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Get standards, role guides and an expansion review after a real newcomer trial.","area":"product","family":{"id":"plan-strategy","name":"Plan your strategy"},"lead":"shop-system-playbook","featured":false,"contextKind":"product","deliverables":["Standards with numbers and a list of what you never cut","A job card for each role, a missed-standard rule and a day-one trial sheet","A list of gaps from the trial, each with a fix","A check that the first location earns without you, and a go or no-go on the next one"],"inputs":["What you sell and how a customer gets it, from order to hand-off","Your roles and what each person does in a shift","Takings and costs for a week you were away, if you have them (optional)"],"opening":{"give":["What you sell and how a customer gets it, from order to hand-off","Your roles and what each person does in a shift","Takings and costs for a week you were away, if you have them (optional)"],"get":["Standards with numbers and a list of what you never cut","A job card for each role, a missed-standard rule and a day-one trial sheet","A list of gaps from the trial, each with a fix","A check that the first location earns without you, and a go or no-go on the next one"]},"helpfulInputs":["Your opening and closing routines","Takings and costs for a week you were away","Photos of what done looks like"],"fit":["One location works well and you want a second, a partner or a franchisee to run it the same way without you.","A new hire keeps asking you things that should be written down.","You are about to hire a manager and hand over the keys."],"limits":["You run one site and will never copy it: use a plain staff checklist for each role instead.","Your work has no repeatable steps, such as custom one-off projects: write notes on how you decide, not a manual.","You only need to check a launch plan for faults: use the Rapid growth readiness reviewer."],"tools":["Claude: Holds four steps, your numbers and the trial notes in one run.","A phone camera: A photo of what done looks like settles most arguments about a step.","Any good chat AI: Sorting plain rules into checkable form is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.","A printed clipboard: The visit check works best on paper, carried through the place.","Any good chat AI: Turning a standards sheet into ordered steps is writing work any strong chat AI does well.","A phone camera: A short photo of what done looks like settles most arguments about a step.","Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: Sorting notes into gaps and running a fixed list of checks is reasoning work. No files, web access or paid tools needed.","Your till or sales report: Takings for a week you were away turn the first check into a number.","Any good chat AI: Checking a plan against a fixed list of faults is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and four skill files, in the order they run: Repeatable standards sheet writer, Operations manual writer, Second location readiness checker and Go or no-go launch checker.","Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\".","Describe your business and your roles. It works step by step and saves each result.","At the pause, print the trial sheet, have a newcomer run one shift, and write down every stop. Bring the notes back."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Writes the standards","description":"Walks the customer's path from order to hand-off and turns quality, service, cleanliness and value into yes-or-no standards with numbers."},{"name":"Turns them into a manual","description":"One job card per role, in order, with a done-when check on each step, a missed-standard rule and a trial sheet."},{"name":"Pauses for a real trial","description":"A person who has never worked for you runs a shift from the manual. You write down every stop, question and guess."},{"name":"Checks it is ready to copy","description":"Sorts the trial notes into gaps with fixes, checks the first location earns without you, and checks the site, supplies and the named person."},{"name":"Makes the call","description":"Checks the plan for known faults, sets a halfway check and says go or no-go."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.","Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.","Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.","Define how success will be measured before building."],"pitfalls":["Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.","Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.","Roadmaps with dates but no owners or confidence levels."],"quality":["Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.","The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.","Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.","Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.","Every standard has a yes-or-no test, and its numbers come from the person's facts or say MISSING:.","Every trial note became a gap with a fix.","Every requirement can be tested."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":6,"source":0,"area":"product"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"One location works well and you want a second, a partner or a franchisee to run it the same way without you.","task":"Share how your best location works and its results. