Operator Agent Skills

Automation

Source-grounded pack with Specify an Automation Workflow, Scan an Automation Opportunity, and Build an Automation ROI Brief, plus 1 more.

Use this pack when

Choose this pack when the work touches Automation and you need a bounded workflow with explicit inputs, a defined output, and human review gates.

Included workflows

Choose the job in front of you.

4 source-grounded skills. Load one workflow at a time.

Specify an Automation Workflow

Use this workflow when specifying a production automation or bounded agent workflow with contracts, durable state, idempotent side effects, retries, queues, permissions, stop conditions, observability, replay, evaluation, security, and launch controls.

Output Return an automationworkflowspec with scope, boundary, contracts, states, idempotency, retries, queues, modeljobs, agentpermissions, review, observability, security, failurecontrols, evaluation, launchmode, owner, and retirementtrigger.

Scan an Automation Opportunity

Use this workflow when decomposing a workflow into deterministic, probabilistic, and accountable steps so operators can decide what code, a model, or a human should own before choosing tools or building automation.

Output Return an automationboundarymap with workflow, trigger, finalstate, steps, worktype, owner, reason, inputs, outputs, risk, reversibility, controls, prefilters, exceptions, recommendation, and prerequisites.

Build an Automation ROI Brief

Use this workflow when deciding whether an automation workflow is economically and operationally worth building by comparing baseline labor and failure costs with deterministic coverage, model cost and latency, review load, maintenance, risk exposure, and staged benefits.

Output Return an automationroibrief with baseline, architecturemix, costmodel, benefitmodel, scenarios, riskadjustments, capacity, latency, proofstage, stopcondition, decision, and sensitivitydrivers.

Design Human Review in Automation

Use this workflow when designing selective human review for an automation workflow, including trigger reasons, evidence-rich queue items, decisions, service levels, correction capture, sampling, escalation, and feedback into rules and evaluations.

Output Return a humanreviewdesign with triggers, decisionoptions, queueschema, reviewers, sla, backlogcontrols, escalation, correctiontaxonomy, sampling, metrics, and feedbackloop.

Human review

Keep consequential decisions explicit.

These workflows structure analysis and artifacts; they do not authorize autonomous external, personnel, financial, legal, security, or other high-impact action.

Source and files

Grounded in the complete Automation series.

10 source essays · 4 usable skills · reviewed Jul 2026

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