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You get a bottom-up size estimate with every input shown and the working behind it.","area":"data","family":{"id":"research-topics","name":"Research a topic properly"},"lead":"size-a-market-and-separate-facts-from-guesses","featured":false,"contextKind":"research","deliverables":["A bottom-up size estimate with every input shown and the working behind it","The public facts found for each input, with source and date, or a line saying none was found","Each input marked finding or guess, with the guesses ranked by how much they move the total","A market report with a range, every number labelled and the first guess to test"],"inputs":["The market and who you would sell to, in one or two sentences","What you already know or believe about its size","Your price, or an idea of it","The country or area you care about (optional)","Your own data, such as sales or survey results, or a report you already have (optional)"],"opening":{"give":["The market and who you would sell to, in one or two sentences","What you already know or believe about its size","Your price, or an idea of it"],"get":["The public facts found for each input, with source and date, or a line saying none was found","Each input marked finding or guess, with the guesses ranked by how much they move the total","A market report with a range, every number labelled and the first guess to test"]},"helpfulInputs":["Your own sales or survey data","Industry reports you have, with their methods","Competitor filings or public numbers"],"fit":["You are writing a plan or a deck and need a market size that holds up to questions.","Two sources give you numbers a factor of five apart.","An investor or buyer asks where a market size figure came from.","You want to know which inputs to test first, because they are guesses."],"limits":["You cannot yet say who would buy. Use the Target market and pricing reviewer workflow first, then come back.","You want to know whether your idea can win its market, not how large it is. Use the Business idea market reviewer workflow.","A source you trust already sized the market and you only need it written up. Use the Market research report writer.","You need survey sample sizes or a plan to test the guesses. Use the Market size and survey planner."],"tools":["A chat AI that can browse the web: Step 2 looks up public data. Without browsing it lists where to look and marks each gap.","Official statistics sites: Census, trade and health statistics are the facts behind the inputs.","A spreadsheet: Holds the estimate so you can change an input and see the range move.","Any good chat AI: Sorting and testing claims in text is work any strong chat AI does with this skill.","A spreadsheet: Lets you check a proven line against the figures behind it."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It is a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.","Give the folder to your AI, such as Claude, and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\". Use one that can browse the web, or tell it step 2 will be a list of where to look.","Paste the market, who you would sell to and your price. Add any sales or survey data you have.","After step 1, check that every input has a number and a reason. After step 2, open one source yourself to check it says what the AI says it does.","Read the findings and guesses split. Test the top guess first, and update the report when it becomes a finding."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Estimate from the bottom up","description":"Builds the market size from who has the problem, how many could buy and what they would pay, with every input and assumption shown. Hands step 2 the list of inputs."},{"name":"Find the public facts","description":"Looks for public data for each input, such as census, trade statistics and filings, and records the source and date. Says so when nothing is found. Hands step 3 the facts."},{"name":"Separate findings from guesses","description":"Marks each input as a finding with its source or a guess with its reasoning, and ranks the guesses by how much they move the total. Hands step 4 the split."},{"name":"Write the report","description":"Writes the report with every number labelled, a range instead of one figure, and the guess to test first."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Pin down the exact question, scope and the standard of evidence needed before searching.","Prefer primary sources, and say how strong each source is.","Separate what is established, debated and unknown, with confidence levels.","Cite specifically: author, work, date or page where possible."],"pitfalls":["Presenting one source or a popular claim as settled.","Inventing citations, quotes or page numbers.","Over-generalising across places, periods or groups."],"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, and no public fact appears without a source and a date.","The report gives a range, and every number says fact or guess.","Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.","Every important claim has a source or is marked as unverified.","Disagreements between sources are named, not hidden."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":5,"source":0,"area":"research"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You are writing a plan or a deck and need a market size that holds up to questions.","task":"Give it the market and who you would sell to, in one or two sentences. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["The market and who you would sell to","Your price or an idea of it","What you believe about its size, and any sales or survey data you have (optional)","The country or area (optional)"],"outputs":[{"name":"Estimate","contains":"Who has the problem, how many could buy and what they would pay, with the size as a range."