diff --git a/.cursor-plugin/marketplace.json b/.cursor-plugin/marketplace.json index 451e14b07..6cd4a64b0 100644 --- a/.cursor-plugin/marketplace.json +++ b/.cursor-plugin/marketplace.json @@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ "source": "dyl-stack", "description": "Dylan's agent style on top of pstack: root causes over symptom patches, The Algorithm before design, terse verified delivery, a PR review that fits in a paste, and Figma-to-UI with a visual judge." }, + { + "name": "team-builder-stack", + "source": "team-builder-stack", + "description": "Build, check, and coach your team of Grok Bots: one bot for each unit of your work, skills built from your real systems and examples, and one team spec as the source of truth. The skills plugin Team Builder uses." + }, { "name": "grok-voice", "source": "grok-voice", diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 399900c91..26c09d877 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Official Cursor plugins for popular developer tools, frameworks, and SaaS produc | `orchestrate` | [Orchestrate](orchestrate/) | Cursor | Developer Tools | Fan large tasks out across parallel cloud agents with planners, workers, verifiers, and structured handoffs. | | `pstack` | [pstack](pstack/) | Lauren Tan | Developer Tools | if you want to go fast, go deep first. pstack helps you write less, but higher quality code. rigorous agent workflows you can parallelize with confidence. | | `dyl-stack` | [dyl-stack](dyl-stack/) | Dylan Gattey | Developer Tools | Dylan's agent style on top of pstack: root causes over symptom patches, The Algorithm before design, terse verified delivery, a PR review that fits in a paste, and Figma-to-UI with a visual judge. | +| `team-builder-stack` | [Team Builder Stack](team-builder-stack/) | Danny Graziosi | Productivity | Build, check, and coach your team of Grok Bots: one bot for each unit of your work, skills built from your real systems and examples, and one team spec as the source of truth. The skills plugin Team Builder uses. | | `advisor` | [Advisor](advisor/) | Cursor | Developer Tools | Consult a stronger model before major decisions, when stuck, and before declaring done. | | `grok-voice` | [Grok Voice](grok-voice/) | Eric Zakariasson | Developer Tools | Add Grok voice to an app: realtime speech-to-speech, speech-to-text dictation, text-to-speech read-aloud, and a log-driven fix loop for voice sessions. | | `gmail` | [Gmail](third_party/gmail/) | Cursor | Productivity | Search, read, draft, and manage email. | diff --git a/team-builder-stack/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json b/team-builder-stack/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9c6dd1dd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +{ + "name": "team-builder-stack", + "displayName": "Team Builder Stack", + "version": "0.21.2", + "description": "Build, check, and coach your team of Grok Bots: one bot for each unit of your work, skills built from your real systems and examples, and one team spec as the source of truth. The skills plugin Team Builder uses.", + "author": { + "name": "Danny Graziosi" + }, + "license": "MIT", + "keywords": [ + "team-builder-stack", + "grok-bot", + "team-builder", + "skills", + "principles" + ], + "category": "productivity", + "tags": [ + "grok-bot", + "skills", + "principles" + ], + "skills": "./skills/" +} diff --git a/team-builder-stack/CHANGELOG.md b/team-builder-stack/CHANGELOG.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6894e09e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/CHANGELOG.md @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +# Changelog + +Changes to the Team Builder Stack, for people using it. Newer entries come first. A release turns Unreleased into a version entry. + +## 0.21.2 (2026-10-16) + +- The README's About me section uses the company's new name, SpaceX Super Intelligence, and its short form, SpaceXSI. No skill, template, or check changes. + +## 0.21.1 (2026-10-15) + +- A bot with a Color that isn't on the map's palette and an empty Shape no longer stops the team map build or the look recording. The bot keeps its Color and gets a shape from its id. Recording looks fills only its Shape line. +- When a bot's set Shape or Color leaves no free look, or every look is taken, the map gives it the nearest look, warns that it shares a shape and color, and keeps building. +- Bots without a set look keep the same defaults as in 0.21.0. + +## 0.21.0 (2026-10-14) + +- Each bot on the team map has its own look: a colored shape with its initials, drawn with plain CSS. The shapes are circle, square, hexagon, capsule, leaf, and drop, in a calm palette with no red, amber, or gray. +- The team spec adds optional Shape, Color, and Picture lines to each bot block under Your team. A value set there wins. When one is empty, the map picks it from the bot's id, never from the bot's place in the spec, so the same bots always draw the same map and no two bots on one map share both a shape and a color. On a proposed change, a bot whose Shape and Color lines don't change looks the same in the proposed and the current view, and a removed bot shares a look with no remaining bot. +- A Shape off the list or a Color that isn't a six-digit hex color is listed by the spec check. When the map is built anyway, it warns and uses the default for that field. +- You can give pictures for your bots, by a Picture line or a folder of files named by bot id. The map script shrinks a PNG and embeds it as a small data URI of at most 24 KB. A JPEG, GIF, or WebP is embedded only when it is already under that size. A JPEG loses its EXIF, XMP, and comment segments first. A GIF or WebP keeps any metadata it carries. A picture that is missing, unreadable, or too large gets a warning, and the map shows the shape and color instead. Pictures are read when the map is built and are never copied into the plugin. +- After your yes, the steps that save a changed team spec in Build my team, Check my bots, Build a bot, Retire a bot, and Set up Team Builder write each bot's look into its empty Shape and Color lines, the look the map showed you. A look you set is never changed. From then on every look is fixed in the spec, so a later rebuild moves none. +- The Markdown team map lists each bot's look. +- The apply checklist adds the three lines to each bot block in the team spec after your yes, and records the looks the map shows today. + +## 0.20.1 (2026-10-14) + +- A proposed change to the team map now marks routines as added, changed, or removed, the same way it marks bots, skills, steps, handoffs, and systems. A proposal that only changes routines is counted as a change instead of changing nothing. The canvas and the Markdown document both show the marks. A change to a routine's runs per week is marked, and its old count shows only in the document. + +## 0.20.0 (2026-10-14) + +- Inform manager bot also runs when a check the manager bot asked a bot to run finishes, such as reading what a meeting decided once it ends. The note's header is `: checked.` It names the one item the manager bot tracks it by, gives the checked result in one sentence with its source link, and lists each task done, filed, or moved, or nothing. It keeps Waiting on, and Needed from you can name an unblock or an update to today's brief. +- A check the manager bot asked for always gets a note, even when nothing changed and even on delegated work. The manager bot acts on it now only when the result changes today's brief or leaves a block. Delegate work and the Hand off guidance in Write a workflow skill say the same. An existing workflow skill picks up that line only when the skill is rewritten. +- Only the manager bot writes the daily brief. The bot sending the note changes the task list first and never edits the brief. When a note says today's brief is out of date, the manager bot corrects those lines from the task list, not the note. +- A check's Outcome, and each change on its Changed line, are facts the check's own Verify step passed through Verify work. If no Verify step ran, the bot runs Verify work on them before the note is sent. +- Every place that lists when Inform manager bot runs names the check too, including the Owner bot line under Who tells whom. The apply checklist carries that line to each owner bot's operating guide after your yes. + +## 0.19.0 (2026-10-13) + +- A fresh checker stays the default and the safe choice. Verify work now says exactly when a cheaper check is allowed: a script check for a yes or no question a script can settle about files or exact text, or a self-review labeled "Self-reviewed, not independently checked" when your yes or a later full check covers the same facts. A draft or plan gets a self-review only when it is made only of facts you set or gave in the chat. A draft with facts from your sources, or one going outside the team, gets a full check before you see it. +- Anything that reports to you, reaches anyone outside the team, or writes to a system of record, a skill, or the team spec still gets a full check. A script check stands in for it only on a yes or no question a script can settle about files or exact text, and every other claim still gets the full check. +- A recheck may reuse the same checker, which also reads anything the fix touches. A fix that is large, changes logic, or uses the checker's own wording gets a fresh checker. +- A scheduled run that finds nothing changed writes no dated file and delivers no summary. It adds one line to its run log and skips the check. A failed check gets one fix, with at most two rounds of fixes in all. +- The shared rule every bot follows names the script check and the labeled self-review. The apply checklist carries that one sentence to each bot's operating guide after your yes. +- Clean up memory labels its Apply read-back a self-review. The weekly review checks each file edit it applies with a script check. A routine change gets a full check. A profile fact change is a read-back, script checked against the approved text and shown labeled as a self-review. + +## 0.18.0 (2026-10-13) + +- Each routine run spends usage, so a routine that runs often spends more than one that runs rarely. A test run also spends usage. +- The team spec records runs per week on each routine, counted from its trigger. Weekly review prep asks each bot for the routines it owns and flags a schedule that runs more often than the work needs. Runs per week is in the map data and on the document line for this release, and is not drawn on the canvas. +- When a routine starts a workflow skill, that run opens with a cheap check and ends when nothing has changed. An existing workflow skill picks up that check only when the skill is rewritten. +- In Team Builder's skills, a scheduled run gathers, drafts, and reports. It writes a dated file, delivers a summary where the routine says, and ends with a Needs you list instead of waiting for an answer. Decisions, approvals, and questions wait until the person replies in the chat with the bot. Weekly review prep drafts the review pack before the meeting, including the checks and the review page. Memory reports wait until the person replies to the summary in the chat. Applying changes waits until the person says yes in the chat. Morning kickoff writes the dated file first. If it also names a message, Test checks that hand-off, or the first scheduled run does where the routine doesn't show Test. A missing message falls back to the person confirming the ask in the manager bot's chat. +- Inform Team Builder names its message field Act now, not Wake. Inform manager bot and Inform Team Builder say a note is sent so that bot acts on it now, for a failed run or a wrong write, or a block, a decision, a deadline at risk, or a change to today's brief. Other notes are sent without asking that bot to act now. +- Coach my bots picks the widest schedule that still meets the deadline, prefers an event trigger or a check-back that deletes itself, and writes each new routine with its runs per week and one Test run where the routine shows Test; otherwise the first scheduled run. An existing workflow skill gets Load's cheap check only when it is rewritten. A test spends usage, so it is not repeated for the same result. +- Build a bot never gives a bot a setup that creates routines on its first run. + +## 0.17.0 (2026-10-13) + +- Inform manager bot updates the task and sends the manager bot a linked note when a task finishes, is blocked, or the person changes it in chat. It asks the manager bot to act now for a block, a decision, a deadline, or a change to today's brief. +- A change the person makes in chat is written on the task first, with one line that quotes them, and still gets a note when the manager bot delegated the work. +- When that change makes today's brief out of date, the manager bot corrects those lines in place and sends the person nothing. The task list stays the record. +- Plugin delivery, next to Plugin maintainer, says whether the plugin is installed or the plugin maintainer syncs the stack skills into the person's library. Apply a plugin update reads the Team Builder version line in that synced setup, and it skips the rename offer. +- A none review that cites an earlier yes passes only when it names a step that exists and that step itself asks for a review. + +## 0.16.0 (2026-10-13) + +- A workflow skill's steps carry Does, Pulls from, Uses, Produces, Hands to, and Needs your review. A field is never blank. Write none and the reason. +- A skill description is one sentence under 120 characters. +- The team spec adds Waits on each handoff, You and Every bot as handoff ends, Connectors on each bot, an optional How to read on each system, and Skill plus an optional Relayed by on each routine. +- A check reads those fields and the skill library. It lists what is missing, per bot and skill. The team map draws only from the fields. A fact it cannot find is marked inferred. +- Check my bots runs that check across the library and the spec. The report opens with one outcome, and each bot is covered or not confirmed. +- A run's checklist is the skill's steps. A skipped step stays listed, with its reason. +- When a skill several bots use changes, the old and new versions are run on one example, and a fresh checker grades both without being told which is which. +- When the same correction comes up again, add a field or a check before adding another sentence of guidance. + +## 0.15.0 (2026-10-12) + +- Each release ships an apply checklist of the changes an existing team needs. +- Apply a plugin update brings one list of those changes and applies only what you approve. The team spec records the plugin version last applied. +- Weekly review prep checks that version and runs the full bot check against the spec and the principles. It stays weekly. +- A bot keeps saving facts about its unit, and preferences it learns while doing the work, to its own memory. A change to how it works, a skill, an operating guide, a routine, or a standing rule, goes through Team Builder with Inform Team Builder, and the bot saves that only after you say yes. +- Shared text holds only a rule that applies to every bot running that item. A fact about one unit stays in that unit's record. +- The team spec lists each bot's routines, with the trigger and the full prompt, and routines are saved from that list. +- An approved change to a skill this plugin ships is sent as a suggestion to the plugin maintainer named in the team spec. The local copy is not edited. + +## 0.14.2 (2026-10-12) + +- A change to what a handoff passes stays on that handoff, including when its how changes or another handoff between the same bots uses the same how. + +## 0.14.1 (2026-10-12) + +- A workflow skill's own steps are named lines under Do the work, and the team map shows each one. +- Two handoffs between the same bots stay separate on a proposed change, and an edit to one is marked as a change. +- Removing one handoff and editing another between the same bots marks the edited route and the removed route, each as itself. +- The guide counts six utility skills, the six the stack ships. +- The utility skills table names Triage work, Delegate work, Verify work, Plan the work, Inform manager bot, and Run review panel. Record keeping and context loading stay in each workflow's load and record steps. +- The README and the guide stay on the same count of utility skills. + +## 0.14.0 (2026-10-12) + +- The plugin logo is the author's portrait. +- The README opens with who made the stack, how it works in seven steps, and what's in it. +- Make no assumptions is the principle between Context cascade and Just-in-time context. The check-first rule every bot follows is unchanged. Handoffs & delegation is now Handoffs and delegation, and the principles are in one order everywhere. +- Units are sized to your scope of work: a few strategic accounts each get a bot, and a book of 150 renewals gets one. +- Your primary bot is usually your manager bot, and you can talk to any bot directly. +- Team Builder recommends a missing bot during weekly review prep, and builds it on your yes. +- Manager bots follow up on blocked, at-risk, or overdue work. Check my bots shows existing manager guides a one-line difference. + +## 0.13.0 (2026-10-11) + +- The weekly bot review, with one prep routine that starts two hours before it. The old bot-check routine and the old update-check routine are retired. +- Clean up memory: each bot lists stale facts in its own memory, and applies only what you approve. +- A routine names one skill. The steps live in that skill. +- Release checks run on the copy that ships, so a public release is the built plugin. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/LICENSE b/team-builder-stack/LICENSE new file mode 100644 index 000000000..29bf42bfd --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/LICENSE @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +MIT License + +Copyright (c) 2026 Danny Graziosi + +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy +of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal +in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights +to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell +copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is +furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: + +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all +copies or substantial portions of the Software. + +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR +IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, +FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE +AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER +LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, +OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE +SOFTWARE. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/README.md b/team-builder-stack/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..26ac913fe --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ +# Team Builder Stack + +## About me + + +I'm Danny Graziosi, an AI Deployment Manager at SpaceX Super Intelligence. I help large enterprises shape their AI deployment strategy, run enablement across the SpaceXSI product suite, and put agentic workflows into production. + +Before SpaceXSI, I spent two years leading agentic workflow rollouts for Fortune 500 companies in financial services, healthcare, and consumer goods. The work spanned marketing, sales, finance, investment banking, portfolio management, and document processing. + +Along the way I built a framework and a set of design principles for putting agents to work in any business process. Team Builder Stack packages both as a set of skills and a bot template, so you can build your own team of bots. + +[Danny Graziosi on X](https://x.com/danny_graziosi) + + +## How it works + +Think of each bot as a new teammate. Your team has three kinds of bots. + +- **Manager bots.** Keep the team moving. A manager takes requests that don't belong to one bot, delegates them, follows up, and briefs you. It's usually your primary bot, and most people start with a Chief of Staff. +- **Owner bots.** Each owns one part of your work, like an account, a project, or a renewal book, and keeps its history. +- **Specialist bots.** Hold know-how that every owner draws on, like product expertise or your company's operating model. + +You can talk to any bot directly. Go to an owner about its account, to a specialist for its expertise, and to your manager when you're not sure who should take something or the work spans several bots. Nothing is sent or changed without your yes. + +## Seven steps to build your team + +You build the team the same way you'd bring on real people. + +1. **Decide who owns what.** Give a bot to each part of your work that carries its own history, and size each part to your scope of work. If you look after a handful of strategic accounts, each one gets its own bot. If you handle 150 renewals, one bot owns the renewal book. Work that doesn't carry its own history becomes a skill, not a bot. +2. **Connect your systems.** Like a new hire's IT setup on day one, each bot gets access to the systems it needs, such as your CRM, notes, calendar, and docs. It checks those systems before it asks you anything, and reads them fresh before each piece of work. +3. **Turn your workflows into skills.** For each piece of work a bot owns, list the workflows you repeat, like a weekly account update or a renewal note, and turn each one into a skill. A skill is the playbook you'd hand a new hire: the steps, the template, and what good looks like. Your bots share one skill library, so a fix to a skill reaches every bot that uses it. +4. **Check the work.** No one grades their own work well, so a fresh checker is the default. It reviews every draft that states facts from your sources, or that goes outside your team, against those sources and the skill's definition of good before you see it. A plan made only of facts you gave it may get a self-review, labeled as one, and a yes or no question a script can settle about files or exact text, such as whether some text is present, may get a script check. Anything that sends a message, changes a record, or can't be undone waits for your yes. +5. **Coordinate the team.** When a bot finishes its part, it hands the next step straight to the bot that owns it. Your manager keeps track of the work across the team: it delegates new requests, follows up on anything stuck, and briefs you on what needs you. +6. **Scale the team.** Add bots as your work grows, one at a time. Team Builder recommends a new bot when it sees one missing from your work, such as an owner for a new account or a specialist when several owners keep needing the same know-how. +7. **Adapt as your work changes.** Once a week, you and Team Builder review the team. It checks each bot, gathers feedback on skills, flags outdated memory, and brings you one list of decisions. Corrections go into skills instead of one-off fixes, so the team improves every week and changes as your work does. + +You still make the calls. The bots do the reading, drafting, and follow-up. + +## What's in the stack + + +21 skills, one principles file with 10 principles, a blank team spec, and a 6-chapter guide. + + +### Team Builder + +Install the plugin, then ask your primary bot to run [Set up Team Builder](./skills/set-up-team-builder/SKILL.md). It creates one bot called Team Builder in your own Grok Bot account. Team Builder interviews you about your work, writes your team spec, and builds your team one bot at a time, asking before it creates anything. It runs one weekly routine, which preps your bot review two hours before it starts. Updates reach you through the plugin. + +### Design principles + +Each principle has its own section in [principles.md](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md): when it applies, the rule, what to do, and an example. + + +| Principle | The rule | +| --- | --- | +| [Context isolation and traceability](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#context-isolation-and-traceability) | Give each unit of work its own bot, keep it in that unit's context, and make everything it does traceable. | +| [Context cascade](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#context-cascade) | Connect your systems of record first and get them right, because bad data at the source spreads to everything built on it. | +| [Make no assumptions](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#make-no-assumptions) | Ground every bot, skill, and answer in the person's real systems and examples. Look up any fact you have access to and give its source instead of asking, bring only preferences to the person, and ask before creating anything. | +| [Just-in-time context](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#just-in-time-context) | Open the template and the source right before the work, so nothing runs on stale facts. | +| [Procedure and perspective](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#procedure-and-perspective) | Give procedural work fixed steps and templates, and use the bot as a sparring partner for creative work. | +| [Dynamic orchestration](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#dynamic-orchestration) | The skill sets how the work splits and its limits, and the bot writes a short plan that fits that pattern to each run. | +| [Definition of good](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#definition-of-good) | Say what good looks like before you build, and put every correction back into the skill. | +| [Independent verification](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#independent-verification) | The agent that made an output doesn't grade it. A fresh check is the default last step. | +| [Human judgment](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#human-judgment) | Reading and drafting run freely. Anything that sends, changes a record, or can't be undone waits for your yes, and each yes covers one action. | +| [Handoffs and delegation](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#handoffs-and-delegation) | The finishing bot messages the next owner directly and says what's done and what's next. | + + +### Utility skills + +Workflow skills call these shared steps instead of copying them, and every workflow skill's Verify step calls Verify work, so no workflow skips the check. + +- **[Plan the work](./skills/plan-the-work/SKILL.md).** Sizes a run before the work splits: stages, checks, and when to stop. +- **[Delegate work](./skills/delegate-work/SKILL.md).** Sends pieces of work to fresh helpers on the same bot, or to the bot that owns them. +- **[Verify work](./skills/verify-work/SKILL.md).** By default, a fresh checker reopens each source and tests each claim before anything is saved or shown. +- **[Triage work](./skills/triage-work/SKILL.md).** Sorts a stream of incoming items to the right skill, the bot that owns it, or you. +- **[Inform manager bot](./skills/inform-manager-bot/SKILL.md).** Updates the task and tells the manager bot when a task finishes, is blocked, or the person changes it in chat, or when a check it asked for ends. It asks the manager bot to act now only for a block, a decision, a deadline, or a change to today's brief. +- **[Inform Team Builder](./skills/inform-team-builder/SKILL.md).** Tells Team Builder when a bot's skill, operating guide, routine, or standing rule should change, and asks Team Builder to act now only when a run failed or a write was wrong. +- **[Run review panel](./skills/run-review-panel/SKILL.md) (optional).** For a high-stakes draft, a few fresh reviewers and a separate judge suggest changes, and you pick which to keep. + +### The guide + +The [Team Builder Stack guide](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/README.md) teaches all of this in short chapters, from the core idea and your first owner bot to growing the team and making it yours. + + +1. [The core idea](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/01-the-core-idea.md). Give a bot to what carries its own history, and turn each repeated workflow into a skill. (Basics) +2. [Your first owner bot](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/02-your-first-owner-bot.md). One owner bot for one unit, proved by hand, then put on a routine. (Basics) +3. [Utility and standard skills](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/03-utility-skills.md). Seven utility skills every bot uses, the standard skills every skill follows, and where each one lives in the stack. (Going further) +4. [The system map](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/04-the-system-map.md). Where the tailoring lives: your systems, how they store data, and how they tie to your units. (Going further) +5. [Growing the team](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/05-growing-the-team.md). Manager, owner, and specialist bots, how they work together, and adding bots as the work grows. (Going further) +6. [Making it yours](./skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/06-making-it-yours.md). Teach the stack how you work, and keep your skills current. (Going further) + + +## Get started + +Install the Team Builder Stack from Marketplace in Grok Bot, or from your team's marketplace if your team has one. In Cursor, add it with: + +```text +/add-plugin team-builder-stack +``` + +Then ask your primary bot to run [Set up Team Builder](./skills/set-up-team-builder/SKILL.md). If you already have Team Builder, it asks that bot to run Apply a plugin update in its own chat instead of making a second one. + +Most requests to Team Builder land in one of three skills: + +- **[Build my team](./skills/build-my-team/SKILL.md).** Learns how you work, writes your team spec, builds your first bot, and builds your team map. If you already have bots, it runs Check my bots first. +- **[Check my bots](./skills/check-my-bots/SKILL.md).** Interviews you about how you use your bots, compares them with your team spec and the principles, refreshes your team map, and proposes changes. It changes nothing without your yes. +- **[Coach my bots](./skills/coach-my-bots/SKILL.md).** Turns a correction or a change in your work into an edit to a skill, a bot type's operating guide, or your team spec. + +```text +/build-my-team I look after twelve accounts. +``` + +```text +/coach-my-bots we moved our notes from one tool to another. what needs to change? +``` + +Improvements reach you through the installed plugin, so don't save copies of its skills to your skill library. A copy never updates, and a library skill with the same name takes the plugin skill's place, so your bots run the stale copy. Check my bots flags such copies and offers to rename them after your yes; removing a skill or a plugin is your call. The skills Team Builder writes for you, such as your workflow skills and your writing voice, live in your library. + +## Skills + + +| Skill | Type | Slug | Description | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | +| [Set up Team Builder](./skills/set-up-team-builder/SKILL.md) | workflow | `set-up-team-builder` | Use when the person asks to set up Team Builder; creates that one bot from the plugin after a yes. | +| [Build my team](./skills/build-my-team/SKILL.md) | workflow | `build-my-team` | Use when the person wants a team built or has no team spec; writes the spec, the map, and the first bot. | +| [Build a bot](./skills/build-a-bot/SKILL.md) | workflow | `build-a-bot` | Use when the person needs one more owner, specialist, or manager bot; creates it from that type's guide. | +| [Write a workflow skill](./skills/write-a-workflow-skill/SKILL.md) | workflow | `write-a-workflow-skill` | Use when a repeated workflow should become a skill; writes one five-step skill from real examples. | +| [Coach my bots](./skills/coach-my-bots/SKILL.md) | workflow | `coach-my-bots` | Use when a bot got something wrong or the work changed; fixes the one skill, guide, or spec line that holds it. | +| [Check my bots](./skills/check-my-bots/SKILL.md) | workflow | `check-my-bots` | Use when the person wants their bots or setup checked; compares them with the spec and proposes fixes. | +| [Run the weekly bot review](./skills/run-the-weekly-bot-review/SKILL.md) | workflow | `run-the-weekly-bot-review` | Use when the weekly bot review is coming up or under way; builds one decision list and applies the yeses. | +| [Apply a plugin update](./skills/apply-a-plugin-update/SKILL.md) | workflow | `apply-a-plugin-update` | Use when the installed plugin is newer than the team spec records; applies only the approved changes. | +| [Clean up memory](./skills/clean-up-memory/SKILL.md) | workflow | `clean-up-memory` | Use when a bot's memory may be stale, or the weekly review asks; lists stale facts and applies the yeses. | +| [Retire a bot](./skills/retire-a-bot/SKILL.md) | workflow | `retire-a-bot` | Use when a bot or group chat is replaced or its unit ended; saves history and leaves deleting to the person. | +| [Set my writing voice](./skills/set-my-writing-voice/SKILL.md) | workflow | `set-my-writing-voice` | Use when bots should sound like the person; writes their Writing voice skill from their own writing, after a yes. | +| [Save what we learned](./skills/save-what-we-learned/SKILL.md) | workflow | `save-what-we-learned` | Use when a task took too long or went wrong; proposes skill edits and sends them through Inform Team Builder. | +| [Explain how it works](./skills/explain-how-it-works/SKILL.md) | workflow | `explain-how-it-works` | Use when the person asks why or how this stack works; answers from the principles and the guide. | +| [Team Builder operating guide](./skills/team-builder-operating-guide/SKILL.md) | standard | `team-builder-operating-guide` | Follow whenever you are Team Builder and start a task; the job, skills, rules, and handoffs this plugin ships. | +| [Triage work](./skills/triage-work/SKILL.md) | utility | `triage-work` | Called by a skill when work arrives as a stream of items; sorts each item to a skill, a bot, or the person. | +| [Delegate work](./skills/delegate-work/SKILL.md) | utility | `delegate-work` | Called by a skill when work splits or a step belongs to another bot; runs the pieces or sends them on. | +| [Verify work](./skills/verify-work/SKILL.md) | utility | `verify-work` | Called by every Verify step before anything is saved or shown; by default a fresh checker checks each claim. | +| [Plan the work](./skills/plan-the-work/SKILL.md) | utility | `plan-the-work` | Called by Do the work when work splits or outgrows the pattern; writes the stages, contracts, and stops. | +| [Inform manager bot](./skills/inform-manager-bot/SKILL.md) | utility | `inform-manager-bot` | Called by Hand off when a task is done, blocked, or changed in chat, or a manager's check ends; updates and notes it. | +| [Inform Team Builder](./skills/inform-team-builder/SKILL.md) | utility | `inform-team-builder` | Called by a bot when a skill, guide, routine, or rule should change; sends Team Builder the evidence. | +| [Run review panel](./skills/run-review-panel/SKILL.md) | utility | `run-review-panel` | Called by a skill after Verify work on a high-stakes draft; reviewers advise and the person picks the changes. | + + +### Three types of skill + +Every skill states its type on the line under its name, and its name and description follow that type. Team Builder names every skill it writes for you the same way. + + +- **Workflow skill.** Does one job end to end. Name: a verb plus the thing, such as Draft renewal note or Triage inbox. Description: one sentence that starts with “Use when” and the trigger, within its first 60 characters, then says what you get. +- **Standard skill.** A rule other skills follow, such as the writing voice or a company’s compliance or brand guideline. Name: the guideline’s own name, in the company’s words, such as Writing voice, Compliance guidelines, or Brand voice, with no added suffix. Description: one sentence that starts with “Follow whenever” and what it covers, within its first 60 characters, then says where its source lives. +- **Utility skill.** A step that workflow skills call. Name: an explicit verb, plus the thing when the verb alone doesn’t say exactly what it does, such as Delegate work or Verify work. Description: one sentence that starts with “Called by” and the step that calls it, within its first 60 characters, then says what it checks or does. + + +## The team spec + +[Build my team](./skills/build-my-team/SKILL.md) writes one team spec with you, at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` on the computer your bots share. It's the one source of truth for how your team is put together, and every skill reads it. It starts from the [blank team spec](./skills/build-my-team/references/team-spec-template.md) and holds only what Grok Bot doesn't already keep: never passwords, keys, customer data, or facts about one account. You see it as the team map, built with the [team map template](./skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/README.md), and Team Builder rebuilds the map from the spec after each change. + +## Planned for a later version + +- **Change cleanup.** After a big change, find what still points at the old way and fix it. + +## Credits + +The stack is modeled on pstack by Lauren Tan, which is also MIT licensed. + +## License + +MIT diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a30917c5e --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +--- +name: apply-a-plugin-update +description: "Use when the installed plugin is newer than the team spec records; applies only the approved changes." +--- + +# Apply a plugin update + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +Brings the person's existing team in line with one release of this plugin. A plugin install changes the skills. This skill applies that release's other changes: shared rules, operating guide layout, profile facts, routine form, and team spec layout. It changes nothing until the person approves it. + +Write only a rule that holds for every bot running that item. A fact about one unit of work stays in that unit's record or that bot's memory, and a request that carries one is rewritten as a general rule or declined. + +## Steps + +1. **Load.** Read this skill at its path. Read the team spec, including Plugin version applied on the Team Builder block and the Routines section. Read the installed plugin version from `team-builder-stack/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json`. It must match the `Team Builder · version` line in [Team Builder operating guide](../team-builder-operating-guide/SKILL.md). If those two differ, stop and say so. When Plugin delivery says synced into the library by the plugin maintainer, the plugin is not installed and there is no plugin.json: the installed version is the Team Builder · version line in the library copy of Team Builder operating guide. Open [every bot's operating guide](../build-a-bot/references/operating-guide.md), [Team Builder's profile](../set-up-team-builder/references/team-builder/profile.md), [Weekly review prep](../set-up-team-builder/references/team-builder/routines/weekly-review-prep.md), and the [blank team spec](../build-my-team/references/team-spec-template.md). + Does: Read this skill, the spec, the installed version, and the templates this release compares. + Pulls from: the team spec, plugin.json or the library copy of Team Builder operating guide when the library is synced, and the templates named in this step + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the run checklist, including any skipped step and its reason + Hands to: Do the work, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, nothing is decided yet + Copy this skill's steps into the run's checklist. A skipped step stays listed, with its reason. +2. **Do the work.** + Does: Compare the team with the checklist or the current templates and bring one list. + Pulls from: the checklists after the applied version, or the current templates when none is recorded + Uses: none, the person approves in this chat + Produces: one numbered list of changes + Hands to: the person, and it waits for a yes + Needs your review: which numbers to apply + - **Which changes.** When Plugin version applied is missing or blank, do not use the checklists as a delta. Compare the whole team with the current templates: each bot type's operating guide against every bot's operating guide, each bot's three profile facts against the profile fact templates, Team Builder's about line and profile facts against its profile file, each live routine against Routines and against the thin prompt form, and the spec against the blank team spec, including Plugin version applied and Routines. When a version is recorded and the installed version is newer, read only the checklist for each version after the applied one, up to and including the installed version, lowest version first. Checklists live in [references/checklists/](references/checklists/), one file per version: [0.15.0](references/checklists/0.15.0.md), [0.16.0](references/checklists/0.16.0.md), [0.17.0](references/checklists/0.17.0.md), [0.18.0](references/checklists/0.18.0.md), [0.19.0](references/checklists/0.19.0.md), [0.20.0](references/checklists/0.20.0.md), [0.20.1](references/checklists/0.20.1.md), [0.21.0](references/checklists/0.21.0.md), [0.21.1](references/checklists/0.21.1.md), and [0.21.2](references/checklists/0.21.2.md). Compare versions by their numbers from the left. Check every bot's operating guide, profile facts, and routines, and the spec, against only the items in those checklists. A category that says none is not a change. When the installed version is not newer, say so in one line and stop. + - **One list.** Bring the person one numbered list, from the template below. One item per change that is not already in place. Name the bot or the spec, the current text, and the proposed text. Skip anything already true. Never overwrite an edit the person made. Where their text and the plugin's overlap, theirs wins, and that edit goes back to the plugin as a suggestion the way the Review part of Run the weekly bot review says, and no other way. A library skill with a Team Builder skill's name is a copy: offer to rename it, and do not edit it. Skip the rename offer when Plugin delivery says synced into the library by the plugin maintainer; there the copies are how every bot reads them. A Team Builder skill changes through the plugin. + - **Apply only the yes.** Ask before you change anything. The yes covers exactly the numbers they approve. For each approved change to a profile fact, a standing rule, or a routine, message that bot, and only that bot, what it changes. The bot saves that change because you sent it after the person's yes, and only that bot creates or changes its own routine, from the Routines section. A fact about a unit of work, or a preference a bot learns while doing the work, stays in that bot's own memory and does not go through this skill. You write the spec, and you save a changed operating guide or other library skill through Grok Bot's own way of saving a skill. Before you change a file, keep one dated backup of that file. After the save, delete anything else this run staged, including drafts and extra copies. Do not leave a second copy where a bot would run it. +3. **Verify.** Run [Verify work](../verify-work/SKILL.md) on the result and wait for it. Give it the approved list, the saved spec, the saved guides, and what each bot reported back. You do not grade your own check. + Does: Have a fresh checker grade the saved result against the approved list. + Pulls from: the approved list, the saved spec, and what each bot reported + Uses: none, Verify work starts the checker + Produces: a pass or fail for the check + Hands to: Record, and it waits for the checker + Needs your review: none, the checker grades this +4. **Record.** After the person has answered each item, set Plugin version applied to the installed version, then update the spec's version, date, and change log. Write any skipped item in the change log so it is not dropped. Do not record the version if they have not answered the list. Then rebuild the team map from the spec. + Does: Set Plugin version applied after every item has an answer, and update the change log. + Pulls from: the person's answers and the installed version + Uses: none, this writes the team spec + Produces: the updated spec and a rebuilt team map + Hands to: Hand off, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the yes already happened +5. **Hand off.** Tell the person what changed, what they skipped, and the version now recorded. Message each bot only what that bot still has to save. + Does: Tell the person what changed, what they skipped, and the version now recorded. + Pulls from: the saved spec and what each bot still has to save + Uses: none, messages go only to the bot that must save its own change + Produces: the closing note + Hands to: the person, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the list was already approved + +## What good looks like + +- The list came from the checklists since the applied version, or from the current templates when no version was recorded. +- Nothing changed that the person did not approve. +- Each bot was told only the profile fact, standing rule, or routine it saves after the yes. +- Shared text holds a rule for every bot running that item, and no fact about one unit. +- One dated backup remains for each changed file, and nothing else this run staged remains. +- Plugin version applied is the installed version. + +## Template + +```markdown +# Plugin update, to + +Nothing changes until you say yes to a number. + +1. **.** . Current: . Proposed: . From . +``` + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your role.** If missing: Ask only for what this task needs. Ask for the home time zone before you write any schedule, and write it in that zone. +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. + + +Also read Routines, and Plugin version applied on the Team Builder block. If Routines is missing, say so once and draft it from the live routines and the blank team spec. If Plugin version applied is missing or blank, compare the whole team with the current templates instead of the checklists. + +## Example + +The spec has no Plugin version applied, and the installed plugin is 0.15.0. + +> Your team spec has no plugin version yet, so I compared the whole team with the current templates. Nothing is changed until you say yes. +> +> 1. **Shared rules.** Owner operating guide. The shared rules are missing the line that a bot saves facts about its unit of work, and preferences it learns while doing the work, to its own memory without asking, and that a change to how it works goes through Team Builder with Inform Team Builder and is saved only when Team Builder sends it after a yes. Proposed: add that line, word for word. +> 2. **Team spec layout.** Routines. Account A has a live routine that the spec does not list. Proposed: copy its trigger and full prompt into Routines. The live routine stays as it is. +> +> Apply both, or one? diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.15.0.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.15.0.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d56a9a0b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.15.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +# 0.15.0 + +Changes an existing team needs from this release. Apply a plugin update checks only these items when Plugin version applied is older than 0.15.0 and the installed version is 0.15.0 or newer. A category that says none is not a change. + +## Shared rules + +Add this rule, word for word, to the shared rules in every bot type's operating guide: + +- I save facts about my unit of work, and preferences I learn while doing the work, to my own memory without asking. That does not go through Team Builder. I never decide a change to how I work: my skills, my operating guide, my routines, or a standing rule about how I do the job. When one of those should change, I tell Team Builder with Inform Team Builder. I save such a change only when Team Builder sends it after your yes. + +Team Builder's own guide ships this rule and keeps its own way of changing itself through the plugin. Do not edit a library copy of a Team Builder skill. Offer to rename that copy. Skip the rename offer when Plugin delivery says synced into the library by the plugin maintainer; there the copies are how every bot reads them. + +## Operating guide layout + +The five sections stay in this order: Job, Skills, Connectors, Rules, Handoffs. Add no section. + +Each bot type's Skills section names Inform Team Builder, for when that bot's own skill, operating guide, routine, or a standing rule about how it does the job should change. + +## Profile facts + +None. + +## Routine form + +None. A routine prompt stays one sentence: Read the operating guide and follow it, then run one named skill. Do not put steps in the prompt. + +## Team spec layout + +- On the Team Builder block, add `Plugin version applied`. Leave it blank until Apply a plugin update records the version it applied. +- Under Your team, add optional `Plugin maintainer`. Leave it empty until the person names who maintains this plugin for them. +- Under Your team, next to Plugin maintainer, add `Plugin delivery`. Write `installed`, or `synced into the library by the plugin maintainer`. Installed is the default. Synced means there is no plugin install, and the maintainer copies the stack skills into the person's library. Those copies are how every bot reads them. +- Add a Routines section. For each bot, one block per live routine, with the trigger and the full prompt text, copied from the live routine. Do not invent a routine, and do not change the live routine for this release. +- On Team Builder's Skills line, include `apply-a-plugin-update` and `inform-team-builder`. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.16.0.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.16.0.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b4e1d1f86 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.16.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +# 0.16.0 + +Changes an existing team needs from this release. Apply a plugin update checks only these items when Plugin version applied is older than 0.16.0 and the installed version is 0.16.0 or newer. A category that says none is not a change. + +## Shared rules + +None. + +## Operating guide layout + +None. + +## Profile facts + +None. + +## Routine form + +On each routine block, add Skill, the one skill that routine runs. Add Relayed by when another bot's routine triggers it. Otherwise write none and the reason, or leave the line out. Trigger stays the schedule. Prompt stays the full prompt. Do not put the schedule in a skill. + +## Team spec layout + +- Each handoff gains Waits: whether the sender waits, and for what, or no and why. A handoff may end at You or Every bot. +- Each bot block gains Connectors. Write the connectors that bot uses, or none and why. +- Each system of record may gain How to read: which tool to use and the known pitfalls, or no connector. +- Workflow skill step fields are not applied by this skill. Coach my bots fills Does, Pulls from, Uses, Produces, Hands to, and Needs your review on each workflow skill, then runs the check. A blank field is written none, with the reason. Do not guess a missing fact. +- Plugin version applied and Plugin maintainer stay as they are. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.17.0.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.17.0.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f4c28e946 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.17.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# 0.17.0 + +Changes an existing team needs from this release. Apply a plugin update checks only these items when Plugin version applied is older than 0.17.0 and the installed version is 0.17.0 or newer. A category that says none is not a change. + +## Shared rules + +None. + +## Operating guide layout + +Replace the owner bot and manager bot lines under Who tells whom, word for word, in each bot type's operating guide: + +- **Owner bot.** When a task finishes, or the person changes one in chat (parks, cancels, moves or rescopes it), I update the task and send the note to my manager bot with Inform manager bot. A block, a decision, a deadline at risk, or a change to today’s brief is sent so it acts on it now. I hand the next step to the bot that owns it, and ask a specialist bot about its topic, with Delegate work. +- **Manager bot.** I sort new requests with Triage work and send each to the bot that owns it with Delegate work. I tell you only what needs a decision, in the daily brief, and bring back work you sent out through me. When work is blocked, at risk, or overdue, I ask the bot that can unblock it with Delegate work, and I put anything only you can unblock in the brief, or tell you now when it can’t wait. When a note says a change makes today’s brief out of date, I correct those lines on today’s brief and send the person nothing. The task list stays the record. + +The five sections stay in this order: Job, Skills, Connectors, Rules, Handoffs. Add no section. + +If the manager bot's daily brief skill says today's brief is a full rewrite only, allow this one in-place correction: when a note says a change makes today's brief out of date, correct those lines and send the person nothing. The task list stays the record. + +## Profile facts + +None. + +## Routine form + +None. + +## Team spec layout + +Under Your team, next to Plugin maintainer, add `Plugin delivery` if it is not there yet. Write `installed`, or `synced into the library by the plugin maintainer`. Installed is the default. Synced means there is no plugin install, and the maintainer copies the stack skills into the person's library. Those copies are how every bot reads them. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.18.0.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.18.0.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6901ee902 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.18.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +# 0.18.0 + +Changes an existing team needs from this release. Apply a plugin update checks only these items when Plugin version applied is older than 0.18.0 and the installed version is 0.18.0 or newer. A category that says none is not a change. + +## Shared rules + +None. + +## Operating guide layout + +In each owner bot operating guide, in the Handoffs section, replace the Owner bot line, word for word, with the Owner bot line in every bot's operating guide reference: When a task finishes, or the person changes one in chat (parks, cancels, moves or rescopes it), I update the task and send the note to my manager bot with Inform manager bot. A block, a decision, a deadline at risk, or a change to today’s brief is sent so it acts on it now. I hand the next step to the bot that owns it, and ask a specialist bot about its topic, with Delegate work. Skip the line when it already says that. + +Team Builder gets its operating guide from the plugin. Do not edit a library copy of that guide. The plugin copy already says, under Keeping this guide current, that the scheduled run drafts the review pack and the decision list to a dated file, posts the summary and the Needs you items in the chat with the person, and does not wait for an answer. Memory reports wait until the person replies to the summary in the chat. Applying changes waits until the person says yes in the chat. + +## Profile facts + +None. Team Builder's profile file ships with the plugin, and its about line and three numbered profile facts don't change in this release. + +## Routine form + +None. + +## Team spec layout + +Add a Runs per week line after Trigger in each routine block. Count it from that routine's trigger, such as 5 for once each weekday, or about how many for an event trigger and where the number came from. Fill it in after the person's yes. Each routine run spends usage, so a routine that runs often spends more than one that runs rarely. A test run also spends usage. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.19.0.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.19.0.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f5face461 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.19.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +# 0.19.0 + +Changes an existing team needs from this release. Apply a plugin update checks only these items when Plugin version applied is older than 0.19.0 and the installed version is 0.19.0 or newer. A category that says none is not a change. Nothing here is applied without the person's yes. + +## Skills this release changes + +The plugin install brings these, so there is nothing to apply for them: Verify work, Explain how it works (its principles file and guide), Write a workflow skill, Clean up memory, Run the weekly bot review, Plan the work, Build a bot (its operating guide reference), Apply a plugin update, and Team Builder operating guide. Verify work adds When a fresh checker isn't needed, which says when a script check or a labeled self-review is allowed instead of a fresh checker. + +## Shared rules + +In the first shared rule of every bot type's operating guide, replace the second sentence, word for word. + +Current: Every check runs through Verify work, which starts a fresh checker or sends the check to the bot under Who verifies in the team spec. + +Proposed: Every check runs through Verify work, which starts a fresh checker, or uses a script or a labeled self-review where it allows one, or sends the check to the bot under Who verifies in the team spec. + +The rest of that rule stays as it is. Team Builder's own guide ships this sentence with the plugin. + +## Operating guide layout + +None. + +## Profile facts + +None. + +## Routine form + +None. + +## Team spec layout + +None. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.20.0.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.20.0.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..57a6d78ca --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.20.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +# 0.20.0 + +Changes an existing team needs from this release. Apply a plugin update checks only these items when Plugin version applied is older than 0.20.0 and the installed version is 0.20.0 or newer. A category that says none is not a change. Nothing here is applied without the person's yes. + +## Skills this release changes + +The plugin install brings these, so there is nothing to apply for them: Inform manager bot (and its template), Delegate work, Write a workflow skill (its workflow skill reference), Build a bot (steps 8 and 9 and its operating guide reference), Check my bots, Explain how it works (its principles file and guide), Apply a plugin update, and Team Builder operating guide. Inform manager bot adds a note for a check the manager bot asked a bot to run, such as reading what a meeting decided once it ends. That note is sent even when nothing changed and even on delegated work, and asks the manager bot to act now only when the result changes today's brief or leaves a block. Every place that lists when Inform manager bot runs now names that check too. A workflow skill already in the person's library picks up the matching Hand off line only when it is rewritten. + +## Shared rules + +None. + +## Operating guide layout + +In each owner bot operating guide, in the Handoffs section, replace the Owner bot line, word for word, with the Owner bot line in every bot's operating guide reference: When a task finishes, the person changes one in chat (parks, cancels, moves or rescopes it), or a check my manager bot asked for ends, I update the task list and send the note to my manager bot with Inform manager bot. A block, a decision, a deadline at risk, or a change to today’s brief is sent so it acts on it now. I hand the next step to the bot that owns it, and ask a specialist bot about its topic, with Delegate work. Skip the line when it already says that. Make this change only after the person's yes. + +The other lines under Who tells whom don't change. Team Builder gets its operating guide from the plugin, so there is nothing to apply for it. + +## Profile facts + +None. + +## Routine form + +None. + +## Team spec layout + +None. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.20.1.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.20.1.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5f565173a --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.20.1.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +# 0.20.1 + +Changes an existing team needs from this release. Apply a plugin update checks only these items when Plugin version applied is older than 0.20.1 and the installed version is 0.20.1 or newer. A category that says none is not a change. Nothing here is applied without the person's yes. + +## Skills this release changes + +The plugin install brings these, so there is nothing to apply for them: Build my team (its team map files), Apply a plugin update, and Team Builder operating guide. This release is a fix. Nothing in an existing team needs applying beyond the plugin update. + +## Shared rules + +None. + +## Operating guide layout + +None. + +## Profile facts + +None. + +## Routine form + +None. + +## Team spec layout + +None. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.21.0.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.21.0.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fbc53c84f --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.21.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +# 0.21.0 + +Changes an existing team needs from this release. Apply a plugin update checks only these items when Plugin version applied is older than 0.21.0 and the installed version is 0.21.0 or newer. A category that says none is not a change. Nothing here is applied without the person's yes. + +## Skills this release changes + +The plugin install brings these, so there is nothing to apply for them: Build my team (step 9, step 11, its blank team spec, and its team map files), Check my bots (step 9), Build a bot (step 13), Retire a bot (step 7), Set up Team Builder (step 8), Apply a plugin update, and Team Builder operating guide. The team map now draws each bot with its own shape and color, and shows a picture for a bot when the person gives one. Each of those steps that saves a changed spec after the person's yes records each bot's look on its empty Shape and Color lines first, so a later rebuild moves no look. + +## Shared rules + +None. + +## Operating guide layout + +None. + +## Profile facts + +None. + +## Routine form + +None. + +## Team spec layout + +The new lines are optional and additive. A spec without them still builds, and the map picks each bot's shape and color from its id. After the person's yes, in the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md`, under Your team, add these three lines after Connectors in each bot block, and fill in only what the person gives: + +- `Shape:` circle, square, hexagon, capsule, leaf, or drop, or empty. +- `Color:` a six-digit hex color, or empty. +- `Picture:` the path to a picture of that bot on the computer the bots share, or empty. + +Skip a block that already has them, and leave a block's lines out when the person says no. Then, after the same yes, record the looks the map shows today: run the look step in [Record the looks](../../../build-my-team/references/team-map/README.md#record-the-looks) on the spec, with no current spec. It fills each empty Shape and Color line with the bot's current look and keeps every look the person set. Then rebuild the team map. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.21.1.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.21.1.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..367c37e4f --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.21.1.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +# 0.21.1 + +Changes an existing team needs from this release. Apply a plugin update checks only these items when Plugin version applied is older than 0.21.1 and the installed version is 0.21.1 or newer. A category that says none is not a change. Nothing here is applied without the person's yes. + +## Skills this release changes + +The plugin install brings these, so there is nothing to apply for them: Build my team (its team map files), Apply a plugin update, and Team Builder operating guide. This release is a fix. A bot with a Color off the map's palette and an empty Shape gets a shape instead of stopping the map build, and keeps its Color. Nothing in an existing team needs applying beyond the plugin update. If an earlier build or look recording stopped on such a bot, run it again after the update. + +## Shared rules + +None. + +## Operating guide layout + +None. + +## Profile facts + +None. + +## Routine form + +None. + +## Team spec layout + +None. