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 "schema": "aiblocks-page/1",
 "id": "backup-communication-plan-builder",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "Backup communication plan builder",
 "summary": "Build a backup communication plan with fallback paths, owners and switch triggers. Get a worksheet, check-in card and a safe test outline.",
 "headline": "Backup communication plan builder",
 "subhead": "Share who must reach whom, the communication methods available, and local rules. It checks whether fallback paths share the same weak points. You get a primary and backup plan, owners, switch triggers, open gaps, and an authorized exercise outline.",
 "job": {
  "id": "organise-work",
  "name": "Run meetings, notes and plans"
 },
 "level": "intermediate",
 "thinking": "high",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "question",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Question",
   "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like"
  },
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "The mission, required contacts, available methods, local procedures, owners, and activation authority."
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "A communication fallback worksheet, check-in card, test outline, and gap or correction log."
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "Your group needs a way to reach each other when the usual phone or internet fails.",
  "You have a backup method but are not sure it would work if the first one went down.",
  "You need clear owners and triggers for switching to a backup, and a safe way to test them."
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "You only need status updates or notices for staff or customers: write them with your own incident or stakeholder messaging process.",
  "You need radio frequencies, channels or programming details: use your group's approved radio or channel procedure.",
  "Someone is in immediate danger: call emergency services and follow your incident leader."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "The job your group must keep doing, and who must reach whom",
   "The ways you can communicate now, such as phone, radio or messaging apps",
   "Your local rules and procedures (optional)",
   "The names or roles of owners and who can approve a switch"
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
   "An AI that can read files, so it can use the skill's templates",
   "Your group's own contact details, kept in a protected plan"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "PACE plan worksheet",
    "contains": "Primary, Alternate, Contingency and Emergency paths for each sender and receiver pair, with owners, triggers and shared weak points."
   },
   {
    "name": "Communications check-in card",
    "contains": "A short card for participants showing how to check in, when to switch paths and who to call."
   },
   {
    "name": "Exercise and after-action review",
    "contains": "A bounded test plan with goals, safety limits, evidence to collect, stop rules and follow-up actions."
   },
   {
    "name": "Troubleshooting decision log",
    "contains": "A record of what failed, the evidence, the decisions made and any handoffs."
   },
   {
    "name": "Unknowns and gap list",
    "contains": "Each missing fact marked UNKNOWN, with an owner and a check that will settle it."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Gather your inputs first: the job you must keep doing, who must reach whom, the methods you can use, your local procedures, and who can approve a switch.",
  "What you need first: a chat AI that can read files, so it can use the skill's templates. If it cannot, paste the skill text and the worksheet template into the chat. Open your AI and upload the skill folder.",
  "Work in this order: 1. map who must reach whom, 2. check that the backup paths do not share weak points, 3. set owners, approval and switch triggers, 4. plan the test. The worksheet comes first, then the check-in card, then the test outline.",
  "Paste your inputs and ask it to build your backup communication plan.",
  "Check the worksheet. Make sure each backup path does not share a device, network, power source or provider with the one before it.",
  "Fill every item marked UNKNOWN with its owner before you approve the plan.",
  "Once the plan is approved, use the check-in card to brief people and the exercise template to plan a safe test. Nothing is activated until your named authority says so."
 ],
 "checks": [],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Outage incident leader",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/outage-incident-leader",
   "why": "Outage incident leader"
  },
  {
   "name": "SOP and runbook checker",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/sop-and-runbook-checker",
   "why": "SOP and runbook checker"
  }
 ],
 "source": {
  "by": "Magnus Hedemark",
  "repo": "magnus919/agent-skills",
  "url": "https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills/tree/92c327e525da69c9ad3812fd223a1770e977c2e3/pace-plan",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "pace-plan",
  "commit": "92c327e525da69c9ad3812fd223a1770e977c2e3"
 },
 "credits": [
  {
   "title": "pace-plan skill",
   "by": "Magnus Hedemark",
   "url": "https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills/tree/92c327e525da69c9ad3812fd223a1770e977c2e3/pace-plan",
   "used": "Copied under the MIT licence. We gave it a plain name. We added Before you start and After this sections that link to other AI Blocks steps."
  }
 ],
 "files": [
  "DELIVERY-SPEC.md",
  "evals/evals.json",
  "EVIDENCE-LEDGER.md",
  "LICENSE.md",
  "README.md",
  "references/coordination-and-operation.md",
  "references/evidence-base.md",
  "references/exercise-and-improvement.md",
  "references/plan-design.md",
  "references/trigger-probes.md",
  "references/troubleshooting.md",
  "templates/communications-check-in-card.md",
  "templates/exercise-and-after-action-review.md",
  "templates/pace-plan-worksheet.md",
  "templates/troubleshooting-decision-log.md",
  "VERIFICATION.md"
 ],
 "links": {
  "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/backup-communication-plan-builder",
  "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/backup-communication-plan-builder.md",
  "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/backup-communication-plan-builder.json",
  "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/backup-communication-plan-builder/SKILL.md",
  "download": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/backup-communication-plan-builder.zip",
  "api_item": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/items/backup-communication-plan-builder",
  "api_document": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/documents/skill/backup-communication-plan-builder",
  "mcp": "https://useaiblocks.com/mcp"
 }
}