},{"name":"Public facts","contains":"The public data found for each input, with source and date, and the inputs with none."},{"name":"Findings and guesses","contains":"Each input marked finding or guess, ranked by how much it moves the total."},{"name":"Market report","contains":"The range, every number labelled fact or guess, and the first guess to test."},{"name":"Hand-back summary","contains":"Each saved file, every MISSING line and the checks that could not run."}]},"example":"Give it the market and who you would sell to, in one or two sentences. 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Get a dated result with its source, query and limits.","method":"public-database-fact-finder","when":["You need a gene, drug, trial or regulatory record, and a guess will not do.","A report needs a figure with a citation you can show.","You must pull every record matching a filter, not just the first page.","A colleague needs to repeat your search next month."],"inputs":["The fact or records you need","The database, if you have a preferred one","Identifiers and filters such as species or date range","Fields to return (optional)"],"deliverables":["Retrieved records","Source, query and date","Record count check","A log someone else can rerun"]},{"name":"Research evidence checker","description":"Paste a report and find out which lines are proven, likely or just guesses. Get a clean version and a list of open questions.","method":"findings-and-guesses-separator","when":["You are about to share a report, case study or recommendation.","You are reading someone else's analysis and want to know what is solid.","A team keeps repeating a claim as fact and nobody knows where it came from.","You plan to publish a result and want one line you can stand behind."],"inputs":["The report or analysis, as text","The data it rests on, such as a sheet or results (optional)","The decision or question it is meant to answer (optional)"],"deliverables":["A list of the key terms and what they mean in this report.","Every claim marked proven, likely or guess, with the observation behind it.","A rewritten report with the guesses taken out.","A separate list of open questions."]},{"name":"Market research report writer","description":"Name the market and decision. Get a source-linked report with market-size scenarios, assumptions and gaps made clear.","method":"market-research-report-writer","when":["A board asks how big a market is and wants proof.","You are writing a competitor and market section for a plan.","You need a forecast with stated assumptions and ranges.","You want to separate hard facts from your own opinion."],"inputs":["The market and question to answer","Region and time period","Sources or data you already have (optional)","The decision the report supports"],"deliverables":["A sourced report","A claim and source table","Market size with assumptions","Forecast ranges","A list of limits"]},{"name":"Research paper and code note writer","description":"Share a paper, repo or messy notes. 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Stay curious, compare explanations and ask what the evidence can show.","method":"carl-sagan","when":["Test a bold claim, ad or study with a short kit of questions before you believe it","Find the logical tricks in an argument, such as a straw man or a false choice","Explain a big, hard idea to a general audience so it feels exciting and true","Stay open to a new idea without swallowing it whole","Turn a huge number or a long stretch of time into a picture people can grasp","Write a talk or post that leaves readers with wonder and a sense of scale","Spot a claim that can't be tested, and ask what result would prove it wrong","Check a big warning before you go public with it, and say how sure you are","Teach a team or a class the habits of scientific thinking"],"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 Carl Sagan would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Carl Sagan's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]},{"name":"Charles Darwin","description":"Build a case using Charles Darwin’s recorded approach. Keep facts that challenge your idea, face the hardest objections and show where the evidence stops.","method":"charles-darwin","when":["List the strongest objections to your own idea, then answer each one with evidence","Set up a notebook habit that catches the facts that don't fit your theory","Turn a pile of observations into one clear pattern, and say what would prove it wrong","Explain how many small changes add up to a big one over time","Decide if an idea is ready to share or needs another year of evidence","Run a cheap home experiment to answer one narrow question","Write one long, patient argument that wins over readers who start out doubtful","Find the everyday example (like dog or pigeon breeding) that makes a hard idea easy to grasp"],"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 Charles Darwin would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Charles Darwin's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"size-a-market-and-separate-facts-from-guesses","name":"Market size research report writer","summary":"Share the market, buyer problem and product idea. 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Every gap is a MISSING: line, and no public fact appears without a source and a date."},{"id":"c8","criterion":"The report gives a range, and every number says fact or guess."},{"id":"c9","criterion":"States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs."}],"goldenTasks":[{"id":"g1","kind":"core","situation":"You are writing a plan or a deck and need a market size that holds up to questions.","expect":["A bottom-up size estimate with every input shown and the working behind it","The public facts found for each input, with source and date, or a line saying none was found","Each input marked finding or guess, with the guesses ranked by how much they move the total"]},{"id":"g2","kind":"core","situation":"Two sources give you numbers a factor of five apart.","expect":["A bottom-up size estimate with every input shown and the working behind it","The public facts found for each input, with source and date, or a line saying none was found","Each input marked finding or guess, with the guesses ranked by how much they move the total"]},{"id":"g-missing","kind":"missing-input","situation":"The request leaves out: The market and who you would sell to, in one or two sentences","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":3,"since":"2026-11-03","changes":[{"version":3,"date":"2026-11-03","what":"Updated scope, deliverables or inputs. 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Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"market-research-report-writer","name":"Market research report writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["A board asks how big a market is and wants proof.","You are writing a competitor and market section for a plan.","You need a forecast with stated assumptions and ranges.","You want to separate hard facts from your own opinion."],"inputs":["The market and question to answer","Region and time period","Sources or data you already have (optional)","The decision the report supports"],"deliverables":["A sourced report","A claim and source table","Market size with assumptions","Forecast ranges","A list of limits"],"instruction":"skills/market-research-report-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"99b12c79fe41f2e55cbe395fe350440ec65fa8e8edd46c157a348484da37b524","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"paper-repo-notes","name":"Research paper and code note writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"context","when":["A project is done and what you learned is spread across files.","You want a paper and its code turned into notes you can search and trust.","A teammate is leaving and their research needs to be written down.","You need each claim tied to the log or table that proves it."],"inputs":["A paper (PDF or arXiv link), a code repo, logs, notebooks or notes","A folder to save the result in","Context about your research goal (optional)","A grading rubric for the paper (optional)"],"deliverables":["A research folder with claims, methods and results","Every claim linked to its supporting table or log","Results tables copied with exact numbers","A record of dead ends and decisions","A short report on what was filled in and what was missing"],"instruction":"skills/paper-repo-notes/SKILL.md","revision":"edb023b5b32cf39a7f272248d3dfafa52efe5a1a758f2c86c1768dee65d3c56d","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"carl-sagan","name":"Carl Sagan","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Test a bold claim, ad or study with a short kit of questions before you believe it","Find the logical tricks in an argument, such as a straw man or a false choice","Explain a big, hard idea to a general audience so it feels exciting and true","Stay open to a new idea without swallowing it whole","Turn a huge number or a long stretch of time into a picture people can grasp","Write a talk or post that leaves readers with wonder and a sense of scale","Spot a claim that can't be tested, and ask what result would prove it wrong","Check a big warning before you go public with it, and say how sure you are","Teach a team or a class the habits of scientific thinking"],"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 Carl Sagan would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Carl Sagan's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/carl-sagan/SKILL.md","revision":"2543507d6fd90005fb067409874dff0029b43f10acf58fb6c3f925b9def7868a","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":"charles-darwin","name":"Charles Darwin","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["List the strongest objections to your own idea, then answer each one with evidence","Set up a notebook habit that catches the facts that don't fit your theory","Turn a pile of observations into one clear pattern, and say what would prove it wrong","Explain how many small changes add up to a big one over time","Decide if an idea is ready to share or needs another year of evidence","Run a cheap home experiment to answer one narrow question","Write one long, patient argument that wins over readers who start out doubtful","Find the everyday example (like dog or pigeon breeding) that makes a hard idea easy to grasp"],"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 Charles Darwin would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Charles Darwin's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/charles-darwin/SKILL.md","revision":"0dd166c6dac08580113fd57476f706caa35d1e288d4da7fe68e595fef6f22845","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 that can browse the web: Step 2 looks up public data. Without browsing it lists where to look and marks each gap.","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":"Official statistics sites: Census, trade and health statistics are the facts behind the 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":"A spreadsheet: Holds the estimate so you can change an input and see the range move.","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 and testing claims in text is 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: Lets you check a proven line against the figures behind it.","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-size-a-market-and-separate-facts-from-guesses\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped market size research report writer task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Market size research report writer\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/size-a-market-and-separate-facts-from-guesses · version 3\n\n## Remit\nGive it the market and who you would sell to, in one or two sentences. You get a bottom-up size estimate with every input shown and the working behind it.