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["What you sell and how a customer gets it, from order to hand-off","Your roles and what each person does in a shift","Your opening and closing routines (optional)","Takings and costs for a week you were away (optional)","Notes from a newcomer's trial shift (after the pause)"],"outputs":[{"name":"Standards","contains":"Yes-or-no standards with numbers, the lines you never cut and one job for each person."},{"name":"Manual","contains":"A job card for each role, a rule for missed standards and a trial sheet for the newcomer."},{"name":"Ready to copy check","contains":"The gaps from the trial with a fix for each, and whether the first place earns without you."},{"name":"Go or no-go","contains":"A go or no-go on the next location, a halfway check and the first fix to make."},{"name":"HAND-BACK SUMMARY","contains":"Each step's file, any step not run and every MISSING line in one list."}]},"example":"Share how your best location works and its results. 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Get trial gaps, a fix list and a ready or not yet call.","method":"second-location-check","when":["You are about to open a second location, sign a partner or hire a manager to run your business.","A newcomer just ran a shift from your manual and you have notes on where they struggled.","Your first location is busy but you are not sure it earns money when you are not there."],"inputs":["Your manual, standards sheet or job cards (from the Operations manual writer, or your own)","Notes from a newcomer's trial shift: where they stopped, asked or guessed","Takings and costs for a week you were away (optional)","The second site and who would run it, even if it is only an idea (optional)"],"deliverables":["Each trial note sorted into a gap, with a one-line fix","A check that the first location earns without you on site","A check on the second site, its supplies and who runs it","A call of ready, ready with fixes or not yet","A fix list in order, with an owner and a date for each"]},{"name":"Go or no-go launch checker","description":"Check a launch plan against six faults and three readiness checks. Get a go, wait or no verdict and a fix list before you spend.","method":"go-or-no-go-launch-checker","when":["You have a launch date and want a hard check before you commit money.","Your team has approved a plan and you want an outside test of it.","You have just run a rival comparison and need to turn it into a decision.","One person is pushing a big move out of pride or a wish to get even, and you want it tested."],"inputs":["Your plan: what you will do, when, with what team and money","A comparison with your rival, such as a Rival matchup scorer result (optional)","Who is in charge and how decisions and orders are passed on (optional)","Any doubts people on the team have voiced (optional)"],"deliverables":["Each of six faults marked present, absent or missing, with a reason from your plan","Three halfway checks answered yes, no or missing","One verdict, go, wait or no, with the single reason that decided it","A fix list for each fault found, and what would turn a wait into a go"]},{"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":"Ray Kroc","description":"Plan shop operations using Ray Kroc’s recorded approach. 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Start with a real situation, the struggle and what the buyer used before.","method":"clayton-christensen","when":["Check whether a cheap, simple rival is a small nuisance or the start of something that could replace you","Find the job your customers are really hiring your product or service to do","Rewrite a customer survey so it asks about situations and struggles, not ages and incomes","Decide whether a new idea needs its own small team, away from the way the main business runs","Spot where you are adding features faster than most customers can use them","Find people who don't buy anything in your category yet, and what a simple version would need to do for them","Ask which theory sits behind a plan before you act on a single success story","Look at where your time and energy go each week, and whether that matches what matters most to you"],"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 Clayton Christensen would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Clayton Christensen's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"shop-system-playbook","name":"Shop operations and expansion planner","summary":"Share how your best location works and its results. 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Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue.","reuse":"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."},"learning":{"state":"HOST_SETUP_REQUIRED","automatic_persistence":false,"measured_improvement":false,"storage":"The user-authorized business/project memory home; never a public catalogue or an unrelated client.","index":"memory/INDEX.md","records":["memory/preferences.md","memory/corrections.md","memory/decisions.md","memory/checks.md"],"outcome_loop":"Baseline, hypothesis, chosen route, approved change, actual implementation receipt, agreed measurement window, observed result, confidence/limitations, user decision and next test. Preserve negative and inconclusive outcomes.","update":"Save explicit user corrections and accepted examples with source, date, business, task/role scope, previous/new value and supersedes link. 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. 