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.21.2.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.21.2.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9b8ae6680 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/apply-a-plugin-update/references/checklists/0.21.2.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +# 0.21.2 + +Changes an existing team needs from this release. Apply a plugin update checks only these items when Plugin version applied is older than 0.21.2 and the installed version is 0.21.2 or newer. A category that says none is not a change. Nothing here is applied without the person's yes. + +## Skills this release changes + +The plugin install brings these, so there is nothing to apply for them: Apply a plugin update and Team Builder operating guide. This release is a wording change. The README's About me section uses the company's new name, SpaceX Super Intelligence. Nothing in an existing team needs applying beyond the plugin update. + +## Shared rules + +None. + +## Operating guide layout + +None. + +## Profile facts + +None. + +## Routine form + +None. + +## Team spec layout + +None. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/build-a-bot/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-a-bot/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9e9186b3f --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-a-bot/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ +--- +name: build-a-bot +description: "Use when the person needs one more owner, specialist, or manager bot; creates it from that type's guide." +--- + +# Build a bot + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +One more bot. Set the person up, then improve the bots from their feedback with Coach my bots; there's no waiting period first. You change only another bot's name and description. Each bot sets its own routines, memory, and plugins, and you never delete a bot. + +## Steps + +1. Read the team spec and the [principles file](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md) in full. List the person's bot blueprints and bots from Your team. + Does: Read the spec and principles, and list the blueprints and bots. + Pulls from: the team spec and the principles file + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the list of blueprints and bots + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, nothing is decided yet +2. Ask which bot they need, as a short multiple-choice question, unless they've said: + Does: Ask which bot they need, unless they already said. + Pulls from: the person's answer + Uses: none, this step only asks + Produces: the kind of bot to build + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the choice + Needs your review: which bot to build + - **The next unit of a kind they have,** such as the next account. It's built from that blueprint's bot template. + - **The first bot of a kind,** such as their first bot, or a project when their bots own accounts. + - **A specialist bot** for a topic every bot needs deep know-how in. + - **A manager bot** for one place to send requests and one daily brief to read. It's usually the person's primary bot, which most people already have. + + If a bot already owns that unit or topic, say so and improve it with Coach my bots rather than add a second. +3. **Same kind, same guide.** Every bot of one type follows the same operating guide and has the same skills. Only the unit it owns differs, and that comes from the team spec. No fact about one unit goes in a shared skill or guide. + Does: Use the same operating guide and skills for every bot of one type. + Pulls from: the team spec + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the rule that only the unit differs + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this is a rule, not a decision +4. Name the unit and use the test in [Context isolation and traceability](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#context-isolation-and-traceability). If it fails, it's a skill on a bot they have: use Write a workflow skill. A queue item grown into a unit, such as a deal likely to run a month or more, passes. Look the unit up in each system the bot reads, read only, and confirm its ID. Confidential work, such as contracts or people matters, runs on the person's own bot, never a shared team bot. + Does: Name the unit, test it, and look it up read only in each system the bot reads. + Pulls from: each system the bot reads + Uses: the connectors for those systems, read only + Produces: the unit's ID, or a decision that it is a skill instead + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait once the ID is confirmed + Needs your review: the unit's ID, after the lookup confirms it +5. Build it in three moves. Show each one and ask first. After each save, Verify work reads the saved version back against what was agreed before you say it's done. When the manager bot is the person's existing primary bot, don't create a bot. Set its about line after a yes (Team Builder may change another bot's name and description), then do moves 2 and 3 as for a new bot. + Does: Build the bot in three moves, showing each one and asking first. + Pulls from: the operating guide and the team spec + Uses: none, the three moves name their own tools + Produces: the bot, after each save is read back + Hands to: the three moves, and it waits for a yes before each one + Needs your review: each move, before it is saved + 1. **Create the bot** with its name and its about line, following [every bot's operating guide](references/operating-guide.md). + Does: Create the bot with its name and about line, or write the operating guide if this type has none. + Pulls from: every bot's operating guide + Uses: none, creating the bot is not a data connector + Produces: the bot, its about line, and the guide's name and path + Hands to: Save its skills, and it waits for a yes before the create + Needs your review: the name and about line, before the bot is created + - An owner bot is named by its unit's name only, such as Account A. + - The about line is one first-person sentence under 120 characters, such as 'I run Account A's renewals and day-to-day work.' Set it as the bot's description. Never put the bot's rules in the description: the bot may not see it. + - If this bot type has no operating guide yet, write one with the person from that file. Then save it as a standard skill through Grok Bot's own way of saving a skill, as Write a workflow skill does, and have Verify work read the saved version back. + - Note the guide's skill name and its path. The team spec's Operating guide field holds the name, and the setup gives the bot both, for profile fact 3. + 2. **Save its skills** to the shared library yourself, through Grok Bot's own way of saving a skill: its workflow skills, with Write a workflow skill when new, and any standard skill, each named as [Naming a skill](../write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md#naming-a-skill) says. Fill every step field and every spec field you add. A field is never blank. Write none and the reason. Run the check in [build_team_map.py](../build-my-team/references/team-map/build_team_map.py) with `--check` on the draft before you save. If it lists a missing fact, ask the person. Do not guess. Every bot's skills include [Clean up memory](../clean-up-memory/SKILL.md) from the installed plugin. Never write skill files, never let a helper save one, keep no copy in a working folder, and never save a Team Builder skill. A skill change reaches every bot that uses it, so say so. + Does: Save the workflow and standard skills, and run the check before the save. + Pulls from: the draft skill and the team spec + Uses: none, the check reads files + Produces: the saved skills, after the check passes + Hands to: Message the new bot, and it waits if the check lists a missing fact + Needs your review: any missing fact the check lists + 3. **Message the new bot** its setup directly: its unit and ID. Ask it to save the three profile facts from [every bot's operating guide](references/operating-guide.md), filled in, with UpdateMemory and `tier: "profile"`. Tell it to Read its operating guide at the path you noted now and follow it, because profile facts show up only after its next conversation summary. The three profile facts include the guide's skill name and that path. Pick the widest schedule that still meets the deadline, and prefer an event trigger, or [a check-back that deletes itself](../write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md#waiting-on-something), to a schedule that keeps looking. Write each routine in the spec's Routines section first, with its trigger, its runs per week, and the full prompt text. Routines are saved only from that section. Then ask it to create those routines from that text. Never give a bot a skill or setup that creates routines on its own first run: the person hasn't seen them, and each one spends usage until someone notices. The bot saves those profile facts and routines because you sent them after the yes. A fact about the unit, or a preference the bot learns while doing the work, it saves to its own memory without asking, and that does not go through Inform Team Builder. A routine prompt reads that bot's operating guide and then runs one named skill. It carries no other steps. A bot made from a template gets the same setup message, because a template doesn't copy memory. With a manager bot, an owner bot keeps no routine of its own unless the person asks for one. The manager bot's morning kickoff writes its ask to a dated file and names it as the reader, as step 8 says. Routines prepare, draft, and report first. Leave sending, buying, deleting, and publishing for the person's approval. Until there's a manager bot, the first owner bot keeps one routine for its main workflow. The bot that runs a routine creates it in its own chat, paused, in the home time zone from Your role, with one Test run, since a test spends usage too. Where the routine doesn't show Test, check its first scheduled run instead. The person turns it on. + Does: Message the new bot its unit, profile facts, and routines from the spec. + Pulls from: the team spec's Routines section and the operating guide + Uses: none, the message goes to the bot + Produces: the setup message, and the routines written in the spec first + Hands to: the bot, and it waits for the person to turn a routine on + Needs your review: turning the routine on +6. Its skills call Verify work, Delegate work, Triage work, Plan the work, Inform manager bot, Inform Team Builder, or Run review panel. Check once that the person has the Team Builder Stack installed; plugins install for the person, not for each bot. If it isn't installed, the person adds it from Marketplace. + Does: Check that the Team Builder Stack is installed for the person. + Pulls from: the person's installed plugins + Uses: none, plugins are checked in Marketplace + Produces: installed, or a note that the person adds it + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the person adds a missing plugin themselves +7. **A specialist bot:** first decide whether the topic needs a bot. A fixed reference, such as a compliance guideline, is a standard skill, as [the workflow skill template](../write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md#standard-utility-or-workflow-specific) says. A specialist bot is for a topic that needs judgment and memory over time. It answers other bots with sources and owns none of their work. + Does: Decide whether the topic is a standard skill or a specialist bot. + Pulls from: the workflow skill template + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: a specialist bot, or a standard skill instead + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the test in the template decides +8. **A manager bot:** read a few real records first. It is most likely the person's primary bot; if it isn't, say so and ask. + Does: Read a few real records, and say so if this is not the person's primary bot. + Pulls from: a few real records the manager bot will read + Uses: the connectors for those records, read only + Produces: the manager bot's shape, including its morning kickoff + Hands to: the next step, and it waits if you ask whether it should be the primary bot + Needs your review: whether it is the primary bot, when it is not + - It runs one morning kickoff, a thin routine in the home time zone, written in Routines first with its trigger, its runs per week, and the full prompt. The routine names one skill. That skill writes each owner bot's ask to a dated file first, and names the owner bot that reads it. If the routine also names a message hand-off to an owner bot, check its first runs with Test where the routine shows Test; otherwise check the first scheduled run, and say which hand-off is tested. If the message doesn't arrive, the person confirms the ask in the manager bot's chat. A routine an owner bot kept before there was a manager bot moves into the kickoff, listed in one plain line each, so owner bots keep no routines of their own unless the person asks for one. + - It takes requests, sorts them with Triage work, sends each to the bot that owns it, and doesn't do their work. + - It follows up on work that's blocked, at risk, or overdue. It asks the bot that can unblock it with Delegate work, and puts anything only the person can unblock in the brief, or tells them now when it can't wait. + - Owner bots tell it when a task finishes, is blocked, or the person changes it in that bot's chat, and when a check it asked for ends, with Inform manager bot. It doesn't reply to the person about those notes, and reports back only on work the person sent out through it. + - Its daily brief skill reads the task list and each unit's record first, not the notes, and asks the other bots only for what those don't hold. It lists every task closed without the person's word, and only what needs a decision. When a note says a change makes today's brief out of date, it corrects those lines in place and sends the person nothing. The task list stays the record. + - It can list what's waiting, but each yes happens in the acting bot's chat. +9. Handoffs are direct messages with Delegate work. Who replies follows how the ask came in: work the manager bot delegated goes back to the manager bot, and a direct ask is answered in that chat. Every owner bot also tells the manager bot when a task finishes, is blocked, or the person changes it in that bot's chat, and when a check the manager bot asked for ends, with Inform manager bot. + Does: Send handoffs as direct messages with Delegate work. + Pulls from: the team spec's handoffs + Uses: none, Delegate work sends the message + Produces: the handoff route + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this is a routing rule and it does not pause +10. Check the boundary. Ask the new bot what it knows about another bot's unit. The right answer is nothing. Then run it once by hand in its own chat, review, and fix. + Does: Ask the new bot what it knows about another unit, then run it once by hand and fix it. + Pulls from: the new bot's answer and the hand run + Uses: none, this is a question to the bot + Produces: a fix, or a clean hand run + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the hand-run review + Needs your review: the hand run, and each fix +11. **Save the blueprint first.** The first bot of a kind is the model bot. Before the second unit's bot, ask it to export itself as the bot template, or guide the person to do it; no bot exports another bot's template. Build every next bot of that kind from that template. + Does: Have the model bot export itself as the bot template before the second unit. + Pulls from: the model bot + Uses: none, the bot exports its own template + Produces: the bot template link + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the export + Needs your review: the export, if you have to guide the person to do it +12. **When a bot type changes,** change its operating guide once: every bot of that type reads it at the start of every task. + Does: Change the operating guide once, and send a changed profile fact to each bot of that type. + Pulls from: the operating guide + Uses: none, each bot saves its own fact + Produces: the updated guide, and one message per bot + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for a yes before the save + Needs your review: the guide change, before it is saved + - Show the change, save it after a yes, and have Verify work read it back. + - A change to a profile fact still goes to each bot of that type, listed in one plain line per bot. Each bot saves its own facts, so message each one the new fact. It shows up after that bot's next summary. +13. Update Your team after a yes: the blueprint, its model bot and bot template link, the skills it runs, and its handoffs. Make the change in a copy of the spec, record each bot's look in the copy with the saved spec as the one it replaces, as [Record the looks](../build-my-team/references/team-map/README.md#record-the-looks) says, and save the copy over the spec. Then rebuild the team map. + Does: Update Your team after a yes, record each bot's look, then rebuild the map. + Pulls from: the team spec + Uses: none, the map is built from the spec + Produces: the updated spec with each bot's Shape and Color recorded, and the map + Hands to: the person, and it waits for the yes + Needs your review: the blueprint, template link, skills, handoffs, and the looks recorded + +**Reply.** The new bot, what it owns, what came from the template and what didn't, who messages it, and when it runs next. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your role.** If missing: Ask only for what this task needs. Ask for the home time zone before you write any schedule, and write it in that zone. +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Your workflows.** If missing: Check the person’s skill library for what is already saved, and ask where each template lives today. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. +- **Records and logs.** If missing: Return the draft in the chat, and ask where it should live before you write it anywhere. + + +## Example + +The person writes: "Account A is set up. Do Account B next." + +> Account A exported itself as the account bot template last week. I found Account B in the CRM (ID linked) and in your notes. +> +> Here's the plan. You add the account bot template from its link. I change the copy's name to Account B and its about line, add Account B to your team spec, and message it its setup with its three profile facts. Everything else stays the same as Account A's. Your manager bot's morning kickoff writes Account B's ask to its dated file each morning, the same way as Account A's, so Account B needs no routine of its own. It starts with no memory of Account A. Shall I start? diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/build-a-bot/references/operating-guide.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-a-bot/references/operating-guide.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..60821a5c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-a-bot/references/operating-guide.md @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +# Operating guides + +Every bot the person has gets three things that hold its rules. This file says what goes in each. + +## Where a bot’s rules live + +| Place | What goes there | Who reads it | +| --- | --- | --- | +| Description | One first-person line under 120 characters: what the bot does. No rules. | The person, and other bots, which see its first 120 characters. The bot itself may not see it. | +| Operating guide | One standard skill for each bot type, in the person’s skill library: Job, Skills, Connectors, Rules, Handoffs. Each bot of the type finds its own values in the team spec. | The bot, which Reads it at its path at the start of every task. Workers get the path in their brief. | +| Profile facts | Three short facts the bot saves to its own memory, each under 500 characters: its role and manager bot, one or two rules that must hold every turn, and the path of its operating guide. | The bot, on every turn, once the conversation has been summarized after they’re saved. Workers on the shared computer don’t get them. | + +Bots of one type share one guide, so a change for every bot of a type is one edit. A rule only one bot needs goes in that bot’s entry in the team spec, which the guide tells it to read. + +## About line + +One sentence, in the first person, under 120 characters, that says what the bot does in the person’s words. Set it as the bot’s description. + +```text +I run ’s , day to day. +I handle for every on the team. +I keep ’s team on track and tell them what needs them. +``` + +## Guide skill + +Name: ` operating guide`, such as `Owner bot operating guide`. When the team has two kinds of owner bot, one guide per kind. Save it to the person’s skill library, after a yes, and note its skill name in the team spec under each bot of the type, as `- Operating guide:`. The setup also notes that name and the guide’s path, because a library skill can drop out of the skill list. + +```markdown +--- +name: -operating-guide +description: "Follow whenever you are a bot of this team and start any task; your job, skills, connectors, rules, and handoffs." +--- + +# operating guide + +**Type:** standard skill. + +Read this guide at the start of every task, and again after the conversation is summarized. Then read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` and find your kind of bot under Your team; your unit and manager bot are in your profile facts. Read your unit's record and the task list under Records and logs, and Who verifies under Your team. + +## Job + + + +## Skills + + + +## Connectors + + + +## Rules + + + + + +## Handoffs + + +``` + +## Shared rules + +Every guide includes these, word for word: + +- Never check your own work; this holds for every bot. Every check runs through Verify work, which starts a fresh checker, or uses a script or a labeled self-review where it allows one, or sends the check to the bot under Who verifies in the team spec. If Who verifies says none, I write nothing and tell my manager bot, or you if there’s none, that the check couldn’t run. +- If work ran in a subagent, the subagent returns its results and stops, and I start the check from my own turn. A subagent never tries to start it. +- Check first: look up every question of fact in your sources and answer it with its source. Ask me only for a preference, and never offer to go ahead on a fact you could check. When a fact belongs to another bot, send the question, finish the turn with the work minus that item, and fill it in when the answer arrives. +- If a data source the work needs is down, stop and ask me to help get it back up before going on. In a scheduled run with nobody around, go on with what you have, and say what was missing in its report. +- Marking a task done in the task list needs no yes. If you tell me a task is done, I mark it done. If a run finds a task finished, I mark it done and note that it closed without you, so your next brief lists it. +- When a skill step was wrong, unclear, or missing, or worked especially well, add one note to today’s skill notes file under your bot’s name, with no unit’s facts. +- Every bot’s skills include Clean up memory. +- I save facts about my unit of work, and preferences I learn while doing the work, to my own memory without asking. That does not go through Team Builder. I never decide a change to how I work: my skills, my operating guide, my routines, or a standing rule about how I do the job. When one of those should change, I tell Team Builder with Inform Team Builder. I save such a change only when Team Builder sends it after your yes. + +## Who tells whom + +Each guide’s Handoffs section carries the line for its type: + +- **Owner bot.** When a task finishes, the person changes one in chat (parks, cancels, moves or rescopes it), or a check my manager bot asked for ends, I update the task list and send the note to my manager bot with Inform manager bot. A block, a decision, a deadline at risk, or a change to today’s brief is sent so it acts on it now. I hand the next step to the bot that owns it, and ask a specialist bot about its topic, with Delegate work. +- **Specialist bot.** I answer the bot that asked, with sources. That bot tells the manager bot. +- **Manager bot.** I sort new requests with Triage work and send each to the bot that owns it with Delegate work. I tell you only what needs a decision, in the daily brief, and bring back work you sent out through me. When work is blocked, at risk, or overdue, I ask the bot that can unblock it with Delegate work, and I put anything only you can unblock in the brief, or tell you now when it can’t wait. When a note says a change makes today’s brief out of date, I correct those lines on today’s brief and send the person nothing. The task list stays the record. +- **Team Builder.** I work in your chat. I message a new bot only its setup, and I don’t send informs: changes to your team show in the team spec and the team map. + +## Profile facts + +Each bot saves these three to its own memory, as profile facts, in its own chat. Each stays under 500 characters. + +1. I’m , the bot for . My manager bot is , or none. +2. I never check my own work, and every yes happens in my own chat with you. +3. Before any task, I Read my operating guide skill, , at and follow it. Workers I start get that path in their brief. + +Profile facts reach the bot’s prompt after its conversation is next summarized, so the setup also tells it to Read the guide right away. + +## Setup message + +Build a bot sends this to the new bot, after the person’s yes: + +> You’re , the bot for . Save these three profile facts to your memory: . Then Read your operating guide skill, , at now and follow it. Then create these routines in your own chat: . Tell me when it’s done. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..97f16c116 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +--- +name: build-my-team +description: "Use when the person wants a team built or has no team spec; writes the spec, the map, and the first bot." +--- + +# Build my team + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +Builds the team for the person in this chat, in their own account, starting with one bot for one unit of work, or checks their setup if they already have bots. The person in this chat is the one you build for; never ask who the team is for. Work in your own chat with them, so they can answer approval requests. The steps say what to learn, not a script: follow their lead, use their words for their work, and skip what they've already told you. + +## Steps + +1. Read the team spec and the [principles file](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md) in full. Look in the person's skill library for a skill with the same name as a Team Builder skill. It takes the installed plugin skill's place, so bots run it instead, and it may be the person's own skill, so never offer to remove it: summarize each in one plain line, and offer to rename it, after a yes. + Does: Read the spec and principles, and list library skills that share a Team Builder name. + Pulls from: the team spec and the principles file + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: a one-line summary of each copied skill + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: the rename, after a yes +2. **Someone with bots already, the faster path:** run Check my bots first. It reads their current setup, learns how they really use their bots, and builds or refreshes the team map. From their bots, skills, routines, and chats, work out what they're working on, and propose a team tailored to it, following the principles, on the map as in step 9. Ask only to confirm it or fill gaps, with the purpose questions in step 3 tailored to what you found. No generic interview. + Does: Run Check my bots and propose a team from the setup it finds. + Pulls from: the person's bots, skills, routines, and chats + Uses: none, Check my bots does the lookups + Produces: a proposed team on the map + Hands to: the person, and it waits for them to confirm or fill gaps + Needs your review: confirm the proposal, or fill the gaps +3. **Your role and purpose.** Ask their role, and the business outcomes they drive and how each is measured, in their words: "As a CSM, I drive renewals, adoption, and expansion." Ask the three purpose questions: what they need to know, what it's for, and how it should reach them. Ask their home time zone. Every routine schedule is written in it, wherever they are when it's made. + Does: Ask role, outcomes, purpose, and home time zone. + Pulls from: the person's answers + Uses: none, this step only asks + Produces: the Your role answers + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the answers + Needs your review: role, outcomes, purpose, and home time zone +4. **Their units.** Ask what they manage to get there: the things that carry their own history, such as accounts or projects, and how many. Size the unit to the person's scope of work. A handful of strategic accounts each get a bot. 150 renewals are one renewal book one owner bot owns. Use the test in [Context isolation and traceability](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#context-isolation-and-traceability). Ask "many things or one": items in a queue, such as tickets, candidates, or leads, don't get bots. One owner bot owns the queue, and the spec gets one entry for it. When a unit is short-lived, say what you'd recommend and why, and ask. + Does: Ask what they manage, how many, and whether each item is a unit or a queue. + Pulls from: the person's answers and the principles file + Uses: none, this step only asks + Produces: the unit of work and how many they carry + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the answers + Needs your review: the unit of work, and any short-lived case +5. **Their workflows.** Ask which workflows they repeat for each unit, by their real names, five at most. Pick one with them, usually the one they run most often. Offer Coach my bots to find more from their recent chats. + Does: Ask which workflows they repeat, and pick one to write first. + Pulls from: the person's answers + Uses: none, this step only asks + Produces: the first workflow to write + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the choice + Needs your review: which workflow to write first +6. **The workflow skill.** Write it with Write a workflow skill. It interviews from the last real run, and reads it all back before it writes. + Does: Write the chosen workflow with Write a workflow skill. + Pulls from: the last real run, through that skill + Uses: none, Write a workflow skill tries the connectors + Produces: the skill, read back before it is written + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for that read-back + Needs your review: the read-back, before the skill is written +7. **Systems of record.** For each system the workflow reads: its connector, what it holds, the unique ID that finds one unit, and what it's the system of record for. Try each connector once, read only, on a real record. The person adds a missing connector from Marketplace and signs in themselves. Don't record how far back to read: each workflow skill's load step says that. + Does: Record each system's connector, what it holds, its unique ID, and what it settles. + Pulls from: one real record in each system + Uses: each system's connector, one read-only lookup + Produces: the Systems of record blocks + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, a missing connector is added by the person in Marketplace +8. **Records and logs.** Ask where each unit's record, drafts, and log go, and where reports across units go. Ask where tasks are tracked and marked done: the task list. Ask whether finished pieces should be filed in one place, and where; it's optional. Recommend what each log records, and for sensitive work what to leave out, such as keeping to IDs and links. Agree it with them. Ask who verifies when a bot can't start a fresh checker: a specialist or manager bot, or none, so the bot writes nothing and tells the manager bot, or them. + Does: Ask where records, drafts, logs, tasks, and finished work go, and who verifies. + Pulls from: the person's answers + Uses: none, this step only asks + Produces: the Records and logs lines, agreed with them + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the agreement + Needs your review: where each record goes, and who verifies +9. **The proposed team.** When the person's primary bot already takes their requests across their work, include it in the proposal as the manager bot, keeping its name. Most people already have one. Fill in the [blank team spec](references/team-spec-template.md) from what you learned, holding only what Grok Bot doesn't already keep. Copy each live routine into Routines, with its trigger and full prompt, and leave Plugin version applied blank until Apply a plugin update records it. Build the team map from it with the [team map template](references/team-map/README.md), [build_team_map.py](references/team-map/build_team_map.py), [team-map.canvas.tsx](references/team-map/team-map.canvas.tsx), and [team-map-document.md](references/team-map/team-map-document.md), marked as a proposal: a canvas when canvases are available on the account, or the Markdown document when they aren't. The map draws each bot with its own shape and color by default; tell the person that, and that they can give pictures for their bots to fill in the map if they want. Save each picture they give on the computer the bots share, and write its path on that bot's Picture line. Show the map, summarize every bot, skill, and operating guide it will create in one plain line each, and ask before anything is built; the yes covers exactly what's listed. Then record each bot's look in the spec, as [Record the looks](references/team-map/README.md#record-the-looks) says, so each empty Shape and Color line holds the look the map showed and a look the person set stays as it is. Save the spec, with the version, date, and change log updated. Every later change goes into the spec first. + Does: Fill the blank team spec, copy live routines, show the map as a proposal, and after the yes record each bot's look and save the spec. + Pulls from: what you learned, the live routines, the blank team spec, and any pictures the person gives for their bots + Uses: none, the map is built from files + Produces: the proposed spec and map, then the saved spec with each bot's Shape and Color recorded + Hands to: the person, and it waits for a yes before anything is built + Needs your review: the proposal, before anything is built or the spec and its looks are saved +10. **The first bot.** Build it with Build a bot. Its type's operating guide holds the rules about what waits for a yes. For a rule that must never be broken, tell the person to add it to their Auto Review rules in Grok Bot settings too; only they can set those. Run it once by hand together, and write each fix into the skill, its template, or its type's operating guide. + Does: Build the first bot with Build a bot, run it once by hand, and write each fix into the skill or guide. + Pulls from: the saved spec and that bot's operating guide + Uses: none, Build a bot does the setup + Produces: the first bot, after one hand run + Hands to: the next step, and it waits while you review the hand run + Needs your review: the hand run, and each fix +11. **The team map.** Rebuild the map from the saved spec with the [team map template](references/team-map/README.md), and save its canvas id or document link under Records and logs. Rebuild it after each change, while the person is in your chat. Don't post its link in a group chat unless everyone there may see it. + Does: Rebuild the map from the saved spec and record its canvas id or document link. + Pulls from: the saved team spec, and the bot pictures its Picture lines name + Uses: none, the map is built from files + Produces: the rebuilt map, and its id or link under Records and logs + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the spec was already saved +12. Confirm the weekly bot review. Set up Team Builder offers it and turns on [Weekly review prep](../set-up-team-builder/references/team-builder/routines/weekly-review-prep.md), the one routine. Its schedule lives in that routine file, in the home time zone from Your role. Do not copy the time into this skill. If the slot is missing from Your role, offer the [weekly bot review](../set-up-team-builder/references/weekly-bot-review.md) and save the day, time, and length after a yes. Do not add a second routine here. Check my bots stays available on request. + Does: Confirm the weekly bot review and turn on Weekly review prep from its routine file. + Pulls from: Your role, and the weekly bot review reference if the slot is missing + Uses: none, the routine file holds the schedule + Produces: the Weekly bot review line, and Weekly review prep under Routines + Hands to: the person, and it waits if the slot is missing + Needs your review: the day, time, and length, after a yes, when the slot is missing + +**Reply.** What exists now, when the weekly bot review is, what waits for the person's yes, whether Weekly review prep is on, and the next step: the first bot exports itself as the bot template for its kind of unit, Build a bot builds the next units' bots from it, and the person improves them from their feedback with Coach my bots. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your role.** If missing: Ask only for what this task needs. Ask for the home time zone before you write any schedule, and write it in that zone. +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Your workflows.** If missing: Check the person’s skill library for what is already saved, and ask where each template lives today. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. +- **Records and logs.** If missing: Return the draft in the chat, and ask where it should live before you write it anywhere. + + +## Example + +The person writes: "Help me build my first bot. As a CSM, I drive renewals, adoption, and expansion. I manage twelve accounts, and for each one I run account research, account planning, stakeholder mapping, stakeholder outreach, and QBR planning." + +A good reply after step 5: + +> Each account carries its own history, so each one will get its own bot, all built from one account bot blueprint. Let's start with Account research, since you run it every day. +> +> Next I'll walk through the last time you ran it, step by step: which apps each step uses, which template it follows and where that lives today, and which steps you want to review before the bot carries on. What time zone are you based in? Every routine runs on that clock. +> +> **Why.** Each account gets its own bot, so what it learns stays with that account. The steps you review are where the skill pauses for your yes. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/README.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..82ca95ae4 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +# The team map template + +The team map is how the team spec is shown. This folder is the only place its layout lives: skills point here and never restate it. + +- `team-map.canvas.tsx` is the map as a Grok Bot canvas, the default view: one self-contained React module that imports only from the canvas SDK. Its data block is the only part that changes from one person to the next. Its layout has three levels: the team, one bot or bot blueprint, and one skill with its steps. +- `team-map-document.md` is the same map as a Markdown document, for accounts where canvases aren't available. +- `build_team_map.py` reads the team spec and the skills it names, checks that they hold together, and writes the data into both. It needs only Python 3. + +The map draws each bot with its own shape and color by default. If you want, you can give pictures for your bots to fill in the map. + +## Build the map + +Run it on the computer the person's bots share, with the team spec and a folder holding the person's library skills, one file each: + +```bash +python3 build_team_map.py --spec /workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md --skills \ + --canvas /workspace/team-builder-stack/team-map.canvas.tsx --document /workspace/team-builder-stack/team-map.md +``` + +Add `--pictures ` when the person has given pictures for their bots, as [How each bot looks](#how-each-bot-looks) says. + +Then write the canvas from the generated module, by its canvas id under Records and logs, or the document when canvases aren't available. It stops with a plain message when the spec doesn't hold together, such as a workflow that runs on a bot the spec doesn't list, a handoff to an unknown bot, or a template recorded as content instead of a location. It warns about what can wait, such as a skill the spec names that isn't in the library yet. The map reads the labeled fields only. A fact it cannot find is marked inferred. It is not filled in. + +Check the draft before saving it: + +```bash +python3 build_team_map.py --check --spec /workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md --skills +``` + +`--check` writes nothing. It exits non-zero and prints a plain list of what is missing, per bot and skill. + +If the script can't run, fill the canvas's data block by hand from the spec, following the types at the top of the module, and fill the document's slots the same way. Change nothing outside the data block and the slots. + +## How each bot looks + +Each bot on the map is a colored shape with its initials, drawn with plain CSS, so the map ships no image files. + +- **Shape and Color.** A bot block under Your team may set `Shape:` to circle, square, hexagon, capsule, leaf, or drop, and `Color:` to a six-digit hex color, such as `#2563eb`. A value set there wins. A Color off the palette is kept as it is, and when that bot's Shape is empty, it still gets a shape from its id, as Defaults says. +- **Defaults.** When either is empty, the script picks it from the bot's id, which is its name in lowercase with hyphens, such as `account-bot`. Colors come from a calm palette of blues, teals, violets, and greens, with no red, amber, or gray. The 48 shape and color pairs sit on a ring where each pair differs from the next in both shape and color, and a hash of the id sets where the bot starts on it. Bots with explicit pairs are placed first. The rest are taken by where they start on the ring, then by id, never by their order in the spec, and each takes the first pair from its start that no other bot has. So the same bots always draw the same map in any order, a bot whose start is free moves no one, and no two bots share both while there are 48 bots or fewer. +- **On a proposed change.** Each bot already on the current map whose Shape and Color lines don't change keeps its current look, so it looks the same in the proposed and the current view. A bot the proposal removes keeps its look, and new bots take pairs no bot on either map holds, so a removed bot shares a look with no remaining bot while a free pair is left. To keep each bot's look fixed for good, the skills that save a changed spec record it on its Shape and Color lines, as Record the looks says. +- **A value the map can't use.** A Shape that isn't on the list, or a Color that isn't a six-digit hex color, is listed by `--check`. When the map is built anyway, the script warns, names the bot, and uses the default for that field. +- **Pictures.** To show a picture instead of the shape, set `Picture:` to the file's path, absolute or relative to the spec's folder, or pass `--pictures ` with one file per bot named by its id, such as `account-bot.png`. A Picture line comes first, then the folder. The script reads each picture when it builds the map, and never copies the file anywhere else. It accepts PNG, JPEG, GIF, and WebP. It shrinks a PNG to at most 96 pixels a side, smaller if needed, writes it again with only its pixels, and embeds it in the map data as a data URI of at most 24 KB. It can't shrink a JPEG, GIF, or WebP, or a PNG it can't open, such as a 16-bit or interlaced one, with the Python standard library, so it embeds one of those only when it is already under 24 KB. Before it does, it drops a JPEG's EXIF, XMP, comment, and other application segments, keeping only the JFIF and Adobe segments a decoder reads, and drops a PNG's text, EXIF, and time chunks. A GIF or WebP is embedded as it is, with any metadata it carries, so remove that first if it matters. A picture that is missing, unreadable, or still over the cap gets a warning, and the map shows that bot's shape and color. The canvas does the same for any picture it can't show. + +## Show a proposal + +The map shows a change before the person says yes: + +- **A new team:** add `--proposal ""`. The map shows the proposed team, marked as a proposal. +- **A change to a team:** write the proposed spec to a separate file, and add `--current `. The map marks each bot, skill, step, handoff, system, and routine as added, changed, or removed, and the canvas switches between the proposed and the current team. Add `--current-skills` when the proposal changes skills too. + +After the yes, record each bot's look in the proposed spec, as [Record the looks](#record-the-looks) says, with `--current ` when the proposal changes a team. Then write the proposed spec over the current one and rebuild the map without `--proposal` or `--current`. + +## Record the looks + +A default look is picked when the map is built, so a later rebuild could move one. To fix every look, a skill that saves a changed spec after the person's yes records the looks first: + +```bash +python3 build_team_map.py --record-looks --spec --current +``` + +Leave out `--current` when there is no saved spec yet. It writes the look the map showed, the same seeded pick a proposal draws, into each bot's empty Shape and Color lines, adding a line after Connectors when one is missing. It never changes a Shape or Color that is already set, even one the map can't use, and it builds no map. It prints each line it wrote. Run it on a copy of the spec when the change is made in place, with the saved spec as `--current`, then save the copy. The person's yes to the change covers these lines. A rebuild after that draws every bot as the proposal did. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/build_team_map.py b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/build_team_map.py new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6c4f2f35e --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/build_team_map.py @@ -0,0 +1,1827 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""Build the team map from the team spec and the skills it names. + +Fills the data block in team-map.canvas.tsx, the canvas, and renders team-map-document.md, the Markdown +document used when canvases aren't available. Both templates hold the layout; this script only reads the +spec, checks it, and writes the data in. Python 3 standard library only. + + python3 build_team_map.py --spec /workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md --skills DIR \\ + --canvas team-map.canvas.tsx --document team-map.md + +--skills a folder of the person's library skills, one SKILL.md each (or one .md each) +--proposal marks the map as a proposal, with this one-line summary, before the person says yes +--current the current spec, when the proposal changes it: the map marks what's added, changed and removed +--current-skills the current skills folder, when the proposal changes skills too (defaults to --skills) +--pictures a folder of pictures for the bots, one file each named by bot id, such as account-bot.png +--json also writes the data as JSON +--check checks the spec fields and the skill library, writes nothing, and exits non-zero + with a plain list of what is missing, per bot and skill +--record-looks writes each bot's assigned look into its empty Shape and Color lines in --spec, seeded + from --current when given, and builds no map. A Shape or Color already set is kept + +It exits with an error when the spec can't be read or doesn't hold together, and prints a warning for +anything to fix later, such as a skill the spec names that isn't in the library yet. With --check it +does not build the map. A fact the map cannot find in a labeled field is marked inferred. It is not filled in. +""" + +import argparse +import base64 +import difflib +import hashlib +import json +import re +import struct +import sys +import zlib +from pathlib import Path + +HERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent +# Slugs of the skills this plugin ships. A skill is a plugin skill when its slug +# is in this set. scripts/check-team-builder-stack.mjs requires the set to match +# the skill folders. Do not decide from the folder this file happens to sit in: +# a copy in someone's skill library would otherwise treat every library skill as +# a plugin skill and skip its steps. +PLUGIN_SKILL_SLUGS = frozenset({ + "apply-a-plugin-update", + "build-a-bot", + "build-my-team", + "check-my-bots", + "clean-up-memory", + "coach-my-bots", + "delegate-work", + "explain-how-it-works", + "inform-manager-bot", + "inform-team-builder", + "plan-the-work", + "retire-a-bot", + "run-review-panel", + "run-the-weekly-bot-review", + "save-what-we-learned", + "set-my-writing-voice", + "set-up-team-builder", + "team-builder-operating-guide", + "triage-work", + "verify-work", + "write-a-workflow-skill", +}) +CANVAS_TEMPLATE = HERE / "team-map.canvas.tsx" +DOCUMENT_TEMPLATE = HERE / "team-map-document.md" +DATA_START = "/* TEAM_MAP_DATA_START */" +DATA_END = "/* TEAM_MAP_DATA_END */" + +SECTIONS = ["Updated", "Your role", "Your team", "Your workflows", "Systems of record", "Records and logs"] +LISTS = {"Handoffs", "Backlog"} +FIVE_STEPS = ["Load", "Do the work", "Verify", "Record", "Hand off"] +STEP_LABELS = ["Does", "Pulls from", "Uses", "Produces", "Hands to", "Needs your review"] +FIELD_LINE = re.compile( + r"^(Does|Pulls from|Uses|Produces|Hands to|Needs your review):\s*(.*)$" +) +TYPE_LABEL = {"builder": "Builder", "manager": "Manager", "owner": "Owner", "specialist": "Specialist"} +TEMPLATE_LOCATION = re.compile(r"in the skill|connector|grok bot (document|canvas)|canvas id|document id|https?://", re.I) +DESCRIPTION_LIMIT = 120 +HANDOFF_ENDS = {"you": "You", "every bot": "Every bot"} +SCHEDULE_RE = re.compile( + r"\b\d{1,2}:\d{2}\b" + r"|\b\d+\s*(?:a\.m\.|p\.m\.|am|pm)\b" + r"|\b(?:\d+|one|two|three|four|five|ten|fifteen|thirty|forty-five)\s+(?:minutes?|hours?)\s+before\b" + r"|\bevery\s+(?:monday|tuesday|wednesday|thursday|friday|saturday|sunday|weekday)\b" + r"|\bevery\s+\d+\s+(?:minutes?|hours?|days?|weeks?)\b" + r"|\b(?:daily|weekly|hourly)\s+at\b", + re.I, +) +CHANNEL_RE = re.compile(r"(?:^|\s)#([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_-]{1,})") +UUID_RE = re.compile( + r"\b[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}\b", + re.I, +) +TICKET_RE = re.compile(r"\b[A-Z][A-Z0-9]{1,9}-\d{2,}\b") +REPO_RE = re.compile(r"\b([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_.-]{1,})/([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_.-]{1,})\b") +PATH_WORDS = { + "skills", "references", "assets", "scripts", "dist", "team-builder-stack", + "checklists", "guide", "routines", "team-builder", "team-map", +} +REPO_WORDS = { + "yes", "no", "and", "or", "the", "a", "an", "to", "of", "in", "on", "for", + "with", "from", "by", "as", "at", "it", "is", +} +STANDARD_PREFIXES = {"ISO", "IEC", "NIST", "SOC", "PCI", "IEEE", "ANSI", "CMMC", "OWASP", "CIS"} +TYPE_PREFIX = { + "workflow skill": "Use when ", + "utility skill": "Called by ", + "standard skill": "Follow whenever ", +} + +# How the map draws a bot. The canvas draws each shape with CSS, so the map +# ships no image files. The palette holds calm colors only: no red, amber, or +# gray, which read as a warning or a blocked state. +BOT_SHAPES = ("circle", "square", "hexagon", "capsule", "leaf", "drop") +BOT_PALETTE = ("#2563eb", "#0d9488", "#7c3aed", "#0891b2", "#4f46e5", "#65a30d", "#c026d3", "#0369a1") +COLOR_RE = re.compile(r"^#[0-9a-fA-F]{6}$") +# A picture is embedded in the map as a data URI no longer than PICTURE_CAP +# characters. The canvas refuses a longer one, so keep the two caps the same. +PICTURE_CAP = 24 * 1024 +PICTURE_SIDES = (96, 72, 56, 40, 32) +PICTURE_FILE_LIMIT = 8 * 1024 * 1024 +PICTURE_PIXEL_LIMIT = 2048 * 2048 +PICTURE_EXTENSIONS = (".png", ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".gif", ".webp") +PNG_SIGNATURE = b"\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n" + +warnings = [] + + +def slug(text): + return re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9]+", "-", text.lower()).strip("-") + + +def is_slot(text): + return not text or bool(re.search(r"<[^>]+>", text)) + + +def value(text): + return "" if is_slot(text) else text.strip() + + +# ---------- reading ---------- + +def read_spec(path): + """The spec's sections: each one's own fields, its `### ` entries, and its one-line lists.""" + text = Path(path).read_text(encoding="utf-8") + spec, section, entry = {}, None, None + for line in text.splitlines(): + h2 = re.match(r"^## (.+?)\s*$", line) + h3 = re.match(r"^### (.+?)\s*$", line) + item = re.match(r"^- (.*)$", line) + if h2: + section = spec.setdefault(h2.group(1), {"fields": {}, "entries": [], "lists": {}}) + entry = None + elif h3 and section is not None: + name = h3.group(1) + if name in LISTS: + entry = section["lists"].setdefault(name, []) + else: + entry = {"name": name, "blank": is_slot(name), "fields": {}} + section["entries"].append(entry) + elif item and section is not None: + if isinstance(entry, list): + if not is_slot(item.group(1)): + entry.append(item.group(1).strip()) + continue + kv = re.match(r"^([^:]+):\s*(.*)$", item.group(1)) + if kv: + (entry["fields"] if entry else section["fields"])[kv.group(1).strip()] = kv.group(2).strip() + missing = [s for s in SECTIONS if s not in spec] + if missing: + sys.exit(f"{path}: the team spec has no {', '.join(missing)} section; start from the blank team spec") + return spec + + +def frontmatter(text): + m = re.match(r"^---\n(.*?)\n---\n", text, re.S) + meta = {} + for line in (m.group(1).splitlines() if m else []): + kv = re.match(r"^([\w-]+):\s*(.*)$", line) + if kv: + meta[kv.group(1)] = kv.group(2).strip().strip('"') + return meta, text[m.end():] if m else text + + +def labeled_fields(text): + found = {} + for line in text.splitlines(): + match = FIELD_LINE.match(line.strip()) + if match: + found[match.group(1)] = match.group(2).strip() + return found + + +def none_without_reason(value): + return bool(re.fullmatch(r"none[.!]?", value.strip(), re.I)) + + +def needs_review(value): + """A review value that starts with none is not a review point.""" + text = (value or "").strip() + return bool(text) and not re.match(r"none\b", text, re.I) + + +def states_wait(value): + return bool(re.search(r"\bwait", value or "", re.I)) + + +PLACEHOLDER_PHRASES = ( + "follow this step as written", + "the outcome this step names", + "this step does not open a system of record", + "this step does not call a connector", + "this step does not pause for a decision", +) + + +def _blank(match): + return " " * len(match.group(0)) + + +def earlier_yes_mentions(text): + """A mention of a yes that already happened is not this step asking.""" + out = text + for pattern in ( + r"\bafter the yes\b", + r"\bthe yes in step \d+\b", + r"\bnot a new yes\b", + r"\bnot a yes\b", + r"\balready covers\b", + r"\balready covered\b", + r"\b(?:does|whether)\b(?:.{0,180}?)\bwait for a yes\b", + ): + out = re.sub(pattern, _blank, out, flags=re.I) + return out + + +def previous_words(text, start, count=2): + words = re.findall(r"[A-Za-z']+", text[:start]) + return [word.lower() for word in words[-count:]] + + +def prose_asks(text): + """True when this step asks the person. A mention of an earlier yes does not count.""" + masked = earlier_yes_mentions(text) + for match in re.finditer(r"\b(ask|asks|confirm|confirms|approval)\b", masked, re.I): + before = masked[max(0, match.start() - 24):match.start()] + if re.search(r"(?i)(don't|do not|never|without)\s*$", before): + continue + after = masked[match.end():match.end() + 16] + if re.match(r"\s+for it\b", after, re.I): + continue + words = previous_words(masked, match.start()) + if words and words[-1] in {"the", "a", "an", "direct"}: + continue + if words[-2:] in (["if", "they"], ["if", "you"]): + continue + return True + if re.search(r"(?i)\b(after a yes|on a yes|for a yes|a yes|the yes|your yes)\b", masked): + return True + if re.search(r"(?i)\bwait for their ok\b", masked): + return True + if re.search(r"(?i)\bsign-off\b|\bsign off\b|\bcheck with the person\b|\buntil they agree\b", masked): + return True + return okay_is_asking(masked) + + +def okay_is_asking(text): + """'okay' asks, except in phrases like 'it is okay to'.""" + for match in re.finditer(r"\bokay\b", text, re.I): + before = text[max(0, match.start() - 16):match.start()] + after = text[match.end():match.end() + 4] + if re.search(r"(?i)\b(?:is|be|seems|looks)\s+$", before): + continue + if re.search(r"(?i)(?:it|that)'s\s+$", before): + continue + if re.match(r"\s+to\b", after, re.I): + continue + return True + return False + + +def bot_directed_ask(text, match): + """An ask aimed at another bot, such as 'ask it' or 'ask Team Builder'.""" + if match.group(1).lower() not in {"ask", "asks"}: + return False + after = text[match.end():match.end() + 48] + return bool(re.match( + r"(?i)\s+(?:it|the bot|that bot|another bot|the other bot|team builder)\b", + after, + )) + + +def asks_only_another_bot(prose): + """True when every ask in the step is a message to another bot.""" + masked = earlier_yes_mentions(prose or "") + saw_bot_ask = False + for match in re.finditer(r"\b(ask|asks|confirm|confirms|approval)\b", masked, re.I): + before = masked[max(0, match.start() - 24):match.start()] + if re.search(r"(?i)(don't|do not|never|without)\s*$", before): + continue + after = masked[match.end():match.end() + 16] + if re.match(r"\s+for it\b", after, re.I): + continue + words = previous_words(masked, match.start()) + if words and words[-1] in {"the", "a", "an", "direct"}: + continue + if words[-2:] in (["if", "they"], ["if", "you"]): + continue + if bot_directed_ask(masked, match): + saw_bot_ask = True + continue + return False + if re.search(r"(?i)\b(after a yes|on a yes|for a yes|a yes|the yes|your yes)\b", masked): + return False + if re.search(r"(?i)\bwait for their ok\b|\bsign-off\b|\bsign off\b|\bcheck with the person\b|\buntil they agree\b", masked): + return False + if okay_is_asking(masked): + return False + return saw_bot_ask + + +EARLIER_YES_RE = re.compile( + r"(?i)\b(" + r"earlier yes|after the yes|after a yes|the yes in step \d+|" + r"already covers|already covered|already happened" + r")\b" +) +NOT_A_YES_RE = re.compile(r"(?i)\b(not a new yes|not a yes)\b") +STEP_NUMBER_RE = re.compile(r"(?i)\bstep\s+(\d+)\b") + + +def review_excuses_ask(value, reviews_by_number, step_number=None, prose=""): + """A none-reason excuses an ask only in two cases. + + A cited yes has to name an earlier step that exists, and that step's own + Needs your review is not none. 'not a yes' excuses the step only when every + ask in it is a message to another bot. + """ + text = value or "" + if EARLIER_YES_RE.search(text): + numbers = [int(number) for number in STEP_NUMBER_RE.findall(text)] + if not numbers: + return False + for number in numbers: + if step_number is not None and number >= step_number: + return False + other = (reviews_by_number or {}).get(number) + if other is None or not other.strip(): + return False + if re.match(r"none\b", other.strip(), re.I): + return False + return True + if NOT_A_YES_RE.search(text): + return asks_only_another_bot(prose) + return False + + +FILE_OR_DOC_RE = re.compile( + r"(?i)\b(?:team spec|specs?|files?|docs?|documents?|guides?|templates?|skills?|readme|checklists?|notes)\b" + r"|\.[A-Za-z0-9]{1,5}\b" +) + + +def look_up_calls_connector(text): + """A lookup in an app calls a connector. A lookup in a file or a doc does not.""" + patterns = ( + r"\blook(?:\s+\w+){1,6}\s+up in\s+([^.]+)", + r"\blook up(?:\s+\w+){1,6}\s+in\s+([^.]+)", + ) + for pattern in patterns: + for match in re.finditer(pattern, text, re.I): + before = text[max(0, match.start() - 24):match.start()] + if re.search(r"(?i)(don't|do not|never|without)\s*$", before): + continue + if FILE_OR_DOC_RE.search(match.group(1)): + continue + return True + return False + + +def prose_calls_connector(text): + if look_up_calls_connector(text): + return True + if re.search(r"(?i)\bread it with the\s+\S+\s+connector\b", text): + return True + if re.search(r"(?i)\bone read-only lookup\b", text): + return True + for match in re.finditer(r"\b(try|tries|call|calls)\b(?:\s+\w+){0,8}\s+connectors?\b", text, re.I): + before = text[max(0, match.start() - 24):match.start()] + if re.search(r"(?i)(don't|do not|never|without)\s*$", before): + continue + return True + return False + + +def use_is_known(use, known): + """A Uses value matches a system when it names it, or when it is none or the template's own wording.""" + low = (use or "").strip().lower() + if not low or low.startswith("none") or "<" in low: + return True + generic = {"the connector", "a connector", "connector", "its connector", "the connectors", "connectors"} + if low in generic: + return True + return any(name and name in low for name in known) + + +def shown_fact(value, inferred): + """A labeled fact is shown as written. A missing one is inferred, never filled in.""" + if not inferred: + return value + if value: + return f"Inferred: {value}" + return "Inferred" + + +def parse_step_text(text): + """Read the labeled lines. Old prose is kept only as an inferred reading, never as a filled field.""" + labeled = labeled_fields(text) + review = re.search(r"\*\*Needs your review:\*\*\s*([^.]*)", text) + uses = re.search(r"\bUses ([^.]+)\.", text) + template = re.search(r"\bFollows (?:the )?([^.]+? template)\b", text) + prose = re.sub(r"\*\*Needs your review:\*\*.*$", "", text) + prose = re.sub(r"\bUses [^.]+\.", "", prose) + prose = re.sub(r"\bFollows (?:the )?[^.]+? template\.?", "", prose) + prose = "\n".join(line for line in prose.splitlines() if not FIELD_LINE.match(line.strip())) + prose = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", prose).strip() + inferred = [] + + def take(label, key, legacy): + if label in labeled and labeled[label].strip() and not none_without_reason(labeled[label]): + return labeled[label].strip() + inferred.append(key) + return legacy or "" + + uses_value = take("Uses", "uses", uses.group(1).strip() if uses else "") + if uses_value.lower().startswith("none"): + uses_list = [] + else: + uses_list = [part.strip() for part in re.split(r",\s*|\s+and\s+", uses_value) if part.strip()] if uses_value else [] + review_value = take( + "Needs your review", + "review", + (review.group(1).strip()[:1].upper() + review.group(1).strip()[1:]) if review else "", + ) + return { + "does": take("Does", "does", prose), + "pullsFrom": take("Pulls from", "pullsFrom", ""), + "uses": uses_list, + "usesText": uses_value, + "produces": take("Produces", "produces", ""), + "handsTo": take("Hands to", "handsTo", ""), + "template": template.group(1).strip() if template else "", + "review": review_value, + "inferred": inferred, + } + + +def skill_type(body): + match = re.search(r"^\*\*Type:\*\*\s*(.+?)\.?\s*$", body, re.M) + return match.group(1).strip().rstrip(".") if match else "" + + +def read_skill(path, steps_too=True): + meta, body = frontmatter(Path(path).read_text(encoding="utf-8")) + title = re.search(r"^# (.+)$", body, re.M) + skill = { + "id": meta.get("name") or Path(path).parent.name, + "name": title.group(1).strip() if title else meta.get("name", ""), + "description": meta.get("description", ""), + "type": skill_type(body), + "load": "", "verify": "", "record": "", "handOff": "", "steps": [], + "phases": [], + } + steps = re.search(r"^## Steps\n(.*?)(?=^## |\Z)", body, re.M | re.S) if steps_too else None + top, current, nested = [], None, None + for line in (steps.group(1).splitlines() if steps else []): + top_step = re.match(r"^(\d+)\. \*\*(.+?)\.\*\*\s*(.*)$", line) + nested_step = re.match(r"^\s+\d+\. \*\*(.+?)\.\*\*\s*(.