Skill rating

Design a referral program that drives real word-of-mouth growth. Use when asked to build a referral or refer-a-friend program, create an incentive/reward structure, or turn happy users into a growth c

Build a candidate's research brief on a company before an application or interview. Use when asked to research a company for a job, prep a company brief before an interview, or understand a prospectiv

Help someone write a eulogy — the hardest writing most people ever do, at the worst possible time. Use when someone must speak at a funeral or memorial and doesn't know where to start, or has fragment

Turn a savings goal into a month-by-month funding plan. Use when asked to save for something (emergency fund, house deposit, trip, big purchase), or to figure out how much to set aside each month. Pro

Write a compelling nonprofit impact or annual report that shows donors what their money achieved. Use when asked to write an impact report, an annual report, a grant outcomes report, or to report resu

Structure a portfolio or case-study page that shows your work, not just lists it. Use when asked to write a portfolio page, a project case study, a work showcase, or an 'is this person good?' proof pa

Design and prioritize a regression test suite so changes don't break what worked. Use when asked to plan regression testing, build a regression suite, decide what to re-test after a change, or trim a

Draft a job offer — the written offer letter and a verbal-offer script. Use when asked to write an offer letter, a job offer, an employment offer, or to prepare to extend/verbal an offer to a candidat

Build a defensible thesis or dissertation outline — argument-first structure, chapter by chapter, with the through-line visible. Use when asked to outline my thesis, structure my dissertation, plan my

Design a referral or viral-loop program that actually drives growth. Use when asked to design a referral or refer-a-friend program, build a viral/invite loop, set referral incentives, turn happy users

Specify the safety and reliability guardrails for an LLM feature before it ships. Use when asked to define LLM guardrails, add safety controls to an AI feature, prevent prompt injection or jailbreaks,

Write an AI usage policy people can actually follow — approved tools, data rules, disclosure duties, and review obligations, in one page instead of legal fog. Use when asked for a company AI policy, a

Write an internal KYC/AML escalation memo: a factual time-stamped trigger description, customer-profile vs activity mismatch analysis, red-flag taxonomy mapping, outstanding information, and a recomme

Write formal board meeting minutes from an agenda, notes, transcript, or discussion summary. Use when asked to draft board minutes, governance minutes, meeting minutes for a board, or a formal record

Write a crisp decision memo that drives a clear decision, not a discussion. Use when asked to write a decision memo, a recommendation memo, a one/six-pager for a decision, or to get leadership to deci

Write a strategy memo that commits to a bet and says what you won't do. Use when asked to write a strategy memo, articulate a strategy, make the case for a strategic direction, or align the team on wh

Prepare for a 1:1 so it drives outcomes instead of becoming a status update. Use when asked to prep for a one-on-one, build a 1:1 agenda, prepare to talk to your manager (or a report), or raise someth

Re-pitch one piece of content for four audiences — the board, the engineers, a customer, a new hire — with a delta table showing what changed between altitudes and why. Use when asked to rewrite this

Build the case to win someone over to a decision, idea, or change. Use when asked to persuade someone, build a case for an idea, get buy-in, win over a skeptic, or prepare to pitch a proposal internal

Plan a safe, incremental refactor of messy code without changing behavior. Use when code needs restructuring, is hard to change, has grown tangled, or you want to clean it up before adding a feature.

Write a long-form video script for YouTube — an explainer, tutorial, video essay, review, or talking-head — built on the packaging→cold-open→value-stack→retention structure that holds watch-time past

Write a structured escalation brief for an at-risk customer account. Use when an account has escalated, when a customer is threatening churn, when a P1 customer issue needs executive attention, or whe

Spec a dbt model — its grain, sources, transformations, tests, and materialization. Use when asked to design a dbt model, plan a data transformation, write a staging/intermediate/mart model spec, or d

Decode a residential lease into plain English and rank the clauses that can hurt you. Use when someone asks 'what am I signing', 'decode my lease', 'is this rental agreement normal', or 'can my landlo

Produce frontend UI that actually looks designed — a working spacing/type system, deliberate color use, real states, and restraint — instead of the generic AI-generated interface. Use when asked to bu

