spending adjustment calculator","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You want to restate EBIT as if research spend were an asset, using dated R&D expense by year.","You compare companies that spend different amounts on research and want a like-for-like profit view.","A reviewer needs to trace the research asset and the amortization back to each year of spend."],"inputs":["R&D expense for the current year and each prior year, dated","Reported EBIT","The economic life you choose, and why","The amortization convention (for example, spend counted at year end) and evidence for it","Any development costs already capitalized, kept separate","The fiscal year end, currency and scale; and your spreadsheet tool if you want a workbook"],"deliverables":["A research asset and amortization schedule by year of spend, and adjusted EBIT beside reported EBIT","An editable workbook with inputs, formulas and test cases to rerun","A tie-out of the asset to the amortization, the inputs still missing and the checks that ran"],"instruction":"skills/research-spend-cohort-adjustment/SKILL.md","revision":"5844cfe070d1fe8f50fbc0d068faee697cce2d41d3a808dbd119f8de1996ce84","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"reinvestment-supported-growth","name":"Reinvestment growth assumption checker","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["A forecast shows 8% growth and you want to know if the capex and working capital behind it can support that.","You are building a stock valuation and need growth and reinvestment to agree.","Capex goes up in a scenario and you want to see the change in supported growth.","A reviewer asks where the growth rate in a model comes from."],"inputs":["After-tax operating profit (NOPAT) for the year (from your income statement and tax rate)","Net capital spending: capex less depreciation (from the cash flow statement and notes)","Operating working capital investment for the year (from the balance sheet)","The return you expect on new capital, as a percent, and why you expect it","Your forecast growth rate to compare with (optional)","The currency, units and reporting year","Your own model spreadsheet (optional)"],"deliverables":["Net reinvestment: net capex plus working capital investment","The reinvestment rate: net reinvestment divided by NOPAT","Supported growth: reinvestment rate times return on new capital","A comparison with your forecast growth, if you gave one","A list of missing facts and checks that could not run","A small workbook with the same sums, if your AI can make files"],"instruction":"skills/reinvestment-supported-growth/SKILL.md","revision":"5ec05f3993f7b23f53bacf3007da5954a050118291047a653a4cf54dae6d71c5","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"terminal-growth-reinvestment-consistency","name":"Terminal growth reinvestment checker","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are valuing a business and the terminal value looks high for its growth.","You want to know what reinvestment a stable growth rate needs.","A reviewer needs to trace the result back to inputs and assumptions."],"inputs":["First stable-year NOPAT, stable growth, stable ROC and matching WACC.","The terminal date, plus the currency and scale used for the terminal reinvestment check.","Your spreadsheet tool, if you want the terminal reinvestment check as a workbook."],"deliverables":["The reinvestment, free cash flow and terminal value for your growth rate, plus the same with return equal to WACC.","An editable workbook of the terminal reinvestment check, with its inputs, formulas and test cases to rerun.","A tie-out of reinvestment, cash flow and terminal value, the inputs still missing and the checks that ran."],"instruction":"skills/terminal-growth-reinvestment-consistency/SKILL.md","revision":"dd3cfdc7859e6e7b16cba839c6d898e57aed84efc8d4ef572d96d5405acc0d6e","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"metric-definition-writer","name":"Metric definition writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"context","when":["Finance and marketing each have their own revenue query.","You are setting up the dbt Semantic Layer and need metric files.","A leader asks how churn is calculated and no one can point to a source.","You are writing a data catalog entry for a key model."],"inputs":["The metric or model name","The calculation as SQL, a formula or plain steps","Who uses it and what a good value looks like","Source tables (optional)","Existing YAML to check (optional)"],"deliverables":["A filled metric, dimension or entity YAML","A validation report","dbt-ready field names","Notes on edge cases"],"instruction":"skills/metric-definition-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"b3eb4371aaa21ef0c88e7b2613387edb9298c6427055702f9cdf7b098bae7aca","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"charlie-munger","name":"Charlie Munger","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Invert a plan: list every way it could fail, then avoid each one","Find the incentive that's really driving a person, team or partner","Run a big decision past several thinking models from different fields","Spot the biases piling up behind a choice that feels too exciting","Build a checklist of mistakes to avoid before you sign a deal or hire someone","Decide whether to wait for a better chance or act now","Plan your own learning across many subjects, not just your job","Challenge an adviser whose advice also pays them","Check whether you know enough about a field before you act on it","Build a checklist for a decision you keep making"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Charlie Munger would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Charlie Munger's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/charlie-munger/SKILL.md","revision":"a87cd5c2b761a64cb5a96db38ba9d7233e8603d2e8d5e8162c47ac88eaa75137","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."},{"method":"warren-buffett","name":"Warren Buffett","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Decide whether a business you might buy or join has a lasting edge over rivals","Check if a decision sits inside what you really understand, or just outside it","Write an honest yearly letter to your partners, owners or backers, mistakes included","Decide whether to keep profits in the business or pay them out","Stay calm and make a plan when prices or sales swing wildly","Vet a new partner or manager for integrity before you sign anything","Spot when your team is copying rivals or spending cash just because it has it","Decide whether to keep funding a part of the business that keeps losing money","Sort a business into great, good or gruesome by how much cash it needs to grow"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Warren Buffett would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Warren Buffett's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/warren-buffett/SKILL.md","revision":"eacb3c4213356f0940c8851940e8074b37f1a67d20b3d2ab8801fc5d1bd61cf0","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."