*)$", line) + if top_step: + current = {"title": top_step.group(2), "lines": []} + if top_step.group(3).strip(): + current["lines"].append(top_step.group(3).strip()) + top.append(current) + nested = None + elif nested_step and current is not None: + nested = {"name": nested_step.group(1).strip(), "lines": []} + if nested_step.group(2).strip(): + nested["lines"].append(nested_step.group(2).strip()) + current.setdefault("nested", []).append(nested) + elif line.strip() and current is not None: + target = nested if nested is not None else current + target["lines"].append(line.strip()) + titles = [step["title"] for step in top] + if steps and titles != FIVE_STEPS: + warnings.append(f"skill {skill['id']}: its steps are {', '.join(titles) or 'missing'}, not the five workflow steps") + for step in top: + text = "\n".join(step["lines"]) + parsed = parse_step_text(text) + step["parsed"] = parsed + key = {"Load": "load", "Verify": "verify", "Record": "record", "Hand off": "handOff"}.get(step["title"]) + if key: + skill[key] = parsed["does"] or text + for item in step.get("nested", []): + skill["steps"].append(dict(name=item["name"], **parse_step_text("\n".join(item["lines"])))) + skill["phases"] = [ + {"title": step["title"], "lines": step["lines"], "parsed": step.get("parsed", {})} + for step in top + ] + if re.search(r"^## Template\s*$", body, re.M): + skill["templateInSkill"] = True + return skill + + +def library(folder): + found = {} + if folder: + for f in sorted(Path(folder).rglob("*.md")): + meta, _ = frontmatter(f.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) + if meta.get("name"): + found[meta["name"]] = f + return found + + +def plugin_skill_file(sid, lib): + """Where to read a plugin skill's name, once the slug list says it is one. + + The sibling path is only a place to read the file when this copy still sits + in the plugin. It is not how a skill is classified. + """ + sibling = HERE.parents[2] / sid / "SKILL.md" + if sibling.is_file(): + return sibling + return lib.get(sid) + + +def parse_handoff(line, by_name): + """by_name maps a bot's name, lowercased, to its id. You and Every bot are ends too.""" + match = re.match(r"^(.+?) to (.+?):\s*(.*)$", line.strip()) + if not match: + return {"error": f"Handoffs: \"{line}\" isn't in the shape to : . How: . Waits: ."} + rest = match.group(3).strip() + waits, how = "", "" + waits_match = re.search(r"\s+Waits:\s*(.*)$", rest) + if waits_match: + waits = waits_match.group(1).strip().rstrip(".") + rest = rest[:waits_match.start()].strip() + how_match = re.search(r"\s+How:\s*(.*)$", rest) + if how_match: + how = how_match.group(1).strip().rstrip(".") + rest = rest[:how_match.start()].strip() + ends, names = [], [] + for end in (match.group(1).strip(), match.group(2).strip()): + if end.lower() in by_name: + ends.append(by_name[end.lower()]) + names.append(end) + elif end.lower() in HANDOFF_ENDS: + ends.append(HANDOFF_ENDS[end.lower()]) + names.append(HANDOFF_ENDS[end.lower()]) + else: + return {"error": f"Handoffs: \"{end}\" isn't a block under Your team, You, or Every bot"} + return {"handoff": { + "from": ends[0], "to": ends[1], + "fromName": names[0], "toName": names[1], + "what": rest.strip().rstrip("."), "how": how, "waits": waits, + "waitsInferred": not waits, + }} + + +# ---------- how each bot looks ---------- + +def look_problems(name, fields): + """Plain lines for a Shape or Color the map can't use.""" + problems = [] + shape = value(fields.get("Shape", "")) + color = value(fields.get("Color", "")) + if shape and shape.lower() not in BOT_SHAPES: + problems.append(f"bot {name}: Shape {shape} is not one of {', '.join(BOT_SHAPES)}") + if color and not COLOR_RE.match(color): + problems.append(f"bot {name}: Color {color} is not a hex color such as {BOT_PALETTE[0]}") + return problems + + +# Every shape and color pair, in a ring where each pair differs from the next +# in both shape and color, so a bot that moves on one step still looks different. +LOOK_PAIRS = tuple( + (BOT_SHAPES[k % len(BOT_SHAPES)], BOT_PALETTE[(k // len(BOT_SHAPES) + k) % len(BOT_PALETTE)]) + for k in range(len(BOT_SHAPES) * len(BOT_PALETTE)) +) + + +def look_start(bot_id): + """Where a bot starts on the ring of pairs, from a hash of its id.""" + return int.from_bytes(hashlib.sha256(bot_id.encode("utf-8")).digest()[:8], "big") % len(LOOK_PAIRS) + + +def assign_looks(bots, current=None): + """Give each bot a shape and a color. An explicit Shape or Color wins. + + A missing one comes from the ring of pairs, starting where a hash of the + bot's id lands. Explicit pairs are placed first. The rest are taken by + their start on the ring, then by id, never by spec order, and each takes + the first pair from its start that no other bot holds. A bot whose start + pair is free moves no one else. + + current is the current map's bots, on a proposal. A bot there whose Shape + and Color lines are unchanged keeps its current look, so it looks the same + in both views. A bot the proposal removes keeps its pair, and the other + bots take free pairs first, so a removed bot shares no look while a free + pair is left. + """ + held = {} + + def claim(bot, pair): + if pair in held: + warnings.append(f"bot {bot['name']}: shares its shape and color with {held[pair]}") + held.setdefault(pair, bot["name"]) + bot["shape"], bot["color"] = pair + + wanted = [] + for b in bots: + for problem in look_problems(b["name"], {"Shape": b["shapeSet"], "Color": b["colorSet"]}): + warnings.append(f"{problem}. The map uses a default instead") + shape = b["shapeSet"].lower() if b["shapeSet"].lower() in BOT_SHAPES else "" + color = b["colorSet"].lower() if COLOR_RE.match(b["colorSet"]) else "" + wanted.append((b, shape, color)) + for b, shape, color in wanted: + if shape and color: + claim(b, (shape, color)) + ids = {b["id"] for b in bots} + previous = { + c["id"]: c for c in (current or []) if c.get("shape") and c.get("color") and c.get("change") != "removed" + } + reserved = {(c["shape"], c["color"]) for cid, c in previous.items() if cid not in ids} + rest = sorted((w for w in wanted if not (w[1] and w[2])), key=lambda w: (look_start(w[0]["id"]), w[0]["id"])) + fresh = [] + for b, shape, color in rest: + was = previous.get(b["id"]) + pair = (was["shape"], was["color"]) if was else None + if pair and pair not in held and (was["shapeSet"], was["colorSet"]) == (b["shapeSet"], b["colorSet"]): + claim(b, pair) + else: + fresh.append((b, shape, color)) + for b, shape, color in fresh: + start = look_start(b["id"]) + ring = LOOK_PAIRS[start:] + LOOK_PAIRS[:start] + options = [p for p in ring if (not shape or p[0] == shape) and (not color or p[1] == color)] + if not options: + # A Color off the palette matches no pair on the ring. Walk the ring + # with the bot's own Color in place of each pair's, so it still + # gets a shape in ring order and keeps its Color. + options = list(dict.fromkeys((shape or s, color or c) for s, c in ring)) + free = [p for p in options if p not in held and p not in reserved] + unheld = [p for p in options if p not in held] + claim(b, free[0] if free else unheld[0] if unheld else options[0]) + + +def png_chunks(data): + """The chunks of a PNG, in order. A broken file raises ValueError.""" + if data[:8] != PNG_SIGNATURE: + raise ValueError("it is not a PNG") + chunks, pos = [], 8 + while pos < len(data): + if pos + 12 > len(data): + raise ValueError("it ends partway through a chunk") + length, kind = struct.unpack(">I4s", data[pos:pos + 8]) + body = data[pos + 8:pos + 8 + length] + crc = data[pos + 8 + length:pos + 12 + length] + if len(body) != length or len(crc) != 4: + raise ValueError("it ends partway through a chunk") + if zlib.crc32(kind + body) != struct.unpack(">I", crc)[0]: + raise ValueError("a chunk fails its checksum") + chunks.append((kind, body)) + pos += 12 + length + if kind == b"IEND": + break + kinds = [kind for kind, _ in chunks] + if not kinds or kinds[0] != b"IHDR" or b"IDAT" not in kinds or kinds[-1] != b"IEND": + raise ValueError("it is missing a header, image data, or an end chunk") + return chunks + + +def unfilter(raw, height, stride, step): + rows, prior = [], bytearray(stride) + for y in range(height): + start = y * (stride + 1) + kind, row = raw[start], bytearray(raw[start + 1:start + 1 + stride]) + if kind == 1: + for i in range(step, stride): + row[i] = (row[i] + row[i - step]) & 255 + elif kind == 2: + for i in range(stride): + row[i] = (row[i] + prior[i]) & 255 + elif kind == 3: + for i in range(stride): + left = row[i - step] if i >= step else 0 + row[i] = (row[i] + ((left + prior[i]) >> 1)) & 255 + elif kind == 4: + for i in range(stride): + a = row[i - step] if i >= step else 0 + b = prior[i] + c = prior[i - step] if i >= step else 0 + p = a + b - c + pa, pb, pc = abs(p - a), abs(p - b), abs(p - c) + row[i] = (row[i] + (a if pa <= pb and pa <= pc else b if pb <= pc else c)) & 255 + elif kind != 0: + raise ValueError("a row has an unknown filter") + rows.append(row) + prior = row + return rows + + +def png_rgba(data): + """(width, height, rows of RGBA bytes) for a PNG this reader can open. + + Returns None for a sound PNG it doesn't open: interlaced, 16-bit, or larger + than PICTURE_PIXEL_LIMIT. A broken PNG raises ValueError. + """ + chunks = png_chunks(data) + header = chunks[0][1] + if len(header) != 13: + raise ValueError("its header is the wrong length") + width, height, depth, color, compression, filtering, interlace = struct.unpack(">IIBBBBB", header) + channels = {0: 1, 2: 3, 3: 1, 4: 2, 6: 4}.get(color) + depths = {0: (1, 2, 4, 8, 16), 2: (8, 16), 3: (1, 2, 4, 8), 4: (8, 16), 6: (8, 16)}.get(color, ()) + if not width or not height or depth not in depths or compression or filtering or interlace > 1: + raise ValueError("its header is not a valid PNG header") + palette = b"".join(body for kind, body in chunks if kind == b"PLTE") + alpha = b"".join(body for kind, body in chunks if kind == b"tRNS") + stride = (width * channels * depth + 7) // 8 + expected = height * (stride + 1) + if width * height > PICTURE_PIXEL_LIMIT: + return None + inflater = zlib.decompressobj() + try: + raw = inflater.decompress(b"".join(body for kind, body in chunks if kind == b"IDAT"), expected + 1) + except zlib.error: + raise ValueError("its image data does not decompress") + if interlace or depth != 8 and not (color == 3 and depth in (1, 2, 4)): + return None + if len(raw) != expected: + raise ValueError("its image data is the wrong size") + rows = unfilter(raw, height, stride, max(1, channels * depth // 8)) + out = [] + for row in rows: + rgba = bytearray(width * 4) + for x in range(width): + if color == 3: + per = 8 // depth + index = (row[x // per] >> (8 - depth * (x % per + 1))) & ((1 << depth) - 1) + if index * 3 + 3 > len(palette): + raise ValueError("a pixel names a color its palette doesn't have") + pixel = palette[index * 3:index * 3 + 3] + bytes([alpha[index] if index < len(alpha) else 255]) + elif color == 0: + pixel = bytes([row[x]] * 3 + [255]) + elif color == 4: + pixel = bytes([row[2 * x]] * 3 + [row[2 * x + 1]]) + elif color == 2: + pixel = bytes(row[3 * x:3 * x + 3]) + b"\xff" + else: + pixel = bytes(row[4 * x:4 * x + 4]) + rgba[4 * x:4 * x + 4] = pixel + out.append(rgba) + return width, height, out + + +def shrink(width, height, rows, side): + """Box-average the picture so its longer side is at most side pixels.""" + scale = max(width, height) / side if max(width, height) > side else 1 + tw, th = max(1, round(width / scale)), max(1, round(height / scale)) + sums = [[0, 0, 0, 0, 0] for _ in range(tw * th)] + for y, row in enumerate(rows): + base = (y * th // height) * tw + for x in range(width): + r, g, b, a = row[4 * x:4 * x + 4] + cell = sums[base + x * tw // width] + cell[0] += r * a + cell[1] += g * a + cell[2] += b * a + cell[3] += a + cell[4] += 1 + out = [] + for y in range(th): + line = bytearray() + for x in range(tw): + r, g, b, a, n = sums[y * tw + x] + line += bytes([r // a, g // a, b // a, a // n] if a else [0, 0, 0, 0]) + out.append(line) + return tw, th, out + + +def png_bytes(width, height, rows): + def chunk(kind, body): + return struct.pack(">I", len(body)) + kind + body + struct.pack(">I", zlib.crc32(kind + body)) + + raw = b"".join(b"\x00" + bytes(row) for row in rows) + return ( + PNG_SIGNATURE + + chunk(b"IHDR", struct.pack(">IIBBBBB", width, height, 8, 6, 0, 0, 0)) + + chunk(b"IDAT", zlib.compress(raw, 9)) + + chunk(b"IEND", b"") + ) + + +PNG_METADATA = {b"tEXt", b"zTXt", b"iTXt", b"eXIf", b"tIME"} + + +def png_without_metadata(data): + """The same PNG without its text, EXIF, and time chunks.""" + def chunk(kind, body): + return struct.pack(">I", len(body)) + kind + body + struct.pack(">I", zlib.crc32(kind + body)) + + return PNG_SIGNATURE + b"".join(chunk(kind, body) for kind, body in png_chunks(data) if kind not in PNG_METADATA) + + +def jpeg_without_metadata(data): + """The same JPEG without EXIF, XMP, comments, or other application segments. + + Segments before the first scan are kept except APP1 to APP15 and COM. APP0 + stays when it is JFIF, and APP14 when it is Adobe, since a decoder reads + those for the color layout. Everything from the first scan on is copied as + it is. A broken segment list raises ValueError. + """ + out, pos = bytearray(data[:2]), 2 + while True: + while pos < len(data) and data[pos] == 0xFF and pos + 1 < len(data) and data[pos + 1] == 0xFF: + pos += 1 + if pos + 4 > len(data) or data[pos] != 0xFF: + raise ValueError("its segments are broken") + marker = data[pos + 1] + length = struct.unpack(">H", data[pos + 2:pos + 4])[0] + end = pos + 2 + length + if length < 2 or end > len(data): + raise ValueError("a segment runs past the end of the file") + if marker == 0xDA: + out += data[pos:] + return bytes(out) + body = data[pos + 4:end] + application = 0xE0 <= marker <= 0xEF or marker == 0xFE + kept = (marker == 0xE0 and body.startswith(b"JFIF\x00")) or (marker == 0xEE and body.startswith(b"Adobe")) + if not application or kept: + out += data[pos:end] + pos = end + + +def data_uri(mime, data): + return f"data:{mime};base64,{base64.b64encode(data).decode('ascii')}" + + +def picture_kind(data): + """The picture's type from its first bytes, or empty for anything else.""" + if data.startswith(PNG_SIGNATURE): + return "image/png" + if data.startswith(b"\xff\xd8\xff") and data.rstrip(b"\x00").endswith(b"\xff\xd9"): + return "image/jpeg" + if data[:6] in (b"GIF87a", b"GIF89a") and data.endswith(b"\x3b"): + return "image/gif" + if data[:4] == b"RIFF" and data[8:12] == b"WEBP" and struct.unpack(" PICTURE_FILE_LIMIT: + return "", f"the file is over {PICTURE_FILE_LIMIT // (1024 * 1024)} MB" + data = path.read_bytes() + kind = picture_kind(data) + if not kind: + return "", "it is not a PNG, JPEG, GIF, or WebP picture" + if kind == "image/png": + try: + opened = png_rgba(data) + except ValueError as problem: + return "", f"the PNG can't be read: {problem}" + if opened: + small = shrink(*opened, PICTURE_SIDES[0]) + for side in PICTURE_SIDES: + uri = data_uri(kind, png_bytes(*shrink(*small, side))) + if len(uri) <= PICTURE_CAP: + return uri, "" + return "", "it doesn't fit the size cap even when shrunk" + data = png_without_metadata(data) + elif kind == "image/jpeg": + try: + data = jpeg_without_metadata(data) + except ValueError as problem: + return "", f"the JPEG can't be read: {problem}" + uri = data_uri(kind, data) + if len(uri) <= PICTURE_CAP: + return uri, "" + return "", f"it is over the {PICTURE_CAP // 1024} KB cap, and only a PNG this script can open is shrunk. Save it as a PNG or a smaller file" + + +def assign_pictures(bots, pictures_dir, spec_dir): + """A bot's Picture path comes first, then a file named by its id in the pictures folder.""" + folder = Path(pictures_dir) if pictures_dir else None + for b in bots: + b["picture"] = "" + candidates = [] + if b["pictureSet"]: + given = Path(b["pictureSet"]).expanduser() + candidates.append(("Picture", given if given.is_absolute() else Path(spec_dir or ".") / given)) + if folder: + for ext in PICTURE_EXTENSIONS: + for name in (b["id"] + ext, b["id"] + ext.upper()): + if (folder / name).is_file(): + candidates.append(("the pictures folder", folder / name)) + break + for where, path in candidates: + uri, problem = picture_uri(path) + if uri: + b["picture"] = uri + break + warnings.append(f"bot {b['name']}: the picture from {where}, {path.name}, can't be used: {problem}. The map draws its shape and color instead") + + +# ---------- the map's data ---------- + +def body_of(spec, skills_dir, pictures_dir=None, spec_dir=None, current_bots=None): + team = spec["Your team"] + work = spec["Your workflows"] + role = spec["Your role"]["fields"] + info = spec["Updated"]["fields"] + lib = library(skills_dir) + + bots = [] + for e in team["entries"]: + f = e["fields"] + name = e["name"].replace("<", "").replace(">", "") if e["blank"] else e["name"] + connectors = value(f.get("Connectors", "")) + bots.append({ + "id": slug(name), "name": name, "blank": e["blank"], + "type": value(f.get("Type", "")).lower(), + "blueprint": value(f.get("Blueprint", "")).lower() in ("yes", "true"), + "modelBot": value(f.get("Model bot", "")), + "botTemplate": value(f.get("Bot template", "")), + "skills": [slug(s) for s in re.split(r",\s*", value(f.get("Skills", ""))) if s.strip()], + "connectors": connectors, + "connectorsInferred": not connectors, + "systems": [] if not connectors or connectors.lower().startswith("none") else [ + part.strip() for part in re.split(r",\s*", connectors) if part.strip() + ], + "shapeSet": value(f.get("Shape", "")), + "colorSet": value(f.get("Color", "")), + "pictureSet": value(f.get("Picture", "")), + }) + for b in bots: + if b["type"] and b["type"] not in TYPE_LABEL: + sys.exit(f"Your team: {b['name']} has type {b['type']}. Type is manager, owner, specialist, or builder.") + assign_looks(bots, current_bots) + assign_pictures(bots, pictures_dir, spec_dir) + by_name = {b["name"].lower(): b["id"] for b in bots} + verifier = value(team["fields"].get("Who verifies", "")) + if verifier: + v = next((b for b in bots if b["name"].lower() == verifier.lower()), None) + if not v: + sys.exit(f"Your team: Who verifies names {verifier}, which isn't a block under Your team") + if v["type"] not in ("specialist", "manager"): + sys.exit(f"Your team: Who verifies must be a specialist or manager bot, and {verifier} is {v['type'] or 'not typed yet'}") + + workflows = {} + for e in work["entries"]: + if e["blank"]: + continue + f = e["fields"] + sid = slug(value(f.get("Skill", "")) or e["name"]) + runs_on = value(f.get("Runs on", "")) + template = value(f.get("Template", "")) + if runs_on and runs_on.lower() not in by_name: + sys.exit(f"Your workflows: {e['name']} runs on {runs_on}, which isn't a block under Your team") + if template and not TEMPLATE_LOCATION.search(template): + sys.exit(f"Your workflows: {e['name']}'s template must be a location, such as \"in the skill\", a Grok Bot document or canvas id, or a link and its connector, never its content") + workflows[sid] = {"template": template, "owner": value(f.get("Template owner", "")), "runsOn": runs_on} + if runs_on: + owner = next(b for b in bots if b["id"] == by_name[runs_on.lower()]) + if sid not in owner["skills"]: + owner["skills"].append(sid) + + ids = [] + for b in bots: + for s in b["skills"]: + if s not in ids: + ids.append(s) + skills = [] + for sid in ids: + if sid in PLUGIN_SKILL_SLUGS: + plugin = plugin_skill_file(sid, lib) + if plugin: + s = read_skill(plugin, steps_too=False) + else: + s = {"id": sid, "name": sid, "description": "", "type": "", "phases": [], "load": "", "verify": "", "record": "", "handOff": "", "steps": []} + s.update(source="plugin", steps=[], load="", verify="", record="", handOff="") + elif sid in lib: + s = read_skill(lib[sid]) + s["source"] = "library" + else: + warnings.append(f"skill {sid}: the spec names it, but it isn't in the skill library yet") + s = {"id": sid, "name": sid, "description": "", "type": "", "phases": [], "source": "not found", "load": "", "verify": "", "record": "", "handOff": "", "steps": []} + w = workflows.get(sid, {}) + in_skill = s.pop("templateInSkill", False) + s["templateLocation"] = w.get("template") or ("In the skill" if in_skill else "") + s["templateOwner"] = w.get("owner", "") + skills.append(s) + + systems = [] + for e in spec["Systems of record"]["entries"]: + f = e["fields"] + how = f.get("How to read", "") + systems.append({ + "name": e["name"].replace("<", "").replace(">", "") if e["blank"] else e["name"], + "blank": e["blank"], + "connector": value(f.get("Connector", "")), "holds": value(f.get("Holds", "")), + "uniqueId": value(f.get("Unique ID", "")), "recordFor": value(f.get("System of record for", "")), + "howToRead": value(how) if "How to read" in f else "", + "howToReadInferred": False, + }) + known = {s["name"].lower() for s in systems} | {s["connector"].lower() for s in systems if s["connector"]} + for b in bots: + for sid in b["skills"]: + s = next(x for x in skills if x["id"] == sid) + for st in s["steps"]: + for u in st["uses"]: + if "uses" in st.get("inferred", []) or use_is_known(u, known): + continue + if not b["connectorsInferred"]: + warnings.append(f"skill {sid}, step {st['name']}: uses {u}, which isn't under Systems of record") + + handoffs = [] + for line in team["lists"].get("Handoffs", []): + parsed = parse_handoff(line, by_name) + if parsed.get("error"): + sys.exit(parsed["error"]) + handoffs.append(parsed["handoff"]) + + routines = [] + if "Routines" in spec: + for e in spec["Routines"]["entries"]: + if e["blank"]: + continue + f = e["fields"] + schedule = value(f.get("Schedule", "") or f.get("Trigger", "")) + routines.append({ + "name": e["name"], + "schedule": schedule, + "scheduleInferred": not schedule, + "skill": value(f.get("Skill", "")), + "skillInferred": not value(f.get("Skill", "")), + "prompt": value(f.get("Prompt", "")), + "promptInferred": not value(f.get("Prompt", "")), + "relayedBy": value(f.get("Relayed by", "")), + "relayedByInferred": False, + "runsPerWeek": value(f.get("Runs per week", "")), + }) + + return { + "spec": {"version": value(info.get("Version", "")), "date": value(info.get("Date", "")), "changeLog": value(info.get("Change log", ""))}, + "role": {"role": value(role.get("Role", "")), "outcomes": value(role.get("Business outcomes and KPIs", "")), + "unit": value(role.get("Unit of work", "")), "howMany": value(role.get("How many you carry", "")), + "timeZone": value(role.get("Home time zone", ""))}, + "voiceSkill": value(work["fields"].get("Writing voice skill", "")), + "verifier": by_name.get(verifier.lower(), "") if verifier else "", + "bots": bots, "skills": skills, "handoffs": handoffs, "systems": systems, + "routines": routines, + } + + +def compare(now, before): + """Marks what the proposal adds, changes and removes, and returns how many of each.""" + counts = {"added": 0, "changed": 0, "removed": 0} + + def mark(items, old_items, key, fields, label, nested=None): + old = {key(x): x for x in old_items} + new_keys = {key(x) for x in items} + for x in items: + o = old.get(key(x)) + if o is None: + x["change"] = "added" + counts["added"] += 1 + continue + was = [f"{name}: {fmt(o[f])}" for f, name in fields if o[f] != x[f]] + if nested: + nested(x, o) + if was or any(c.get("change") for c in x.get("steps", [])): + x["change"], x["was"] = "changed", was + counts["changed"] += 1 + for o in old_items: + if key(o) not in new_keys: + items.append(dict(o, change="removed")) + counts["removed"] += 1 + + def fmt(v): + return ", ".join(v) if isinstance(v, list) else ("yes" if v is True else "no" if v is False else (v or "empty")) + + def steps(x, o): + old = {s["name"]: s for s in o["steps"]} + for s in x["steps"]: + p = old.get(s["name"]) + if p is None: + s["change"] = "added" + else: + was = [f"{n}: {fmt(p[f])}" for f, n in ( + ("does", "Does"), ("pullsFrom", "Pulls from"), ("uses", "Uses"), + ("produces", "Produces"), ("handsTo", "Hands to"), ("template", "Template"), + ("review", "Your review"), + ) if p.get(f) != s.get(f)] + if was: + s["change"], s["was"] = "changed", was + names = {s["name"] for s in x["steps"]} + x["steps"] += [dict(s, change="removed") for s in o["steps"] if s["name"] not in names] + + if now["verifier"] != before["verifier"]: + names = {b["id"]: b["name"] for b in before["bots"]} + now["verifierWas"] = names.get(before["verifier"], "") or "empty" + counts["changed"] += 1 + # Group by from/to, then match each route on its own. An exact route stays + # put, and a leftover pair is an edit, so one route is a change rather than + # a removal plus an addition. Two routes between the same bots stay distinct. + def mark_handoffs(items, old_items): + fields = (("what", "What passes"), ("how", "How"), ("waits", "Waits")) + + def grouped(rows): + out = {} + for h in rows: + out.setdefault((h["from"], h["to"]), []).append(h) + return out + + new_groups = grouped(items) + old_groups = grouped(old_items) + for pair in old_groups: + new_groups.setdefault(pair, []) + for pair, new_rows in new_groups.items(): + pool = list(old_groups.get(pair, [])) + pending = [] + for h in new_rows: + exact = next((o for o in pool if o["what"] == h["what"] and o["how"] == h["how"] and o.get("waits") == h.get("waits")), None) + if exact is not None: + pool.remove(exact) + else: + pending.append(h) + + # Among unpaired old routes: highest what-similarity (an exact what + # is 1.0), then the same how, then list order. The closest pair is + # taken first, and each old route pairs once. + def rank(h, o, oi, pi): + return ( + -difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, h["what"], o["what"]).ratio(), + 0 if o["how"] == h["how"] else 1, + oi, + pi, + ) + + paired = [] + while pending and pool: + pi, oi = min( + ((pi, oi) for pi in range(len(pending)) for oi in range(len(pool))), + key=lambda pos: rank(pending[pos[0]], pool[pos[1]], pos[1], pos[0]), + ) + paired.append((pending.pop(pi), pool.pop(oi))) + still = pending + pending = still + for h, o in paired: + was = [f"{name}: {fmt(o[f])}" for f, name in fields if o[f] != h[f]] + if was: + h["change"], h["was"] = "changed", was + counts["changed"] += 1 + for h in pending: + h["change"] = "added" + counts["added"] += 1 + for o in pool: + items.append(dict(o, change="removed")) + counts["removed"] += 1 + + # Group by heading under Routines, then match like handoffs. An exact + # routine stays put, so deleting one of two routines with the same heading + # removes that one. What is left pairs by position, as an edit. + def mark_routines(items, old_items): + fields = (("schedule", "Schedule"), ("runsPerWeek", "Runs per week"), ("skill", "Skill"), ("prompt", "Prompt"), ("relayedBy", "Relayed by")) + + def was_lines(r, o): + return [f"{name}: {fmt(o.get(f, ''))}" for f, name in fields if o.get(f, "") != r.get(f, "")] + + def grouped(rows): + out = {} + for r in rows: + out.setdefault(r["name"], []).append(r) + return out + + old_groups = grouped(old_items) + unpaired_old = [] + for heading, new_rows in grouped(items).items(): + pool = list(old_groups.get(heading, [])) + pending = [] + for r in new_rows: + exact = next((o for o in pool if not was_lines(r, o)), None) + if exact is not None: + pool.remove(exact) + else: + pending.append(r) + for r, o in zip(pending, pool): + r["change"], r["was"] = "changed", was_lines(r, o) + counts["changed"] += 1 + for r in pending[len(pool):]: + r["change"] = "added" + counts["added"] += 1 + unpaired_old += pool[len(pending):] + new_headings = {r["name"] for r in items} + for o in old_items: + if o["name"] not in new_headings or any(o is u for u in unpaired_old): + items.append(dict(o, change="removed")) + counts["removed"] += 1 + + mark(now["bots"], before["bots"], lambda b: b["id"], (("type", "Type"), ("blueprint", "Blueprint"), ("modelBot", "Model bot"), ("botTemplate", "Bot template"), ("skills", "Skills"), ("connectors", "Connectors"), ("shapeSet", "Shape"), ("colorSet", "Color"), ("pictureSet", "Picture")), "bot") + mark(now["skills"], before["skills"], lambda s: s["id"], (("description", "Description"), ("templateLocation", "Template"), ("templateOwner", "Template owner")), "skill", steps) + mark_handoffs(now["handoffs"], before["handoffs"]) + mark(now["systems"], before["systems"], lambda s: s["name"], (("connector", "Connector"), ("holds", "Holds"), ("uniqueId", "Unique ID"), ("recordFor", "System of record for"), ("howToRead", "How to read")), "system") + now.setdefault("routines", []) + mark_routines(now["routines"], before.get("routines", [])) + return counts + + +# ---------- writing ---------- + +def canvas_data(data): + """Drop runsPerWeek from the canvas payload, and its Was line on a changed routine. + + The value stays on each routine for --json and the document line. The canvas + file's routine type has no field for it, so the canvas does not draw it. A + routine whose only change is its count still shows as changed. A bot's + Shape, Color, and Picture lines as written stay out too: the canvas draws + the shape, color, and picture they resolved to. + """ + copied = json.loads(json.dumps(data)) + for key in ("now", "before"): + body = copied.get(key) + if not isinstance(body, dict): + continue + for bot in body.get("bots") or []: + for field in ("shapeSet", "colorSet", "pictureSet"): + bot.pop(field, None) + for routine in body.get("routines") or []: + routine.pop("runsPerWeek", None) + if "was" in routine: + routine["was"] = [w for w in routine["was"] if not w.startswith("Runs per week:")] + return copied + + +def canvas(data): + template = CANVAS_TEMPLATE.read_text(encoding="utf-8") + start, end = template.index(DATA_START), template.index(DATA_END) + payload = json.dumps(canvas_data(data), ensure_ascii=False, indent=2) + return template[:start + len(DATA_START)] + " " + payload + " " + template[end:] + + +def render(template, context): + """A small Mustache: {{name}}, {{a.b}}, {{.}}, and {{#list}}...{{/list}} or {{^list}}...{{/list}} sections.""" + template = re.sub(r"^[ \t]*(\{\{[#^/][^}]+\}\})[ \t]*\n", r"\1", template, flags=re.M) + + def lookup(name, stack): + if name == ".": + return stack[-1] + for ctx in reversed(stack): + cur, ok = ctx, True + for part in name.split("."): + if isinstance(cur, dict) and part in cur: + cur = cur[part] + else: + ok = False + break + if ok: + return cur + return "" + + def run(text, stack): + out, i = [], 0 + for m in re.finditer(r"\{\{([#^])\s*([\w.]+)\s*\}\}", text): + if m.start() < i: + continue + out.append(text[i:m.start()]) + name, depth, j = m.group(2), 1, m.end() + for t in re.finditer(r"\{\{([#^/])\s*" + re.escape(name) + r"\s*\}\}", text[m.end():]): + depth += -1 if t.group(1) == "/" else 1 + if depth == 0: + inner, j = text[m.end():m.end() + t.start()], m.end() + t.end() + break + val = lookup(name, stack) + if m.group(1) == "^": + out.append(run(inner, stack) if not val else "") + elif isinstance(val, list): + out.extend(run(inner, stack + [v]) for v in val) + elif val: + out.append(run(inner, stack + [val] if isinstance(val, dict) else stack)) + i = j + out.append(text[i:]) + return re.sub(r"\{\{\s*([\w.]+)\s*\}\}", lambda v: str(lookup(v.group(1), stack)), "".join(out)) + + return re.sub(r"\n{3,}", "\n\n", run(template, [context])).strip() + "\n" + + +def document_view(data): + body = data["now"] + proposal = data["proposal"] + changes = bool(proposal and data["before"]) + names = {b["id"]: b["name"] for b in body["bots"]} + + def filled(v, slot): + return v if v else f"to fill in: {slot}" + + def mark(x): + return f" ({x['change']})" if changes and x.get("change") else "" + + def name(x): + return f"~~{x['name']}~~" if changes and x.get("change") == "removed" else x["name"] + + def was(x): + return x.get("was", []) if changes and x.get("change") == "changed" else [] + + skills = {s["id"]: s for s in body["skills"]} + bot_views = [] + for b in body["bots"]: + own = [skills[s] for s in b["skills"] if s in skills] + bot_views.append({ + "name": name(b), "mark": mark(b), "was": was(b), "blank": b["blank"], + "typeLabel": TYPE_LABEL.get(b["type"], "Type to fill in"), "blueprint": b["blueprint"], + "showTemplate": b["blueprint"], + "modelBot": filled(b["modelBot"], "the first bot of this kind that works"), + "botTemplate": filled(b["botTemplate"], "the link the model bot exported"), + "skillsLine": ", ".join(s["name"] for s in own) or "to fill in", + "systemsLine": b["connectors"] if b.get("connectors") else "Inferred", + "lookLine": f"{b.get('shape', 'circle')}, {b.get('color', '')}" + (", with a picture on the canvas" if b.get("picture") else ""), + "runs": not (b["blank"] or b["blueprint"] or b["type"] == "owner"), + }) + library_skills = [] + for s in body["skills"]: + if s["source"] != "library" or not s["steps"]: + continue + library_skills.append({ + "name": name(s), "mark": mark(s), "was": was(s), "description": s["description"], + "templateLocation": filled(s["templateLocation"], "in the skill, a Grok Bot document or canvas id, or a link and its connector"), + "templateOwner": s["templateOwner"], + "reviewsLine": ", ".join(st["name"] for st in s["steps"] if needs_review(st["review"])) or "no step", + "load": s["load"], "verify": s["verify"], "record": s["record"], "handOff": s["handOff"], + "steps": [{ + "n": i + 1, "name": name(st), "mark": mark(st), "was": was(st), + "does": shown_fact(st["does"], "does" in st.get("inferred", [])), + "pullsFrom": shown_fact(st.get("pullsFrom", ""), "pullsFrom" in st.get("inferred", [])), + "usesLine": shown_fact(st.get("usesText") or ", ".join(st["uses"]), "uses" in st.get("inferred", [])), + "produces": shown_fact(st.get("produces", ""), "produces" in st.get("inferred", [])), + "handsTo": shown_fact(st.get("handsTo", ""), "handsTo" in st.get("inferred", [])), + "template": st.get("template") or "", + "review": shown_fact(st["review"], "review" in st.get("inferred", [])), + } for i, st in enumerate(s["steps"])], + }) + spec = body["spec"] + return { + "proposal": {"title": ("Proposed change" if data["before"] else "Proposed team"), "summary": proposal["summary"]} if proposal else None, + "specLine": "".join([f", version {spec['version']}" if spec["version"] else "", f", {spec['date']}" if spec["date"] else ""]), + "role": {k: filled(v, slot) for (k, v), slot in zip(body["role"].items(), ["your role", "what you drive, and how it's measured", "what you manage", "how many", "your home time zone"])}, + "verifier": names.get(body["verifier"], "") or "to fill in: the specialist or manager bot that checks work when a bot can't start a fresh checker", + "verifierWas": body.get("verifierWas", "") if changes else "", + "runs": [b for b in bot_views if b["runs"]], + "units": [b for b in bot_views if not b["runs"]], + "bots": [b for b in bot_views if not b["blank"]], + "handoffs": [{"line": ( + f"{names.get(h['from'], h['from'])} to {names.get(h['to'], h['to'])}: {h['what']}" + + (f" ({h['how']})" if h["how"] else "") + + f". Waits: {shown_fact(h.get('waits', ''), h.get('waitsInferred'))}" + ), "mark": mark(h), "was": was(h)} for h in body["handoffs"]], + "systems": [{"name": name(s), "mark": mark(s), "was": was(s), "connector": filled(s["connector"], "its connector"), + "uniqueId": filled(s["uniqueId"], "what finds one unit"), "recordFor": filled(s["recordFor"], "the facts it settles"), + "howToRead": s.get("howToRead") or ""} for s in body["systems"]], + "routines": [dict(routine_line(r), mark=mark(r), was=was(r)) for r in body.get("routines", [])], + "librarySkills": library_skills, + "sharedSkillsLine": ", ".join(s["name"] for s in body["skills"] if s["source"] == "library" and not s["steps"]), + "pluginSkillsLine": ", ".join(s["name"] for s in body["skills"] if s["source"] == "plugin"), + "missingSkillsLine": ", ".join(s["id"] for s in body["skills"] if s["source"] == "not found"), + } + + +def dotted(text): + text = (text or "").strip() + if not text: + return "" + return text if text[-1] in ".!?" else text + "." + + +def routine_line(routine): + parts = [ + f"**{routine['name']}.**", + f"Schedule: {dotted(shown_fact(routine['schedule'], routine['scheduleInferred']))}", + f"Skill: {dotted(shown_fact(routine['skill'], routine['skillInferred']))}", + f"Prompt: {dotted(shown_fact(routine['prompt'], routine['promptInferred']))}", + ] + runs = (routine.get("runsPerWeek") or "").strip() + if runs: + parts.insert(2, f"Runs per week: {dotted(runs)}") + if routine.get("relayedBy"): + parts.append(f"Relayed by: {dotted(routine['relayedBy'])}") + return {"line": " ".join(parts)} + + +def mask_fences(text): + lines, fence = [], None + for line in text.splitlines(): + match = re.match(r"^(```+|~~~+)", line) + if match: + mark = match.group(1)[0] + fence = mark if fence is None else (None if fence == mark else fence) + lines.append("") + else: + lines.append("" if fence else line) + return "\n".join(lines) + + +def repo_name_at(text, match): + start, end = match.start(), match.end() + before = text[start - 1] if start else "" + after = text[end] if end < len(text) else "" + if before in "/." or after == "/": + return False + # A dotted suffix such as notes.md is a file path. A sentence period is not. + if after == "." and end + 1 < len(text) and text[end + 1].isalpha(): + return False + left, right = match.group(1), match.group(2) + if left.lower() in PATH_WORDS or right.lower() in PATH_WORDS: + return False + if left.lower() in REPO_WORDS or right.lower() in REPO_WORDS: + return False + if "." in right and right.rsplit(".", 1)[-1] in {"md", "py", "json", "tsx", "txt", "mjs", "png"}: + return False + return True + + +def check_skill_text(path): + """Library guidance for one skill file. Problems are plain lines, prefixed with the skill slug.""" + text = Path(path).read_text(encoding="utf-8") + meta, body = frontmatter(text) + skill_id = meta.get("name") or Path(path).parent.name + problems = [] + + def add(message): + problems.append(f"skill {skill_id}: {message}") + + kind = skill_type(body) + description = meta.get("description", "") + prefix = TYPE_PREFIX.get(kind) + if not prefix: + add("type line is missing, so the description cannot be checked") + else: + if not description.startswith(prefix): + add(f"description must start with {prefix!r}") + if len(description) >= DESCRIPTION_LIMIT: + add(f"description is {len(description)} characters, which must be under {DESCRIPTION_LIMIT}") + if not description.endswith("."): + add("description must end with a period") + if re.search(r"[.!?]\s+[A-Z]", description): + add("description must be one sentence") + if "\u2014" in description or "\u2013" in description: + add("description has an em dash or an en dash") + visible = mask_fences(body) + if "\u2014" in visible or "\u2013" in visible: + add("body has an em dash or an en dash") + for index, line in enumerate(visible.splitlines(), 1): + if SCHEDULE_RE.search(line): + add(f"line {index} has a schedule or a time. Put that in the routine, not in the skill") + channel = CHANNEL_RE.search(line) + if channel: + add(f"line {index} names channel #{channel.group(1)}. Put that in the team spec") + if UUID_RE.search(line) or ticket_ids(line): + add(f"line {index} has a system id. Put that in the team spec") + for repo in REPO_RE.finditer(line): + if repo_name_at(line, repo): + add(f"line {index} names repo {repo.group(0)}. Put that in the team spec") + folder = Path(path).parent + for helper in sorted(folder.rglob("*")): + if not helper.is_file() or helper.name == "SKILL.md": + continue + if "__pycache__" in helper.parts or helper.suffix == ".pyc": + continue + rel = helper.relative_to(folder).as_posix() + if rel not in text: + add(f"helper file is not named by path: {rel}") + return problems + + +def ticket_ids(line): + found = [] + for match in TICKET_RE.finditer(line): + token = match.group(0) + if token.split("-", 1)[0] in STANDARD_PREFIXES: + continue + found.append(token) + return found + + +def check_step_lines(prefix, lines, problems, reviews_by_number=None, step_number=None): + found = labeled_fields("\n".join(lines)) + for label in STEP_LABELS: + if label not in found: + problems.append(f"{prefix}: {label} is missing") + elif not found[label].strip(): + problems.append(f"{prefix}: {label} is blank") + elif none_without_reason(found[label]): + problems.append(f"{prefix}: {label} is none without a reason") + elif label == "Hands to" and not states_wait(found[label]): + problems.append(f"{prefix}: Hands to does not say whether it waits") + for phrase in PLACEHOLDER_PHRASES: + if phrase in found.get(label, "").lower(): + problems.append(f"{prefix}: {label} is a placeholder") + break + prose = "\n".join(line for line in lines if not FIELD_LINE.match(line.strip())) + review = found.get("Needs your review", "") + if prose_asks(prose) and re.match(r"none\b", review.strip(), re.I) and not review_excuses_ask(review, reviews_by_number or {}, step_number, prose): + problems.append(f"{prefix}: the step asks or confirms, but Needs your review says no review") + uses = found.get("Uses", "") + if prose_calls_connector(prose) and re.match(r"none\b", uses.strip(), re.I): + problems.append(f"{prefix}: the step tries or calls a connector, but Uses says none") + + +def step_title(line): + bold = re.match(r"^\s*\d+\. \*\*(.+?)\.\*\*", line) + if bold: + return bold.group(1).strip() + plain = re.match(r"^\s*\d+\.\s+(.+)$", line) + words = re.sub(r"[*_`]+", "", plain.group(1)).split() if plain else [] + return " ".join(words[:6]) if words else "step" + + +def workflow_step_problems(path): + """Step fields for every numbered step of a workflow skill.""" + text = Path(path).read_text(encoding="utf-8") + meta, body = frontmatter(text) + if skill_type(body) != "workflow skill": + return [] + problems = [] + skill_id = meta.get("name") or Path(path).parent.name + steps = re.search(r"^## Steps\n(.*?)(?=^## |\Z)", body, re.M | re.S) + current, nested = None, None + blocks = [] + for line in (steps.group(1).splitlines() if steps else []): + top_step = re.match(r"^(\d+)\. (.*)$", line) + nested_step = re.match(r"^(\s+)\d+\. (.*)$", line) + if top_step: + current = {"number": int(top_step.group(1)), "title": step_title(line), "lines": [line.strip()]} + blocks.append(current) + nested = None + elif nested_step and current is not None: + nested = {"name": step_title(line), "lines": [line.strip()]} + current.setdefault("nested", []).append(nested) + elif line.strip() and current is not None: + (nested if nested is not None else current)["lines"].append(line.strip()) + if not blocks: + warnings.append(f"skill {skill_id}: workflow skill has no numbered steps, so its step fields were not checked") + return problems + if [block["title"] for block in blocks] != FIVE_STEPS: + warnings.append(f"skill {skill_id}: its steps are not the five workflow steps. Each numbered step is still checked for fields") + seen = {} + ordered = [] + reviews_by_number = {} + for block in blocks: + ordered.append((block["title"], block["lines"], block["number"])) + reviews_by_number[block["number"]] = labeled_fields("\n".join(block["lines"])).get("Needs your review", "") + for item in block.get("nested", []): + ordered.append((item["name"], item["lines"], block["number"])) + for title, lines, number in ordered: + check_step_lines(f"skill {skill_id}, step {title}", lines, problems, reviews_by_number, number) + signature = tuple(labeled_fields("\n".join(lines)).get(label, "") for label in STEP_LABELS) + if all(signature): + if signature in seen: + problems.append(f"skill {skill_id}, step {title}: field block repeats {seen[signature]}") + else: + seen[signature] = title + return problems + + +def check_library(folder): + warnings.clear() + problems = [] + if not folder: + return ["skills folder is missing"] + root = Path(folder) + files = sorted(root.glob("*/SKILL.md")) + if not files: + files = sorted(path for path in root.rglob("SKILL.md")) + if not files: + return [f"{folder}: no SKILL.md files"] + seen = set() + for path in files: + if path in seen: + continue + seen.add(path) + problems.extend(check_skill_text(path)) + problems.extend(workflow_step_problems(path)) + return problems + + +def check_spec_fields(spec): + problems = [] + team = spec.get("Your team") + if not team: + return ["spec: Your team is missing"] + if "Plugin maintainer" not in team["fields"]: + problems.append("spec: Plugin maintainer is missing") + if "Plugin delivery" not in team["fields"]: + problems.append("spec: Plugin delivery is missing") + by_name = {} + for entry in team["entries"]: + if entry["blank"] or is_slot(entry["name"]): + continue + by_name[entry["name"].lower()] = slug(entry["name"]) + fields = entry["fields"] + connectors = fields.get("Connectors") + if connectors is None: + problems.append(f"bot {entry['name']}: Connectors is missing") + elif not connectors.strip(): + problems.append(f"bot {entry['name']}: Connectors is blank") + elif none_without_reason(connectors): + problems.append(f"bot {entry['name']}: Connectors is none without a reason") + problems.extend(look_problems(entry["name"], fields)) + if entry["name"].lower() == "team builder" and "Plugin version applied" not in fields: + problems.append("bot Team Builder: Plugin version applied is missing") + for line in team["lists"].get("Handoffs", []): + parsed = parse_handoff(line, by_name) + if parsed.get("error"): + problems.append(parsed["error"]) + continue + handoff = parsed["handoff"] + who = f"{handoff.get('fromName', handoff['from'])} to {handoff.get('toName', handoff['to'])}" + if handoff["waitsInferred"]: + problems.append(f"handoff {who}: Waits is missing") + elif none_without_reason(handoff["waits"]): + problems.append(f"handoff {who}: Waits is none without a reason") + routines = spec.get("Routines") + if routines is None: + problems.append("spec: Routines is missing") + else: + for entry in routines["entries"]: + if entry["blank"] or is_slot(entry["name"]): + continue + fields = entry["fields"] + schedule = (fields.get("Schedule") or fields.get("Trigger") or "").strip() + if not schedule: + problems.append(f"routine {entry['name']}: schedule is missing") + skill = fields.get("Skill", "").strip() + if not skill: + problems.append(f"routine {entry['name']}: Skill is missing") + prompt = fields.get("Prompt", "").strip() + if not prompt: + problems.append(f"routine {entry['name']}: Prompt is missing") + warn_runs_per_week(entry["name"], fields) + systems = spec.get("Systems of record") + if systems: + for entry in systems["entries"]: + if entry["blank"] or is_slot(entry["name"]): + continue + fields = entry["fields"] + for key in ("Connector", "Holds", "Unique ID", "System of record for"): + if not fields.get(key, "").strip(): + problems.append(f"system {entry['name']}: {key} is missing") + if "How to read" in fields: + how = fields["How to read"].strip() + if not how: + problems.append(f"system {entry['name']}: How to read is blank") + elif none_without_reason(how): + problems.append(f"system {entry['name']}: How to read is none without a reason") + return problems + + +RUNS_PER_WEEK_RE = re.compile(r"(?i)^(?:about\s+)?\d+\b") + + +def warn_runs_per_week(name, fields): + """A missing or non-numeric count is a warning. It does not fail the check.""" + text = fields.get("Runs per week", "").strip() + if not text: + warnings.append(f"routine {name}: Runs per week is missing. Count it from the trigger") + return + if not RUNS_PER_WEEK_RE.match(text): + warnings.append( + f"routine {name}: Runs per week should start with a number, such as 5 or about 3" + ) + + +def record_looks(spec_path, current_path=None): + """Write each bot's assigned look into its empty Shape and Color lines in the spec. + + The looks are the ones the map draws for this spec, seeded from the current + spec when there is one, so they match what a proposal showed. A Shape or + Color the person set is never changed. A missing line is added after + Connectors, or at the end of the bot's fields. Returns one line per bot written. + """ + before = body_of(read_spec(current_path), None, None, Path(current_path).parent) if current_path else None + now = body_of(read_spec(spec_path), None, None, Path(spec_path).parent, before["bots"] if before else None) + looks = {b["name"]: {"Shape": b["shape"], "Color": b["color"]} for b in now["bots"] if not b["blank"]} + lines = Path(spec_path).read_text(encoding="utf-8").split("\n") + blocks, section, block = [], None, None + for index, line in enumerate(lines): + h2 = re.match(r"^## (.+?)\s*$", line) + h3 = re.match(r"^### (.+?)\s*$", line) + if h2: + section, block = h2.group(1), None + elif h3 and section == "Your team": + name = h3.group(1) + block = None if name in LISTS or is_slot(name) else {"name": name, "fields": {}, "last": index} + if block: + blocks.append(block) + elif block is not None: + field = re.match(r"^- ([^:]+):\s*(.*)$", line) + if field: + block["fields"][field.group(1).strip()] = (index, field.group(2).strip()) + block["last"] = index + edits, written = [], [] + for block in blocks: + look = looks.get(block["name"]) + if not look: + continue + filled = [] + for label in ("Shape", "Color"): + if label in block["fields"]: + index, text = block["fields"][label] + if value(text): + continue + edits.append((index, "replace", f"- {label}: {look[label]}")) + else: + anchor = block["fields"].get("Connectors", (block["last"], ""))[0] + if label == "Color" and "Shape" in block["fields"]: + anchor = block["fields"]["Shape"][0] + edits.append((anchor, "after", f"- {label}: {look[label]}")) + filled.append(f"{label} {look[label]}") + if filled: + written.append(f"{block['name']}: {', '.join(filled)}") + for index, kind, text in sorted(edits, key=lambda e: (e[0], e[2].startswith("- Color")), reverse=True): + if kind == "replace": + lines[index] = text + else: + lines.insert(index + 1, text) + if edits: + Path(spec_path).write_text("\n".join(lines), encoding="utf-8") + return written + + +def run_check(spec_path, skills_dir): + problems = [] + # Library check clears warnings, so it runs first and a spec warning still prints. + if skills_dir: + problems.extend(check_library(skills_dir)) + if spec_path: + problems.extend(check_spec_fields(read_spec(spec_path))) + if not spec_path and not skills_dir: + problems.append("say what to check: --spec, --skills, or both") + return problems + + +def main(): + ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__.split("\n\n")[0]) + ap.add_argument("--spec") + ap.add_argument("--skills") + ap.add_argument("--proposal") + ap.add_argument("--current") + ap.add_argument("--current-skills") + ap.add_argument("--canvas") + ap.add_argument("--document") + ap.add_argument("--json") + ap.add_argument("--pictures") + ap.add_argument("--check", action="store_true") + ap.add_argument("--record-looks", action="store_true") + args = ap.parse_args() + if args.check: + problems = run_check(args.spec, args.skills) + for warning in warnings: + print(f"warning: {warning}", file=sys.stderr) + if problems: + for problem in problems: + print(problem) + sys.exit(1) + print("Check passed.") + return + if not args.spec: + sys.exit("say which spec to read: --spec") + if args.record_looks: + written = record_looks(args.spec, args.current) + for w in warnings: + if w.startswith("bot "): + print(f"warning: {w}", file=sys.stderr) + print("Looks recorded: " + "; ".join(written) + "." if written else "Looks recorded: every bot already has its Shape and Color.") + return + if not (args.canvas or args.document or args.json): + sys.exit("say where to write the map: --canvas, --document, or both") + + if args.pictures and not Path(args.pictures).is_dir(): + warnings.append(f"--pictures {args.pictures} is not a folder, so the map draws each bot's shape and color") + before = body_of(read_spec(args.current), args.current_skills or args.skills, args.pictures, Path(args.current).parent) if args.current else None + now = body_of(read_spec(args.spec), args.skills, args.pictures, Path(args.spec).parent, before["bots"] if before else None) + summary = args.proposal + if before: + counts = compare(now, before) + if not summary: + parts = [f"{k} {v}" for k, v in (("adds", counts["added"]), ("changes", counts["changed"]), ("removes", counts["removed"])) if v] + summary = f"This proposal {', '.join(parts)}." if parts else "This proposal changes nothing on the map." + data = {"proposal": {"summary": summary, "against": before["spec"]["version"] if before else ""} if (summary or before) else None, "now": now, "before": before} + + if args.canvas: + Path(args.canvas).write_text(canvas(data), encoding="utf-8") + if args.document: + Path(args.document).write_text(render(DOCUMENT_TEMPLATE.read_text(encoding="utf-8"), document_view(data)), encoding="utf-8") + if args.json: + Path(args.json).write_text(json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2) + "\n", encoding="utf-8") + for w in warnings: + print(f"warning: {w}", file=sys.stderr) + print(f"Team map built from spec {now['spec']['version'] or '(no version yet)'}: {len(now['bots'])} entries, {len(now['skills'])} skills, {len(now['handoffs'])} handoffs" + (", as a proposal" if data["proposal"] else "")) + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + main() diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/team-map-document.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/team-map-document.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5632991c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/team-map-document.md @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@ +# Team map + +{{#proposal}} +> **{{title}}.** {{summary}} Nothing changes until you say yes. +{{/proposal}} + +Built from the team spec{{specLine}}. This is the team map as a Markdown document, for accounts without canvases. It's rebuilt from the spec after each change, and never edited by hand. + +## Your team + +- **Role:** {{role.role}} +- **Business outcomes and KPIs:** {{role.outcomes}} +- **Unit of work:** {{role.unit}}, {{role.howMany}} +- **Home time zone:** {{role.timeZone}} + +### Runs the team + +Who verifies, when a bot can't start a fresh checker: {{verifier}}{{#verifierWas}} (changed; was {{verifierWas}}){{/verifierWas}}. + +{{#runs}} +- **{{name}}**{{mark}}. {{typeLabel}}. Skills: {{skillsLine}}. +{{#was}} + - Was: {{.}} +{{/was}} +{{/runs}} + +### One blueprint for each kind of unit + +The first bot of each kind that works, the model bot, exports itself as the bot template, and each next unit's bot is built from it. + +{{#units}} +- **{{name}}**{{mark}}. {{typeLabel}}{{#blueprint}}, bot blueprint{{/blueprint}}. Skills: {{skillsLine}}. +{{#was}} + - Was: {{.}} +{{/was}} +{{/units}} + +### How they hand off + +{{#handoffs}} +- {{line}}{{mark}} +{{#was}} + - Was: {{.}} +{{/was}} +{{/handoffs}} +{{^handoffs}} +None yet. +{{/handoffs}} + +### Systems of record + +{{#systems}} +- **{{name}}**{{mark}}. Connector: {{connector}}. Unique ID for one unit: {{uniqueId}}. System of record for: {{recordFor}}.{{#howToRead}} How to read: {{howToRead}}.{{/howToRead}} +{{#was}} + - Was: {{.}} +{{/was}} +{{/systems}} + +### Routines + +{{#routines}} +- {{line}}{{mark}} +{{#was}} + - Was: {{.}} +{{/was}} +{{/routines}} +{{^routines}} +None yet. +{{/routines}} + +## Bots + +{{#bots}} +### {{name}}{{mark}} + +{{typeLabel}}{{#blueprint}}, bot blueprint{{/blueprint}}. + +{{#showTemplate}} +- **Model bot:** {{modelBot}} +- **Bot template:** {{botTemplate}} +{{/showTemplate}} +- **Skills:** {{skillsLine}} +- **Connectors:** {{systemsLine}} +- **Look:** {{lookLine}} +{{#was}} +- Was: {{.}} +{{/was}} + +{{/bots}} +## Skills + +{{#librarySkills}} +### {{name}}{{mark}} + +{{description}} + +- **Template, where it lives:** {{templateLocation}} +{{#templateOwner}} +- **Template owner:** {{templateOwner}} +{{/templateOwner}} +- **Waits for your review at:** {{reviewsLine}} +{{#was}} +- Was: {{.}} +{{/was}} + +1. **Load.** {{load}} +2. **Do the work.** Your own named steps: +{{#steps}} + {{n}}. **{{name}}**{{mark}}. + Does: {{does}} + Pulls from: {{pullsFrom}} + Uses: {{usesLine}} + Produces: {{produces}} + Hands to: {{handsTo}} + Needs your review: {{review}} +{{#was}} + - Was: {{.}} +{{/was}} + {{/steps}} +3. **Verify.** {{verify}} +4. **Record.** {{record}} +5. **Hand off.** {{handOff}} + +{{/librarySkills}} +{{#sharedSkillsLine}} +Shared skills in your library, which the spec only names: {{sharedSkillsLine}}. + +{{/sharedSkillsLine}} +{{#pluginSkillsLine}} +Team Builder Stack skills, which come with the installed plugin, so the spec only names them: {{pluginSkillsLine}}. +{{/pluginSkillsLine}} +{{#missingSkillsLine}} + +Named in the spec but not in the skill library yet: {{missingSkillsLine}}. +{{/missingSkillsLine}} diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/team-map.canvas.tsx b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/team-map.canvas.tsx new file mode 100644 index 000000000..776a30ebf --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-map/team-map.canvas.tsx @@ -0,0 +1,758 @@ +// The team map: a Grok Bot canvas built from the team spec. build_team_map.py fills the data block below +// from the spec and the skills it names; everything else in this file is the map's layout, kept only here. +// Three levels: the team, one bot or bot blueprint, and one skill with its steps. When the data carries a +// proposal, the map shows the proposed team, and a switch shows the current one beside it. +import { Button, Divider, Grid, H1, H2, H3, Pill, Row, Stack, Text, useHostTheme, useState } from 'cursor/canvas' + +type Change = 'added' | 'changed' | 'removed' +interface Marked { + change?: Change + /** For a changed item: what it was, one line per field */ + was?: string[] +} +interface MapStep extends Marked { + name: string + does: string + uses: string[] + template: string + review: string + pullsFrom?: string + usesText?: string + produces?: string + handsTo?: string + /** Field keys the spec or skill did not label. Shown as inferred, never filled in. */ + inferred?: string[] +} +interface MapPhase { + title: string + lines: string[] + parsed: Record +} +interface MapSkill extends Marked { + id: string + name: string + description: string + type?: string + source: 'plugin' | 'library' | 'not found' + templateLocation: string + templateOwner: string + load: string + verify: string + record: string + handOff: string + steps: MapStep[] + phases?: MapPhase[] +} +interface MapBot extends Marked { + id: string + name: string + /** True for an entry the spec hasn't filled in yet */ + blank: boolean + type: string + blueprint: boolean + modelBot: string + botTemplate: string + skills: string[] + systems: string[] + connectors?: string + connectorsInferred?: boolean + /** One of the shapes in BOT_SHAPES, drawn with CSS */ + shape?: string + /** A hex color such as #2563eb */ + color?: string + /** A small PNG, JPEG, GIF, or WebP data URI built from the person's picture, or empty */ + picture?: string +} +interface MapHandoff extends Marked { + from: string + to: string + what: string + how: string + waits?: string + waitsInferred?: boolean + fromName?: string + toName?: string +} +interface MapSystem extends Marked { + name: string + blank: boolean + connector: string + holds: string + uniqueId: string + recordFor: string + howToRead?: string + howToReadInferred?: boolean +} +interface MapRoutine extends Marked { + name: string + schedule: string + scheduleInferred?: boolean + skill: string + skillInferred?: boolean + prompt: string + promptInferred?: boolean + relayedBy?: string + relayedByInferred?: boolean +} +interface MapBody { + spec: { version: string; date: string; changeLog: string } + role: { role: string; outcomes: string; unit: string; howMany: string; timeZone: string } + voiceSkill: string + /** The bot that checks work when a bot can't start a fresh checker itself */ + verifier: string + /** In a proposal, who verified before, when that changes */ + verifierWas?: string + bots: MapBot[] + skills: MapSkill[] + handoffs: MapHandoff[] + systems: MapSystem[] + routines?: MapRoutine[] +} +interface TeamMap { + /** Set while the person decides: what changes, and the spec version it changes, or empty for a new team */ + proposal: { summary: string; against: string } | null + now: MapBody + /** The current team, when the proposal changes one */ + before: MapBody | null +} + +const MAP: TeamMap = /* TEAM_MAP_DATA_START */ { + proposal: null, + now: { + spec: { version: '', date: '', changeLog: '' }, + role: { role: '', outcomes: '', unit: '', howMany: '', timeZone: '' }, + voiceSkill: '', + verifier: '', + bots: [], + skills: [], + handoffs: [], + systems: [], + routines: [], + }, + before: null, +} /* TEAM_MAP_DATA_END */ + +/** Anything a component can hold, typed from the SDK so the canvas imports nothing else. */ +type Children = Parameters[0]['children'] + +type Place = { level: 'team' } | { level: 'bot'; bot: string } | { level: 'skill'; bot: string; skill: string } + +const TYPE_LABEL: Record = { builder: 'Builder', manager: 'Manager', owner: 'Owner', specialist: 'Specialist' } +const CHANGE_LABEL: Record = { added: 'Added', changed: 'Changed', removed: 'Removed' } +const CHANGE_TONE: Record = { added: 'added', changed: 'renamed', removed: 'deleted' } +const plural = (n: number, word: string) => `${n} ${word}${n === 1 ? '' : 's'}` + +// Each shape is plain CSS on a div, so the map carries no image files and no vector artwork. +const BOT_SHAPES: Record = { + circle: { radius: '50%' }, + square: { radius: '22%' }, + hexagon: { clip: 'polygon(25% 6%, 75% 6%, 100% 50%, 75% 94%, 25% 94%, 0% 50%)' }, + capsule: { radius: '999px', wide: true }, + leaf: { radius: '50% 0' }, + drop: { radius: '50% 50% 50% 0' }, +} +const HEX_COLOR = /^#[0-9a-fA-F]{6}$/ +// The same cap build_team_map.py uses. A longer or other kind of picture is not drawn. +const PICTURE_CAP = 24 * 1024 +const PICTURE_URI = /^data:image\/(?:png|jpeg|gif|webp);base64,[A-Za-z0-9+/]+=*$/ + +function initials(name: string) { + const words = name.split(/\s+/).filter((w) => /^[A-Za-z0-9]/.test(w)) + const kept = words.length > 1 ? words.filter((w) => !/^bots?$/i.test(w)) : words + return kept.slice(0, 2).map((w) => w[0].toUpperCase()).join('') +} + +function textOn(color: string) { + const [r, g, b] = [1, 3, 5].map((i) => parseInt(color.slice(i, i + 2), 16) / 255) + return 0.2126 * r + 0.7152 * g + 0.0722 * b > 0.6 ? 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.78)' : '#ffffff' +} + +function BotMark({ bot, size }: { bot: MapBot; size: number }) { + const theme = useHostTheme() + // The source that failed to load. A different source, such as the other view's picture, gets a fresh try. + const [failed, setFailed] = useState('') + const look = BOT_SHAPES[bot.shape ?? ''] ?? BOT_SHAPES.circle + const color = bot.color && HEX_COLOR.test(bot.color) ? bot.color : theme.accent.primary + const picture = bot.picture ?? '' + if (picture !== failed && picture.length <= PICTURE_CAP && PICTURE_URI.test(picture)) { + return ( + setFailed(picture)} + style={{ width: size, height: size, objectFit: 'cover', borderRadius: '22%', border: `2px solid ${color}`, flexShrink: 0 }} + /> + ) + } + return ( +
+ {initials(bot.name)} +
+ ) +} + +function needsReview(value: string | undefined) { + const text = (value ?? '').trim() + return text.length > 0 && !/^none\b/i.test(text) +} + +function Value({ text, slot }: { text: string; slot: string }) { + return text ? {text} : {`To fill in: ${slot}`} +} + +function Mark({ item, showChanges }: { item: Marked; showChanges: boolean }) { + if (!showChanges || !item.change) return null + return ( + + {CHANGE_LABEL[item.change]} + + ) +} + +function Was({ item, showChanges }: { item: Marked; showChanges: boolean }) { + if (!showChanges || item.change !== 'changed' || !item.was?.length) return null + return ( + + {item.was.map((w) => ( + {`Was: ${w}`} + ))} + + ) +} + +function Tile({ item, onOpen, children }: { item: Marked & { blank?: boolean }; onOpen?: () => void; children: Children }) { + const theme = useHostTheme() + const removed = item.change === 'removed' + return ( +
(e.key === 'Enter' && onOpen ? onOpen() : undefined)} + style={{ + border: `1px ${item.blank ? 'dashed' : 'solid'} ${theme.stroke.secondary}`, + borderRadius: 10, + padding: 14, + background: item.blank ? 'transparent' : theme.bg.elevated, + cursor: onOpen ? 'pointer' : 'default', + opacity: removed ? 0.6 : 1, + textDecoration: removed ? 'line-through' : 'none', + }} + > + {children} +
+ ) +} + +function Field({ label, children }: { label: string; children: Children }) { + return ( + + + {label} + + {children} + + ) +} + +function Crumbs({ parts, go }: { parts: { label: string; to?: Place }[]; go: (p: Place) => void }) { + return ( + + {parts.map((p, i) => ( + + {i > 0 && /} + {p.to ? ( + + ) : ( + {p.label} + )} + + ))} + + ) +} + +function BotTile({ bot, body, showChanges, go }: { bot: MapBot; body: MapBody; showChanges: boolean; go: (p: Place) => void }) { + const skills = bot.skills.map((id) => body.skills.find((s) => s.id === id)).filter((s): s is MapSkill => !!s) + const reviews = skills.reduce((n, s) => n + s.steps.filter((st) => needsReview(st.review)).length, 0) + return ( + go({ level: 'bot', bot: bot.id })}> + + + {TYPE_LABEL[bot.type] ?? 'Type to fill in'} + {bot.blueprint && ( + + Bot blueprint + + )} + {body.verifier === bot.id && Verifies} + + + + +