\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 bottom-up size estimate with every input shown and the working behind it\n- The public facts found for each input, with source and date, or a line saying none was found\n- Each input marked finding or guess, with the guesses ranked by how much they move the total\n- A market report with a range, every number labelled and the first guess to test\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Estimate from the bottom up: Builds the market size from who has the problem, how many could buy and what they would pay, with every input and assumption shown. Hands step 2 the list of inputs.\n2. Find the public facts: Looks for public data for each input, such as census, trade statistics and filings, and records the source and date. Says so when nothing is found. Hands step 3 the facts.\n3. Separate findings from guesses: Marks each input as a finding with its source or a guess with its reasoning, and ranks the guesses by how much they move the total. Hands step 4 the split.\n4. Write the report: Writes the report with every number labelled, a range instead of one figure, and the guess to test first.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Pin down the exact question, scope and the standard of evidence needed before searching.\n- Prefer primary sources, and say how strong each source is.\n- Separate what is established, debated and unknown, with confidence levels.\n- Cite specifically: author, work, date or page where possible.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Presenting one source or a popular claim as settled.\n- Inventing citations, quotes or page numbers.\n- Over-generalising across places, periods or groups.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You are writing a plan or a deck and need a market size that holds up to questions.\nGiven: The market and who you would sell to; Your price or an idea of it; What you believe about its size, and any sales or survey data you have (optional); The country or area (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Estimate: Who has the problem, how many could buy and what they would pay, with the size as a range.\n- Public facts: The public data found for each input, with source and date, and the inputs with none.\n- Findings and guesses: Each input marked finding or guess, ranked by how much it moves the total.\n- Market report: The range, every number labelled fact or guess, and the first guess to test.\n- Hand-back summary: Each saved file, every MISSING line and the checks that could not run.\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, and no public fact appears without a source and a date.\n- The report gives a range, and every number says fact or guess.\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 Carl Sagan (skills/carl-sagan/SKILL.md) and Charles Darwin (skills/charles-darwin/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 cannot yet say who would buy. Use the Target market and pricing reviewer workflow first, then come back.\n- You want to know whether your idea can win its market, not how large it is. Use the Business idea market reviewer workflow.\n- A source you trust already sized the market and you only need it written up. Use the Market research report writer.\n- You need survey sample sizes or a plan to test the guesses. Use the Market size and survey 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 research notes, not on brand research.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: the exact question and scope, the sources or notes you already have, the standard of evidence needed and what is invented or out of scope. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If research notes is needed, sort the supplied papers, notes and sources into claims, methods and evidence with the context method: skills/paper-repo-notes/SKILL.md. Files: research/question.md, research/sources.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nSeparate established findings, open debates and unknowns. Keep every source with its author, date and how strong it is. Never invent citations, quotes or page numbers. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/size-a-market-and-separate-facts-from-guesses/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- Market size research report writer (primary): [complete method](../size-a-market-and-separate-facts-from-guesses/SKILL.md), revision dc9d5d0cce35\n- Market size estimator: [complete method](../market-size-estimator/SKILL.md), revision 72841c98559a\n- Public database fact finder: [complete method](../public-database-fact-finder/SKILL.md), revision ff34d49718c7\n- Research evidence checker: [complete method](../findings-and-guesses-separator/SKILL.md), revision 93b6d52bfce1\n- Market research report writer: [complete method](../market-research-report-writer/SKILL.md), revision 99b12c79fe41\n- Research paper and code note writer (context setup): [complete method](../paper-repo-notes/SKILL.md), revision edb023b5b32c\n- Carl Sagan (review lens): [complete method](../carl-sagan/SKILL.md), revision 2543507d6fd9\n- Charles Darwin (review lens): [complete method](../charles-darwin/SKILL.md), revision 0dd166c6dac0\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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