}],"connections":[{"name":"A chat AI with a spreadsheet tool: It can link the sheets, recalculate and reopen the workbook. In plain chat you get tables as text.","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 engine and file-capable AI: Create, recalculate, render and reopen the requested native workbook.","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":"Node.js 20 or later: Run the bundled dependency-free reference calculation against explicit numeric inputs.","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":"Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: Any of them can do these sums in a chat and show each step.","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":"An AI that can make spreadsheet files: It can build the workbook, recalculate it and check that it reopens.","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":"Node.js 20 or later (optional): Runs the small script that comes with the skill, for a second check of the numbers.","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-restate-research-capital-before-growth-modelling\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped research asset capitalization model checker task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Research asset capitalization model checker\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/restate-research-capital-before-growth-modelling · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare research costs, useful-life evidence and model assumptions. Get a research-asset schedule and checks of how it links to spending and growth.\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 research asset schedule by year of spend, with amortization and adjusted operating profit\n- Adjusted capital and reinvestment, beside the reported figures\n- A growth schedule showing how much growth the reinvestment supports\n- A stable-years check: the reinvestment that growth needs and the return spread\n- A list of what is MISSING and which checks were missed\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Research spend cohort adjustment: Groups R&D into yearly cohorts and amortizes each over the chosen life. Keeps the statutory treatment and cash taxes unchanged. Hands step 2 the amortization and the research asset balance for each year.\n2. Reinvestment-supported growth schedule: Adjusts capital spending and operating investment for the expensed R&D, then links reinvestment to growth through the return on new capital. Reconciles cash taxes separately and never uses an unadjusted historical return on capital. Hands step 3 the adjusted return and reinvestment rate.\n3. Terminal growth reinvestment check: Takes a stable research life and a return on new capital and ties growth in the stable years to the reinvestment it needs. Rejects a cash flow that improves only because R&D replacement spend was left out. Check before you use it: growth is not higher than the return spread supports.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Agree the question and the decision it supports before analysing.\n- Check the data first: date range, grain, missing values, duplicates and definitions.\n- Compare like with like: same period length, definitions and segments.\n- Separate what the data shows from what it might mean, and give confidence levels.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Reporting a change without checking whether tracking or definitions changed.\n- Treating correlation as cause.\n- Averages that hide important segments or outliers.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You model a company that spends heavily on R&D, such as software, drugs or chips.\nGiven: R&D spend for each year, and the life you choose with your reason; Reported operating profit, invested capital and cash taxes; Your growth, capital spending and return assumptions; Stable growth, return on capital and cost of capital\nA strong result contains:\n- outputs/step-1-research-spend-cohort-adjustment.md: The research asset by year of spend, amortization and adjusted operating profit.\n- outputs/step-2-reinvestment-supported-growth.md: Adjusted capital and reinvestment, and the growth that reinvestment supports.\n- outputs/step-3-terminal-growth-reinvestment-consistency.md: Reinvestment needed for stable growth, free cash flow and a return spread test.\n- Workbook: Linked sheets from reported accounts to the adjusted case. Made only if your AI has a spreadsheet tool.\n- HAND-BACK SUMMARY: Files saved, sources used, assumptions, MISSING lines and checks missed.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Research costs appear once across profit, capital and reinvestment. Cash taxes stay as the source shows them. Reported and adjusted cases are labelled, and a change in life is tested.\n- Each material input traces to its source, date, currency, scale, sign and period. Unresolved items stay as MISSING: lines.\n- Opening balances, additions, deductions and closing balances reconcile. Cash flows are matched to the right discount rate where one is used.\n- Real zeros, unavailable evidence and inapplicable ratios are told apart. No statement is forced to tie with an unexplained plug.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with Charlie Munger (skills/charlie-munger/SKILL.md) and Warren Buffett (skills/warren-buffett/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You have no R&D spend by year, or the company is private: get the yearly spend first, since the schedule starts from it.\n- You only want to test growth in the stable years: use the Growth and reinvestment spreadsheet modeller workflow.\n- You already have a terminal value and want to challenge it: use the Long-term value assumption checker workflow.\n- You want a full valuation or a buy or sell view: use the Valuation method comparer. This workflow gives no investment advice.\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 data definitions, 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 data sources or exports, their date ranges and grain, the metric definitions already in use and the decision the analysis supports. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If data definitions is needed, list each source with its period, grain and owner; use the context method to write down any metric whose definition is unclear before calculating it: skills/metric-definition-writer/SKILL.md. Files: metrics/definitions.yaml, work/data-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\nCheck row counts, date ranges, missing values, duplicates and definition changes before analysis. Keep raw sources unchanged and record every transformation. 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/restate-research-capital-before-growth-modelling/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- Research asset capitalization model checker (primary): [complete method](../restate-research-capital-before-growth-modelling/SKILL.md), revision 5b2f097e5e42\n- Research spending adjustment calculator: [complete method](../research-spend-cohort-adjustment/SKILL.md), revision 5844cfe070d1\n- Reinvestment growth assumption checker: [complete method](../reinvestment-supported-growth/SKILL.md), revision 5ec05f3993f7\n- Terminal growth reinvestment checker: [complete method](../terminal-growth-reinvestment-consistency/SKILL.md), revision dd3cfdc7859e\n- Metric definition writer (context setup): [complete method](../metric-definition-writer/SKILL.md), revision b3eb4371aaa2\n- Charlie Munger (review lens): [complete method](../charlie-munger/SKILL.md), revision a87cd5c2b761\n- Warren Buffett (review lens): [complete method](../warren-buffett/SKILL.md), revision eacb3c421335\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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