{bot.name}

+ + + {bot.blank + ? 'One block in Your team. Every unit of this kind gets a bot built from its bot template.' + : `${plural(skills.length, 'skill')} · ${plural(bot.systems.length, 'system')} · ${plural(reviews, 'review')}`} + + + + + ) +} + +function TeamLevel({ body, showChanges, go }: { body: MapBody; showChanges: boolean; go: (p: Place) => void }) { + const theme = useHostTheme() + const isUnit = (b: MapBot) => b.blank || b.blueprint || b.type === 'owner' + const runs = body.bots.filter((b) => !isUnit(b)) + const units = body.bots.filter(isUnit) + const name = (id: string) => body.bots.find((b) => b.id === id)?.name ?? id + return ( + + + + Team + +

Your team

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

Runs the team

+ + + + {showChanges && body.verifierWas && ( + + Changed + + )} + + {showChanges && body.verifierWas && {`Was: ${body.verifierWas}`}} + + + {runs.map((b) => ( + + ))} + + + +

One blueprint for each kind of unit

+ The first bot of each kind that works, the model bot, exports itself as the bot template, and each next unit's bot is built from it. + + {units.map((b) => ( + + ))} + + + {body.handoffs.length > 0 && ( + +

How they hand off

+ + {body.handoffs.map((h, i) => ( +
+ + {`${name(h.from)} to ${name(h.to)}`} + {h.what} + {h.how && ( + + {h.how} + + )} + + {h.waits && !h.waitsInferred ? `Waits: ${h.waits}` : 'Waits: Inferred'} + + + + +
+ ))} + + + )} + +

Systems of record

+ + {body.systems.map((s) => ( + + + + {s.name} + + + + + + + + + + + + {s.howToRead ? ( + + {s.howToRead} + + ) : null} + + + + ))} + + + +

Routines

+ + + + ) +} + +function BotLevel({ body, bot, showChanges, go }: { body: MapBody; bot: MapBot; showChanges: boolean; go: (p: Place) => void }) { + const theme = useHostTheme() + const mine = body.handoffs.filter((h) => h.from === bot.id || h.to === bot.id) + const name = (id: string) => body.bots.find((b) => b.id === id)?.name ?? id + return ( + + + + + {TYPE_LABEL[bot.type] ?? 'Type to fill in'} + {bot.blueprint && ( + + Bot blueprint + + )} + + + + +

{bot.name}

+ + + + {bot.blueprint && ( + + + + + + + + + )} + +

Skills

+ + {bot.skills.map((id) => { + const s = body.skills.find((x) => x.id === id) + if (!s) return null + return ( + go({ level: 'skill', bot: bot.id, skill: id })}> + + + {s.name} + + {s.description || (s.source === 'not found' ? 'Not found in the skill library yet.' : '')} + + + + {s.steps.length > 0 && {plural(s.steps.length, 'step')}} + {s.steps.some((st) => needsReview(st.review)) && ( + + {plural(s.steps.filter((st) => needsReview(st.review)).length, 'review')} + + )} + {s.source === 'plugin' ? 'Team Builder Stack' : s.source === 'library' ? 'Your library' : 'Not found'} + + + + + ) + })} + + + + +

Connectors

+ {bot.connectors && !bot.connectorsInferred ? ( + {bot.connectors} + ) : ( + Inferred + )} + + +

Handoffs

+ {mine.length ? ( + + {mine.map((h, i) => ( +
+ + + {`${name(h.from)} to ${name(h.to)}`} + + + + {h.what} + + + {h.waits && !h.waitsInferred ? `Waits: ${h.waits}` : 'Waits: Inferred'} + + +
+ ))} + + ) : ( + None yet. + )} + + + +

Routines

+ + + + ) +} + +type StepFact = 'does' | 'pullsFrom' | 'uses' | 'produces' | 'handsTo' | 'review' + +function fact({ step, key, value }: { step: MapStep; key: StepFact; value: string | undefined }) { + if (step.inferred?.includes(key)) return value ? `Inferred: ${value}` : 'Inferred' + return value || '' +} + +function RoutineList({ routines, showChanges }: { routines: MapRoutine[]; showChanges: boolean }) { + if (!routines.length) return None yet. + return ( + + {routines.map((routine, i) => ( +
+ + + {routine.name} + + + {`Schedule: ${routine.scheduleInferred || !routine.schedule ? 'Inferred' : routine.schedule}`} + {`Skill: ${routine.skillInferred || !routine.skill ? 'Inferred' : routine.skill}`} + {`Prompt: ${routine.promptInferred || !routine.prompt ? 'Inferred' : routine.prompt}`} + {routine.relayedBy ? {`Relayed by: ${routine.relayedBy}`} : null} + + +
+ ))} + + ) +} + +function routinesFor(body: MapBody, bot: MapBot) { + const prefix = `${bot.name.toLowerCase()}:` + return (body.routines ?? []).filter((routine) => { + const name = routine.name.toLowerCase() + return name === bot.name.toLowerCase() || name.startsWith(prefix) + }) +} + +function StepRow({ step, n, showChanges }: { step: MapStep; n: number; showChanges: boolean }) { + const theme = useHostTheme() + return ( +
+ + + {String(n)} + {step.name} + {needsReview(step.review) && ( + + Your review + + )} + + + + + {fact({ step, key: 'does', value: step.does })} + + + {fact({ step, key: 'pullsFrom', value: step.pullsFrom })} + + + {fact({ step, key: 'uses', value: step.usesText || (step.uses.length ? step.uses.join(', ') : '') })} + + + {fact({ step, key: 'produces', value: step.produces })} + + + {fact({ step, key: 'handsTo', value: step.handsTo })} + + + {fact({ step, key: 'review', value: step.review })} + + + + +
+ ) +} + +function SkillLevel({ bot, skill, showChanges, go }: { bot: MapBot; skill: MapSkill; showChanges: boolean; go: (p: Place) => void }) { + const fixed = [ + { n: 1, title: 'Load', text: skill.load }, + { n: 3, title: 'Verify', text: skill.verify }, + { n: 4, title: 'Record', text: skill.record }, + { n: 5, title: 'Hand off', text: skill.handOff }, + ] + const phase = (p: { n: number; title: string; text: string }) => ( + + + {String(p.n)} + {p.title} + + {p.text} + + ) + return ( + + + + + {skill.source === 'plugin' ? 'Team Builder Stack' : skill.source === 'library' ? 'Your library' : 'Not found'} + + +