Build a technology radar for an engineering team, categorizing technologies into Adopt/Trial/Assess/Hold quadrants following the ThoughtWorks Tech Radar format. Use when asked to create a tech radar,

Pitch a news or feature story to an editor — the angle, why now, and how you'll report it. Use when a reporter or freelancer needs to pitch a story, sell an editor on an angle, or write a query letter

Build a debt-payoff plan across multiple debts using the avalanche or snowball method. Use when asked to pay off debt, tackle credit cards/loans, or choose between avalanche and snowball. Produces an

Write a warm donor update or stewardship message that makes a supporter feel their gift mattered. Use when asked to write a donor update, a thank-you/stewardship email, a supporter newsletter, or a gi

Write or rewrite a document in evidence-locked mode: no unsourced sentences — every substantive claim carries a footnote citing the exact passage in the user's provided sources, and anything unsupport

Write a handoff summary so another agent or person (or a fresh session) can pick up the work with full context. Use when ending a work session, hitting a context limit, switching agents, or pausing a

Fuse two skills from this library into one hybrid brief for a task that sits between them — the meta-skill. Use when a task straddles two skills (a PRD that's also a pitch; a postmortem that must doub

Turn a vague concern into specific, kind, actionable feedback. Use when asked to give feedback, write a feedback note, prepare to tell someone something hard about their work, or coach a report/peer.

Generate and pressure-test headline options across proven formulas. Use when asked for headlines, a title, a subject line, a hook, or to improve a weak headline for a page, post, email, or ad. Produce

Convert an email (or a whole thread) into real tasks — the actual asks extracted from the prose, each with owner, deadline, and the done-test, so nothing lives in the inbox as its own reminder. Use wh

Write a sincere, effective apology to a customer, group, or the public. Use when asked to write an apology, say sorry to a customer or community, make amends after a mistake, or respond to a complaint

Define a data contract between a producer and consumers of a dataset/event/API. Use when asked to write a data contract, define a schema agreement, set data SLAs, or stop a producer from silently brea

Decode a personal, auto, or mortgage loan offer into what it really costs and where the traps are. Use when someone asks 'is this loan a good deal', 'decode my loan offer', 'what am I signing', or 'wh

Build a complete, standards-aligned lesson plan with clear objectives, a timed activity sequence, differentiation, and assessment. Use when asked to write a lesson plan, plan a class or lesson, design

Write a PRD for a physical hardware product — target cost (BOM and landed), industrial design constraints, regulatory certifications, reliability targets, serviceability, packaging, and forecast assum

Write a clear Request for Proposal that gets comparable, high-quality vendor bids. Use when asked to write an RFP, a request for proposal/quote/tender, or to solicit and compare vendor proposals. Prod

Write a professional bio in the three lengths you actually need. Use when asked to write a bio, an 'about me', a speaker/author bio, or a short profile blurb. Produces three ready-to-use versions — a

Produce a QA release sign-off / go-no-go readiness report. Use when asked for a release sign-off, a go/no-go QA report, release readiness, or a test summary before shipping. Produces a sign-off — what

Write reusable support macros / canned responses that sound human, not robotic. Use when asked to write a support macro, a canned response, a saved reply, or a template for a common customer ticket. P

Respond to a performance improvement plan strategically — decode what the PIP really is, decide fight-vs-land-softly with clear eyes, build the evidence file, and run the parallel job search the situa

Decode a terms of service or privacy policy into what you're actually agreeing to, ranked by real-world impact. Use when someone asks 'what am I agreeing to', 'decode this privacy policy', 'is this To

Run a real brainstorm — divergent generation without judgment, then convergent selection with explicit criteria — instead of listing ten obvious ideas and calling it creativity. Use when asked to brai

Write an executable work plan BEFORE starting a complex task — decomposed steps with verification points, risks pre-named, and explicit stop conditions — so execution becomes checking boxes instead of

Build a realistic personal monthly budget from someone's income and expenses. Use when asked to make a budget, plan monthly spending, allocate income, or get finances under control. Produces a categor

Write a credit memo for a lending decision: borrower story, facility structure, repayment sources, financial-ratio spread with covenant headroom, risk factors with mitigants, risk-rating rationale, an