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Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"operations-manual-writer","name":"Operations manual writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have written standards but no step-by-step instructions anyone else could follow.","A new hire keeps asking you the same questions.","You plan to open a second location, hire a manager or hand the business to a partner."],"inputs":["Your standards sheet or a list of what good looks like","The roles in your business and what each person does in a shift","Anything that always goes wrong when you are away (optional)"],"deliverables":["One job card per role, with ordered steps and numbers","A missed-standard rule for each key standard","A list of what is fixed and what a local owner may change","A day-one trial sheet that records every place a newcomer stops"],"instruction":"skills/operations-manual-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"a82ebbc666b7f794008adf7e03a57e74ee5d8d349b71cb9ab7e8b3099a89ce6f","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"second-location-check","name":"Second location readiness checker","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are about to open a second location, sign a partner or hire a manager to run your business.","A newcomer just ran a shift from your manual and you have notes on where they struggled.","Your first location is busy but you are not sure it earns money when you are not there."],"inputs":["Your manual, standards sheet or job cards (from the Operations manual writer, or your own)","Notes from a newcomer's trial shift: where they stopped, asked or guessed","Takings and costs for a week you were away (optional)","The second site and who would run it, even if it is only an idea (optional)"],"deliverables":["Each trial note sorted into a gap, with a one-line fix","A check that the first location earns without you on site","A check on the second site, its supplies and who runs it","A call of ready, ready with fixes or not yet","A fix list in order, with an owner and a date for each"],"instruction":"skills/second-location-check/SKILL.md","revision":"f8f61cb445c7533008b11bb643634000f0e7617e1a896f8084fcdbac9f8d1fd0","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"go-or-no-go-launch-checker","name":"Go or no-go launch checker","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have a launch date and want a hard check before you commit money.","Your team has approved a plan and you want an outside test of it.","You have just run a rival comparison and need to turn it into a decision.","One person is pushing a big move out of pride or a wish to get even, and you want it tested."],"inputs":["Your plan: what you will do, when, with what team and money","A comparison with your rival, such as a Rival matchup scorer result (optional)","Who is in charge and how decisions and orders are passed on (optional)","Any doubts people on the team have voiced (optional)"],"deliverables":["Each of six faults marked present, absent or missing, with a reason from your plan","Three halfway checks answered yes, no or missing","One verdict, go, wait or no, with the single reason that decided it","A fix list for each fault found, and what would turn a wait into a go"],"instruction":"skills/go-or-no-go-launch-checker/SKILL.md","revision":"1b8058840859fbd24686a82267df1189ad582b181689b15a1aecee0e5c26720e","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":"ray-kroc","name":"Ray Kroc","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Write a simple standard for the one task your business must get right every time","Turn what you do by hand into steps someone else can follow on their first day","Decide if your business is ready to be copied in a second location","Set the rules a partner, franchisee or reseller must follow to use your name","Find the basic in your business that slips first when you're busy","Plan a big next step when you're starting late or starting again","Check a deal with a partner for what it does to them, not just to you","Make a short daily checklist for quality, service and cleanliness"],"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 Ray Kroc would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Ray Kroc's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/ray-kroc/SKILL.md","revision":"1145cfa17b73e779b72a69441058015882d6e70f638f5faa90c04512605ec79c","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":"clayton-christensen","name":"Clayton Christensen","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Check whether a cheap, simple rival is a small nuisance or the start of something that could replace you","Find the job your customers are really hiring your product or service to do","Rewrite a customer survey so it asks about situations and struggles, not ages and incomes","Decide whether a new idea needs its own small team, away from the way the main business runs","Spot where you are adding features faster than most customers can use them","Find people who don't buy anything in your category yet, and what a simple version would need to do for them","Ask which theory sits behind a plan before you act on a single success story","Look at where your time and energy go each week, and whether that matches what matters most to you"],"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 Clayton Christensen would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Clayton Christensen's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/clayton-christensen/SKILL.md","revision":"868a4e02bc2b7f6ac448758080eba1dc04674749afb75701b02a0a94316e4505","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: Holds four steps, your numbers and the trial notes in one run.","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 phone camera: A photo of what done looks like settles most arguments about a 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":"Any good chat AI: Sorting plain rules into checkable form 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 printed clipboard: The visit check works best on paper, carried through the place.","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: Turning a standards sheet into ordered steps is writing work 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 phone camera: A short photo of what done looks like settles most arguments about a 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":"Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: Sorting notes into gaps and running a fixed list of checks is reasoning work. No files, web access or paid tools needed.","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 till or sales report: Takings for a week you were away turn the first check into a number.","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: Checking a plan against a fixed list of faults 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-shop-system-playbook\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped shop operations and expansion planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Shop operations and expansion planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/shop-system-playbook · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare how your best location works and its results. Get standards, role guides and an expansion review after a real newcomer trial.\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- Standards with numbers and a list of what you never cut\n- A job card for each role, a missed-standard rule and a day-one trial sheet\n- A list of gaps from the trial, each with a fix\n- A check that the first location earns without you, and a go or no-go on the next one\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Writes the standards: Walks the customer's path from order to hand-off and turns quality, service, cleanliness and value into yes-or-no standards with numbers.\n2. Turns them into a manual: One job card per role, in order, with a done-when check on each step, a missed-standard rule and a trial sheet.\n3. Pauses for a real trial: A person who has never worked for you runs a shift from the manual. You write down every stop, question and guess.\n4. Checks it is ready to copy: Sorts the trial notes into gaps with fixes, checks the first location earns without you, and checks the site, supplies and the named person.\n5. Makes the call: Checks the plan for known faults, sets a halfway check and says go or no-go.\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: One location works well and you want a second, a partner or a franchisee to run it the same way without you.\nGiven: What you sell and how a customer gets it, from order to hand-off; Your roles and what each person does in a shift; Your opening and closing routines (optional); Takings and costs for a week you were away (optional); Notes from a newcomer's trial shift (after the pause)\nA strong result contains:\n- Standards: Yes-or-no standards with numbers, the lines you never cut and one job for each person.\n- Manual: A job card for each role, a rule for missed standards and a trial sheet for the newcomer.\n- Ready to copy check: The gaps from the trial with a fix for each, and whether the first place earns without you.\n- Go or no-go: A go or no-go on the next location, a halfway check and the first fix to make.\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, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.\n- Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with Ray Kroc (skills/ray-kroc/SKILL.md) and Clayton Christensen (skills/clayton-christensen/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 run one site and will never copy it: use a plain staff checklist for each role instead.\n- Your work has no repeatable steps, such as custom one-off projects: write notes on how you decide, not a manual.\n- You only need to check a launch plan for faults: use the Rapid growth readiness reviewer.\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/shop-system-playbook/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- Shop operations and expansion planner (primary): [complete method](../shop-system-playbook/SKILL.md), revision 9a391357250e\n- Repeatable standards sheet writer: [complete method](../standards-sheet-writer/SKILL.md), revision 07d36bdfbe28\n- Operations manual writer: [complete method](../operations-manual-writer/SKILL.md), revision a82ebbc666b7\n- Second location readiness checker: [complete method](../second-location-check/SKILL.md), revision f8f61cb445c7\n- Go or no-go launch checker: [complete method](../go-or-no-go-launch-checker/SKILL.md), revision 1b8058840859\n- Product context file writer (context setup): [complete method](../product-context-builder/SKILL.md), revision 2fe017f2b8b4\n- Ray Kroc (review lens): [complete method](../ray-kroc/SKILL.md), revision 1145cfa17b73\n- Clayton Christensen (review lens): [complete method](../clayton-christensen/SKILL.md), revision 868a4e02bc2b\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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