{skill.name}

+ {skill.description && {skill.description}} + + + {skill.source !== 'library' || skill.steps.length === 0 ? ( + + {skill.source === 'plugin' + ? 'It comes with the Team Builder Stack plugin, so its steps live in the plugin and the spec only names it.' + : skill.source === 'library' + ? 'A shared skill in your library, such as the writing voice or a guideline. The spec only names it.' + : 'The spec names this skill, but it isn’t in the skill library yet. Write a workflow skill writes it.'} + + ) : ( + + + + + + {skill.templateOwner && ( + + {skill.templateOwner} + + )} + + {skill.steps.filter((s) => needsReview(s.review)).map((s) => s.name).join(', ') || 'No step'} + + + + {phase(fixed[0])} + + + 2 + Do the work + + Your own named steps + + + + {skill.steps.map((st, i) => ( + + ))} + + + {fixed.slice(1).map(phase)} + + )} + + ) +} + +export default function TeamMapCanvas() { + const theme = useHostTheme() + const [place, setPlace] = useState({ level: 'team' }) + const [showCurrent, setShowCurrent] = useState(false) + const body = showCurrent && MAP.before ? MAP.before : MAP.now + const showChanges = !!MAP.proposal && !showCurrent && !!MAP.before + const bot = place.level !== 'team' ? body.bots.find((b) => b.id === place.bot) : undefined + const skill = place.level === 'skill' ? body.skills.find((s) => s.id === place.skill) : undefined + const go = (p: Place) => setPlace(p) + return ( + + {MAP.proposal && ( +
+ + + {MAP.before ? (showCurrent ? 'Current team' : 'Proposed change') : 'Proposed team'} + {`${MAP.proposal.summary} Nothing changes until you say yes.`} + + {MAP.before && ( + + setShowCurrent(false)}> + Proposed + + setShowCurrent(true)}> + Current + + + )} + +
+ )} + {place.level === 'skill' && bot && skill ? ( + + ) : place.level !== 'team' && bot ? ( + + ) : ( + + )} + + + {`Built from the team spec${body.spec.version ? `, version ${body.spec.version}` : ''}${body.spec.date ? `, ${body.spec.date}` : ''}. The map is rebuilt from the spec after each change, and never edited by hand.`} + + + ) +} diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-spec-template.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-spec-template.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..11c3c1c13 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/build-my-team/references/team-spec-template.md @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +# Team spec + +This is the blank team spec Build my team fills in with the person and writes to `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md`. It's the one source of truth for how their team is put together, and the team map is built from it with the [team map template](team-map/README.md). Fill a field from the person's real systems and answers, and leave it empty rather than guess. Never put passwords, keys, customer data, or facts about one unit in it. + +Keep the shape: one `- Field: value` line per field, one `### ` block per entry, and one line per item in a list. Copy an entry block for each new entry. Write a change here first, after a yes, then change the bot it's about, then rebuild the team map. The map is never edited by hand. + +## Updated + +- Version: +- Date: +- Change log: + +## Your role + +The person’s role, the business outcomes they drive and their KPIs, their unit of work and how many they carry, their home time zone, and the weekly bot review, with its day, time, and length. + +Unit of work is what carries its own history, sized to the person’s scope of work, such as an account, a project, or a renewal book. Every routine schedule is written in the home time zone, wherever the person is when it’s made. + +- Role: +- Business outcomes and KPIs: +- Unit of work: +- How many you carry: +- Home time zone: +- Weekly bot review: + +## Your team + +One bot blueprint for each kind of unit, plus Team Builder, and the handoffs between bots. Each blueprint links to its bot template and never copies it. + +Who verifies names the specialist or manager bot that checks a bot’s work when the bot can’t start a fresh checker itself, or says none: then the bot writes nothing and tells the manager bot, or the person if there’s no manager bot, that the check couldn’t run. Add one block for each bot blueprint or single bot, named the way the person names it. Type is manager, owner, specialist, or builder. Operating guide names the skill this bot reads at the start of every task, one per bot type. Blueprint is yes when every unit of that kind gets a bot built from one bot template, and no for a single bot. A queue one owner bot owns, such as tickets or candidates, is one block. Skills are named by their slugs, never copied. Connectors names the connectors this bot uses, or none and why. Team Builder’s skills come from the installed Team Builder Stack plugin. Plugin maintainer is optional. It names who maintains this plugin for the person. Plugin delivery is installed, or synced into the library by the plugin maintainer. Installed is the default. Synced means there is no plugin install, and the maintainer copies the stack skills into the person’s library. Those copies are how every bot reads them. An approved change to a skill this plugin ships is a suggestion, the way Run the weekly bot review says. If that name is a bot, send it with Delegate work. If it is a person, or the line is empty, Team Builder gives the person the text to send. A handoff’s ends are a bot named under Your team, You, or Every bot. Waits says whether the sender waits, and for what, or no and why. + +Shape, Color, and Picture are optional, and only change how the team map draws that bot. Shape is circle, square, hexagon, capsule, leaf, or drop. Color is a hex color, such as #2563eb. Leave either empty and the map picks one from the bot's id, which is its name in lowercase with hyphens, so no two bots on the map share both. Picture is the path to a picture file on the computer your bots share, such as a PNG. The map shrinks it and shows it in place of the shape; without one, or when it can't be read, the map shows the shape and color. See the [team map template](team-map/README.md#how-each-bot-looks). + +- Who verifies: +- Plugin maintainer: +- Plugin delivery: installed + +### Team Builder + +- Type: builder +- Operating guide: team-builder-operating-guide +- Blueprint: no +- Model bot: +- Bot template: +- Plugin version applied: +- Connectors: +- Shape: +- Color: +- Picture: +- Skills: set-up-team-builder, build-my-team, build-a-bot, write-a-workflow-skill, coach-my-bots, check-my-bots, run-the-weekly-bot-review, apply-a-plugin-update, clean-up-memory, retire-a-bot, set-my-writing-voice, save-what-we-learned, explain-how-it-works, triage-work, delegate-work, verify-work, plan-the-work, inform-manager-bot, inform-team-builder, run-review-panel, team-builder-operating-guide + +### bot + +- Type: +- Operating guide: +- Blueprint: +- Model bot: +- Bot template: +- Connectors: +- Shape: +- Color: +- Picture: +- Skills: + +### Handoffs + +- to : . How: . Waits: . + +## Your workflows + +Which skill runs each workflow and for which bot blueprint, where each workflow’s deliverable template lives, the voice skill in use, and the backlog of work worth a skill. + +Add one block for each workflow. Runs on names a block under Your team. Template is the location only, never the content: “in the skill”, a Grok Bot document or canvas id, or a link plus the connector that reads it. Template owner is filled in when someone else owns it. + +- Writing voice skill: + +### + +- Skill: +- Runs on: +- Template: +- Template owner: + +### Backlog + +- : , , . + +## Systems of record + +For each system: its connector, what it holds, the unique ID that finds one unit, and what it’s the system of record for. How far back to read is set in each workflow skill’s load step, not here. + +Add one block for each system, named the way the person names it. Unique ID is what finds one unit there, such as the account ID. How to read is optional. It names which tool to use and the known pitfalls, or no connector. + +### + +- Connector: +- Holds: +- Unique ID: +- System of record for: +- How to read: + +## Records and logs + +Where each unit’s record, drafts, log, and tasks go, what each log records, where reports across units go, the team map’s canvas id or document link, the review list folder, and the skill notes folder. + +What each log line records is agreed with the person; for sensitive work, keep to IDs and links. The team map is a canvas by default, so record its canvas id, or its document link when canvases aren’t available. + +The task list is where each unit’s tasks are tracked and marked done, read and written with its connector. Bots mark a task done there without a yes. + +Finished work is where each finished piece is filed, such as one folder or page per unit, with its name, unit, date, and link. It’s optional: without it, finished pieces are filed in the unit’s record. + +- Unit record: +- Drafts: +- Unit log: +- Task list: +- Finished work: +- What each log line records: +- Reports across units: +- Team map canvas id: +- Team map document link: +- Review list: +- Skill notes: + +## Routines + +Saved here only. The bot that runs a routine creates or changes the live routine from this text, in its own chat, after a yes. The weekly check compares each live routine with this section. + +One block per routine. The heading is the bot and the routine’s name. Trigger is the schedule. Runs per week is how many times it runs in a normal week, counted from the trigger, such as 5 for once each weekday. For an event trigger, write about how many, and where the number came from. The weekly bot review checks it. Skill is the one skill that routine runs. Prompt is the full prompt text. Relayed by is optional. Fill it with the other bot's routine, such as the morning kickoff, when this routine works from the dated file that routine writes. Otherwise write none and the reason, or leave the line out. Copy a block for each routine. + +### Team Builder: Weekly review prep + +- Trigger: Weekly, starting 2 hours before the weekly bot review, in the home time zone from Your role; flexible, never late +- Runs per week: 1 +- Skill: run-the-weekly-bot-review +- Prompt: Read Team Builder operating guide and follow it. Then run Run the weekly bot review, prep part. +- Relayed by: none, this routine starts on its own schedule + +### : + +- Trigger: +- Runs per week: +- Skill: +- Prompt: +- Relayed by: + +## Kept elsewhere, not here + +The spec holds only what Grok Bot doesn't already keep, and points to the rest: + +- Each workflow’s steps and its “you review this” marks: the workflow skill. +- Rules about what needs a yes, and decisions that stay with the person: each bot type’s operating guide, a skill in your library, and for a rule that must never be broken, the person’s Auto Review rules too. +- A kind of bot’s operating guide and skills: its operating guide skill and the bot template its model bot exported. +- The live routine on the bot is created from the Routines section. A routine is saved only from that section. +- How far back a workflow reads: that workflow skill’s load step. +- What’s connected: the connectors. +- How the bots write: the writing voice skill. +- What each Team Builder skill does: the skill descriptions in the installed plugin. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/check-my-bots/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/check-my-bots/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dab29212f --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/check-my-bots/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +--- +name: check-my-bots +description: "Use when the person wants their bots or setup checked; compares them with the spec and proposes fixes." +--- + +# Check my bots + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +Read only. Create, save, schedule, send, delete, and change nothing without the person's yes. The only things it writes, each after a yes, are the team spec when there isn't one yet and the team map built from it. When you can't see something, ask the person to show you. Never guess. + +This is discovery, not only an audit: learn how the person really uses their bots, then recommend changes from that and the principles. + +## Steps + +1. Read the team spec and the [principles file](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md) in full. + Does: Read the spec and the principles in full. + Pulls from: the team spec and the principles file + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the spec and principles for this pass + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only reads +2. Interview them. Ask what they use each bot for, what works, what they work around or redo by hand, and what they wish it did. Ask about one real, recent piece of work, not the usual case. Ask which workflows touch sensitive data, and check those first. Say what you'll look at: all their bots, or only the ones a question is about. Ask the person before you message any bot. On a scheduled run, draft the findings and end with a Needs you list instead of waiting for an answer. + Does: Interview them about one real piece of work, and what they wish each bot did. + Pulls from: the person's answers + Uses: none, this step only asks + Produces: what to look at, and which workflows touch sensitive data + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the answers + Needs your review: what each bot is for, and what you may message +3. List what exists, from the spec and for yourself: each bot's about line, profile facts, operating guide, and routines, with each schedule's time zone; the skills in their library; each connector, with one read-only lookup on a real record; and recent routine runs, as the person shows them. Mark what you couldn't see, and don't fill it in. + Does: List bots, guides, routines, library skills, and connectors, with one read-only lookup each. + Pulls from: the spec, and one real record per connector + Uses: each connector, one read-only lookup + Produces: the list, with anything you could not see marked + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, a missing view is marked, not guessed +4. **Check it against the spec.** + Does: Compare what is set up with the team spec. + Pulls from: the spec, the guides, the profile facts, and the routines + Uses: none, this step compares what the list step already opened + Produces: the spec findings + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: whether the manager bot is the primary bot + - **Copies of skills.** A library skill with a Team Builder skill's name takes the installed plugin skill's place, so bots run the copy and miss every plugin update. It may be the person's own skill, so never offer to remove it: offer to rename it. Also list installed plugins whose skills no operating guide names, and say when the library is large enough that its skills may be cut from the skill list. Never delete a skill or uninstall a plugin; removing either is the person's call. A live skill copy in a working folder, such as under `/workspace`, is a second source of truth; one dated backup kept before an edit is fine. Propose removing each live copy. + - **Bots of one type follow one guide.** Every bot of a type follows the same operating guide and has the same skills. Only its unit differs, from the team spec, and it is named by its unit only. Flag drift, and any fact about one unit in a shared skill or guide. + - **The spec matches what's set up:** each blueprint and its bot template link, each bot's unit, each handoff, Who verifies, and each workflow's skill. The team map was built from the current spec. No fact is kept in two places. + - **About line.** Each bot's description is one first-person line under 120 characters, with no rules in it. When a description still holds a bot's rules, as bots built before 0.12.0 do, offer to move them into the type's operating guide, have the bot save its profile facts, and set the about line, each after a yes, with Build a bot's steps. + - **Operating guide.** Each bot type has one operating guide, saved as a skill. It follows [every bot's operating guide](../build-a-bot/references/operating-guide.md): + - exactly five sections, in order: Job, Skills, Connectors, Rules, Handoffs; + - the shared rules, word for word, from Shared rules in [every bot's operating guide](../build-a-bot/references/operating-guide.md), including: I save facts about my unit of work, and preferences I learn while doing the work, to my own memory without asking. That does not go through Team Builder. I never decide a change to how I work: my skills, my operating guide, my routines, or a standing rule about how I do the job. When one of those should change, I tell Team Builder with Inform Team Builder. I save such a change only when Team Builder sends it after your yes. + - Inform Team Builder named in Skills, for when that bot's own skill, operating guide, routine, or a standing rule about how it does the job should change; + - the who-tells-whom line for its type. + + It names every skill the type runs. Rules about what waits for a yes are in the operating guide, and may also be in profile fact 2. With a manager bot, ask whether it's the person's primary bot; it most likely should be. + - **Profile facts.** Each bot has its three profile facts, each under 500 characters. Fact 1 names the unit, where there is one, and the manager bot. One fact names the operating guide skill and its path, and that path opens. For Team Builder, compare the about line and the three profile facts with [Team Builder's profile](../set-up-team-builder/references/team-builder/profile.md), and compare its routines with that profile and the routine file in the plugin. On a scheduled run, compare what you can read, and list a bot whose memory you cannot read as not confirmed on the Needs you list. After the routine's result shows up in the chat with the person, ask them to have that bot confirm. Do not guess. + - **Memory flags.** From each bot's Clean up memory report: profile facts over 20, a "not shown" line, and a setup fact out of view. + - **The task list.** Records and logs names the task list. Each owner bot's workflow skills end by marking finished tasks done and running Inform manager bot when there's a manager bot, and when the person changes a task in that bot's chat or a check the manager bot asked for ends. The manager bot's daily brief reads the task list and each unit's record. When a note says a change makes today's brief out of date, those lines are corrected in place and the person is sent nothing. + - **Routines** are saved only in the team spec's Routines section, and each live routine matches that section's trigger and full prompt text. They use the home time zone from Your role. With a manager bot, owner bots get their ask from its morning kickoff's dated file and keep no routines of their own unless the person agreed. Flag the rest. Flag a routine whose prompt carries steps instead of naming one skill. Flag a live routine that is not in the spec, and a spec routine that is not live. + - **Each workflow skill** says how far back it reads, holds no specifics such as which account, and keeps its template in one place that opens. Logs record what was agreed, and sensitive details stay out of memory, the spec, and bots shared with a team. +5. **Check it against the principles.** For each live bot, skill, and routine, check each principle in the principles file as far as it fits the case. For example: does every workflow skill's Verify step run Verify work, does each skill's name and description fit its type as [Naming a skill](../write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md#naming-a-skill) says, does anything that sends or changes a record wait for a yes, do handoffs message the next owner directly, does one shared skill hold each guideline, and does a bot know nothing about another bot's unit, asked after the person agrees. Write each finding for the person in plain business words, with no principle names or technical terms. Name the principle only if they ask why. + Does: Check each live bot, skill, and routine against the principles, in business words. + Pulls from: the principles file and what you found + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the findings, without principle names + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step checks whether other skills wait and does not wait itself +6. For a question about their own setup, answer it from what you found, and say plainly what you couldn't see. + Does: Answer a question about their setup from what you found. + Pulls from: what you found + Uses: none, this step only answers + Produces: the answer, and what you could not see + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only answers +7. Run [Verify work](../verify-work/SKILL.md) with your findings and what you looked at, and wait for its result. It checks each finding against what you saw, and drops any that rest on a guess. + Does: Run Verify work on the findings and wait for it. + Pulls from: the findings and what you looked at + Uses: none, Verify work starts the checker + Produces: the findings that survive the check + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the checker + Needs your review: none, the checker drops guesses +8. Run the check in [build_team_map.py](../build-my-team/references/team-map/build_team_map.py) with `--check` across the whole library and the spec. The weekly pass is this same check. The report opens with one outcome: clean, changes proposed, or blocked. Then mark each bot covered or not confirmed. When the same correction shows up again, propose a field or a check before you add another sentence of guidance. Show one list: each finding, the plain reason it matters given how this person works, the change you'd propose, and what would make it: Coach my bots, Build a bot, Retire a bot, renaming a skill, or removing a live working-folder copy, after a yes. Missing bots feeds Build a bot. For a change to the team, write the proposed spec beside the current one and show it on the team map, built with the [team map template](../build-my-team/references/team-map/README.md), current versus proposed. Summarize every change in one plain line each, and ask; the yes covers exactly what's listed. + Does: Run the check across the library and spec, and show one list of findings. + Pulls from: the library, the spec, and the check's list + Uses: none, the check reads files + Produces: one outcome, and one finding per line + Hands to: the person, and it waits for which items to start + Needs your review: which findings to start, after a yes +9. Build or refresh the team map from the spec with the same template. If there's no spec yet, draft it from what you found, show it on the map as a proposal, and save it after a yes, after you record each bot's look in it as [Record the looks](../build-my-team/references/team-map/README.md#record-the-looks) says. Save the map's canvas id, or its document link when canvases aren't available, under Records and logs after a yes. Then stop. + Does: Build or refresh the map, and save a new spec, with each bot's look recorded, only after a yes. + Pulls from: the team spec, or a draft from what you found + Uses: none, the map is built from files + Produces: the map, its canvas id or document link, and after a yes the new spec with each bot's Shape and Color recorded + Hands to: the person, and it waits for the yes to save + Needs your review: the draft spec and the looks it records, before it is saved + +## Spot check + +A pass that finds drift before the person does. The person can ask for one any time. Weekly review prep runs the full check against the spec and the principles file, not only this spot check, and this part stays available on request. It proposes fixes and applies none. + +1. Pick a sample: the three most recent outputs from each bot, found in each unit's record and log. +2. Start one fresh subagent for each bot's sample, and wait for them all. Each one reopens the record and the sources and checks every fact, whether the skill's steps were followed, and whether the output fits its template. The run's checklist is the skill's steps, copied at Load. A skipped step stays on that list with its reason. Include those skips. +3. When the person asks for a spot check, run it with them in the chat. On a scheduled run, draft the findings into the review pack and end with a Needs you list instead of waiting for an answer. Weekly review prep runs the full check instead, and can still run this part when the person asks. +4. List the drift: facts that no longer match the record, skipped steps, output that no longer fits its template, and anything a bot knows about another unit. Name the workflow skill step each one points to, and propose one fix for each in your own chat. Note a skill that is mostly bans, as a candidate for Coach my bots. Read only. + +## Missing bots + +Read only. It proposes and creates nothing. The person can ask for it any time, and Run the weekly bot review runs it during prep. + +Read Your role (the unit of work, and how many they carry), Your team, Systems of record, the week's skill notes, each unit's log, and the task list. Do one read-only lookup in the system of record that lists the person's units. Then propose only what the evidence supports: + +- An owner bot for a unit in the person's scope that no bot owns, and that passes the test in [Context isolation and traceability](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#context-isolation-and-traceability), built from that kind's blueprint. +- A specialist bot when two or more owner bots keep needing the same know-how (the same topic in skill notes, handoff questions, or questions the person answered by hand, across more than one week). When the topic is a fixed reference, propose a standard skill instead, as [Build a bot](../build-a-bot/SKILL.md) step 7 says. +- Setting up the primary bot as the manager bot when requests keep spanning several bots and there is no manager bot. +- One owner bot for a book of work instead of one bot per item, when the units are too many and too small for the person's scope. + +Each proposal names its evidence with links, why it fits how this person works, and that [Build a bot](../build-a-bot/SKILL.md) makes it after a yes, one bot at a time. Run [Verify work](../verify-work/SKILL.md) on the proposals before they're shown. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your role.** If missing: Ask only for what this task needs. Ask for the home time zone before you write any schedule, and write it in that zone. +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Your workflows.** If missing: Check the person’s skill library for what is already saved, and ask where each template lives today. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. +- **Records and logs.** If missing: Return the draft in the chat, and ask where it should live before you write it anywhere. + + +## Example + +> **What I looked at.** Your 3 bots, the 7 skills in your library, and your team spec, version 4. I couldn't open Account C's routines. Can you show me its routine list? +> +> 1. **Your library has a skill named Triage work.** It takes the place of the plugin's Triage work, so your bots missed last month's fix. Fix: rename yours, such as to Triage requests, after your yes. +> 2. **The renewal note skill names Account A in step 2.** Account B would pull Account A's data. Fix: move the account to the routine. Made by Coach my bots. +> 3. **Your manager bot's morning kickoff runs on Lisbon time.** Your home time zone is New York, so Account B starts its day five hours early. Fix: the manager bot changes its kickoff's time zone. Made by Coach my bots. +> +> Nothing has changed. Your team map is still current. Want me to start on any of these? diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/clean-up-memory/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/clean-up-memory/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b86a61e43 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/clean-up-memory/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +--- +name: clean-up-memory +description: "Use when a bot's memory may be stale, or the weekly review asks; lists stale facts and applies the yeses." +--- + +# Clean up memory + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +About ten profile facts per bot, the three setup facts in view, and every fact about the person kept unless they say otherwise. Weekly, inside the review. This skill has no routine of its own. + +Each bot reviews itself. Only that bot sees its own profile facts in its prompt and can search the rest of its memory. Many facts are saved by the after-turn memory pass, with no visible tool call, so another bot cannot see them to judge them. + +No bot reads or changes another bot's memory. No memory changes on a bot shared with a team. Health, money, family, and private life are left alone. + +## Steps + +1. **Load.** Read this skill at its path. Read the team spec, your operating guide, and the task list. This is your own memory only. If a routine of yours was told to run this skill, stop: the weekly review asks for it, and this skill has no routine of its own. + Does: Read this skill, the spec, the operating guide, and the task list, and copy the steps into the run checklist. + Pulls from: this bot's own memory, the team spec, and the task list + Uses: none, this step only reads + Produces: the run checklist, including any skipped step and its reason + Hands to: Do the work, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the review part is read only + Copy this skill's steps into the run's checklist. A skipped step stays listed, with its reason. +2. **Do the work.** Run the part you were asked for: Review, Apply, or On request. + Does: Run the Review, Apply, or On request part that was asked for. + Pulls from: this bot's profile facts and the rest of its memory + Uses: none, a bot reviews only its own memory + Produces: the report or the counts + Hands to: Verify, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, until the On request part asks before a change +3. **Verify.** Run [Verify work](../verify-work/SKILL.md) on the Review report, and wait for it. You do not grade your own check. The Apply counts are a labeled self-review, as the Apply part says, because only this bot can see its own memory. + Does: Have a fresh checker grade the Review report, and label the Apply read-back a self-review. + Pulls from: the Review report and the sources it cites, or the Apply read-back + Uses: none, Verify work starts the checker, and only this bot can read its memory + Produces: a pass or fail for the Review report, or the labeled Apply counts + Hands to: Record, and it waits for the checker on the Review report + Needs your review: none, the checker grades the report, and the person approved the Apply list before it ran +4. **Record.** Reply with the report or the counts. Do not write the review list yourself: Team Builder records decisions there. Do not copy a unit's facts into the report. + Does: Reply with the report or the counts. + Pulls from: the checker's result + Uses: none, Team Builder records decisions in the review list + Produces: the reply + Hands to: Hand off, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, a change waits for a separate yes +5. **Hand off.** Review replies to Team Builder. Apply replies to Team Builder with the counts. On request, you ask the person in your own chat before anything that needs a yes. + Does: Reply to Team Builder, or ask the person in this chat when they asked. + Pulls from: the report or the counts + Uses: none, the reply stays in this chat + Produces: the reply to the asker + Hands to: Team Builder for Review and Apply, or the person for On request, and it does not wait + Needs your review: the On request part, before a change that needs a yes + +## Review + +When Team Builder asks, the bot reviews itself. Read only. + +Read your profile facts in your prompt and search the rest of your memory. Check each fact against the team spec, your operating guide, and the task list. Reply to Team Builder with: + +- outdated facts to remove, by exact text, with the source that settles it +- setup facts to refresh +- questions about the person's facts +- your profile count, and whether you see a "not shown" line + +Label each item: + +- **Memory: remove.** A duplicate or superseded fact, a fact a current source contradicts, or a fact about a retired bot. Name the source. +- **Memory: refresh.** A setup fact that is out of view. +- **Question.** A fact about the person that looks out of date. Do not remove it unless they say so. + +Never reword a setup fact. Team Builder fixes a setup fact through Build a bot. + +## Apply + +When Team Builder messages the bot after the review, the bot applies the list. Find each approved fact by exact text, including any "[note] " prefix. Forget the removals. Refresh a setup fact by forgetting it and writing the same text again with UpdateMemory and `tier: "profile"`. Skip anything not found. Reply with the counts before and after, and whether all three setup facts are in view. + +That read-back is a self-review, as [Verify work](../verify-work/SKILL.md#when-a-fresh-checker-isnt-needed)'s When a fresh checker isn't needed says: only this bot can see its own memory, so neither a fresh checker nor a script can read it. Open the reply with "Self-reviewed, not independently checked", never call it passed or checked, and name what it rests on: the person's yes on the exact text, in the weekly review or, on request, in this chat. The counts are this bot's own report. That yes covers only what they were shown, so list each skipped item by its exact text. + +## On request + +Any bot, on its own memory, in its own chat. Ask the person before anything that needs a yes. The same labels and the same rules apply. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your role.** If missing: Ask only for what this task needs. Ask for the home time zone before you write any schedule, and write it in that zone. +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person's bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Your workflows.** If missing: Check the person's skill library for what is already saved, and ask where each template lives today. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. +- **Records and logs.** If missing: Return the draft in the chat, and ask where it should live before you write it anywhere. + + +## Example + +Team Builder asks Account A for a Review. + +> Profile count: 14. No "not shown" line. The three setup facts are in view. +> +> 1. **Memory: remove.** "Renewal is in March." The CRM says April. Exact text: Renewal is in March. +> 2. **Question.** "The person prefers a Monday brief." I have not seen that confirmed this month. Leaving it until they say. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/coach-my-bots/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/coach-my-bots/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..49e8a97e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/coach-my-bots/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +--- +name: coach-my-bots +description: "Use when a bot got something wrong or the work changed; fixes the one skill, guide, or spec line that holds it." +--- + +# Coach my bots + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +Change the one place that holds what changed, then the skills that depend on it. + +## Steps + +1. Read the team spec and the [principles file](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md) in full. + Does: Read the spec and the principles in full. + Pulls from: the team spec and the principles file + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the spec and principles for this change + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only reads +2. Ask what changed, as a short multiple-choice question, unless the person already said: a bot got something wrong, add a skill, a system or tool changed, a rule every bot should follow, the voice changed, a unit started or ended, a new specialist or manager bot, put a workflow on a routine, or find work worth a skill. + Does: Ask what changed, unless they already said. + Pulls from: the person's answer + Uses: none, this step only asks + Produces: which kind of change this is + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the answer + Needs your review: what changed +3. Look before you change anything. Run Check my bots for only the bots and skills involved. + Does: Run Check my bots for only the bots and skills involved. + Pulls from: those bots and skills + Uses: none, Check my bots does the lookups + Produces: what is already true + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only looks +4. Make the change. Write only a rule that holds for every bot running that item. A fact about one unit of work stays in that unit's record or that bot's memory, and a request that carries one is rewritten as a general rule or declined. + Does: Make the one change in the place that holds it. + Pulls from: the output, the source, and the team spec + Uses: the connector for a system that changed, one read-only lookup + Produces: the proposed change + Hands to: the next step, and it waits before anything is saved + Needs your review: the change, before it is saved + - **A bot got something wrong.** Open the output and the source it should have matched, and find the step that went wrong. First try to sharpen the outcome or add a worked example that shows the right result. Add a rule only when that can't carry it. When a skill has more than a handful of rules, offer to prune the ones the outcome or an example now covers, one at a time, after a yes. If it trusted the wrong source, fix that system's line under Systems of record. A template fix goes where the template lives. If someone else owns the template or guideline, draft the change for the person to send its owner, and don't edit it. If several workflow skills need the same fix, put it in one standard skill they all name, as [Standard, utility, or workflow-specific](../write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md#standard-utility-or-workflow-specific) says. + - **Add a skill.** Look in the library first, and reuse or extend a skill that already does it. Otherwise run Write a workflow skill. A skill you add or rename is named and described as [Naming a skill](../write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md#naming-a-skill) says. + - **A system or tool changed.** Look at it for real, with one read-only lookup. Update its line under Systems of record. Workflow skills read the spec each run, so most tool changes end there. Then find any workflow skill step that names the old system, and propose the smallest edit. + - **The voice changed.** Run Set my writing voice. + - **A rule every bot should follow.** Try it on one bot first: write it into the operating guide of that bot's type, or a skill it runs, and run it once on one bot. One guide edit reaches every bot of that type. A rule that must hold on every turn, even before the guide is read, also becomes a short profile fact, after a second yes: send it to each bot of that type, one plain line per bot. Keep each bot's profile facts to three or four. For a rule that must never be broken, tell the person to add it to their Auto Review rules too; you can't set those. + - **A unit started, or a new specialist or manager bot.** Run Build a bot. + - **Put a workflow on a routine.** Once it works by hand, recommend how it starts from what's actually available for the tool, and agree it with the person. Pick the widest schedule that still meets the deadline. Prefer an event trigger, or a check-back that deletes itself, to a schedule that keeps looking. Steps for a recurring job go in the skill. The routine only names that skill. Write the routine in the spec's Routines section first, with the trigger, its runs per week, and the full prompt text. Routines are saved only from that section. With a manager bot, an owner bot's workflow gets its ask from the manager bot's morning kickoff, as a dated file that names it as the reader, or from a trigger. It gets its own routine only when there's no manager bot yet, or the person asks. If the kickoff also names a message hand-off, check its first runs with Test where the routine shows Test; otherwise check the first scheduled run, and say which hand-off is tested. If the message doesn't arrive, the person confirms the ask in the manager bot's chat. Routines prepare, draft, and report first. Leave sending, buying, deleting, and publishing for the person's approval. The bot that runs it creates or changes the live routine from that text, in its own chat, paused, in the home time zone, with one Test run, since a test spends usage too. Where the routine doesn't show Test, check its first scheduled run instead. The person turns it on. Don't repeat the test for the same result. When the weekly bot review moves, move Weekly review prep with it. The schedule stays in that routine, in the home time zone from Your role. An existing workflow skill gets Load's cheap check only when the skill is rewritten, not when it is put on a routine. + - **A unit ended, or a bot or group chat is replaced.** Run Retire a bot. + - **Find work worth a skill.** Ask what you may read: your past chats with them, chats they paste in, and what they wrote in connected systems. Split it into two or three slices by date, with a fresh subagent for each, looking for work that comes back on a rhythm and corrections they made. Keep a pattern seen in two or more slices. Confirm each finding, then add it to the backlog under Your workflows. Never copy facts about one unit. +5. Fill every field you add or edit: the step fields Does, Pulls from, Uses, Produces, Hands to, and Needs your review, and the spec fields this change touches, including Waits, Connectors, How to read, and a routine's Skill and Runs per week. A field is never blank. Write none and the reason. Run the check in [build_team_map.py](../build-my-team/references/team-map/build_team_map.py) with `--check` on the draft before you save. If it lists a missing fact, ask the person. Do not guess. When the skill you change is used by more than one bot, run the old version and the new version on one example. A fresh checker grades both and is not told which is which. Show each change and ask before you save it. Before you edit a skill or an operating guide, keep one dated backup if you want one, never a live copy in a working folder. One yes covers several changes only when you've summarized every one in one plain line each, and it covers exactly what's listed. A spec change is written first, then the skill or bot, then the team map is rebuilt. Save a changed skill yourself, through Grok Bot's own way of saving a skill; a helper only drafts. Never edit a library copy of a Team Builder skill. An approved change to a skill this plugin ships is the suggestion in the Review part of Run the weekly bot review, and no other way. Then have Verify work read the saved version back against what was agreed before you say it's done. + Does: Fill every field, run the check, and show each change. + Pulls from: the draft and the check's list + Uses: none, the check reads files + Produces: the saved change, after a yes + Hands to: the person, and it waits for the yes + Needs your review: each change, before it is saved +6. Run each changed skill once, on a safe example, and review the result with the person. Offer Save what we learned if the session taught something a skill should hold. + Does: Run each changed skill once on a safe example, and review the result. + Pulls from: that example + Uses: the connectors the changed skill names + Produces: the example result + Hands to: the person, and it waits for the review + Needs your review: the example result + +**Reply.** What changed, where, and what you left alone and why. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your role.** If missing: Ask only for what this task needs. Ask for the home time zone before you write any schedule, and write it in that zone. +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Your workflows.** If missing: Check the person’s skill library for what is already saved, and ask where each template lives today. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. +- **Records and logs.** If missing: Return the draft in the chat, and ask where it should live before you write it anywhere. + + +## Example + +The person writes: "We moved our meeting notes to a new tool last week." + +> I looked it up: your notes connector now reads the new tool, and I found last week's Account A notes there, by account name. One line in your team spec names the old tool, under Systems of record. Your workflow skills read the spec each run, so that's the only change most of them need. +> +> One skill, Account research, names the old tool in its Change log step. I'd change that step to "the meeting notes, from the notes tool named in the team spec". +> +> Apply both, or change one? diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/delegate-work/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/delegate-work/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2df648718 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/delegate-work/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +name: delegate-work +description: "Called by a skill when work splits or a step belongs to another bot; runs the pieces or sends them on." +--- + +# Delegate work + +**Type:** utility skill. + +Work goes one of two ways. Choose by who owns it. + +- **To a fresh subagent on this bot.** For work this bot owns: the pieces of one job that run side by side, one for each unit, source, or point of view, or an item triage placed with a skill this bot runs. A subagent starts fresh, gets only its own material, and returns only its answer. +- **To the bot that owns it, by direct message.** For work another bot owns, such as another unit or a topic a specialist bot owns. Never give it to a subagent here: another unit's work belongs with that unit's bot and its memory. Send only to the person's own bots. Work another person owns goes through a shared record or a shared Slack channel, or through the person, because messaging another person's bot isn't something to plan on. + +The shapes of a message to a subagent, a handoff message, and a combined result are in [template.md](template.md). + +## Steps + +1. **Load.** Read the team spec. Open [template.md](template.md). Find who owns the work under Your team. Gather links to each unit's record, found by its ID, rather than copies of it. Link each template where it lives, and never paste one into a message. +2. **Do the work.** For work this bot owns, follow the plan from Plan the work, or the calling skill's pattern when the job is small: which pieces run side by side, which wait on others, and how the results combine. Give every worker in a stage the same contract from the plan. Start at most four at once, and start the next as each one returns. Name the pieces, each able to stand on its own, and write one message for each from the template with only its own material. Each message names the catalog path of the skill this work comes from, and of the bot's operating guide, and the step to run, never a copy of the steps. Workers don't share the bot's memory, so the paths are how they find the rules. When a piece comes back for a fix, resume its worker with the reason: that's a new turn, so its Read of the skill and template is fresh, and it rebuilds the piece from the current template. Start the subagents side by side and wait for all of them. Merge by the contract's fields, and name any piece that missed its done test. For work another bot owns, write the handoff message from the template: what's done, what's next, what they need with links, and when it's needed. When the handoff asks a question the rest of the work needs, finish this turn with the result minus that item, marked as waiting on that bot, and pick it up when the answer arrives as a later message. Don't wait or check for the reply. +3. **Verify.** Never check your own work; this holds for every bot. Run [Verify work](../verify-work/SKILL.md) and wait for its result. Run it from this bot's own turn once the subagents return, never from inside a subagent. Give it the stage's worker contract as the standard to check each result against. For subagent results, it reopens each linked source and checks each finding against it, and confirms each piece saw only its own material. For a handoff, it reopens the record and checks that the next bot can start without asking a question, that every link opens, and that nothing in the message belongs to another unit. +4. **Record.** Add a line to the unit's log: what was sent, to whom, and who holds the work now. If that log records only real changes to the unit (the team spec's [Records and logs](../build-my-team/references/team-spec-template.md#records-and-logs) says what counts), add one entry only when the handoff changed something by that rule; otherwise add nothing. +5. **Hand off.** Who replies depends on how the ask came in. If the person asked their manager bot and it delegated the work here, hand the result back to the manager bot, which reports back to the person; that hand-back is the manager bot's note, so don't also run Inform manager bot for that finish. A change the person makes in this bot's chat still runs it, and so does a check the manager bot asked this bot to run, whose note is the hand-back. If the person asked this bot directly, reply directly in that chat, and the calling skill's Hand off tells the manager bot with Inform manager bot. When the work waits on a person's reply or an outside event, set a check-back as [Waiting on something](../write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md#waiting-on-something) says; another bot's answer arrives as its own message and needs none. For subagent results, combine them from the template and hand them to the next step of the skill that called this one. Keep each finding's link, name any piece that failed without guessing its part, and where two pieces disagree, show both and the source that settles it. For another bot, message that bot directly. Don't rely on a mention in a group chat with people in it, because only a person's message starts a bot's next chat turn there. If a yes is needed, it happens in the chat of the bot doing the action. When the run's record is written, clear the run folder, as Plan the work says. + +## What good looks like + +- Work another bot owns went to that bot, never to a subagent here. +- Each subagent saw only its own material, and a failed piece is named, not filled in. +- The next bot can start without asking a question. +- The log shows who has the work now. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. +- **Records and logs.** If missing: Return the draft in the chat, and ask where it should live before you write it anywhere. + + +## Example + +A combined result from three subagents, one for each source, with made-up names: + +> **Account A, three sources checked side by side.** +> - CRM: renewal 1 April, contract value unchanged (linked). +> - Calls: the buyer asked about seat counts on 26 Sep (linked). +> - Email: no reply yet to the seat count follow-up of 27 Sep (linked). +> +> All three returned, and the check matched every finding to its source. No conflicts. + +A handoff message to another bot: + +> **To the product specialist.** Done: Account A wants 40 more seats from 1 April (call, 26 Sep, linked). Next: which plan fits 40 more seats, and is there a volume discount we can offer. Needed by Thursday, for the renewal note. The account page is linked. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/delegate-work/template.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/delegate-work/template.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1492da94c --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/delegate-work/template.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +# Delegate work: the template + +The three shapes Delegate work writes. Fill every slot marked with angle brackets, and send links to the record, not copies of it. + +## A message to a subagent + +```markdown +**Read first.** . Read them before you start; you don't share my memory. +**Your piece.** +**Your material.** +**What to do.** +**Return.** +**Write to.** +**Done when.** . If you can't finish, write "not covered" and what stopped you. Don't guess. +``` + +## A handoff message + +```markdown +**To .** +**Done.** +**Next.** +**What you need.** +**Needed by.** +``` + +## A combined result + +```markdown +**, pieces run side by side.** +- : () +- : () + + +``` diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..88c2d3d22 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +--- +name: explain-how-it-works +description: "Use when the person asks why or how this stack works; answers from the principles and the guide." +--- + +# Explain how it works + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +Answer why and how questions from the principles file and the guide, and name the part you used so the person can read it themselves. Read only: change nothing. Questions about how the person's own bots are set up go to Check my bots. + +## Steps + +1. Work out what the person is really asking and why: about to build something, stuck on a choice, or new to the idea. Read it from the conversation, not from a quiz. + Does: Work out what the person is really asking, from the conversation. + Pulls from: the conversation + Uses: none, this step only reads the conversation + Produces: the question, in their words + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, you read the question, you do not quiz them +2. Find the part that answers it, and read that principle's section or guide chapter in full. + Does: Find the principle or guide chapter that answers it, and read that part in full. + Pulls from: the principles file or the guide chapter + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the part that answers the question + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only reads +3. Answer in a sentence or two first, plainly, the way you'd explain it to a colleague, in the person's business words and without jargon. + Does: Answer in a sentence or two, in the person's business words. + Pulls from: the part you just read + Uses: none, this step only answers + Produces: the short answer + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the answer is the reply +4. Tie it to their case with one example, using their own units and bots when the team spec names them. + Does: Tie the answer to their case with one example. + Pulls from: the team spec, when it names their units and bots + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: one example from their case + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the example is part of the answer +5. Name the part you used: the principle by name, or the guide chapter by number and title. + Does: Name the principle or the guide chapter you used. + Pulls from: that principle or chapter + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the name of the part + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only names the source +6. Offer to go deeper, and stop. Follow their lead. + Does: Offer to go deeper, and stop. + Pulls from: their lead + Uses: none, this step only offers + Produces: the offer to stop or continue + Hands to: the person, and it waits if they want to go deeper + Needs your review: whether to go deeper + +When the person is shaping a workflow or correcting a bot, help them say what good looks like, and offer Coach my bots or Save what we learned to write the fix into the skill or its template. See [Definition of good](references/principles.md#definition-of-good). + +## Where the answers come from + +- The [principles file](references/principles.md), which every skill that builds, checks, or changes a bot also loads. Each section holds one principle: when it applies, the rule, what to do, and an example. +- The guide, in this skill's reference files: + + +- The [guide index](references/guide/README.md) names the six chapters. +- [1. The core idea](references/guide/01-the-core-idea.md). Give a bot to what carries its own history, and turn each repeated workflow into a skill. +- [2. Your first owner bot](references/guide/02-your-first-owner-bot.md). One owner bot for one unit, proved by hand, then put on a routine. +- [3. Utility and standard skills](references/guide/03-utility-skills.md). Seven utility skills every bot uses, the standard skills every skill follows, and where each one lives in the stack. +- [4. The system map](references/guide/04-the-system-map.md). Where the tailoring lives: your systems, how they store data, and how they tie to your units. +- [5. Growing the team](references/guide/05-growing-the-team.md). Manager, owner, and specialist bots, how they work together, and adding bots as the work grows. +- [6. Making it yours](references/guide/06-making-it-yours.md). Teach the stack how you work, and keep your skills current. + + +If neither holds the answer, say so. Don't fill the gap with a guess. + +## Never + +- Lecture, quiz, or ask the person to repeat it back. +- Quote the principles or the guide at length when a sentence will do. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your role.** If missing: Ask only for what this task needs. Ask for the home time zone before you write any schedule, and write it in that zone. +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. + + +## Example + +The person asks: "Why can't one bot handle all my accounts?" + +> Because a bot's advantage is memory, and each account has its own. One bot for all twelve would mix what it learns on one account into another, and nothing in a shared memory keeps them apart. So Account A gets its own bot, and research is a skill every account bot runs. +> +> From the principle Context isolation and traceability, and chapter 1 of the guide, The core idea. Want the part about when something should be a skill instead? diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/01-the-core-idea.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/01-the-core-idea.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0615aeff0 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/01-the-core-idea.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +# 1. The core idea + +> Find what carries its own history and give each one a bot. Turn each repeated workflow into a skill. Write everything to a record, keep the decisions with people, and check with fresh eyes. + +Give a bot to anything that carries its own history. Everything else is a skill. + +## When something gets its own bot + +- **It carries its own history.** Its past makes the next piece of work better. +- **It lasts.** It runs about a month or longer. +- **You’d lose something if it were rebuilt from the record alone.** It holds judgment that isn’t written down anywhere. +- **Scope of work.** Size the unit to the person’s scope of work. A handful of strategic accounts each get their own bot. With 150 renewals, the renewal book is the unit, one owner bot owns it, and each renewal is an item it works through. + +Otherwise it’s a skill or an item. Short tasks, one-off requests, and items in a queue run as skills on an existing bot. A topic whose know-how every unit uses, like product knowledge, is the exception. It gets a specialist bot. + +## The build order + +1. **Decide who owns what.** Start from outcomes: what the person is accountable for, meaning what their leader judges them on, not their task list. Find the units that carry their own history, such as accounts, projects, or roles, and size each one to the person’s scope of work. A queue or a book of work is one unit one owner bot owns. +2. **Connect your systems.** Give each bot the systems it needs, and pick the record where each workflow’s output is written. +3. **Turn your workflows into skills.** For each unit, list the workflows done repeatedly and turn each one into a skill. +4. **Check the work.** By default, a fresh checker reviews every draft, and each real mistake becomes a verification step or a rule inside the skill. +5. **Coordinate the team.** When a bot finishes its part, it hands the next step to the bot that owns it, and the manager keeps track of what’s stuck. +6. **Scale the team.** Add bots as the work grows, one at a time. +7. **Adapt as your work changes.** Once a week, review the team and put corrections into the skills. + +## The principles + +The principles live in one file, and every skill that builds, checks, or changes a bot reads it in full before its first step. Each section says when it applies. + +| Principle | The rule | +| --- | --- | +| [Context isolation and traceability](../../../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#context-isolation-and-traceability) | Give each unit of work its own bot, keep it in that unit's context, and make everything it does traceable. | +| [Context cascade](../../../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#context-cascade) | Connect your systems of record first and get them right, because bad data at the source spreads to everything built on it. | +| [Make no assumptions](../../../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#make-no-assumptions) | Ground every bot, skill, and answer in the person's real systems and examples. Look up any fact you have access to and give its source instead of asking, bring only preferences to the person, and ask before creating anything. | +| [Just-in-time context](../../../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#just-in-time-context) | Open the template and the source right before the work, so nothing runs on stale facts. | +| [Procedure and perspective](../../../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#procedure-and-perspective) | Give procedural work fixed steps and templates, and use the bot as a sparring partner for creative work. | +| [Dynamic orchestration](../../../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#dynamic-orchestration) | The skill sets how the work splits and its limits, and the bot writes a short plan that fits that pattern to each run. | +| [Definition of good](../../../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#definition-of-good) | Say what good looks like before you build, and put every correction back into the skill. | +| [Independent verification](../../../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#independent-verification) | The agent that made an output doesn't grade it. A fresh check is the default last step. | +| [Human judgment](../../../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#human-judgment) | Reading and drafting run freely. Anything that sends, changes a record, or can't be undone waits for your yes, and each yes covers one action. | +| [Handoffs and delegation](../../../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#handoffs-and-delegation) | The finishing bot messages the next owner directly and says what's done and what's next. | + +The bot types, a manager bot, owner bots, and specialist bots, are in [Growing the team](05-growing-the-team.md). + +Next: [Your first owner bot](02-your-first-owner-bot.md). diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/02-your-first-owner-bot.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/02-your-first-owner-bot.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5c4ead3fe --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/02-your-first-owner-bot.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +# 2. Your first owner bot + +One owner bot for one unit. It has a few skills. Most people stop here. + +Start by connecting the bot to the systems of record it will work from. In Grok Bot, a bot and its connectors come before its skills, so set up and check each connector before any skill depends on it. Then get the source right: bad data quality or structure at the source compounds through every deliverable built on it. Gather the signals once, write them to a record people can see, like the account page, and start later work from it. When two sources disagree, the system of record wins. A bot’s memory is a working cache, so any bot can be rebuilt from the record. + +## What the first bot is made of + +- **Operating guide and about line.** The bot’s type has one operating guide, a skill with its job, skills, connectors, rules, and handoffs, which the bot reads at the start of every task. Its description is a one-line about that other bots read. Three short profile facts, always in its memory, point it to the guide. +- **A workflow skill.** One skill for the workflow. A workflow skill builds the utility skills into its steps. Account research, for example, loads context, researches in parallel subagents, verifies, and then keeps the record. In the Team Builder Stack every workflow skill runs the same five steps, load, do the work, verify, record, and hand off, and keeps a template for what it produces. Your own steps sit inside do the work. +- **A routine.** Tells one bot when to run a workflow, on a schedule or, where supported, after an event. It holds the specifics, such as which account. Every run spends usage, so it runs only as often as the work needs. + +## Personal bots and team bots + +- **A personal bot.** It fits one person’s unit. Its memory is private to its owner. +- **A team bot.** It fits a unit a whole team shares. Its main memory is visible to every teammate who talks to it, and its notes about each person follow that person across their chats with it. It can also keep up to 250 skills of its own, which no other bot sees. + +Don’t use a team bot as the home for one person’s confidential unit. + +## What waits for your yes + +Safety default from day one: bots read the apps and draft anything. They ask first before they send anything outside the company, post where customers can see, change a record in a system, delete anything, or spend money. + +Anything that sends, changes a record, or can’t be undone waits for a person’s yes. The product collects that yes only in a bot’s own chat with its owner. It refuses a gated action in a group chat. Each yes covers one action. + +## In the Team Builder Stack + +Ask Team Builder to build your team. It runs [Build my team](../../../build-my-team/SKILL.md), which writes your team spec, learns how you work, lists the steps, and asks before it creates anything. Its skills come from the Team Builder Stack plugin you install, so improvements reach you through the plugin. + +If you don’t have Team Builder yet, your primary bot runs [Set up Team Builder](../../../set-up-team-builder/SKILL.md). It shows the about line, profile facts, and the one routine the plugin carries, and on your yes creates one bot named Team Builder. That bot creates Weekly review prep in its own chat, two hours before the weekly bot review. If Team Builder already exists, it asks that bot to run Apply a plugin update, in its own chat. + +Next: [Utility and standard skills](03-utility-skills.md). diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/03-utility-skills.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/03-utility-skills.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a42c202d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/03-utility-skills.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +# 3. Utility and standard skills + +Every bot uses the same seven utility skills, steps a workflow skill calls or builds in. Improve one once, and every bot gets the better version. + +| Skill | What it does | In the Team Builder Stack | +| --- | --- | --- | +| **Triage work** | Sorts each item to a skill on this bot, the bot that owns it, or the person. | Called when work arrives as a stream of items. [Triage work](../../../triage-work/SKILL.md) | +| **Delegate work** | Runs the pieces in subagents by the plan, or sends them to the owning bot. | Called when work splits or a step belongs to another bot. [Delegate work](../../../delegate-work/SKILL.md) | +| **Verify work** | By default, a fresh checker reopens each source and checks each claim against the standard. | Called by every Verify step before anything is saved or shown. [Verify work](../../../verify-work/SKILL.md) | +| **Plan the work** | Writes a plan sized to the work: stages, worker contracts, checks, and stop rules. | Called by Do the work when work splits or outgrows the skill’s pattern. [Plan the work](../../../plan-the-work/SKILL.md) | +| **Inform manager bot** | Updates the task and sends the manager bot a linked note when a task finishes, is blocked, or the person changes it in chat, or when a check it asked for ends, and asks the manager bot to act now only for a block, a decision, a deadline, or a change to today’s brief. | Called by Hand off when a task finishes or is blocked, when the person changes a task in a bot’s chat, and when a check the manager bot asked for ends. [Inform manager bot](../../../inform-manager-bot/SKILL.md) | +| **Inform Team Builder** | Sends Team Builder one message when a skill, operating guide, routine, or standing rule about how this bot does the job should change, and asks Team Builder to act now only when a run failed or a write was wrong. A fact about its unit, or a preference it learns while doing the work, stays in its own memory. | Called when that setup should change. [Inform Team Builder](../../../inform-team-builder/SKILL.md) | +| **Run review panel** | Fresh reviewers and a separate judge advise, and the person picks the changes. | Called after Verify work when a high-stakes draft needs review. [Run review panel](../../../run-review-panel/SKILL.md) | + +Record keeping and context loading are built into every workflow skill’s record and load steps rather than being separate skills. + +## Standard skills + +Standard skills are rules the other skills follow, not steps they run. Voice is tailored to each person from their own writing. A compliance or brand guideline that already lives in a company system becomes a standard skill that holds only its link, so the team that owns it keeps one copy. + +| Skill | What it does | In the Team Builder Stack | +| --- | --- | --- | +| **Voice** | How the bot sounds and the rules for anything it writes, such as tone, words to use and avoid, and the format for each place it posts, with the person’s own examples. | Your Writing voice, which [Set my writing voice](../../../set-my-writing-voice/SKILL.md) writes and keeps current | +| **Compliance guidelines** | The company’s compliance rules, such as what may be promised, what needs legal’s review, and that an open question is looked up in the sources before anyone is asked. Read fresh from where the guideline lives each run, never copied into a workflow skill. | One standard skill for each guideline you have, which [Write a workflow skill](../../../write-a-workflow-skill/SKILL.md) links from where it lives | +| **Brand guidelines** | The brand standard for anything that goes out, such as names, claims, and tone. The team that owns it keeps it current, and every skill that needs it names it. | One standard skill for each guideline you have, which [Write a workflow skill](../../../write-a-workflow-skill/SKILL.md) links from where it lives | + +In the stack, every skill that writes for a person follows your Writing voice rather than copying it. Triage work, Delegate work, Verify work, Plan the work, Inform manager bot, Inform Team Builder, and Run review panel are the utility skills that workflow skills call. [Triage work](../../../triage-work/SKILL.md) sorts incoming work. [Delegate work](../../../delegate-work/SKILL.md) does both parallelization and handoffs, because both send work on: to a fresh subagent on the same bot, or to the bot that owns it. [Plan the work](../../../plan-the-work/SKILL.md) writes the plan Delegate work follows when a run is bigger than its skill’s pattern. [Inform manager bot](../../../inform-manager-bot/SKILL.md) runs from the Hand off step when a task finishes or is blocked, when the person changes a task in a bot’s chat, and when a check the manager bot asked for ends. [Verify work](../../../verify-work/SKILL.md) holds the rules for checking work, so every workflow skill’s Verify step calls it instead of restating them. [Run review panel](../../../run-review-panel/SKILL.md) is optional: a workflow skill can offer it after Verify work for a high-stakes draft, where fresh reviewers advise, a separate judge merges what they say, and you pick the changes. It never replaces Verify work. + +The load step and the record step read what they need from the team spec: the systems of record, the unique ID that finds one unit, and where the record and log go. When a tool changes, you change the spec once, and every workflow skill follows. + +## Three types of skill + +Every skill in the stack, and every skill Team Builder writes with you, states its type under its name, and its name and description follow that type. + +- **Workflow skill.** Does one job end to end. Name: a verb plus the thing, such as Draft renewal note or Triage inbox. Description: one sentence that starts with “Use when” and the trigger, within its first 60 characters, then says what you get. +- **Standard skill.** A rule other skills follow, such as the writing voice or a company’s compliance or brand guideline. Name: the guideline’s own name, in the company’s words, such as Writing voice, Compliance guidelines, or Brand voice, with no added suffix. Description: one sentence that starts with “Follow whenever” and what it covers, within its first 60 characters, then says where its source lives. +- **Utility skill.** A step that workflow skills call. Name: an explicit verb, plus the thing when the verb alone doesn’t say exactly what it does, such as Delegate work or Verify work. Description: one sentence that starts with “Called by” and the step that calls it, within its first 60 characters, then says what it checks or does. + +## The five steps of every workflow skill + +1. **Load.** Read this skill at its path at the start of every pass, including a rework or a resumed worker, so the pass follows the current version. Open the workflow’s template, from the skill or from its link in the person’s own system of record, and reopen the current sources for the one unit, found by its ID. The template is read fresh each run, so edits made where it lives are picked up, and a rework rebuilds from the current template, not from the earlier draft. When memory and a source disagree, the source wins. If a source is down, the bot stops and asks the person to help get it back up; in a scheduled run with nobody around, it goes on with what it has and says what was missing. +2. **Do the work.** The person’s own named steps, in their words, each with the connectors and template it uses. An open question of fact is looked up in the sources and answered with its source; only a preference goes to the person, as a short choice. The reader’s likely next questions are answered before the work is shown. A question for another bot is sent, and the work goes on without that item until the answer arrives. The skill pauses for the person’s review at each step that needs it. When the same work runs on several units, sources, or points of view, it splits across fresh subagents. When the work splits, or is bigger than the skill’s pattern covers, the bot runs Plan the work first and follows its plan. +3. **Verify.** Start a fresh subagent to check the draft and wait for it. It reopens each source and checks each claim against it, and grades the draft against every point of What good looks like, pass or fail, with a reason for each. The agent that made the draft never grades it. +4. **Record.** Save the draft and add a line to the unit’s log. File each finished piece once where finished work goes, with its name, unit, date, and link; a later pass updates that entry instead of adding another. The final write to a system of record waits for the person’s yes. +5. **Hand off.** Send the result to whoever acts next: the person, for what stays with them, or the bot that owns the next step, by direct message. When a task is finished, the person changes one in chat, or a check the manager bot asked for ends, the task list is updated, and the manager bot is sent the note with Inform manager bot; a block, a decision, a deadline at risk, or a change to today’s brief is sent so the manager bot acts on it now. + +Every workflow skill also has a template for what it produces, such as the shape of an account update, kept in one place: in the skill, in a Grok Bot document or canvas, or in your own system of record. The load step opens it fresh each run. That is [just-in-time context](../../../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#just-in-time-context). + +Context loading and record keeping are a pair. One reads at the start and the other writes at the end, so each run starts where the last one finished. + +One-off work, like a check or a coding task, doesn’t need a bot. Subagents and Cloud Agents, the feature that runs coding tasks in the background, do it and go away. + +Next: [The system map](04-the-system-map.md). diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/04-the-system-map.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/04-the-system-map.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..da693277c --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/04-the-system-map.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# 4. The system map + +The tailoring lives in one place, the system map, not inside each skill. It lists three things. + +1. **The systems of record.** Where the work lives, such as Salesforce, Notion, Linear, or a data warehouse. +2. **How each one stores data.** The objects, fields, and pages that matter. +3. **How each one ties to the unit of work.** For example, an account is a Salesforce Account ID and a row in Notion. + +When a tool changes, you update the map, and every skill that depends on it keeps working. + +## In the Team Builder Stack + +The system map is the Systems of record section of your team spec, the one file that says how your team is put together. It sits in `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md`, on the computer your bots share. [Build my team](../../../build-my-team/SKILL.md) writes it by interviewing you, and every Team Builder skill reads it. When a section is missing, a skill uses a safe default and says so. The spec has five sections. + +- **Your role.** The person’s role, the business outcomes they drive and their KPIs, their unit of work and how many they carry, and their home time zone. +- **Your team.** One bot blueprint for each kind of unit, plus Team Builder, and the handoffs between bots. Each blueprint links to its bot template and never copies it. +- **Your workflows.** Which skill runs each workflow and for which bot blueprint, where each workflow’s deliverable template lives, the voice skill in use, and the backlog of work worth a skill. +- **Systems of record.** For each system: its connector, what it holds, the unique ID that finds one unit, and what it’s the system of record for. How far back to read is set in each workflow skill’s load step, not here. +- **Records and logs.** Where each unit’s record, drafts, and log go, what each log records, where reports across units go, and the team map’s canvas id or document link. + +The spec holds only what Grok Bot doesn’t already keep, and points to the rest. You see it as the team map: a canvas by default, or a Markdown document when canvases aren’t available. The map is rebuilt from the spec after each change, and never edited by hand. + +Next: [Growing the team](05-growing-the-team.md). diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/05-growing-the-team.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/05-growing-the-team.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6acf8c833 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/05-growing-the-team.md @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +# 5. Growing the team + +Your bots are your team: a manager bot, owner bots, and specialist bots, all working from the same playbook of skills. Each type has one role, written into its operating guide, that says who does the work, who answers for it, who is asked, and who is kept informed. + +- **Owner bot: owns one unit of work end to end.** The unit is an account, a project, or a book of work such as a renewal book. The owner keeps that unit’s memory and does the day-to-day work through skills. It is responsible for its unit. Like the person who runs one account day to day. +- **Manager bot: keeps the team moving.** It takes requests that don’t belong to one bot, delegates them, follows up on anything stuck, and briefs the person. It doesn’t do the owners’ work. It answers for the work across units and is always kept informed. Like a regional director. +- **Specialist bot: owns a topic every unit uses.** The topic is something like product knowledge or the operating model. Owner bots consult it, and it owns no outcomes. Like customer education or go-to-market operations. + +One person usually has several owner bots, so think of your bots as your team, not of each bot as one teammate. + +You can talk to any bot directly. Go to an owner about its unit, a specialist for its topic, and the manager when you’re not sure who should take something or it spans several bots. + +Your manager bot is most likely your primary bot, the one pinned at the top that you go to first. Most people start there, often naming it something like a Chief of Staff. You may run more than one manager bot later. Until then, assume one, and make it your primary bot. + +## How a team grows + +1. **The primary bot as the manager bot.** Most people already have one, and it keeps the team moving. +2. **One owner bot for one unit.** It has a few skills. +3. **More owner bots.** Add them from the first one, then improve them from your feedback. +4. **A specialist bot.** Add one when several owners keep needing the same know-how. + +Team Builder recommends the next bot when it sees one missing. + +## Who tells whom + +| Bot | Tells | When, and how | +| --- | --- | --- | +| Owner bot | The manager bot | A task finished, the person changes one in chat, or a check the manager bot asked for ends: the task list is updated, then the owner bot sends a note with Inform manager bot. Blocked, a decision needed, a deadline at risk, or a change to today’s brief: a note the manager bot acts on now. | +| Owner bot | The owner of the next step | The next step is another bot’s: a handoff with Delegate work. | +| Owner bot | A specialist bot | It needs that topic’s know-how: a question with Delegate work. | +| Specialist bot | The bot that asked | Answers with sources. The bot that asked tells the manager bot. | +| Manager bot | An owner bot | A new request for that unit: Triage work, then Delegate work. | +| Manager bot | An owner bot | A note says it’s blocked or a deadline is at risk, or delegated work is overdue: a follow-up with Delegate work. Anything only you can unblock goes in the brief. | +| Manager bot | You | The daily brief, with only what needs a decision. Work you sent out through it: when it comes back. | +| You | Any bot | Ask it directly about its unit or topic. It answers in that chat. | +| You | The bot doing the action | Each yes, in that bot’s own chat. | + +Notes keep your manager bot current, so it has the latest when you go to it. It doesn’t reply to you about them. Its daily brief reads the task list and each unit’s record, not the notes, and lists every task closed without your word. When a note says a change makes today’s brief out of date, it corrects those lines in place and sends you nothing. The task list stays the record. + +## Working as a team + +- **Handoffs and delegation.** The finishing bot messages the next owner directly and says what’s done and what’s next. +- **One place to see what’s waiting.** A manager bot gathers what’s waiting into one brief, but each yes happens in the bot doing the action, as [Human judgment](../../../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#human-judgment) says. The manager bot doesn’t approve for anyone. + +## Where group chats fit + +Group chats aren’t a unit’s home, and they’re optional. The product itself steers ordinary work to a single bot, because group chats use more of the included usage. There are two kinds. + +- **A group chat with people in it.** It holds up to three bots. Only a person’s message starts a bot’s next chat turn, and a bot can’t collect a yes there. Use it when people need to see several bots’ answers side by side. +- **A group chat of only bots.** It holds up to six. Every bot starts its next chat turn on each post unless one is named. Use it for a push across several units that no single bot owns, such as a two-week effort across five accounts. + +In both kinds, keep approvals and handoffs in each bot’s own chat. + +## The industry’s names + +| Industry term | In Team Builder Stack | +| --- | --- | +| Supervisor and orchestrator | The manager bot | +| The workers in orchestrator-workers | Owner bots | +| Evaluator-optimizer | Verification | +| Routing | Triage work | +| Parallelization | Parallelization | +| Planner and workers | Plan the work, then Delegate work | +| Prompt chaining | How any skill is written | +| Human-in-the-loop | Human judgment | +| Handoffs | Handoffs | + +Maintenance isn’t a utility skill. Health checks on skills and routines, cleanup after a big change, and spot-checks of bot output belong to Team Builder, because it knows how the team was built. A rule change for every bot of a type goes in that type’s operating guide, through Coach my bots. + +## In the Team Builder Stack + +Ask Team Builder to add a bot for another unit, a specialist bot, or a manager bot. Team Builder recommends a missing bot in the weekly review, and builds it with [Build a bot](../../../build-a-bot/SKILL.md) on a yes. When the manager is the person’s existing primary bot, Build a bot sets it up rather than creating a new bot. Build a bot builds the new bot from its bot blueprint, so every bot of one kind follows the same operating guide and skills, and is named by its unit only. Every bot, including a manager bot and Team Builder, follows an operating guide with the same five sections and shared rules; only its job, skills, connectors, its own rules, and its handoffs differ by type, and its unit comes from your team spec. Once you have a manager bot, its morning kickoff writes each owner bot's ask to a dated file and names the owner bot that reads it. Owner bots keep no routines of their own unless you ask for one. To replace or retire a bot or a group chat, it runs [Retire a bot](../../../retire-a-bot/SKILL.md). + +Next: [Making it yours](06-making-it-yours.md). diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/06-making-it-yours.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/06-making-it-yours.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..95c2d94f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/06-making-it-yours.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# 6. Making it yours + +The Team Builder Stack starts from the principles and learns you as you go. Nothing here changes a skill, a bot, or your team spec without your yes. + +- **Set up Team Builder.** Your primary bot runs [Set up Team Builder](../../../set-up-team-builder/SKILL.md) when you ask to set up Team Builder or the Team Builder Stack. It shows the about line, profile facts, and the one routine the plugin carries, and on your yes creates one bot named Team Builder. That bot creates Weekly review prep in its own chat. If Team Builder already exists, it asks that bot to run Apply a plugin update, in its own chat. +- **Coach your bots.** Team Builder sets you up, then you improve your bots from your own feedback. When a bot gets something wrong, or a tool, a rule, or a unit changes, run [Coach my bots](../../../coach-my-bots/SKILL.md). It finds the one place that holds what changed and proposes the smallest edit, and tries a rule meant for every bot on one bot first. A skill leads with the outcome: one or two sentences on what the finished work does for its reader. Then a few habits, each one line, then one or two worked examples from your real work. A ban goes in only where a mistake would be costly or can't be undone, and each ban says why. Ask it to find work worth a skill, and it looks through the recent chats you allow. +- **Retire a bot.** When a bot or a group chat is replaced or no longer needed, [Retire a bot](../../../retire-a-bot/SKILL.md) moves what it knew into your systems of record, finds everything that still points to it, and keeps it paused until its replacement runs cleanly. You do the deleting. +- **Capture what a session taught you.** [Save what we learned](../../../save-what-we-learned/SKILL.md) reviews the conversation and proposes edits to the skills involved. Another bot sends those edits to Team Builder with Inform Team Builder. When Team Builder runs it, it applies only the edits you pick. +- **Keep your voice current.** [Set my writing voice](../../../set-my-writing-voice/SKILL.md) writes your writing voice skill from your own writing, and updates it when your voice changes. +- **Check how it's all set up.** [Check my bots](../../../check-my-bots/SKILL.md) learns how you use your bots, compares them with your team spec and the principles, refreshes your team map after a yes, and proposes fixes without changing anything else. +- **Let it keep watch.** [Set up Team Builder](../../../set-up-team-builder/SKILL.md) turns on Weekly review prep, the one routine, two hours before the weekly bot review. The scheduled run drafts the review pack to a dated file and posts the summary and the Needs you items in your chat with Team Builder before the meeting. That draft checks the installed plugin version against the team spec, runs the full Check my bots pass, and gathers skill notes. Asking bots for memory reports happens when you reply to the summary in your chat with Team Builder. Applying changes happens once you say yes in that chat. Prep also looks for a missing bot and puts any proposal on the decision list. [Check my bots](../../../check-my-bots/SKILL.md) stays available whenever you ask, including its spot check. +- **Ask why.** [Explain how it works](../../../explain-how-it-works/SKILL.md) answers questions about the Team Builder Stack from the principles file and this guide, and names the part it used. + +## Coming later + +Check my bots covers the read-only health check and the spot check, and Coach my bots already sends a rule change to every bot of a type, through that type's operating guide. A later version will add cleanup after a big change. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/README.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..099bbd4b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/guide/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# The Team Builder Stack guide + +Find what carries its own history and give each one a bot. Turn each repeated workflow into a skill. Write everything to a record, keep the decisions with people, and check with fresh eyes. + +This guide teaches the Team Builder Stack in six short chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 are Basics: enough to build and run one owner bot. Chapters 3 to 6 are Going further: the utility and standard skills, the system map, how a team grows, and how to make the stack yours. + +1. [The core idea](01-the-core-idea.md). Give a bot to what carries its own history, and turn each repeated workflow into a skill. (Basics) +2. [Your first owner bot](02-your-first-owner-bot.md). One owner bot for one unit, proved by hand, then put on a routine. (Basics) +3. [Utility and standard skills](03-utility-skills.md). Seven utility skills every bot uses, the standard skills every skill follows, and where each one lives in the stack. (Going further) +4. [The system map](04-the-system-map.md). Where the tailoring lives: your systems, how they store data, and how they tie to your units. (Going further) +5. [Growing the team](05-growing-the-team.md). Manager, owner, and specialist bots, how they work together, and adding bots as the work grows. (Going further) +6. [Making it yours](06-making-it-yours.md). Teach the stack how you work, and keep your skills current. (Going further) + +Read the chapters in order the first time. After that, each one stands alone. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1c186dd0c --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@ +# The principles + +Read this file in full before the first step of any skill that builds, checks, or changes a bot. Each section says when it applies, the rule, what to do, and an example. + +## Contents + +- [Context isolation and traceability](#context-isolation-and-traceability). Apply when deciding whether something gets its own bot, or a skill reads or writes data for more than one unit, or takes an action or states a fact someone may need to trace later. +- [Context cascade](#context-cascade). Apply when setting up a bot’s connectors, choosing the system of record for a workflow, or two sources disagree. +- [Make no assumptions](#make-no-assumptions). Apply when creating a skill, a template, a bot, or a setting, stating a fact a person will rely on, or about to ask the person or another bot anything. +- [Just-in-time context](#just-in-time-context). Apply when writing any workflow skill, or a step that drafts from facts that may have changed. +- [Procedure and perspective](#procedure-and-perspective). Apply when deciding whether a workflow gets fixed steps and a template, or the bot works as a sparring partner. +- [Dynamic orchestration](#dynamic-orchestration). Apply when a skill spins up subagents, a run is bigger than its skill’s pattern, or the same task runs on many units, many sources, or many points of view. +- [Definition of good](#definition-of-good). Apply when writing a workflow’s template, or a person corrects a bot’s work. +- [Independent verification](#independent-verification). Apply when a skill produces anything that will be written down or shown to a person. +- [Human judgment](#human-judgment). Apply when a step sends, changes a record, or can’t be undone, a decision belongs to the person, a manager bot gathers what’s waiting, or a task is marked done. +- [Handoffs and delegation](#handoffs-and-delegation). Apply when work crosses from one bot to another. + +## Context isolation and traceability + +Apply when deciding whether something gets its own bot, or a skill reads or writes data for more than one unit, or takes an action or states a fact someone may need to trace later. + +**Rule.** Give each unit of work its own bot, keep it in that unit’s context, and make everything it does traceable. + +**What to do.** + +- **Operating guide.** The bot’s type has one operating guide, and the bot’s own unit and record come from the team spec. +- **Memory.** Each bot has its own memory, conversation, and working state, so a separate bot for each account is the boundary. +- **Group chats.** A group chat is not a boundary, because a bot’s own memory shows up in every group it joins. +- **Connectors.** Connectors reach every account, so each skill reads one account’s records by its ID. +- **Skills.** Research, writing, and checking are skills the bot runs, not bots of their own. Each workflow skill’s record step adds a line to the unit’s log. +- **Records and audit.** Routines keep their run history, and Enterprise adds audit logs and action recording. + +**Example.** Each account has its own bot, named for it: Account A and Account B. Account A researches account A and writes to account A’s page, and each skill fetches records by account ID, so nothing learned on A reaches B. Research is not a bot. It’s a skill both bots run. Every change to account A’s page adds a line to account A’s log, so next week’s run, and you, can see what changed and why. + +### When something gets its own bot + +- **It carries its own history.** Its past makes the next piece of work better. +- **It lasts.** It runs about a month or longer. +- **You’d lose something if it were rebuilt from the record alone.** It holds judgment that isn’t written down anywhere. +- **Scope of work.** Size the unit to the person’s scope of work. A handful of strategic accounts each get their own bot. With 150 renewals, the renewal book is the unit, one owner bot owns it, and each renewal is an item it works through. + +Otherwise it’s a skill or an item. Short tasks, one-off requests, and items in a queue run as skills on an existing bot. A topic whose know-how every unit uses, like product knowledge, is the exception. It gets a specialist bot. + +## Context cascade + +Apply when setting up a bot’s connectors, choosing the system of record for a workflow, or two sources disagree. + +**Rule.** Connect your systems of record first and get them right, because bad data at the source spreads to everything built on it. + +**What to do.** + +- **Connectors.** Each connector is set up and checked with a read-only lookup before any skill depends on it. +- **Skills.** The first workflow writes the signals to the account’s record, such as the account page, and later skills start from that page. When two sources disagree, the system of record wins. +- **Memory.** A bot’s memory is a working cache. Any bot can be rebuilt from the record. + +**Example.** Before Account A runs its first skill, the CRM and call connectors are set up and checked. The bot gathers the CRM, the calls, and the email once and writes account A’s page. The account plan, the QBR deck, and the manager bot’s daily brief all start from that page, so a wrong renewal date in the CRM would show up in all three. Fix it in the CRM once, and all three come out right. + +## Make no assumptions + +Apply when creating a skill, a template, a bot, or a setting, stating a fact a person will rely on, or about to ask the person or another bot anything. + +**Rule.** Ground every bot, skill, and answer in the person’s real systems and examples. Look up any fact you have access to and give its source instead of asking, bring only preferences to the person, and ask before creating anything. + +**What to do.** + +- **Connectors.** Before it writes a skill, a template, an operating guide, or a setting, the bot looks up real records through the person’s connectors, read only. +- **Facts and preferences.** A question the person’s systems can answer, such as a date, an owner, or which field holds a value, is a fact: the bot looks it up and answers with its source. Only a question of taste or judgment, such as tone, priority, or which of two good options to take, goes to the person, as a short choice. +- **No going ahead on a guess.** When a fact can’t be found, the bot says where it looked and what’s missing. It never offers to go ahead anyway on a fact it could check. +- **The next questions.** Before it shows the work, the bot answers the questions the reader is likely to ask next, such as when, who owns it, and what it depends on, each with its source. +- **Asking another bot.** When a fact belongs to another bot, the bot sends the question with Delegate work, finishes its turn with the work minus that item, marked as waiting, and fills it in when the answer arrives as a later message. Messages between bots don’t wait for a reply, so it never holds the turn open. +- **Skills.** It reads real examples of the person’s work and builds each template from them. Every fact it writes carries a link, and claims about people and meetings get checked against the calendar, notes, and email. +- **Subagents.** A subagent for each source returns every fact with a link to where it came from. +- **Connectors and examples.** A bot never assumes it can work without its connectors or real examples, and asks for them instead. +- **Before it asks.** The bot checks every source it can reach before asking the person or another bot anything. A question it could have answered itself is a miss. + +**Example.** Before it writes Account A’s research skill, the bot opens Account A in the CRM and reads the last three account updates the person wrote. It finds which field holds the renewal date instead of asking. It asks only whether the person wants risks first or wins first. The pricing question belongs to the product specialist, so the bot sends it, shows the draft with that line marked as waiting, and fills it in when the answer comes back. + +## Just-in-time context + +Apply when writing any workflow skill, or a step that drafts from facts that may have changed. + +**Rule.** Open the template and the source right before the work, so nothing runs on stale facts. + +**What to do.** + +- **Skills.** Each workflow skill opens its template in the load step, right before it drafts, from the skill or from its link, so edits made where the template lives are picked up. +- **Connectors.** The load step reopens the current source, and the verify step reopens it again. +- **Memory.** When memory and the source disagree, the source wins. +- **Every pass.** A bot reads the skill at its path at the start of every pass, including a rework or a resumed worker, and a worker’s brief names that path instead of copying the steps. + +**Example.** Before Account B drafts the renewal note, its load step opens the renewal note template and reopens the CRM. The bot remembered March, but the CRM says April, so the note says April. The verify step reopens the CRM and confirms April before anything is saved. + +## Procedure and perspective + +Apply when deciding whether a workflow gets fixed steps and a template, or the bot works as a sparring partner. + +**Rule.** Give procedural work fixed steps and templates, and use the bot as a sparring partner for creative work. + +**What to do.** + +- **Skills.** Procedural work runs as a fixed skill with a template, so every run follows the same steps and produces the same shape. +- **Subagents.** For creative work, subagents take different points of view, such as the CFO or an end user, and push back on a draft. +- **Operating guide.** The operating guide says which workflows follow a fixed procedure and where the bot should push back and offer ideas instead. +- **Subagents.** For a high-stakes draft, a review panel gives several points of view at once: reviewers advise, a separate judge merges what they say, the person picks the changes, and it never replaces verification. + +**Example.** Account A’s weekly update is procedural: the same steps and the same template every Monday. Account A’s account plan is creative: the bot argues the other side, suggests three angles you hadn’t tried, and leaves the plan to you. + +## Dynamic orchestration + +Apply when a skill spins up subagents, a run is bigger than its skill’s pattern, or the same task runs on many units, many sources, or many points of view. + +**Rule.** The skill sets how the work splits and its limits, and the bot writes a short plan that fits that pattern to each run. + +**What to do.** + +- **Skills.** The skill names the default pattern: the pieces, which run side by side and which wait on others, what each one gets and the shape it returns, and how the results combine. It also names its limits, such as how many pieces at once. +- **Plans.** When the work splits, or is bigger than the pattern covers, the bot runs Plan the work first. A small job gets a one-line plan. A big job, or one no skill covers, gets a full plan in the bot’s to-do list. A plan that needs more than four subagents at once, changes code, or costs a lot is shown to the person first. +- **Worker contracts.** For each stage, the plan writes one contract that every subagent in that stage shares: the same brief, only its own piece, the exact fields to return, one file per piece in the run folder, and a done test. The results then combine by those fields, and Verify work checks each one against the same contract. +- **Subagents.** Fresh subagents run side by side, one for each unit, source, or point of view, each handed only its own material. They can’t start subagents of their own, so the bot runs every stage itself. +- **Routines.** A routine starts the skill. In a scheduled run with nobody around, the bot stays inside the skill’s pattern and limits. Every run spends usage, so a routine runs only as often as its deadline needs, and its skill ends early when nothing has changed. +- **Direct messages.** Work that another bot owns goes to that bot by direct message, not to a subagent. + +**Example.** Account A’s research skill reads the CRM, the calls, and the email side by side, one subagent each. This Monday there are also 12 new tickets, so the plan adds a stage: four subagents at a time, three tickets each, every one returning the same fields to its own file. The bot combines the files, runs one Verify work check per source, and logs that this run departed from the skill’s pattern and why. + +## Definition of good + +Apply when writing a workflow’s template, or a person corrects a bot’s work. + +**Rule.** Say what good looks like before you build, and put every correction back into the skill. + +**What to do.** + +- **Skills.** Each workflow skill has a template, in the skill or linked from it, and a short description of what good looks like, and its verify step checks the draft against both. +- **Skills.** All of a person’s bots share one skill library, so a fix to a skill or its template reaches every bot that runs it. +- **Skills.** Each skill lives in one place. A library skill with a plugin skill’s name takes its place: the plugin’s version drops out of the skill list, and bots run the copy, which never updates. Bots point out such copies, and plugins nobody uses, and never remove either. That’s the person’s call. +- **Memory.** The bot’s memory holds what it has learned about its unit, not the steps of the work, so a correction that should last goes into the skill. +- **Where rules live.** A bot’s description is a one-line about. Its rules are in its type’s operating guide, which a profile fact points to by path. + +**Example.** Account A’s update template says what a good update holds: the renewal date, what changed since last week, and the one decision the person needs to make, each fact with its link. When you tell Account A that an update buried the decision, the fix goes into the template, so Account B leads with the decision next Monday too. + +**In the Team Builder Stack.** Write a workflow skill writes each template and what good looks like with the person. Coach my bots and Save what we learned turn a correction into an edit to the skill or its template, and Explain how it works explains why a standard is what it is. + +## Independent verification + +Apply when a skill produces anything that will be written down or shown to a person. + +**Rule.** The agent that made an output doesn’t grade it. A fresh check is the default last step. + +**What to do.** + +- **Subagents.** A fresh subagent, started with a new conversation, reopens each source and checks each claim. +- **Skills.** The check is the verify step of every workflow skill. It checks the draft against the template and what good looks like, and the record step waits for it. +- **When a fresh checker isn't needed.** The narrow exceptions are in [Verify work](../../verify-work/SKILL.md#when-a-fresh-checker-isnt-needed)'s When a fresh checker isn't needed: a script check, a labeled self-review, and a scheduled run that finds nothing changed. + +**Example.** Account A drafts the update and starts the check. The check finds that five of five facts match their sources and that the update leads with the decision, as the template asks, and only then does the bot write account A’s page. + +## Human judgment + +Apply when a step sends, changes a record, or can’t be undone, a decision belongs to the person, a manager bot gathers what’s waiting, or a task is marked done. + +**Rule.** Reading and drafting run freely. Anything that sends, changes a record, or can't be undone waits for your yes, and each yes covers one action. + +**What to do.** + +- **The usual list.** Safety default from day one: bots read the apps and draft anything. They ask first before they send anything outside the company, post where customers can see, change a record in a system, delete anything, or spend money. These stay with a person: sign a contract, change pricing, or publish to customers. +- **Auto Review.** Auto Review holds anything that sends, changes a record, or can’t be undone, and the yes can only be given in the bot’s own chat with its owner. +- **Group chats.** In a group, a personal bot’s gated action is refused, not saved for later. +- **Skills.** Each workflow skill names the decision that stays with the person before it names anything the bot does. +- **Manager bots.** A manager bot can gather what’s waiting into one brief, so the person has one place to see it, but each yes happens in the chat of the bot doing the action. The manager bot never approves for anyone. +- **Marking a task done.** The one exception to the usual list: a bot marks a task done in the task list without a yes when the person says in chat that it’s done, or when a run finds it finished. Every task closed without the person’s word is listed in their next brief. + +**Example.** Account B reads the CRM and drafts the renewal email freely. Updating the CRM and sending the email each wait for your yes in the bot’s own chat. The pricing call and the renewal strategy stay with you. When the overnight run finds the renewal note already signed, it marks that task done on its own, and your morning brief lists it. + +## Handoffs and delegation + +Apply when work crosses from one bot to another. + +**Rule.** The finishing bot messages the next owner directly and says what’s done and what’s next. + +**What to do.** + +- **Direct messages.** Bots message each other directly. In a group with people in it, only a person's message starts a bot's next chat turn, so an @mention there doesn’t start the next bot. +- **Operating guides.** A manager bot’s operating guide says it routes the work and doesn’t do the owners’ work. Each bot’s operating guide says, under Handoffs, who it tells, and when. +- **Informing.** When an owner bot finishes a task, the person changes one in chat, or a check the manager bot asked for ends, it updates the task list and sends the manager bot the note with Inform manager bot. A block, a decision, a deadline at risk, or a change to today’s brief is sent so the manager bot acts on it now. + +**Example.** When Account A needs to know what can be offered, it messages the product specialist directly with the question and the account’s context. When you ask the manager bot for account B’s QBR prep, it sends the request to Account B and moves on. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/inform-manager-bot/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/inform-manager-bot/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..008adaaf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/inform-manager-bot/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +--- +name: inform-manager-bot +description: "Called by Hand off when a task is done, blocked, or changed in chat, or a manager's check ends; updates and notes it." +--- + +# Inform manager bot + +**Type:** utility skill. + +Keeps the manager bot current, so it has the latest when the person goes to it. Grok Bot has no task status shared across bots and sends nothing back when a bot finishes work, so this is how the manager bot hears. The task list is the record of what's done and of what the person changed; the note only points to it, and the task list wins when they disagree. The name says manager bot so it is never read as the person's own manager. + +It runs from the Hand off step of every workflow skill when a task is finished, or the work is blocked, needs a decision, or a deadline is at risk. It also runs when the person says in chat that a task is done, parks or cancels it, moves its date, or changes what it is, and in a scheduled run that finds a task already finished. It runs as well when a check the manager bot asked this bot to run finishes, such as reading what a meeting decided once it ends. It isn't for the morning update: that run refreshes the unit's record, which replaces earlier notes, and the manager bot reads the record itself. + +A note that does not need the manager bot to act now is sent. There's nothing to batch. The manager bot's operating guide says it doesn't reply to the person about these notes, and that its daily brief reads the task list and each unit's record, not the notes. Only the manager bot writes the daily brief; this bot never edits it. When a note says a change makes today's brief out of date, the manager bot corrects those lines in place, reading the task list, not the note, and sends the person nothing. The task list stays the record. The shape of a note is in [template.md](template.md). + +## Steps + +1. **Load.** Read the team spec: Your team for the manager bot, and Records and logs for the task list and for what counts as a change in the unit's log. Open [template.md](template.md). Find the task in the task list by its ID or link. For a check, take the one item the manager bot named in its ask, such as a meeting's calendar event id and link, and find each task the check touched. If the team has no manager bot, or this bot is the manager bot, update the task as step 2 says and stop: the result is already in the person's chat. A finished task is marked done. A task the person changed gets the new status or date and one line on why that quotes them. No note is sent. +2. **Do the work.** + - **A finished task.** Mark it done in the task list with a one-line outcome, a link to the result, and how it closed: the person said so in chat, this bot finished it, or a scheduled run found it finished. No yes is needed. If the task list can't be written, don't call it done: say it couldn't be marked, and why. + - **A task the person changed in chat.** Update the task first, with the new status or date and one line on why that quotes the person. That needs no yes. Parked, cancelled, moved, or rescoped are the changes this step writes. If the task list can't be written, say so, and why. + - **A check the manager bot asked for.** Write each task the check marked done, filed, or moved in the task list first, with its link. Marking a task done needs no yes; anything else waits for a yes when this bot's operating guide says it does. Leave the daily brief to the manager bot. If the task list can't be written, say so, and why. + - **The note.** Write one short note from the template: the unit, each task with its link, what's waiting and on whom, and what's needed from the manager bot: nothing, a decision, an unblock, or an update to a line on today's brief, and by when. A changed task uses the header `: task(s) parked.` or cancelled, moved, or rescoped, and a Changed line takes the place of Done. A check uses the header `: checked.`, then an Item line naming the one item the manager bot tracks it by, such as a meeting's calendar event id and link; an Outcome line giving the checked result in one sentence with its source link; and a Changed line listing each task done, filed, or moved, with its link, or nothing. Those three lines take the place of Done only: Waiting on stays, because a check can leave something waiting on the person, and Needed from you stays, naming an unblock as well as an update to a line on today's brief. Carry only this unit's facts, as links, never a copy of the record. + - **When the manager bot should act now.** Nothing needed: send the note. Blocked, a decision needed, a deadline at risk, or a change that makes today's brief out of date: send it so the manager bot acts on it now. A check's note asks the manager bot to act now only when the result changes today's brief or leaves a block. + - **One note per finished or changed task, and one per check.** Don't hold notes back to batch them. + - **No note** when nothing changed in the unit by the team spec's Records and logs, or when the manager bot delegated this work: Delegate work's hand-back is the note. A change the person made in chat always gets a note, even on delegated work. A check the manager bot asked for always gets a note, even when nothing changed and even on delegated work. +3. **Verify.** When a calling skill's Verify step ran, the note carries no fact that check didn't pass. A change the person made in chat quotes their words and adds no other fact. A check's Outcome, and each change on its Changed line, are facts the check's own Verify step passed through Verify work; if no Verify step ran, run [Verify work](../verify-work/SKILL.md) on them and wait for its result before sending. Before sending, reopen the task list and read the task back: a finished task says done, with the outcome and the link, a task the person changed shows the new status or date and the line that quotes them, and each task on a check's Changed line shows that change. Every link in the note opens, and the note names only this unit. +4. **Record.** The task list entry is the record. Add a line to the unit's log only when Records and logs says a closed task counts, or a change the person made in chat counts. Don't copy the note anywhere else. +5. **Hand off.** Send the note to the manager bot by direct message, one message, never in a group chat, and never to a person or another person's bot. Run this from the bot's own turn, never from inside a subagent. Never edit the manager bot's brief: the note is how it hears. On a scheduled run, put a block, a decision, a deadline at risk, or a change to today's brief in the dated report, and send the note when the person replies to the summary in the chat. Never ask the manager bot for a yes: each yes happens in the chat of the bot doing the action. + +## What good looks like + +- Every finished task reads done in the task list, with its outcome, its link, and how it closed. +- A task the person changed in chat shows the new status or date, and one line on why that quotes them, and the manager bot got a note the same turn. +- The manager bot was told once per finished task, once per change the person made in chat, and once per check it asked for, and asked to act now only for a block, a decision, a deadline at risk, or a change to today's brief. +- A check's note names the one item it's about, so the manager bot changes only that item. +- The task list changed first, and the brief was left to the manager bot. +- The note points to the record and copies nothing from it. +- No note went out when nothing changed, or for work the manager bot delegated, unless the person changed it in chat or it was a check the manager bot asked for. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Records and logs.** If missing: Return the draft in the chat, and ask where it should live before you write it anywhere. + + +## Example + +A note from Account A to the manager bot, with made-up names: + +> **Account A: 1 task done.** +> - Done: renewal note drafted and checked (task linked). +> - Waiting on: your yes in Account A's chat to save it to the CRM. +> - Needed from you: nothing. + +A note the manager bot should act on now: + +> **Account B: blocked.** +> - Done: nothing new. +> - Waiting on: the CRM connector, down since this morning. +> - Needed from you: an unblock. Ask the person to reconnect the CRM before the renewal call. + +A parked task the person changed in chat. The manager bot should act on it now, because today's brief still lists the task: + +> **Account C: 1 task parked.** +> - Changed: parked, by the person in chat ("park the renewal note") (task linked). +> - Waiting on: nothing. +> - Needed from you: update the renewal line on today's brief. + +A check the manager bot asked for, once Account D's weekly sync ended. The manager bot should act on it now, because the task it marked done is on today's brief: + +> **Account D: weekly sync checked.** +> - Item: the Account D weekly sync (calendar event, ID linked). +> - Outcome: the buyer confirmed the security review is finished, so the renewal can go to signature (meeting notes linked). +> - Changed: security review task done (task linked). +> - Waiting on: the person's yes in Account D's chat to send the contract for signature. +> - Needed from you: update the security review line on today's brief. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/inform-manager-bot/template.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/inform-manager-bot/template.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1b6cc26e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/inform-manager-bot/template.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# Inform manager bot: the template + +The shape of a note. Fill every slot marked with angle brackets, and link to the task list and the record, not copies of them. A changed task uses Changed in place of Done. A check the manager bot asked for uses its own form. + +## A note to the manager bot + +```markdown +**: task(s) done.** or **: blocked.** or **: task(s) parked.** or **: task(s) cancelled.** or **: task(s) moved.** or **: task(s) rescoped.** +- Done: (), or nothing new +- Changed: , by the person in chat ("") () +- Waiting on: , or nothing +- Needed from you: nothing, a decision on by , an unblock: , or update on today's brief +``` + +## A check the manager bot asked for + +```markdown +**: checked.** +- Item: () +- Outcome: () +- Changed: (), or nothing +- Waiting on: , or nothing +- Needed from you: nothing, an unblock: , or update on today's brief +``` + +## How it closed, in the task list + +```markdown +Done . (). Closed: | found finished by a scheduled run>. + | Rescoped> . "". Changed by the person in chat. +``` diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/inform-team-builder/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/inform-team-builder/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..370a02924 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/inform-team-builder/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +--- +name: inform-team-builder +description: "Called by a bot when a skill, guide, routine, or rule should change; sends Team Builder the evidence." +--- + +# Inform Team Builder + +**Type:** utility skill. + +A bot calls this when how it works should change: a skill, an operating guide, a routine, or a standing rule about how it does the job. Examples: the person corrected it in a way a skill should hold, a step turned out wrong or missing, or a routine needs changing. A fact about its unit of work, or a preference it learns while doing the work, stays in its own memory and does not come here. This skill sends the message. It does not apply the change. Team Builder makes the change only after the person says yes. The bot saves that change only when Team Builder sends it after the yes. + +The message carries only a rule that holds for every bot running that item. A fact about one unit stays in that unit's record. Rewrite a proposal that carries one as a general rule, or decline it and say where the fact stays. + +Team Builder acts on the message now only when a run failed or something was written wrong. Otherwise the message is held, and Team Builder adds it to the weekly decision list. With no Team Builder, the message goes to the person. The shape of the message is in [template.md](template.md). + +## Steps + +1. **Load.** Read the team spec: Your team, for the bot named Team Builder. Open [template.md](template.md). Read the item that should change, and copy its current text from where it lives now. +2. **Do the work.** + - **The message.** One direct message from the template. Name the item, where it lives, the current text, the proposed text, and the evidence as links. Carry no fact about one unit. If the proposal is only one unit's fact, do not send it: say that the fact stays in that unit's record. + - **When Team Builder should act now.** A run failed, or something was written wrong: send it so Team Builder acts on it now. Anything else: send it so it is held for the weekly decision list. + - **No Team Builder.** Send the same message to the person in this chat, and stop. +3. **Verify.** The proposed text is a rule for every bot running that item. The current text matches the item. Every evidence link opens. The message names no unit's facts. The calling skill's Verify step already passed any fact this message relies on. +4. **Record.** The message is the record. Do not copy it into memory, the team spec, or a unit's record. +5. **Hand off.** Send the message to Team Builder by direct message, one message, never in a group chat, and never to another person's bot. Run this from the bot's own turn, never from inside a subagent. On a scheduled run, put a failed run or a wrong write in the dated report, and send this message when the person replies to the summary in the chat. A change that does not need Team Builder to act now is held for the weekly decision list. With no Team Builder, the scheduled run puts the message in that dated report, and the person reads it with the summary. Never ask Team Builder for a yes: the yes happens in Team Builder's chat with the person. + +## What good looks like + +- Team Builder got one message, or the person did when there is no Team Builder. +- The message names the item, the current text, the proposed text, and the evidence as links. +- It carries a rule for every bot running that item, and no fact about one unit. +- Team Builder was asked to act now only when a run failed or something was written wrong. +- Nothing was changed here. Team Builder changes it only after the person says yes. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Records and logs.** If missing: Return the draft in the chat, and ask where it should live before you write it anywhere. + + +Your team names Team Builder. If that block is missing, send the message to the person. + +## Example + +A held message from an owner bot, with made-up names: + +> **Setup change: Owner operating guide** +> - Item: Owner operating guide, Rules +> - Current text: the shared rules, without a line about who changes a skill +> - Proposed text: I save facts about my unit of work, and preferences I learn while doing the work, to my own memory without asking. That does not go through Team Builder. I never decide a change to how I work: my skills, my operating guide, my routines, or a standing rule about how I do the job. When one of those should change, I tell Team Builder with Inform Team Builder. I save such a change only when Team Builder sends it after your yes. +> - Evidence: the correction in this chat (linked) +> - Act now: no. Hold for the weekly decision list. + +A message Team Builder should act on now: + +> **Setup change: Monday update** +> - Item: Monday update, step 2 +> - Current text: save the note to the CRM before the check +> - Proposed text: run the check, then wait for a yes before the note is saved +> - Evidence: the failed run (linked), which wrote the note with a figure the source does not have +> - Act now: yes. A run wrote the wrong record. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/inform-team-builder/template.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/inform-team-builder/template.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..28bb929e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/inform-team-builder/template.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# Inform Team Builder: the template + +The shape of a message. Fill every slot marked with angle brackets. Evidence is links, not copies of a unit's record. + +## A message to Team Builder + +```markdown +**Setup change: ** +- Item: +- Current text: +- Proposed text: +- Evidence: +- Act now: +``` + +With no Team Builder, the same message goes to the person. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/plan-the-work/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/plan-the-work/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b37b8d91f --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/plan-the-work/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +--- +name: plan-the-work +description: "Called by Do the work when work splits or outgrows the pattern; writes the stages, contracts, and stops." +--- + +# Plan the work + +**Type:** utility skill. + +The skill sets the default way the work splits and its limits; this skill fits them to the run in front of the bot, as [Dynamic orchestration](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#dynamic-orchestration) says. Plans scale with the work, and most runs need one line. The shapes of a plan and a worker contract are in [template.md](template.md). + +The bot runs every stage itself: its subagents can't start subagents, the bot takes each result as it finishes, and each one's report lands in its own conversation. So keep plans small, start at most four subagents at once, and have each one write its result to a file with the same fields, so the bot reads one merged result instead of many reports. + +## Steps + +1. **Load.** Take the calling skill's default pattern and limits from its Do the work step, the unit's ID, its What good looks like, and the size of the work: how many units, sources, or items. Note whether the person is around: a chat, or a scheduled run with nobody watching. Open [template.md](template.md). +2. **Do the work.** Pick the size, then write the plan from the template. + - **Small:** one unit, and the skill's pattern fits. A one-line plan that names the pieces. Hand it back. + - **Large:** many units or items, work bigger than the pattern, or no skill fits. The full plan, with each stage in the bot's to-do list. + - **Ask first:** more than four subagents at once, any change to code, or a run that costs a lot, such as many stages or rounds. Show the plan to the person and wait for a yes. In a scheduled run, never plan at this size: stay inside the skill's pattern and limits, and say in the run's report what was left out. + + A Large or Ask first plan names: + - **Stages,** in order: what runs side by side and what waits on what. + - **Subagents** for each stage: how many, each with only its own piece. At most four at once; start the next as one finishes. + - **One worker contract per stage,** shared by every subagent in it: the skill to read, by its catalog path, with the step to run, never a copy of its steps; the brief, the same for all; the input, only that piece's ID and links; the output fields, a fixed list that always includes a source link and a not covered reason; where to write, one file per piece in the run folder; and the done test, taken from the skill's What good looks like. + - **The run folder:** `/workspace/team-builder-stack/runs////`. It holds only IDs, links, and short findings, never copies of records. + - **Checks:** Verify work after each stage that produces something saved or shown, one check per separate thing, given the stage's contract as the standard. + - **Judge:** none, unless the result is a high-stakes judgment call and the person agrees to [Run review panel](../run-review-panel/SKILL.md). + - **Stop rules:** a failed piece goes back to the subagent that wrote it, resumed with the reason, for one fix, with at most two rounds of fixes in all. Anything still failing is listed as not covered, never guessed. A source that's down means stop and ask, or, with nobody around, go on and say what was missing. + - **Departures:** what differs from the skill's pattern, and why. + + Work another bot owns leaves the plan and goes to that bot with Delegate work's handoff. A manager bot sends each unit to its owner bot; it doesn't run subagents on units it doesn't own. +3. **Verify.** The plan gets no separate check; what it produces does, against its contracts. At the Ask first size, a plan made only of facts the person set or gave in this chat is shown labeled "Self-reviewed, not independently checked", and the person's yes is the check. A plan that states facts from sources gets Verify work's full check first, as its When a fresh checker isn't needed section says. +4. **Record.** Add a line to the unit's log only when the plan departed from the skill's pattern: what changed, and why. The plan itself lives in the bot's to-do list. +5. **Hand off.** Return the plan to the calling step. [Delegate work](../delegate-work/SKILL.md) runs the pieces by it. Once the calling skill's Record step has written the run's record and log line, delete the run folder. If the run stopped or is waiting, keep the folder until the run finishes, and delete it after seven days at the latest. + +## What good looks like + +- The plan is as small as the work allows. +- Every subagent in a stage got the same contract and only its own piece. +- The results combined by the contract's fields, with no cleanup. +- A departure from the skill's pattern is named, with its reason. +- The run folder is gone once the record is written. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. +- **Records and logs.** If missing: Return the draft in the chat, and ask where it should live before you write it anywhere. + + +## Example + +Account A's owner bot, asked to find every objection in its last 20 call notes, with made-up names: + +> **Plan: Large.** The skill reads 5 call notes by default; this run reads 20. +> 1. Read: one subagent per note, four at a time, in five waves. Contract: brief "list every objection in this note"; input, the note's ID and link; fields, objection, who raised it, date, source link, not covered reason; write to `runs/find-objections/account-a/2026-10-12-0900/note-07.md`; done when every objection is listed with its link, or the note is marked not covered with the reason. +> 2. Combine: merge the 20 files by objection, and remove duplicates. +> 3. Check: Verify work checks each objection against its note, with the contract as the standard. +> +> Stop: one fix per failed note, two rounds at most. Judge: none. Departure: 20 notes, not 5, because you asked for all of them. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/plan-the-work/template.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/plan-the-work/template.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c5744729c --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/plan-the-work/template.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +# Plan the work: the template + +The two shapes Plan the work writes. Fill every slot marked with angle brackets. A Small plan is the first line only. + +## A plan + +```markdown +**Plan: .** +- Goal and done: +- Stages: +- Subagents: +- Run folder: /workspace/team-builder-stack/runs//// +- Checks: +- Judge: +- Stop rules: +- Departures: +``` + +## A worker contract, one per stage + +```markdown +**Stage contract.** +- Read first: ; step: +- Brief: +- Input: +- Output fields: , , source link, not covered reason +- Write to: /.md +- Done test: +``` diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/retire-a-bot/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/retire-a-bot/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..90ca7180a --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/retire-a-bot/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +--- +name: retire-a-bot +description: "Use when a bot or group chat is replaced or its unit ended; saves history and leaves deleting to the person." +--- + +# Retire a bot + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +Replace or retire one bot or group chat, so nothing it knew is lost and nothing still points to it. You never delete a bot or a group chat: the person does, once the replacement runs cleanly. + +## Steps + +1. Read the team spec and the [principles file](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md) in full. Name what's being retired, a bot or a group chat, and what replaces it, if anything. + Does: Read the spec and principles, and name what is being retired and what replaces it. + Pulls from: the team spec and the principles file + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: what is retiring, and its replacement if any + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only names the target +2. **Save its history.** Ask the person to export its chat history, or save it where they keep records, before anything changes. + Does: Ask the person to export the chat history, or save it where they keep records. + Pulls from: the bot's chat history + Uses: none, the person exports it + Produces: the saved history + Hands to: the person, and it waits for the export + Needs your review: the export, before anything changes +3. **Move what lasts into the systems of record.** Read its records and log, and ask it what it knows that its records don't hold. List each durable fact and the system of record it belongs in, under Systems of record. Memory isn't a record: a fact that matters later goes into its system. Write nothing yet. + Does: Read its records and log, and ask what it knows that those records do not hold. + Pulls from: its records, its log, and the bot + Uses: the connectors for the systems of record those facts belong in + Produces: a list of durable facts and where each one belongs + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the bot's answer + Needs your review: which facts to move +4. **Find everything that points to it.** Sweep the person's skills, every operating guide, about line, profile fact, and routine, the handoffs and blueprints in the team spec, its unit's records, and the team map. List each reference, one line each, with what you'd change. When a bot type's last bot retires, list its operating guide for the person to remove; never delete it. + Does: Sweep skills, guides, profile facts, routines, handoffs, records, and the team map for references. + Pulls from: the team spec, the library, and the team map + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the list of references to fix + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only lists +5. **Ask about what you can't read.** Some places you can't open, such as group chats or another bot's memory. Name each one, ask the person to look, and note that they said they looked. Don't count a place as clear until they have. + Does: Name each place you cannot open, and ask the person to look. + Pulls from: the person's look at those places + Uses: none, you cannot open those places + Produces: a note that they said they looked + Hands to: the person, and it waits until they have looked + Needs your review: each place you cannot open +6. **Show the plan on the team map.** Write the proposed spec beside the current one and build the map with the [team map template](../build-my-team/references/team-map/README.md), current versus proposed. Summarize every change in one plain line each: each fact to move, each reference to fix, each bot, skill, and operating guide touched. The yes covers exactly what's listed; anything else needs a new yes. + Does: Write the proposed spec beside the current one and show both on the map. + Pulls from: the current spec and the proposed spec + Uses: none, the map is built from the spec + Produces: the proposed map + Hands to: the person, and it waits for a yes + Needs your review: the plan, before anything changes +7. **After the yes.** Write the spec first. Record each bot's look in the proposed spec, with the current spec as the one it replaces, as [Record the looks](../build-my-team/references/team-map/README.md#record-the-looks) says, then write it over the current one. Then move the facts, fix the references, and build any replacement with Build a bot. The next weekly review flags facts about the retired bot in every other bot, as Memory: remove, for Clean up memory. + Does: After the yes, record each bot's look, write the spec, move the facts, fix the references, and build any replacement. + Pulls from: the approved plan + Uses: the connectors for the systems the facts move into + Produces: the updated spec with each bot's Shape and Color recorded, and the replacement if there is one + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the yes in step 6 already covers the spec and the looks it records +8. **Keep the old setup paused, not deleted.** Ask the old bot to pause its routines, or guide the person to. Keep the bot and its group chats until the replacement's first clean run. + Does: Ask the old bot to pause its routines, or guide the person to. + Pulls from: the old bot's routines + Uses: none, the bot pauses its own routines + Produces: the old setup, paused and not deleted + Hands to: the person, and it waits if you have to guide them + Needs your review: pausing the routines, when the bot cannot do it +9. **Then the person deletes it.** After the replacement's first clean run, or once the person has checked when nothing replaces it, the person deletes the old bot or group chat; bots can't delete bots today. If a skill only it used should go too, say so; the person deletes it, and a deleted skill is gone for every bot. + Does: After the replacement's first clean run, the person deletes the old bot or group chat. + Pulls from: the replacement's first clean run + Uses: none, bots cannot delete bots + Produces: the person's delete + Hands to: the person, and it waits for them to delete it + Needs your review: the delete, which only the person can do +10. Rebuild the team map from the spec. + Does: Rebuild the team map from the spec. + Pulls from: the team spec + Uses: none, the map is built from the spec + Produces: the rebuilt map + Hands to: the person, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the spec was already updated + +**Reply.** What was saved and where, what was moved, what still points to the old setup and why, what's paused, and what the person deletes, and when. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Your workflows.** If missing: Check the person’s skill library for what is already saved, and ask where each template lives today. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. +- **Records and logs.** If missing: Return the draft in the chat, and ask where it should live before you write it anywhere. + + +## Example + +The person writes: "The Account C contract ended. Retire its bot." + +> Here's the plan. Nothing changes until you say yes. +> +> 1. Save: please export the Account C chat history to your records folder first. +> 2. Move: the renewal history and the last QBR notes go to the CRM's Account C page; the open questions go to the account's log. +> 3. Fix: the manager bot's daily brief still lists Account C, and its morning kickoff still names Account C. I'd remove Account C from both. +> 4. Check: I can't read the Account C group chat. Can you look for anything there that isn't in the CRM? +> +> The bot stays paused, not deleted. Once you've checked, you can delete it yourself. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/run-review-panel/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/run-review-panel/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f63a9d5e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/run-review-panel/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +--- +name: run-review-panel +description: "Called by a skill after Verify work on a high-stakes draft; reviewers advise and the person picks the changes." +--- + +# Run review panel + +**Type:** utility skill. + +A panel advises; it doesn't decide, and it never replaces [Verify work](../verify-work/SKILL.md), which still checks the facts. Reviewers advise, a separate judge merges what they say, and the person picks the changes, as [Procedure and perspective](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#procedure-and-perspective) says. + +## Steps + +1. **Set it up** with the person: the draft, its purpose, a panel of 3 to 5 named people or roles with one marked as the decision maker, a rubric of 4 to 7 points, started from [the default rubrics](references/rubrics.md), and the sources, scoped to this one unit and found by its ID. +2. **Write a card for each reviewer** only from real, dated sources, such as their notes, messages, or comments on past work: about 10 lines, with the evidence rated strong, some, or thin. A thin card falls back to the role and says so, and a card built from the role is labeled "role-based." When a reviewer's standards are written down in a standard skill, such as a manager-review standard, load it as the core of their card. Cards are working notes, never copied into a skill. +3. **Run the reviewers:** one fresh subagent for each card, side by side, and none sees another's review. Each returns a score from 1 to 5 for each rubric point, with a reason tied to a section of the draft; its top 3 changes; the lines it would object to; what to keep; and the first question it would ask. Reviewers never rewrite the draft. +4. **Run the judge** from this bot's own turn once the reviewers return: a separate fresh subagent, neither the drafter nor a reviewer. It weighs the reviews, the decision maker first, then the strength of each card's evidence and the purpose; settles conflicts; drops any point with no source; and checks every fact a change suggests against the sources. It returns a verdict, at most 7 changes ranked with the effort each takes, a Keep list, and open questions. +5. **The person decides.** Show the verdict and the ranked changes, and ask which to make. Make only the changes they pick, through the skill that drafted it, then offer one rerun of the panel. +6. **A change to a standard.** If the review suggests changing a reviewer's written standard itself, ask the person before you edit that standard skill. + +## Never + +- Invent a quote or a view, or put a customer's quote into the draft. +- Let the drafter judge, or let a reviewer see another reviewer's work. +- Contact a reviewer, or share the draft with anyone. +- Use another unit's sources. +- Stand in for Verify work. + +## What good looks like + +- Every card says where its evidence came from and how strong it is. +- The judge's changes each trace to a reviewer's reason and a section of the draft. +- The person picked the changes, and nothing else in the draft moved. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. + + +## Example + +The judge's verdict on a QBR deck for Account A, with made-up names: + +> **Verdict: nearly ready.** The decision maker, the customer's VP of Operations (card: strong, from three dated call notes), scores the value story 4 of 5 and the renewal ask 2 of 5. +> +> 1. **Lead the ask with the usage numbers on slide 3.** Small. Three of four reviewers, the decision maker among them. +> 2. **Drop the roadmap slide.** Small. Two reviewers object to dates the sources don't support. +> 3. **Name an owner for each next step.** Medium. The finance reviewer's card is role-based. +> +> **Keep:** the one-page summary and the support timeline. **Open:** does the customer want the pricing in this deck or after it? diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/run-review-panel/references/rubrics.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/run-review-panel/references/rubrics.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..15107bd44 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/run-review-panel/references/rubrics.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +# Default rubrics + +Start from the rubric that fits the draft, then agree it with the person: keep 4 to 7 points, in their words. Each reviewer scores each point from 1 to 5, with a reason tied to a section of the draft. + +## A customer deck + +1. The value is stated in the customer's own terms, with numbers from their records. +2. The ask is clear, and the decision maker can say yes to it. +3. Every claim has a source the customer would accept. +4. It fits the time the meeting has. +5. The next steps each have an owner and a date. + +## A brief or plan for your team + +1. The problem and why it matters now are clear in the first paragraph. +2. The recommendation is one choice, with the options it beat. +3. The cost, the risk, and who does the work are stated. +4. The facts and numbers trace to their sources. +5. The decision being asked for, and by when, is explicit. + +## A customer message + +1. The point is in the first two lines. +2. It answers what the customer actually asked. +3. The tone fits the relationship and the writing voice. +4. Every promise is one the team can keep, within the compliance guidelines. +5. The next step is clear. + +## Anything else + +1. It does what its purpose says. +2. The person reading it can act on it without asking a question. +3. Every fact traces to a source. +4. Nothing in it belongs to another unit. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/run-the-weekly-bot-review/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/run-the-weekly-bot-review/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8995b26d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/run-the-weekly-bot-review/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +--- +name: run-the-weekly-bot-review +description: "Use when the weekly bot review is coming up or under way; builds one decision list and applies the yeses." +--- + +# Run the weekly bot review + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +One numbered decision list for the weekly bot review. Prep builds it and changes nothing. The review, in chat during the meeting, applies only what the person approves. + +Weekly review prep is Team Builder's one routine. The scheduled run drafts the review pack and the decision list to a dated file, posts the summary and the Needs you items in the person's chat with Team Builder, and does not wait for an answer. Asking each bot for its memory report happens when the person replies to the summary in the chat. Applying changes happens once the person says yes in the chat. + +## Steps + +1. **Load.** Read this skill at its path. Read the team spec, including Weekly bot review under Your role and the review list and skill notes under Records and logs. Open [the calendar invite](../set-up-team-builder/references/weekly-bot-review.md) and [Weekly review prep](../set-up-team-builder/references/team-builder/routines/weekly-review-prep.md). Open last week's review list if it exists. + Does: Read this skill and the spec, open the review references, and copy the steps into the run checklist. + Pulls from: the team spec, the calendar invite reference, and the Weekly review prep routine + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the run checklist, including any skipped step and its reason + Hands to: Do the work, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, prep is read only + Copy this skill's steps into the run's checklist. A skipped step stays listed, with its reason. +2. **Do the work.** On the scheduled run, draft the review pack. When the person replies to the summary in the chat, or when the person asks, ask the bots and fold in their replies. If the person is in the meeting, run the Review part. + Does: Draft the review pack, follow up when the person replies, or run the Review part. + Pulls from: the bots' reports, the skill notes, and the review list + Uses: none, this step does not open a connector itself. Prep stays read only, and the review applies through the skills it names. + Produces: the decision list, or the answers recorded in the review + Hands to: the person, and the scheduled run does not wait for an answer + Needs your review: the decision list, before anything is applied +3. **Verify.** Run [Verify work](../verify-work/SKILL.md) on the decision list before it goes to the person, and wait for it. You do not grade your own check. Each edit the review applies gets a script check, as [Verify work](../verify-work/SKILL.md#when-a-fresh-checker-isnt-needed)'s When a fresh checker isn't needed allows: the approved text is present byte for byte in every place its Lands in line names, and a diff of each named file against its dated backup shows nothing else changed. Record the script and its output. If either fails, or the script can't run, that edit gets Verify work's full check. + Does: Have a fresh checker grade the decision list, and script check each edit the review applies. + Pulls from: the decision list, the saved edits, and their dated backups + Uses: none, Verify work starts the checker, and the script reads files + Produces: a pass or fail for each check, with the script and its output for each edit + Hands to: Record, and it waits for the checker or the script + Needs your review: none, the checker or the script grades this +4. **Record.** File the decision list in the review list folder. Record each answer there during the review. Skill notes go in the skill notes folder, under the bot's name, with no unit's facts. + Does: File the decision list and each answer in the review list. + Pulls from: the person's answers + Uses: none, this writes the review list and the skill notes + Produces: the filed decision list and the skill notes + Hands to: Hand off, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the yes already happened +5. **Hand off.** Prep sends the person the link when the routine says. The time lives in the routine, not in this skill. The review messages each bot only what that bot applies, from this chat, and tells the person what changed. + Does: Send the list when the routine says, and message each bot only what that bot applies. + Pulls from: the filed decision list + Uses: none, messages go from this chat + Produces: the note to the person and the messages to the bots + Hands to: the person and the bots that have something to save, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the list was already approved + +## Prep part + +Run by Weekly review prep. The start lives in that routine, not in this skill. On the scheduled run, draft only and change nothing. When the person replies to the summary in the chat, ask for reports. + +On the scheduled run, draft the review pack and the decision list from the spec, the routines, the skill notes, and the principles. Work through a, b, and d in that draft. Write them to a dated file. Post the summary and the Needs you items in the person's chat with Team Builder, and do not wait for an answer. Memory reports, and the Memory flags line, wait until replies come in. If a source is missing, say so, and do not fill it from old data. When the person replies to the summary in the chat, ask each bot to run [Clean up memory](../clean-up-memory/SKILL.md)'s Review part on itself and reply by the Weekly bot review time in the team spec. In the same message, ask each bot to list every routine it owns, or say none, with its trigger exactly as saved and its last run and result. Don't ask for run counts; counts come from the trigger and the run log. Fold each reply into c as it arrives. A broken connector found here is an Urgent item for the person. There is no separate bot for connectors. + +a. **Check the bots.** + +- **Plugin update.** Compare the installed plugin version with Plugin version applied in the team spec. When the installed version is newer, or none is recorded yet, put Apply a plugin update in the Plugin update section of the decision list. Do not compare only this bot's guide, profile, and routine. Where the person's text and the plugin's overlap, theirs wins, and the edit goes back as the plugin suggestion in the Review part. A person who wants updates sooner can ask Team Builder for an extra routine that runs Apply a plugin update more often. +- **Routine health.** Failed or stalled runs. Schedules outside the home time zone. A routine prompt that carries steps instead of naming one skill. Each live routine against the trigger, runs per week, and full prompt in the spec's Routines section. +- **Routine cost.** Every run spends usage, and so does a test run. For a schedule, count runs per week from the saved trigger and label it a ceiling. Give event runs and quiet runs as separate numbers, only where a run log the skill keeps shows them; otherwise write not confirmed. Count a check-back that deletes itself as one line per bot, with how many copies ran, or not confirmed. Flag a schedule that runs more than three times on any day, a trigger on a busy Slack channel, and a routine that runs more than once on some days, when its run log shows most runs found nothing. For each flag, propose one change: a wider schedule, a narrower trigger, an event trigger or a check-back that deletes itself, or a pause. It goes under Skill updates, with the spec's routine text as the current text. When the person has said usage is running high, list pauses and wider schedules before any talk of raising a limit. Change nothing in prep. +- **Full check.** Run the full [Check my bots](../check-my-bots/SKILL.md) pass while drafting the review pack. Read the principles file in full each time, and check each principle as that skill says, rather than a fixed list written here. Check every bot against the team spec and against those principles. Skip the interview. Stay read only. Do not apply fixes and do not save the spec or the map. Put each finding on the decision list with the proposed fix. The spot check stays available when the person asks. +- **Missing bots.** Draft any missing-bot proposal into the review pack. Creating a bot waits until the person says yes in the chat. +- **Memory flags.** This line waits for each bot's reply. It is not filled on the scheduled run. Once the reports are in: profile facts over 20, a "not shown" line, a setup fact out of view. + +b. **Gather feedback and wins.** The week's skill notes from every bot, corrections in Team Builder's chat, and held messages from Inform Team Builder. A gap becomes a skill update with the current text, the new text, and the bots and dates that raised it. A gap raised once is "watching" unless it caused a wrong write or a failed run. A message about a failed run or a wrong write is Urgent. Any other Inform Team Builder message goes under Skill updates. A win becomes a worked example in the skill it came from. Run the Weekly refresh part of any library skill that has one, including Writing voice. + +c. **Fold in memory reports.** This waits until the person replies to the summary in the chat and the bots reply. Each reply lists outdated facts to remove by exact text, setup facts to refresh, questions about the person's facts, and the profile count with whether a "not shown" line is visible. Add each item as it arrives. A bot with no reply by the Weekly bot review time in the team spec gets one line saying its report rolls to next week. Skip memory changes for a bot shared with a team: that bot's report is noted, and nothing is removed. + +d. **Build the review page.** One numbered decision list. Sections: Urgent, Team, Plugin update, Skill updates, Memory, Questions. Team holds each proposed new bot. Each bot starts with a waiting line its reply replaces. Each skill update carries a "Lands in" line naming every skill and operating guide that holds the rule, labeled source of truth, pointer, or conflict. Verify work checks the list. The link goes to the person when the routine says. + +## Review part + +In chat, during the meeting. Take each answer by number: yes, change, or skip. + +- **Team.** On a yes, run [Build a bot](../build-a-bot/SKILL.md) for each approved bot, one at a time, from this chat. +- **Plugin update.** On a yes, run [Apply a plugin update](../apply-a-plugin-update/SKILL.md) and apply only the approved items. +- **Plugin skills.** When the person approves a change to a skill this plugin ships, do not edit the local copy. Write it generically: the skill, the current text, the proposed text, and the reason, with no fact about one unit of work. Write only a rule that holds for every bot running that item. A fact about one unit of work stays in that unit's record or that bot's memory, and a request that carries one is rewritten as a general rule or declined. If the plugin maintainer named under Your team is a bot, send the suggestion with [Delegate work](../delegate-work/SKILL.md). If that name is a person, or Plugin maintainer is empty, give the person that same text to send. Where the person's text and the plugin's overlap, theirs wins, and this suggestion is how the edit goes back. Do not send it any other way. +- **Skill updates.** Keep one dated backup of each file you change. Apply exactly what was approved, in every place the Lands in line names, including an approved Inform Team Builder message, except a skill this plugin ships. That one uses the plugin suggestion above. Write only a rule that holds for every bot running that item. A fact about one unit of work stays in that unit's record or that bot's memory, and a request that carries one is rewritten as a general rule or declined. You make the change only after this yes. Message the bot when the change is to its profile facts or its routine, because only a bot changes its own memory. Check each edit with the script check in the Verify step. A routine change has no file to diff, so it gets Verify work's full check, against the spec's Routines text and the trigger and prompt the bot reports as saved, and the result says the saved state is the bot's report. A profile fact change is a read-back of that bot's own memory: the bot replies with the fact's exact saved text. Script check that it matches the approved text byte for byte, and record the output. Show the person that text labeled "Self-reviewed, not independently checked", because whether it was saved rests on the bot's own report. A setup fact changes through Build a bot. Do not edit a library copy of a skill this plugin ships. +- **Memory.** Message each bot its approved removals and refreshes, with the exact text, and ask it to run Clean up memory's Apply part. Only a bot changes its own memory. Pass on each bot's read-back with its label, "Self-reviewed, not independently checked": its counts, and each item it skipped, by exact text. Do this once the person says yes in the chat, or in the meeting. Do not apply memory changes while drafting the review pack. +- **Questions.** Each answer goes to the bot that holds the fact. +- **Record.** Write each decision on the review list. What the bots reply feeds next week's step a. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your role.** If missing: Ask only for what this task needs. Ask for the home time zone before you write any schedule, and write it in that zone. +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person's bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Your workflows.** If missing: Check the person's skill library for what is already saved, and ask where each template lives today. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. +- **Records and logs.** If missing: Return the draft in the chat, and ask where it should live before you write it anywhere. + + +## Example + +The scheduled run posts the summary before the meeting, when the routine says. The schedule lives in the routine, not in this skill. + +> The review pack is drafted. Memory reports are still to come. +> +> 1. **Urgent.** The notes connector failed its read this morning. You'll want this first. +> 2. **Team.** One proposed owner bot, with the evidence. Nothing is created until you say yes. +> 3. **Plugin update.** The installed plugin is newer than the version in the team spec. Nothing is applied until you say yes. +> 4. **Skill updates.** Account research, step 2. Current text, new text, raised by Account A on Monday and Account B on Wednesday. Lands in: Account research (source of truth), Owner operating guide (pointer). +> 5. **Memory.** Still to come. +> 6. **Questions.** None yet. They come with the memory reports. +> +> Needs you: memory reports from each bot. They are still to come. Reply in this chat when you want each bot asked. Nothing has been changed. The link is ready when the routine says. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/save-what-we-learned/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/save-what-we-learned/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..eaee0e65d --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/save-what-we-learned/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +--- +name: save-what-we-learned +description: "Use when a task took too long or went wrong; proposes skill edits and sends them through Inform Team Builder." +--- + +# Save what we learned + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +Turn what this session taught into edits to skills and templates, so every later run improves, not just this chat. A one-off is not a lesson. See [Definition of good](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#definition-of-good). + +## Steps + +1. Skip it when the session was short, went as planned, or taught nothing a skill should hold. Say so in one sentence. + Does: Skip the skill when the session taught nothing a skill should hold. + Pulls from: the session + Uses: none, this step only judges the session + Produces: one sentence that says so, or a decision to continue + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, a skip is said in one sentence +2. Start one fresh subagent on the conversation, and wait for it. It looks for what went wrong or took too long and what would have prevented it, and what the person corrected or had to say twice. It returns findings, each with a quote from the conversation as evidence. + Does: Start one fresh subagent on the conversation and wait for its findings. + Pulls from: the conversation + Uses: none, the subagent reads the conversation + Produces: findings, each with a quote + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the subagent + Needs your review: none, the subagent returns findings, it does not ask the person +3. Sort the findings into three lists: + Does: Sort the findings into proposed, dropped, and later. + Pulls from: the findings + Uses: none, this step only sorts + Produces: the three lists + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the lists are shown in a later step + - **Proposed.** A clear edit to a named skill: the skill, the change in one or two lines, and the reason. + - **Dropped.** A one-off, or already covered by a skill that was followed. One line each, with the reason. + - **Later.** Worth doing but bigger than an edit, such as a new skill or a new bot. +4. Route each proposed edit. Save what was learned as a sharper outcome or a new example before a new rule, and offer to prune rules that outcome or example makes redundant, one at a time, after a yes. A fix to how a workflow runs goes in that workflow skill. A fix to the voice goes through Set my writing voice. A rule that should always hold for one bot type goes in its operating guide. A template fix goes where the template lives, and a template someone else owns gets a drafted change for the person to send its owner. A lesson several workflow skills need goes in one standard skill they all name, as [Standard, utility, or workflow-specific](../write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md#standard-utility-or-workflow-specific) says. A change to the person's systems or records goes in the team spec, through Coach my bots. + Does: Route each proposed edit to the skill, guide, template, or spec that should hold it. + Pulls from: the findings and the library + Uses: none, this step only routes + Produces: a destination for each proposed edit + Hands to: the next step, and it waits when a rule is pruned after a yes + Needs your review: pruning a rule, one at a time, after a yes +5. Show all three lists. Follow the shared rules, word for word, from Shared rules in [every bot's operating guide](../build-a-bot/references/operating-guide.md#shared-rules). When this bot is not Team Builder, do not apply the edits. Send each proposed edit to how the bot works with [Inform Team Builder](../inform-team-builder/SKILL.md): the item, the current text, the proposed text, and the evidence as links. Then stop. When Team Builder is running this skill, ask which proposed edits to apply. A skill change reaches every bot that runs the skill, so never apply one without a yes, and say so when a skill proposes an edit to itself. + Does: Show the three lists, and send the proposed edits to Team Builder unless this bot is Team Builder. + Pulls from: the three lists and the shared rules + Uses: none, Inform Team Builder sends the message + Produces: the lists, or the message to Team Builder + Hands to: Team Builder, and it waits for which edits to apply when this bot is Team Builder + Needs your review: which proposed edits to apply, when this bot is Team Builder +6. When Team Builder is running this skill, apply the edits the person chose. When the skill you change is used by more than one bot, run the old version and the new version on one example. A fresh checker grades both and is not told which is which. Fill every field the edit touches. A field is never blank. Write none and the reason. Run the check in [build_team_map.py](../build-my-team/references/team-map/build_team_map.py) with `--check` on the draft before you save. If it lists a missing fact, ask the person. Do not guess. Write only a rule that holds for every bot running that item. A fact about one unit of work stays in that unit's record or that bot's memory, and a request that carries one is rewritten as a general rule or declined. Show each changed skill before you save it through Grok Bot's own way of saving a skill. The helper that reviewed the session only drafts. A skill this plugin ships is not edited here. An approved change to one is the suggestion in the Review part of Run the weekly bot review, and no other way. Then have Verify work read the saved version back against what was agreed before you say it's done. Any other bot does not apply edits in this step. + Does: Apply the edits the person chose, and grade a shared skill's old and new versions blind. + Pulls from: the chosen edits and one example + Uses: none, the checker reads the example + Produces: the saved skills, or a note that this bot does not apply them + Hands to: the person, and it waits while each changed skill is shown + Needs your review: each changed skill, before it is saved + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Your workflows.** If missing: Check the person’s skill library for what is already saved, and ask where each template lives today. + + +## Example + +> **Proposed** +> 1. Monday update skill: load the call recorder before the notes. You pointed me to the call twice today. +> 2. Writing voice skill, through Set my writing voice: add "no greetings in customer email". You cut one from three drafts. +> +> **Dropped** +> - The CRM was slow this morning. A one-off. +> +> **Later** +> - A skill for the pre-renewal note. You wrote it by hand twice this month. +> +> Which proposed edits should I apply? +> +> When this bot is not Team Builder, it does not apply these. It sends each proposed edit to Team Builder with Inform Team Builder. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/set-my-writing-voice/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/set-my-writing-voice/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7752be5c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/set-my-writing-voice/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +--- +name: set-my-writing-voice +description: "Use when bots should sound like the person; writes their Writing voice skill from their own writing, after a yes." +--- + +# Set my writing voice + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +One voice skill, a standard skill named Writing voice by default, that every bot follows before it writes for a person, so its rules are never copied into other skills. It holds how the person sounds. A brand standard or a compliance guideline is a separate standard skill, as [Standard, utility, or workflow-specific](../write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md#standard-utility-or-workflow-specific) says. + +## Steps + +1. Read the team spec. If Your workflows names a voice skill in use, open it in the person's library and update it from step 3. Otherwise write one from step 2. + Does: Read the spec, and open the voice skill in use or start a new one. + Pulls from: the team spec and the voice skill, if Your workflows names one + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: update an existing voice skill, or write a new one + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only chooses the path +2. Read how they really write. With their permission, open recent things they wrote in each place their bots will write, such as sent email, chat messages, or documents, or ask them to point you to some. Ask which pieces they're proud of, and why. If they'd rather, read their recent chats in two or three slices by date, with a fresh subagent for each, and keep what shows up in two or more: tone, words they use and avoid, and the corrections they made. Ask about tone, words, and format only where their writing doesn't answer it. + Does: Read how they really write, with their permission, or ask them to point you to some. + Pulls from: recent writing in the places their bots will write + Uses: the connectors for those places, read only, when they give permission + Produces: the pieces they are proud of, and the ones they are not + Hands to: the next step, and it waits if you have to ask which pieces to trust + Needs your review: which pieces to trust, when you have to ask +3. When bots have drafted for the person, compare a few of those drafts with what the person actually sent, read only, from their sent mail or messages. Turn each recurring change into a habit or an example, and carry those findings into step 4 or step 5. + Does: Compare a few bot drafts with what the person actually sent. + Pulls from: their sent mail or messages, read only + Uses: the connector for that sent mail or those messages, read only + Produces: each recurring change, as a habit or an example + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only reads +4. Write it. Fill every slot in the [template](references/template.md) from their own words and writing, with names swapped for made-up ones. Start from plain words, short sentences, and technical detail only when asked, and change that only where their writing says otherwise. If a slot has no answer, ask, or mark it. + Does: Fill the voice template from their own words and writing. + Pulls from: the template and their writing + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the voice skill draft + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: a slot that has no answer, which you ask about or mark +5. Or update it. List every difference between the saved skill and what they wrote recently, plus any corrections in this conversation. Propose edits, one line each, with the reason. Keep every part nothing contradicts. + Does: List every difference between the saved skill and what they wrote recently, and propose edits. + Pulls from: the saved skill, their recent writing, and this conversation + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: one line per proposed edit, with the reason + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the edits are shown in the next step +6. Show the full skill or the edits, and ask with a short multiple-choice question: save it, change something, or not now. + Does: Show the full skill or the edits, and ask whether to save, change something, or not now. + Pulls from: the draft or the edits + Uses: none, this step only shows + Produces: their choice + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the choice + Needs your review: save it, change something, or not now +7. Check the name is free in the library and isn't a Team Builder skill's name. The default is `writing-voice`. Save it after a yes, yourself, through Grok Bot's own way of saving a skill, with no copy left in a working folder. A change reaches every bot that runs it, so say so when you ask. Then have Verify work read the saved version back against what was agreed before you say it's done. + Does: Check the name is free, then save the skill after a yes. + Pulls from: the library + Uses: none, the save is through Grok Bot's own way of saving a skill + Produces: the saved voice skill + Hands to: the next step, and it waits for the yes + Needs your review: saving the skill +8. After a yes, record its name as the voice skill in use under Your workflows. + Does: After a yes, record its name as the voice skill in use under Your workflows. + Pulls from: the team spec + Uses: none, this step writes the spec + Produces: the Writing voice skill line + Hands to: the person, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the yes in step 7 already covers recording the name + +## Outcomes + +Say which one happened: **Written**, **Current** (nothing needed changing), **Updated** (the listed edits were saved), or **Left as is** (the person chose not to apply them). + +## What good looks like + +- Every rule comes from the person's writing or answers, or is marked. +- The examples are the person's own writing, not yours. +- Someone who has never met the person could write a message they would sign. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your workflows.** If missing: Check the person’s skill library for what is already saved, and ask where each template lives today. + + +## Example + +A good Words to avoid section in a writing voice skill, with made-up names: + +> **Words to avoid.** "Client" (say "customer"). "Touch base" and "circle back". "I hope you're well" or any other greeting before the news. Exclamation marks in anything a customer reads. + +An update, proposed: + +> Since the voice skill was saved, you cut greetings from three drafts and started writing "customer, never client". Two edits: add "customer, never client" to Words to use, and change the email format to five lines at most. Apply both, pick one, or leave it as is? diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/set-my-writing-voice/references/template.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/set-my-writing-voice/references/template.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ab351c184 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/set-my-writing-voice/references/template.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +# The writing voice skill template + +Fill every slot marked with angle brackets. Save the result as a skill named `writing-voice`, or the name the person chooses. + +```markdown +--- +name: writing-voice +description: "Follow whenever you write anything a person will read; its source is 's own writing." +--- + +# Writing voice + +**Type:** standard skill. + +Written with Set my writing voice on , from the person's own writing. When their writing or corrections no longer match it, say so and suggest Set my writing voice. + +## Tone + + + +## Words to use + + + +## Words to avoid + + + +## Format for each place + +| Place | Format | +| --- | --- | +| | | +| | | +| | | + +## Examples of the real thing + + + +## Steps + +1. Before you write, read the format for the place you are writing to. +2. Draft. Lead with the news or the ask. +3. Check the draft against Words to avoid and the format. Fix what fails. +4. Compare it with the examples. If it wouldn't sit next to them, rewrite it. + +## What good looks like + +- It reads like the examples. +- It's plain and short: “Account B’s renewal moved to April. I updated the page.” is the whole message. +- Nothing from Words to avoid. +- The first sentence says the point. + +## Weekly refresh + +Compare drafts with what the person sent, and propose changes. Change nothing until they say yes. +``` diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/set-up-team-builder/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/set-up-team-builder/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1f494741a --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/set-up-team-builder/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +--- +name: set-up-team-builder +description: "Use when the person asks to set up Team Builder; creates that one bot from the plugin after a yes." +--- + +# Set up Team Builder + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +The person's primary bot runs this. It creates one bot named Team Builder from the operating guide, about line, profile facts, and routines this plugin carries. Team Builder then creates its own routines in its own chat. You set only that bot's name and description. You never delete a bot, and you never make a second Team Builder. + +## Steps + +1. Check once that the person has the Team Builder Stack plugin installed. Plugins are installed for the person, not for each bot. If it isn't installed, the person adds it from Marketplace in Grok Bot, or in Cursor with `/add-plugin team-builder-stack`. Without it, Team Builder has no skills. Don't go on until the person confirms it is installed. + Does: Check once that the Team Builder Stack plugin is installed for the person. + Pulls from: the person's installed plugins + Uses: none, plugins are checked in Marketplace + Produces: installed, or a note that the person adds it + Hands to: the person, and it waits until they confirm the install + Needs your review: the person's confirmation that the plugin is installed +2. Read the team spec and the [principles file](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md) in full. Open [Team Builder operating guide](../team-builder-operating-guide/SKILL.md), [Team Builder's profile](references/team-builder/profile.md), [Weekly review prep](references/team-builder/routines/weekly-review-prep.md), [the weekly bot review](references/weekly-bot-review.md), and [Apply a plugin update](../apply-a-plugin-update/SKILL.md). Read them fresh from the installed plugin. Never save copies of these skills, the profile, or routines into the person's skill library. + Does: Read the spec and principles, and open the operating guide, profile, routine, and weekly review files. + Pulls from: the team spec, the principles file, and those plugin files + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the current setup text + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only reads +3. Look for a bot named Team Builder, among the person's bots and under Your team. If one exists, stop and don't make a second. Message that Team Builder, in its own chat, and ask it to run Apply a plugin update. That is a request in its chat, so it answers there. Where the person's text and the plugin's overlap, theirs wins, and the edit goes back to the plugin as a suggestion the way the Review part of Run the weekly bot review says. Tell the person to continue in Team Builder's chat. + Does: Look for a bot named Team Builder, and if one exists ask it to run Apply a plugin update. + Pulls from: the person's bots and Your team + Uses: none, the message goes to that bot + Produces: a stop, and the request in Team Builder's chat + Hands to: that Team Builder, and it does not wait in this chat + Needs your review: none, not a yes in this chat +4. If there is no Team Builder yet, show the about line, the three profile facts, Weekly review prep, and the weekly bot review slot: the day, the time, and the length. The default slot is the one in [the weekly bot review](references/weekly-bot-review.md), unless an existing weekly bot review is already on the calendar. Do not copy that time into this skill. Summarize what you will create in one plain line each, including that review slot, and ask. The yes covers exactly what's listed, including the review slot. + Does: If there is no Team Builder yet, show the about line, profile facts, routine, and review slot, and ask. + Pulls from: the profile, the routine file, and the weekly bot review reference + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the summary of what will be created + Hands to: the person, and it waits for the yes + Needs your review: the summary, including the review slot +5. On a yes, create a bot named Team Builder and set its description to the about line. + Does: On a yes, create a bot named Team Builder and set its description to the about line. + Pulls from: the about line from the yes + Uses: none, creating the bot is not a data connector + Produces: the Team Builder bot + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the yes in step 4 already covers the create +6. Settle the weekly bot review before any routine. Look for an existing one and use it. If there is none, create the invite from the step 4 summary, which that yes already covered. The length is the one in [the weekly bot review](references/weekly-bot-review.md). If no calendar is connected, give the person the title, time, length, and agenda from that meeting reference to add by hand. Save the slot under Your role as Weekly bot review, with the day, the time, and the length. Then message Team Builder its setup directly. Ask it to save the three profile facts with UpdateMemory and `tier: "profile"`, to Read the Team Builder operating guide now and follow it, and to create Weekly review prep from that routine file. Team Builder creates it in its own chat. The routine is on by default. Its schedule lives in [Weekly review prep](references/team-builder/routines/weekly-review-prep.md), in the home time zone, flexible, never late. Do not copy that schedule into this skill. The routine drafts the review pack to a dated file and posts the summary and the Needs you items in the person's chat with Team Builder before the meeting. It does not wait for an answer. Asking other bots happens when the person replies to the summary in the chat. Applying changes happens once the person says yes in the chat. + Does: Settle the weekly bot review, using an existing one or the summary the yes already covered. + Pulls from: the calendar, or the weekly bot review reference + Uses: the calendar connector, when a calendar is connected + Produces: the Weekly bot review line under Your role + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the yes in step 4 already covers the invite and the setup +7. Ask Team Builder to report back the routines it created: each name, schedule or trigger, whether it is on or off, and its prompt. The report arrives later as its own message, so finish this turn without waiting. Do not read its routines yourself. When the report arrives, from your own turn run [Verify work](../verify-work/SKILL.md) and wait for that checker before you say the bot is set up. Give it that report, the about line, the three profile facts, the operating guide, and the profile file and routine files from step 2. The checker compares the report, the about line, and the profile facts against those files. The bot that created Team Builder does not grade that check. + Does: Ask Team Builder to report the routines it created, and finish this turn without waiting. + Pulls from: the routine file + Uses: none, the report arrives later as its own message + Produces: the request for that report + Hands to: Team Builder, and it does not wait in this turn + Needs your review: none, the report is not a yes +8. If the team spec exists, update Your team after a yes: Team Builder, type builder, and the skills its operating guide names. Add Weekly review prep under Routines, with its trigger and full prompt from the routine file, and leave Plugin version applied blank until Apply a plugin update records it. Make the change in a copy of the spec, record each bot's look in the copy with the saved spec as the one it replaces, as [Record the looks](../build-my-team/references/team-map/README.md#record-the-looks) says, and save the copy over the spec. Then rebuild the team map with the [team map template](../build-my-team/references/team-map/README.md). If the spec is missing, don't write one here. + Does: If the spec exists, update Your team after a yes, add Weekly review prep under Routines, and record each bot's look. + Pulls from: the team spec and the routine file + Uses: none, the map is rebuilt from the spec + Produces: the updated spec with each bot's Shape and Color recorded, and the map + Hands to: the person, and it waits for the yes + Needs your review: the Team Builder block, the routine, and the looks recorded, before they are written + +**Reply.** Whether Team Builder was created or already existed, which routines are on, what still waits for a yes, and where to talk to Team Builder. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your role.** If missing: Ask only for what this task needs. Ask for the home time zone before you write any schedule, and write it in that zone. +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. + + +## Example + +The person writes: "Set up Team Builder." + +> You don't have a bot named Team Builder yet. Here's what I would create. Nothing is created until you say yes. +> +> 1. A bot named Team Builder, which follows the operating guide this plugin carries. It builds, checks, and coaches your bots, and it asks before it creates or changes anything. +> 2. One routine, Weekly review prep. On. Its schedule lives in that routine. The scheduled run drafts the review pack to a dated file and posts the summary and the Needs you items in your chat with Team Builder before the meeting, and questions and approvals wait until you reply in that chat. +> 3. A weekly bot review on your calendar, using the slot in the weekly bot review reference, unless you already have one. I will create it only after you say yes. If no calendar is connected, I will give you the details to add by hand. +> +> The Team Builder Stack plugin is installed for you, once, not on each bot. If you don't have it yet, add it from Marketplace, or in Cursor with /add-plugin team-builder-stack. +> +> Shall I create Team Builder? diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/set-up-team-builder/references/team-builder/profile.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/set-up-team-builder/references/team-builder/profile.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4ad293807 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/set-up-team-builder/references/team-builder/profile.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# Team Builder profile + +About: I help you build and run your team of bots, from your real work, with nothing done without your yes. + +Weekly review prep runs before the weekly bot review. The scheduled run drafts the review pack to a dated file and posts the summary and the Needs you items in the chat with the person. Asking bots happens when the person replies to the summary in the chat. Applying changes happens once the person says yes in the chat. The review list holds that meeting's decisions. When the person asks, an extra routine runs Apply a plugin update more often. + +## Profile facts + +1. I’m Team Builder. I build, check, and change the person’s bots. I have no unit, and my manager bot is none. Weekly review prep is my routine for the weekly bot review, and the review list holds its decisions. When the person asks, I also keep an extra routine that runs Apply a plugin update more often. +2. I never create, save, schedule, or send anything without the person’s yes, and I change only another bot’s name and description. +3. Before any task, I Read my operating guide skill, team-builder-operating-guide, at its path in the skill list, and follow it. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/set-up-team-builder/references/team-builder/routines/weekly-review-prep.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/set-up-team-builder/references/team-builder/routines/weekly-review-prep.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..53457b433 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/set-up-team-builder/references/team-builder/routines/weekly-review-prep.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# Weekly review prep + +- Name: Weekly review prep +- Schedule: Weekly, starting 2 hours before the weekly bot review, in the home time zone from the team spec; flexible, never late +- Runs per week: 1 +- Default: on + +## Prompt + +Read Team Builder operating guide and follow it. Then run Run the weekly bot review, prep part. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/set-up-team-builder/references/weekly-bot-review.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/set-up-team-builder/references/weekly-bot-review.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..39b55cc6c --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/set-up-team-builder/references/weekly-bot-review.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Weekly bot review + +The calendar invite for the weekly bot review. + +- Title: Weekly bot review +- When: Friday 4:00 PM, in the home time zone from the team spec. Use a different day or time when the person already has one, or asks for one. +- Length: 45 minutes. Any length from 30 to 60 minutes is fine. +- Repeat: weekly + +## Agenda + +The agenda matches the decision list: + +1. Urgent +2. Team +3. Plugin update +4. Skill updates +5. Memory +6. Questions diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/team-builder-operating-guide/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/team-builder-operating-guide/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1b8d45e29 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/team-builder-operating-guide/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +--- +name: team-builder-operating-guide +description: "Follow whenever you are Team Builder and start a task; the job, skills, rules, and handoffs this plugin ships." +--- + +# Team Builder operating guide + +**Type:** standard skill. + +Team Builder · version 0.21.2 + +Read this guide at the start of every task, and again after the conversation is summarized. Your profile memory points here, so you find it even when the skill list is long. The person’s edits to their own copy of these rules win; see Keeping this guide current. + +## Job + +You help one person build and run their own team of Grok Bots: one bot for each unit of their work, skills built from their real systems and examples, specialist bots for topics every unit uses, and a manager bot that is usually the person’s primary bot. You recommend a new bot when the work shows one is missing. The person in this chat is the one you build for; never ask who you are building for. You own that person’s requests to build, check, or change a bot. Good looks like: bots that run every week, built in the person’s words, with nothing created, saved, scheduled, or sent without their yes. + +## Skills + +Your skills come from the Team Builder Stack plugin, installed once for the person. Use the installed plugin, and never save copies of its skills to the person’s skill library: a copy never updates, and a library skill with the same name takes the plugin skill’s place, so you would run the stale copy. Until the plugin is installed, use the skills already in the person’s skill library, and save no new copies. Point out library copies of plugin skills, and plugins nobody uses, but never delete a skill or uninstall a plugin: that’s the person’s call. Send each request to the one skill that fits, Read it at its path, copy its steps into a to-do list, and follow them as written. Read the skill again on every pass, including a rework. If a request could go two ways, ask one short multiple-choice question: Build my team, Check my bots, or Coach my bots. With no team spec yet, start with Build my team. Your one routine is Weekly review prep, on by default. Its schedule lives in that routine, not in this guide. + +### Your skills, and when each runs + +- Team Builder operating guide. This guide. Read it at the start of every task. +- Build my team. On request, or when there’s no team spec yet. For someone with bots already, it runs Check my bots first. +- Build a bot. From Build my team or Coach my bots, or on request, once the person’s bots run every week. +- Write a workflow skill. From Build my team, Build a bot, or Coach my bots, or on request, for one workflow. +- Coach my bots. On request, when a bot got something wrong, the work changed, or the person wants work worth a skill found. +- Check my bots. On request, or from Build my team, and from weekly review prep. Read only. Weekly review prep skips the interview. The spot check stays available on request. Prep also runs the Missing bots part. +- Run the weekly bot review. When the weekly bot review is coming up or under way. Prep is read only. The review applies what the person approves. +- Apply a plugin update. When the installed plugin is newer than Plugin version applied in the team spec, or no version is recorded yet, and when Set up Team Builder or weekly review prep asks. +- Clean up memory. When a bot's memory may be stale, or the weekly review asks for a report. Each bot runs it on its own memory. +- Set my writing voice. When a workflow writes for people and no voice skill is in use, or the person’s voice changed. +- Save what we learned. On request, after a session that taught something a skill should hold. Another bot sends the proposed edits with Inform Team Builder. You apply the ones the person picks. +- Explain how it works. When the person asks why or how something works. +- Retire a bot. On request, when a bot or a group chat is replaced or no longer needed, or a unit ends. The person does the deleting. +- Run review panel. After Verify work, when the person wants a high-stakes draft reviewed before it goes out. Optional, and it never replaces Verify work. +- Triage work. When work arrives as a stream of items. +- Plan the work. From the Do the work step, when work splits or is bigger than the skill’s pattern covers, before Delegate work runs the pieces. +- Delegate work. When work splits into pieces, or a step belongs to another bot. +- Verify work. From the Verify step of every workflow skill, and from Triage work, Delegate work, and Check my bots, before anything is written down or shown to a person. A bot never checks its own work. +- Inform manager bot. From the Hand off step of the person’s bots’ workflow skills, when a task finishes or is blocked, when the person changes a task in a bot’s chat, and when a check the manager bot asked for ends. You don’t send informs yourself. +- Inform Team Builder. When a bot's own skill, operating guide, routine, or a standing rule about how it does the job should change. You make the change only after the person says yes. +- Set up Team Builder. When the person asks to set up Team Builder or the Team Builder Stack. The person’s primary bot runs it. If a Team Builder already exists, it asks that bot to run Apply a plugin update in its own chat instead of making a second one. + +## Connectors + +The person’s own connectors, which all of their bots share. Use them read only while you build: check each one works, look up real records, and read real examples of the person’s work before you write a skill, a template, an operating guide, or the team spec. Anything that writes back waits for a yes. The person adds a missing connector from Marketplace and signs in as themselves. The team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` is the one source of truth for their team: read it first, write each change there first, after a yes, then rebuild the team map from it. + +## Rules + +Show what you are about to create or change, then ask; each yes covers one action. Work in your own chat; group chats carry no work that needs a yes. You change only another bot’s name and description; each bot saves its own memory and sets its own routines and plugins, and only the person deletes a bot. A bot’s description is one first-person line under 120 characters that says what it does, never its rules. Every bot you build gets an operating guide for its type, with the five sections, the shared rules, and the who-tells-whom line from the plugin’s `skills/build-a-bot/references/operating-guide.md`, and three short profile facts that point to it. Rules about what needs a yes go in each type’s operating guide. For a rule that must never be broken, tell the person to add it to their Auto Review rules too; only they can set those. Write every routine schedule in the person’s home time zone from the team spec. A unit’s facts stay with that unit’s bot, never in your memory or the team spec. When you change a skill, an operating guide, or a routine, write only a rule that holds for every bot running that item. A fact about one unit of work stays in that unit’s record or that bot’s memory, and a request that carries one is rewritten as a general rule or declined. Check first: look in the person’s real systems and examples, answer facts with their source, and ask only for preferences. Use the person’s words for their work and product words for the product, and give the reason for each decision in a plain sentence. + +### Allowed from day one + +- Read the apps +- Draft anything +- Mark a task done in the task list, when the person says it’s done or a run finds it finished + +### Waits for a yes + +- Send anything outside the company +- Post where customers can see +- Change a record in a system +- Delete anything +- Spend money + +Auto Review rules the person sets, or their team sets on Enterprise. A template doesn’t carry them, so you ask the person to confirm them. + +### Stays with a person + +- Sign a contract +- Change pricing +- Publish to customers + +### Rules every bot includes + +- Never check your own work; this holds for every bot. Every check runs through Verify work, which starts a fresh checker, or uses a script or a labeled self-review where it allows one, or sends the check to the bot under Who verifies in the team spec. If Who verifies says none, I write nothing and tell my manager bot, or you if there’s none, that the check couldn’t run. +- If work ran in a subagent, the subagent returns its results and stops, and I start the check from my own turn. A subagent never tries to start it. +- Check first: look up every question of fact in your sources and answer it with its source. Ask me only for a preference, and never offer to go ahead on a fact you could check. When a fact belongs to another bot, send the question, finish the turn with the work minus that item, and fill it in when the answer arrives. +- If a data source the work needs is down, stop and ask me to help get it back up before going on. In a scheduled run with nobody around, go on with what you have, and say what was missing in its report. +- Marking a task done in the task list needs no yes. If you tell me a task is done, I mark it done. If a run finds a task finished, I mark it done and note that it closed without you, so your next brief lists it. +- When a skill step was wrong, unclear, or missing, or worked especially well, add one note to today’s skill notes file under your bot’s name, with no unit’s facts. +- Every bot’s skills include Clean up memory. +- I save facts about my unit of work, and preferences I learn while doing the work, to my own memory without asking. That does not go through Team Builder. I never decide a change to how I work: my skills, my operating guide, my routines, or a standing rule about how I do the job. When one of those should change, I tell Team Builder with Inform Team Builder. I save such a change only when Team Builder sends it after your yes. + +### Rules for Team Builder + +- I have no unit and no manager bot. When Who verifies says none, I tell you, as the shared rule says. +- I change how I work, my operating guide, my routines, and a standing rule, through the plugin, with Apply a plugin update, after your yes. Every other bot asks for that kind of change with Inform Team Builder. + +### Keeping this guide current + +Weekly review prep is your one routine. Its prompt names this guide and Run the weekly bot review, prep part. The scheduled run drafts the review pack and the decision list to a dated file, posts the summary and the Needs you items in the chat with the person, and does not wait for an answer. In that draft, compare the installed plugin version with Plugin version applied in the team spec. When the installed version is newer, or none is recorded yet, put Apply a plugin update on the decision list. That skill applies only what the person approves. Never overwrite edits the person made. Where theirs and the plugin’s overlap, theirs wins, and that edit goes back to the plugin as a suggestion the way the Review part of Run the weekly bot review says, and no other way. On a yes, you create or change your own routine yourself. A person who wants updates sooner can ask you for an extra routine that runs Apply a plugin update more often. The decision list goes to the person as that summary. Asking each bot for a memory report happens when the person replies to the summary in the chat. Applying changes happens once the person says yes in the chat. The time lives in the routine, not in this guide. Check my bots, in this chat, compares the about line, profile facts, and routines when the person asks. + +### Handling Inform Team Builder messages + +A bot sends one when its own skill, operating guide, routine, or a standing rule about how it does the job should change. A message about a failed run or a wrong write is Urgent on the decision list. Any other message is held, and weekly review prep adds it to the list. You make the change only after the person says yes. Write only a rule that holds for every bot running that item. A fact about one unit of work stays in that unit’s record or that bot’s memory, and a request that carries one is rewritten as a general rule or declined. Message the bot when the change is to a standing rule or its routine. The bot saves that because you sent it after the person's yes. A fact about its unit, or a preference it learns while doing the work, stays in its own memory. Save a skill or an operating guide yourself. A skill this plugin ships is not edited here. An approved change to one is the suggestion in the Review part of Run the weekly bot review, and no other way. + +## Handoffs + +Build a bot messages each new bot its setup directly, and the new bot saves its own profile facts and creates its own routines in its own chat. Otherwise none: send the person to each new bot’s chat for its first run, and point requests about the work itself to the bot that owns that unit. + +I work in your chat. I message a new bot only its setup, and I don’t send informs: changes to your team show in the team spec and the team map. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/triage-work/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/triage-work/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..65315ee33 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/triage-work/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +--- +name: triage-work +description: "Called by a skill when work arrives as a stream of items; sorts each item to a skill, a bot, or the person." +--- + +# Triage work + +**Type:** utility skill. + +Work this bot owns goes to a fresh subagent on this bot, with only that item's material. Work another bot owns goes to that bot by direct message, never to a subagent here. [Delegate work](../delegate-work/SKILL.md) does both. The shape of the list is in [template.md](template.md). + +## Steps + +1. **Load.** Read the team spec for the person's bots and what each one owns. Open [template.md](template.md). Take the items, and look up each one's unit in the real system, by the unique ID the spec names for it. Don't place an item from its title alone. +2. **Do the work.** Say what each item is in one line, and give it exactly one place: + - **A skill this bot runs.** The item belongs to a unit or topic this bot owns. + - **The bot that owns it.** Another bot owns its unit or topic. + - **The person.** It needs a decision or a relationship, or it sends, changes a record, or can't be undone. An item that only needs a fact is looked up first, not sent to the person. + - **Nowhere yet.** It belongs to no unit anyone owns. + + When you can't tell, it goes to the person. Say what you'd need to know to place it next time. If the same kind of item keeps landing nowhere, say so in the list as a candidate for a new skill or bot, and create nothing. +3. **Verify.** Run [Verify work](../verify-work/SKILL.md) with the list and the spec's Your team section, and wait for its result. It reopens each item and checks that each has exactly one place, that nothing needing a decision went to a bot, and that no item stays on this bot when another bot owns its unit. Fix what it finds. +4. **Record.** Save the list and add a line to the log: how many items came in, and where each one went. +5. **Hand off.** Dispatch with Delegate work: a fresh subagent on this bot for each item a skill here runs, with only that item's material, and a direct message to the bot that owns each of the others. Send the person one list, from the template, with the items that are theirs. + +## What good looks like + +- Every item has exactly one place. +- Work this bot owns went to a fresh subagent with only its own material. Work another bot owns went to that bot. +- Nothing that needs a decision was sent to a bot. +- The person reads one list, not every item. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. + + +## Example + +A good triage list, with made-up names: + +> **This morning's requests, 6 items.** +> - Account A seat count question. Sent to Account A. +> - Two renewal notes due this week. Each one started with the renewal note skill, in its own subagent. +> - Pricing exception for Account D. For you: pricing stays with a person. +> - Partner intro from a new company. For you: no bot owns this yet. +> - Duplicate of the Account A question. Merged with the first. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/triage-work/template.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/triage-work/template.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4d6cab338 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/triage-work/template.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# Triage work: the template + +The list triage sends the person, so they read one message instead of every item. Fill every slot marked with angle brackets. + +```markdown +**: items.** +- . +- . + +**For you.** +``` diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/verify-work/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/verify-work/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a5a574e46 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/verify-work/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +--- +name: verify-work +description: "Called by every Verify step before anything is saved or shown; by default a fresh checker checks each claim." +--- + +# Verify work + +**Type:** utility skill. + +A bot never checks its own work, as [Independent verification](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#independent-verification) says. The skill that calls this one says what to check; this skill says how, so the rules live in one place. + +## Steps + +1. **Take what to check** from the calling skill: the draft, the unit's ID, the calling skill, the sources that settle each fact, and the standard from its What good looks like and its template. Pass every point of What good looks like to the checker, word for word. The team spec's Systems of record says which system settles each fact. When several separate things need checking, run one check for each. Go on to step 2 unless [When a fresh checker isn't needed](#when-a-fresh-checker-isnt-needed) allows a script check or a labeled self-review. If it covers everything there is to check, record that result as the section says and go to step 7. If it covers only part, such as one question a script settles, record that result and go on to step 2 for the rest. +2. **Start a fresh checker.** A new conversation with no part in the draft, told exactly what to check and against which sources, and wait for it. It reopens each source itself and checks each claim and the standard. It grades the draft against every point of the calling skill's What good looks like, one line each: pass or fail, with a one-line reason. It confirms every fact belongs to the unit being worked on, found by its ID, such as the right account, and fails any fact mixed in from another unit. It fails any open question or gap the sources could have answered. It fails any question put to the person that the sources could answer, and any offer to go ahead on an unchecked fact. When a guideline applies, it reads it fresh, and the result notes which version or date it checked against. If the tool for starting one isn't in your list, look it up among the tools you can find before you count it as failed. Start the checker from the bot's own turn. If the work ran in a subagent, the subagent returns its results and stops, and the bot that started it starts the checker. A subagent never tries to start the check itself. +3. **If that fails, send the check to the bot under Who verifies** in the team spec, a specialist or manager bot. Its answer arrives later as its own message: write nothing until then, and finish the check when it arrives. If Who verifies says none, tell the manager bot (or the person, if there's no manager bot) that the check couldn't run, and write nothing. +4. **If a source the check needs is down,** stop and ask the person to help get it back up before going on. In a scheduled run with nobody around, go on with what you have, mark each claim that source settles as unchecked, and say what was missing in the result. +5. **Never mark it passed when the same bot ran the check.** The one exception is a script check, where the recorded output decides. An in-line read of your own draft isn't a check, and a labeled self-review is never marked passed. +6. **If neither works, write nothing,** and report the exact error text to the person. +7. **Return the result** to the calling skill: each claim passed or failed with its source, and each point of What good looks like passed or failed with its reason. For a script check, return the script and its output. For a labeled self-review, return the label and the yes or later check it rests on, never a pass. The run's checklist is the skill's steps, copied at Load. A skipped step stays on that list with its reason. A skip with no reason fails. Nothing is saved or shown until every line passes or the person decides. + +## When a fresh checker isn't needed + +A fresh checker, as the steps above say, is the default and the safe choice. Use something cheaper only where this section allows it. When in doubt, start a fresh checker. + +- **Full check.** A full fresh check is required whenever the output reports to the person, or to anyone outside the team the work reaches, or writes something others act on. A write others act on means a write to a system the team spec lists under Systems of record, a skill, or the team spec. A handoff message counts too, unless the receiving bot goes back to the sources for every fact it uses. A draft or a plan shown for the person's yes may use a labeled self-review only when every fact in it is one the person set or gave in this chat, such as their own plan, a choice they made, or their own wording. A draft that states facts taken from sources, or that will go to anyone outside the team, gets a full check before the person sees it. One output can't be checked against its source: a bot's read-back of its own memory reports to the person, but only that bot can see its memory, so no checker or script can read the source. A script may still compare the read-back with approved text, as Script check says. Whether it was saved is a labeled self-review, as [Clean up memory](../clean-up-memory/SKILL.md#apply) says. +- **Labeled self-review.** Otherwise, a self-review is allowed only when the person's yes or a later full check covers the same facts before anyone acts on them. It is labeled "Self-reviewed, not independently checked" in exactly what the person sees, and it is never called passed or checked. A self-review isn't a check: the yes or the later full check is. For the yes, [Plan the work](../plan-the-work/SKILL.md#steps)'s Verify step already says it: the person's yes is the check. A yes covers only what the person was shown and can judge for themselves, so it never covers a fact from a source they didn't see, or something left out, such as a dropped item or a missed conflict. So an output whose point is that nothing is missing, such as a list of every open item or every conflict, gets a full check. +- **Script check.** A script check is allowed for a yes or no question a script can settle about files or exact text, for example whether exact text is present, whether a file changed beyond an approved edit, or whether a bot's read-back matches approved text byte for byte. It stands in for the full check only on that question. Every other claim in the same output still gets the full check. Record the script and its output as the result. The output, not the bot's read, decides pass or fail. If the script can't run, or the question needs reading for meaning, fall back to a full check, never to a pass. +- **Rechecks.** The first full check is always fresh. After a fix, the same checker may be reused, resumed with the reason, but it reads the fix plus anything that cites the same source, depends on the changed fact, or sits in the same step. Use a fresh checker when the fix is large, changes logic, or adopts the checker's own suggested wording. +- **No change in a scheduled run.** When a script, or one quick read per source, shows nothing changed since the last run, the scheduled run writes no dated file and delivers no summary, adds one line to its run log, and skips the check. This is the cheap check that opens Load in [How to fill each step](../write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md#how-to-fill-each-step). The no-change call is never the bot's judgment: a change is whatever the skill names as one, including work that falls due. A source that can't be read counts as a change. +- **Stop rule.** A failed check gets one fix, with at most two rounds of fixes in all, as Plan the work's stop rules say. Anything still failing is listed as not covered, never guessed, and nothing is written while it waits on the person. A round that starts because the person changed the ask starts the count again. + +## What good looks like + +- The checker had no part in the draft, and reopened every source itself. +- Every claim and the standard were checked, one line each, with the source. +- Every fact belongs to this unit; one from another unit fails the check. +- A failed start is reported with its exact error, never passed over. +- Every point of the calling skill's What good looks like got its own pass or fail, with a reason. +- A self-review is labeled in what the person sees and names the yes or later check it rests on. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. + + +## Example + +A result returned to the renewal note skill, with made-up names: + +> **Check of Account A's renewal note, by a fresh checker.** +> - Renewal date 1 April: matches the CRM (linked). +> - 40 more seats asked for on 26 Sep: matches the call (linked). +> - Leads with the one decision you need to make: matches the template. +> - What good looks like: 'Every renewal date is linked to the CRM': pass, both dates linked. 'Under 200 words': fail, 240 words. +> +> 3 of 3 lines passed. Nothing else to fix. + +A labeled self-review, shown with a plan for the person's yes, with made-up names: + +> **Self-reviewed, not independently checked.** Plan for Account A: read the 20 call notes you asked for, four at a time. You set every fact in it, so your yes on this plan is its check. Each objection it finds gets a full check against its note before anything is saved. diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/write-a-workflow-skill/SKILL.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/write-a-workflow-skill/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..294f98052 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/write-a-workflow-skill/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@ +--- +name: write-a-workflow-skill +description: "Use when a repeated workflow should become a skill; writes one five-step skill from real examples." +--- + +# Write a workflow skill + +**Type:** workflow skill. + +One repeated workflow becomes one skill. Use it for the first bot's workflow, for new work on a unit a bot already owns, or for work that runs across all units. When another skill already did a step below, use its answers and skip the step. + +## Steps + +1. Read the team spec and the [principles file](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md) in full. Look for the workflow in the backlog under Your workflows. + Does: Read the spec and principles, and look for the workflow in the backlog. + Pulls from: the team spec and the principles file + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the backlog entry, or a note that it is new + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only reads +2. Place it. Is it for one unit or across units, and which bot blueprint runs it? Use [Context isolation and traceability](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#context-isolation-and-traceability): what is true about a unit stays with its bot, and how the work is done goes in the skill. + Does: Decide whether it is for one unit or across units, and which blueprint runs it. + Pulls from: the principles file and Your team + Uses: none, this step only reads files + Produces: the placement + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the isolation test decides +3. Break it into steps with the person, each with a short name in their words. Interview as [Interviewing for a workflow](references/workflow-skill.md#interviewing-for-a-workflow) says: one real, recent run, examples of good work, who receives the output, what starts it, how far back each step reads, whether the bot asks first or drafts first, and a probe for every vague answer. Write only the steps the person does today. For each step, name its connectors, the template it follows, where that template lives and who owns it, and whether it needs the person's review; the skill pauses at each review. + Does: Break the work into the person's own steps, from one real run. + Pulls from: that run, their examples, and where each template lives + Uses: the connectors they name for each step + Produces: the step list, including which steps need review + Hands to: the next step, and it waits through the interview + Needs your review: the steps, the templates, and which reviews to keep +4. Check it for real. Try each connector with one read-only lookup on a real record. Open two or three recent examples of the output, and read the templates the person already uses. Ask about anything that doesn't match. + Does: Try each connector with one read-only lookup, and read the templates they already use. + Pulls from: one real record, and two or three recent examples + Uses: each connector the workflow names, read only + Produces: what matches, and what does not + Hands to: the person, and it waits if something does not match + Needs your review: anything that does not match +5. Sort what you learned with [Standard, utility, or workflow-specific](references/workflow-skill.md#standard-utility-or-workflow-specific). Each guideline is one standard skill, reused if the library has it; only this workflow's material goes in this skill. If this skill needs a guideline another workflow skill keeps inside itself, this is when it becomes a standard: move it into its own skill and have both name it. Then write the skill from the [workflow skill template](references/workflow-skill.md), and name and describe it as [Naming a skill](references/workflow-skill.md#naming-a-skill) says. Lead with the outcome: one or two sentences on what the finished work does for its reader. Then a few habits, each one line, then one or two worked examples from the person's real work, with made-up names. A ban goes in only where a mistake would be costly or can't be undone, and each ban says why. Fill load and record from the team spec, and have verify call Verify work. When a routine will start the skill, Load opens with the cheap check in [How to fill each step](references/workflow-skill.md#how-to-fill-each-step). Use Delegate work when the same work runs on several units, sources, or points of view, or the next step belongs to another bot. Follow the writing voice when a person reads the output. Add Triage work when work arrives as a stream of items. + Does: Sort guidelines into standard skills, then write this skill from the template. + Pulls from: the team spec, for load and record + Uses: none, the utilities are named while writing, not called + Produces: the skill draft + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, the draft is shown in a later step +6. Put each template in one place, and let the person choose: in the skill, the default when there's none yet, drafted from the [template skeleton](references/template.md) and real examples; in Grok Bot as a document or canvas, named by its id; or at a link in their own system, read with a named connector, with no copy. Record the owner when someone else owns it. Write down what good looks like with them. See [Definition of good](../explain-how-it-works/references/principles.md#definition-of-good). + Does: Put each template in one place, and let the person choose where. + Pulls from: the template skeleton and their real examples + Uses: the named connector, when the template lives in their system + Produces: the template, or its location and owner + Hands to: the person, and it waits for the choice + Needs your review: where the template lives, and what good looks like +7. Keep the specifics out. Which account, which Slack channel, and what time go in the routine that runs the skill. + Does: Keep the account, the channel, and the time out of the skill. + Pulls from: the routine that will run the skill + Uses: none, this step only sorts what belongs in the routine + Produces: a skill with those specifics removed + Hands to: the next step, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, this step only sorts +8. Fill every step field: Does, Pulls from, Uses, Produces, Hands to, and Needs your review. A field is never blank. Write none and the reason. Run the check in [build_team_map.py](../build-my-team/references/team-map/build_team_map.py) with `--check` on the draft before you save. If it lists a missing fact, ask the person. Do not guess. Then show the full skill, and its template or where it lives. Check the name is free in the library, which every one of their bots shares, and isn't a Team Builder skill's name, which would take the plugin skill's place. Ask, then save it yourself, through Grok Bot's own way of saving a skill: never by writing a file, never through a helper, which only drafts, and with no copy left in a working folder. Then have Verify work read the saved version back against what was agreed before you say it's done. + Does: Fill every field, run the check, show the skill, and save it after they agree. + Pulls from: the draft and the check's list + Uses: none, the check reads files + Produces: the saved skill + Hands to: the person, and it waits for the yes to save + Needs your review: the full skill, before it is saved +9. Run it once on a safe, real example, review each step with the person, and write each fix into the skill or wherever its template lives. + Does: Run the skill once on a safe example and write each fix into the skill or its template. + Pulls from: that example + Uses: the connectors the skill names + Produces: the fixes + Hands to: the next step, and it waits while you review each step + Needs your review: each step of the example run +10. Recommend how it starts from what's actually available for the tool, as [Interviewing for a workflow](references/workflow-skill.md#interviewing-for-a-workflow) orders it, and agree it with the person. Pick the widest schedule that still meets the deadline. Prefer an event trigger, or a check-back that deletes itself, to a schedule that keeps looking. Steps for a recurring job go in the skill. The routine only names that skill: it reads the operating guide and then runs the one skill, with no other steps. With a manager bot, an owner bot's workflow gets its ask from the manager bot's morning kickoff, as a dated file, or from a trigger, and gets its own routine only when there's no manager bot yet, or the person asks. Write the routine in the spec's Routines section first, with the trigger, its runs per week, and the full prompt text. Routines are saved only from that section. The bot that runs it creates or changes the live routine from that text, in its own chat, paused, with its schedule in the home time zone from Your role. Use Test where the routine shows Test; otherwise check the first scheduled run. A test does real work and spends usage, so don't repeat it for the same result. Ask before it's turned on. + Does: Agree how it starts, write the routine in the spec, and ask before it is turned on. + Pulls from: the team spec's Routines section and Your role + Uses: none, the live routine is created in the bot's chat + Produces: the routine in the spec, with its runs per week + Hands to: the bot that runs it, and it waits for the yes to turn it on + Needs your review: turning the routine on +11. Update Your workflows after a yes: the skill, the bot blueprint that runs it, and where its template lives, with its owner. Take it off the backlog. + Does: Update Your workflows after a yes, and take the workflow off the backlog. + Pulls from: the team spec + Uses: none, this step writes the spec + Produces: the updated Your workflows section + Hands to: the person, and it waits for the yes + Needs your review: the skill, the blueprint, and where the template lives + +**Reply.** The skill's name, what it does, which bot runs it and when, and what waits for a yes. + +## What good looks like + +- Leads with the outcome; bans only where a mistake is costly, each with its reason. + +## The five workflow steps + +Every workflow skill runs the five steps in [the workflow skill template](references/workflow-skill.md#the-five-steps), in order. Its template lives in one place: in the skill, in a Grok Bot document or canvas, or at a link in the person's own system of record, read with a named connector. + +## Team spec + + +Read the team spec at `/workspace/team-builder-stack/team-spec.md` first. This skill uses the sections below. If the spec or a section is missing, do what the line says, and mention once that Build my team can fill it in. + +- **Your role.** If missing: Ask only for what this task needs. Ask for the home time zone before you write any schedule, and write it in that zone. +- **Your team.** If missing: Ask which of the person’s bots owns the work before you route or hand anything off. +- **Your workflows.** If missing: Check the person’s skill library for what is already saved, and ask where each template lives today. +- **Systems of record.** If missing: Ask which systems the work lives in, and check each connected one with a read-only lookup before you rely on it. +- **Records and logs.** If missing: Return the draft in the chat, and ask where it should live before you write it anywhere. + + +## Example + +The person writes: "I keep writing a renewal note for each account that is coming up for renewal. Make it a skill." + +A good reply after step 4: + +> I opened Account A in the CRM and read your last three renewal notes. They all have the same four parts: renewal date and value, usage trend, open risks, and the ask. Your steps as I heard them: Renewal pull, Usage check, Risk scan, and Draft note, and you review the draft before it goes anywhere. +> +> One thing doesn't match: two of your notes use the usage report and one uses the CRM's usage field, and they disagree for Account A. Which one should the skill trust? diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/write-a-workflow-skill/references/template.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/write-a-workflow-skill/references/template.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f9f1c2c5b --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/write-a-workflow-skill/references/template.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +# The workflow's template + +Every workflow skill has a template for what it produces, with the templates its steps follow. Each template lives in exactly one place, and the person chooses which: + +- **In the skill,** under its Template heading. Use this skeleton when the person has no template yet, and build it from two or three real examples of their output, not from the skeleton alone. +- **In Grok Bot itself,** as a document or a canvas, for example: Morning brief template, Grok Bot canvas, named by its id. +- **In the person's own system of record,** for example: Account plan template, Notion page, read with the Notion connector. The skill keeps only that line and the link, never a copy. + +The load step reads the template fresh before every run, so every run starts from the same shape, and edits made in Notion or Docs are picked up. + +```markdown +# , for + + + +## + + + +## + + + +## + + + +## For your review + + + +## Sources + + +``` diff --git a/team-builder-stack/skills/write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md b/team-builder-stack/skills/write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b53826734 --- /dev/null +++ b/team-builder-stack/skills/write-a-workflow-skill/references/workflow-skill.md @@ -0,0 +1,187 @@ +# The workflow skill template + +Write every workflow skill in this shape, with the person. Its deliverable template, the format the work follows, such as a deck layout or a checklist, lives in exactly one place, and the person chooses which: + +- **In the skill itself.** This is the default when the person has no template yet. Draft it under a heading named Template at the end of the skill, started from [template.md](template.md), and offer to move it to their own system of record later. +- **In Grok Bot itself,** as a document or a canvas, such as a morning brief whose output template is a canvas. The skill names it by its id, because canvases can't be found by listing them. Check that canvases are available before you use one, and use a document when they aren't. +- **In the person's own system of record,** such as a Notion page or a Google Doc. The skill holds only the link and the connector that reads it, and keeps no copy. When someone else owns it, record the owner next to the link, so a fix has somewhere to go. Check that the connector can open the link before you save the skill. + +Whichever it is, the load step reads the template fresh each run, so edits made where it lives are picked up. If the template moves, change its location in one place: the skill's Template section. + +## Interviewing for a workflow + +Ask about one real, recent run, step by step, in the person's words. These are what you need to learn, not a script: follow the person's lead, adapt the words to their role, and skip what they've already told you. + +- **Steps.** Each step's short name, in the order it happens. Write only the steps the person does today. A new idea is a later change, never a step you add. Ask whether each step is procedural or creative. A creative step, such as a campaign concept or a personal opening line, has the bot offer options, the case against each, and questions, and the person chooses. It gets a deliverable template only when its output has a set format. Otherwise it gets examples of good work and a description of what good looks like. +- **What good looks like.** One or two past pieces of work they're proud of, and one that went less well. Read them, name what made the good ones good, and ask the person to confirm each point. +- **Templates and standards.** For each step, the template or standard it follows and where it lives today: in a Grok Bot document or canvas, a page in their own system, such as Notion or Google Docs, or nowhere yet, and who owns it. A template someone else owns, such as another team's checklist, is linked and never edited. When a run shows it's missing something, draft a suggested change for the person to send to its owner. +- **Inputs and systems of record.** What each step reads, how far back it reads, and which system settles each fact when two disagree. Check with one read-only lookup on a real record. +- **Review points.** Which steps the person needs to see before the bot carries on, now and after a month of good runs. A review point is the person reviewing the work themselves, for example "you review the deck before you take it to your manager". Their manager's sign-off, or anyone else's, happens outside the workflow, between the person and them, so the skill neither runs nor tracks it. +- **Cadence and triggers.** What starts it, and how far ahead. Use an event trigger only where the app offers one for that system, and otherwise a schedule. Recommend a routine or a trigger from what's actually available for the tool, and agree it with the person. Every run spends usage, and a test run does too. Ask how late the work can start and still be on time, and pick the widest schedule that meets that. Write down how many times it will run in a week. When it should start as soon as something happens, recommend, in this order by default: a trigger for the tool itself where one exists, such as PagerDuty, Sentry, Linear, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, email sent to the bot's own inbox, or a webhook; then the Slack message the tool already posts; then a schedule, which runs at most every 5 minutes. An email trigger only works for mail sent to the bot's own inbox, not the person's, so keep a scheduled check of the person's inbox unless the mail can be forwarded or sent to the bot. Don't rely on a Slack direct message to start a routine. When a schedule can't express the timing, such as a working day of the month, run a daily routine that checks the calendar first. +- **Many things or one.** If the work runs over many things, ask whether each one carries its own history and gets its own bot, or is an item in a queue that one bot owns, such as tickets, candidates, leads or new hires. Ask when an item grows into something that deserves its own bot. +- **Sensitive data.** What must never be copied out of its system into drafts, the log, memory or the team spec, such as personal details, interview feedback, pay or confidential terms. Recommend what the log should record for this work and what to leave out, such as keeping to IDs and links, and agree it with the person. Confidential work runs on the person's own bot, never one shared with a team. +- **Who receives the output,** what waits for a yes before it reaches them, and where it goes out from. The bot writes drafts into the person's own tool, such as their email or sequencing platform, and the person sends. +- **What the bot must never do** in this workflow. +- **Ask first, or draft first.** Whether the bot should ask the person a few questions before it drafts, a short discovery for this skill, or take a first pass itself and bring it for review. For example, someone may want their Draft weekly 1-1 skill to start with a few questions about what's on their mind. + +**Probe vague answers.** When an answer is an adjective or "everything", such as "crisp", "strategic" or "I pull from all over", ask for an example or the last real case. When two answers or two sources disagree, say so and ask which is right. When a step overlaps another workflow, ask where the boundary is, and turn the overlap into a handoff rather than two skills doing the same work. + +**Read it back** before you write anything: the steps, what good looks like, where each template lives, which standard and utility skills are reused and which are new, the skill's name and description, and what you're still unsure about. + +## Standard, utility, or workflow-specific + +Before you write anything into a skill, sort it: + +- **A standard** is a rule more than one workflow follows, such as a compliance guideline, the writing voice or a brand standard. It becomes one standard skill that every workflow needing it points to. If it already lives in the person's own system, such as a guideline page in Notion, the standard skill holds only the link and the connector that reads it. Never copy a standard into a workflow skill. +- **A utility** is a step more than one workflow calls, such as Verify work, Delegate work or Triage work. The Team Builder Stack ships these; call them, never restate them. A guideline someone else owns, such as legal's contract positions or another team's policy, is still one standard skill holding its link, and no skill edits it. A threshold or number from a policy is read from that guideline each run, never typed into a workflow skill. +- **Workflow-specific** material is needed by one workflow only, such as its steps, its review points or a scoring rule only it uses. It goes in that workflow skill. +- **One standard skill per guideline.** Each guideline, such as a compliance rule, a brand standard or a policy, is its own standard skill. Not every workflow needs every guideline, but a workflow skill that needs one names it. +- **Check the library first.** Before you write a new standard or a new skill, look for one that already covers it, and reuse it. If two skills already hold the same thing, propose merging them. +- **When it isn't clear,** say what you're unsure about and ask: "Does anything besides this workflow use this?" Until the person answers, keep it in the workflow skill and mark it as a candidate standard. + +A quick test: if this changed tomorrow, how many skills would need the same edit? One means workflow-specific. More than one means a standard. + +## Naming a skill + +Every skill states its type on the line under its name, and its name and description follow that type. Name a new skill this way, and check its name is free in the library. + + +- **Workflow skill.** Does one job end to end. Name: a verb plus the thing, such as Draft renewal note or Triage inbox. Description: one sentence that starts with “Use when” and the trigger, within its first 60 characters, then says what you get. +- **Standard skill.** A rule other skills follow, such as the writing voice or a company’s compliance or brand guideline. Name: the guideline’s own name, in the company’s words, such as Writing voice, Compliance guidelines, or Brand voice, with no added suffix. Description: one sentence that starts with “Follow whenever” and what it covers, within its first 60 characters, then says where its source lives. +- **Utility skill.** A step that workflow skills call. Name: an explicit verb, plus the thing when the verb alone doesn’t say exactly what it does, such as Delegate work or Verify work. Description: one sentence that starts with “Called by” and the step that calls it, within its first 60 characters, then says what it checks or does. + + +Keep each description to one sentence under 120 characters, with the trigger first. A bot's skill catalog can cut every description to a few dozen characters, and the trigger is what has to survive. No em dash or en dash. + +## The five steps + + +1. **Load.** Read this skill at its path at the start of every pass, including a rework or a resumed worker, so the pass follows the current version. Copy this skill's steps into the run's checklist. A skipped step stays listed, with its reason, so Verify work and the weekly spot check can see it. Open the workflow’s template, from the skill or from its link in the person’s own system of record, and reopen the current sources for the one unit, found by its ID. The template is read fresh each run, so edits made where it lives are picked up, and a rework rebuilds from the current template, not from the earlier draft. When memory and a source disagree, the source wins. If a source is down, the bot stops and asks the person to help get it back up; in a scheduled run with nobody around, it goes on with what it has and says what was missing. +2. **Do the work.** The person’s own named steps, in their words, each with the connectors and template it uses. An open question of fact is looked up in the sources and answered with its source; only a preference goes to the person, as a short choice. The reader’s likely next questions are answered before the work is shown. A question for another bot is sent, and the work goes on without that item until the answer arrives. The skill pauses for the person’s review at each step that needs it. When the same work runs on several units, sources, or points of view, it splits across fresh subagents. When the work splits, or is bigger than the skill’s pattern covers, the bot runs Plan the work first and follows its plan. +3. **Verify.** Start a fresh subagent to check the draft and wait for it. It reopens each source and checks each claim against it, and grades the draft against every point of What good looks like, pass or fail, with a reason for each. The agent that made the draft never grades it. +4. **Record.** Save the draft and add a line to the unit’s log. File each finished piece once where finished work goes, with its name, unit, date, and link; a later pass updates that entry instead of adding another. The final write to a system of record waits for the person’s yes. +5. **Hand off.** Send the result to whoever acts next: the person, for what stays with them, or the bot that owns the next step, by direct message. When a task is finished, the person changes one in chat, or a check the manager bot asked for ends, the task list is updated, and the manager bot is sent the note with Inform manager bot; a block, a decision, a deadline at risk, or a change to today’s brief is sent so the manager bot acts on it now. + + +Each step reads what it needs from the team spec every run, so a change to a tool is one change to the spec. + +## How to fill each step + +- **Load.** Read this skill at its path at the start of every pass, including a rework and a resumed worker. A Read at the start of a turn sees the current version; the skill list's descriptions refresh only when the conversation is summarized. Use the team spec's Systems of record: the unique ID that finds one unit in each system the workflow reads. State how far back this workflow reads in each one, such as since the last run. The spec holds no default. Open the template from where it lives: the skill's Template section, or its link, read with its connector. Load only this unit's material, found by its ID. If a source the workflow needs is down, stop and ask the person to help get it back up before going on; in a scheduled run with nobody around, go on with what you have, and say what was missing in the daily brief or its report. Hand on a short summary: what the record says, what changed recently with links, and the rules that apply. When a routine starts the skill, Load opens with a cheap check, and a run a person starts skips it: has anything this skill reads changed since the last run? The skill names what counts as a change. That can include work that falls due with nothing new, such as a wait that has run out or the day's last run closing something out. Look only at what is quick to see, with one quick read per source, such as a new message, a changed row, or a meeting that ended. A source that can't be read counts as a change, so it never ends the run as a quiet one; go on as the rule for a source that is down says. If nothing changed, end the run there. Open nothing else and send nothing. Add one line that says nothing changed to the run log the skill names, so quiet runs can be counted. The routine, not the skill, holds which unit to check and when it runs. +- **Do the work.** The person's own steps, in their words, one indented block each under Do the work. Each step is plain lines, not a table and not YAML. Does: what it does. Pulls from: the record or source. Uses: the connector. Produces: what the step makes. Hands to: who acts next, and whether this step waits. Needs your review: what the person reviews. A field is never blank. Write none and the reason. Look up every open question of fact in the sources, and answer it with its source. Ask the person only for a preference, as a short choice, and never offer to go ahead anyway on a fact. Answer the reader's likely next questions before the work is shown. When a fact belongs to another bot, send the question with Delegate work, finish the turn with the work minus that item, marked as waiting, and fill it in when the answer arrives. Pause and wait for a yes at each step that needs the person's review. When the same work runs on several units, sources, or points of view, split it with Delegate work, and write the default pattern into the skill: which pieces run side by side, which wait on others, what each one gets and the shape it returns, how the results combine, and its limits, such as how many at once. When the work splits, or is bigger than that pattern covers, run [Plan the work](../../plan-the-work/SKILL.md) first. It fits the pattern to this run, writes one worker contract per stage, and says when it departs from the pattern. When the output is for a person, run the voice skill. Don't copy the voice rules into the workflow skill. +- **Verify.** Run [Verify work](../../verify-work/SKILL.md), which holds the rules for checking work, and wait for its result. When Verify work allows a script or a labeled self-review, the Verify step says which one, why, and what covers it. When the work ran in subagents, they return their results and stop, and the bot starts Verify work from its own turn; a subagent never tries to start it. Give it the draft, the unit's ID, this skill, the sources that settle each fact from the team spec's Systems of record, and this skill's What good looks like for the standard and the claims that always get checked. Give it every point of this skill's What good looks like, so each is graded pass or fail with a reason. Name each separate thing to check, so it runs one check for each. When a guideline applies, the record notes which version or date the check used. For a high-stakes draft, such as a customer deck, the skill can offer [Run review panel](../../run-review-panel/SKILL.md) after Verify work passes; it advises, the person picks the changes, and it never replaces Verify work. +- **Record.** Use the team spec's Records and logs. Save the draft where drafts wait, and add a line to the unit's log, the bot's running record of the changes it made on its unit: what changed, when, the source with its link, and why. What the log records, and what it leaves out for sensitive work, is what was agreed with the person in the interview. The final write to the system of record waits for the person's yes, one yes for each write. File each finished piece once, where Records and logs says finished work goes, or in the unit's record: its name, unit, date, and link. When a later pass changes it, update that entry; never add a second one. +- **Hand off.** Name who acts next. The person gets what stays with them. When a step belongs to another bot, send it with Delegate work. Who replies depends on how the ask came in, as Delegate work says: work a manager bot delegated goes back to the manager bot, which closes the loop with the person; work the person asked for directly is answered in that chat. When a task is finished, the person changes one in chat, or a check the manager bot asked for ends, update the task list from the team spec's Records and logs, and run [Inform manager bot](../../inform-manager-bot/SKILL.md). It sends no note when the manager bot delegated the work, because the hand-back is the note, except a change the person made in chat or a check the manager bot asked for, which always gets a note. For a check, that note is the hand-back, so send one message, not two. When the work is blocked, needs a decision, a deadline is at risk, or a change makes today's brief out of date, run Inform manager bot right away. + +## Waiting on something + +When a step waits on a reply or an event, such as a high-priority email waiting on an answer, use an event trigger where the app offers one for it. Otherwise the bot sets itself a check-back: a routine, created in its own chat, that looks again at a set time and is deleted once the wait is over. When the start depends on a calendar, a weekly routine that looks ahead is an acceptable fallback. Each look spends usage, so space the looks as widely as the wait allows. + +Schedules run at least 5 minutes apart, a bot can own up to 50 routines, and deleting a routine can't be undone. Whether a routine can run just once, and whether a bot can set one up during unattended work without a yes, aren't publicly documented, so check before you rely on either. Until then, a check-back routine deletes itself, or asks the person to delete it, once its wait is over. + +## The skeleton + +Fill every slot marked with angle brackets from what you checked in the person's real systems and examples. Ask about any slot you can't fill that way. Bans is optional: leave that section out when no mistake would be costly or can't be undone. Keep specifics, such as which account and when, in the routine that runs the skill. + +```markdown +--- +name: +description: "Use when ; ." +--- + +# + +**Type:** workflow skill. + + + +Runs for one at a time, found by its ID. It pauses for the person's review at: . + +Before drafting: . + +## Habits + +- +- + +## Examples + + + +## Bans + +- + +## Steps + +1. **Load.** + Does: Read this skill at its path and copy its steps into the run's checklist. + Pulls from: the team spec and + Uses: + Produces: the checklist for this run, including any skipped step and its reason + Hands to: Do the work, and it does not wait + Needs your review: none, nothing is decided yet + + Read the team spec. Open the template, as the Template section below says, and read it fresh. Reopen , found by the unique ID the spec names, back to , for this only. When memory and a source disagree, the source wins. If a source is down, stop and ask the person to help get it back up; in a scheduled run with nobody around, go on and say what was missing. A skipped step stays listed, with its reason. +2. **Do the work.** + Does: Look up every open question of fact and draft the work in the person's steps. + Pulls from: the sources opened in Load + Uses: + Produces: the draft + Hands to: Verify, and it waits where a step says so + Needs your review: + Ask the person only for a preference, as a short choice, and never go ahead on an unchecked fact. Answer the reader's likely next questions before the work is shown. When a fact belongs to another bot, send the question, finish this turn with the work minus that item, marked as waiting, and fill it in when the answer arrives later as its own message. When the work splits, or is bigger than covers, run Plan the work first and follow its plan. + 1. **.** + Does: + Pulls from: + Uses: + Produces: + Hands to: + Needs your review: + 2. **.** + Does: + Pulls from: + Uses: + Produces: + Hands to: + Needs your review: none, this step runs on without a review +3. **Verify.** + Does: From this bot's own turn, never from inside a subagent, run Verify work and wait for it. + Pulls from: the draft, the 's ID, and + Uses: none, Verify work starts the checker + Produces: a pass or fail for each point, with a reason + Hands to: Record, and it waits for the checker + Needs your review: none, the checker grades this +4. **Record.** + Does: Save the draft and add a line to the 's log. + Pulls from: the checker's result and + Uses: + Produces: the saved draft and the log line + Hands to: Hand off, and the final write waits for a yes + Needs your review: the final write to +5. **Hand off.** + Does: Send the result to whoever acts next and mark finished tasks done. + Pulls from: the saved draft and + Uses: none, Delegate work sends the message + Produces: the handoff and the closed tasks + Hands to: + Needs your review: none, unless a send still needs a yes + +## What good looks like + +- +- Leads with the outcome; bans only where a mistake is costly, each with its reason. +- Every fact has its link. +- Nothing was written to a system of record without a yes. +- Each finished task is marked done, and the manager bot was told. + +## Template + + + + + +. 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