Operator Agent Skills

Conflict Without Damage

Source-grounded pack with Clean Disagreement Brief, Conflict Escalation Check, and Conflict Pattern Diagnosis, plus 2 more.

Use this pack when

Choose this pack when the work touches Conflict Without Damage 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.

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

Clean Disagreement Brief

Use this workflow when a person must say a hard thing, challenge a proposal, or correct consequential misinformation without ambiguity, contempt, status performance, or humiliation and needs a concise fact-standard-impact-request message plus conditions for changing their mind.

Output Return a clean disagreement brief with purpose, verifiedfactorclaim, standard, impact, request, concernandtradeoff, changemymindcondition, forum, decisionowner, and followup.

Conflict Escalation Check

Use this workflow when a conflict or cross-functional issue is stuck at the current level and the operator must decide whether, when, and how to move a specific decision to the right authority without surprising affected people, villainizing a party, or inviting leaders into incomplete context.

Output Return a conflict escalation note with escalationtest, decisionneeded, authority, facts, optionsandtradeoffs, priorattempts, affectedparties, prebrief, recommendation, deadline, and postdecisionfollowup.

Conflict Pattern Diagnosis

Use this workflow when tension, repeated friction, or an emotional incident may be signaling an unclear standard, ownership gap, disputed fact, value tradeoff, harmful behavior, or accumulated residue and the operator must classify the conflict before choosing tone, forum, or remedy.

Output Return a conflict diagnosis note with trigger, factsandinterpretations, evidencegaps, classification, operatingmismatch, riskcheck, decisionneeded, nextconversationorroute, and followup.

Repair Conversation Plan

Use this workflow when feedback, correction, a missed commitment, or relationship damage requires a private conversation that makes the behavioral gap and impact actionable, gives the other person a voice, and produces a specific apology or repair with observable proof.

Output Return a repair conversation plan with safetyandroute, opening, behaviorormiss, standardorcommitment, impact, questions, ownership, repairrule, support, proofpoint, and followup.

System Conflict Repair Audit

Use this workflow when a conflict has cooled or the same friction keeps returning and the team must identify the operating condition that made it likely, install a clearer owner, standard, handoff, incentive, deadline, or review point, and verify that repair changed behavior.

Output Return a conflict repair audit with conflictregister, repeatpatterns, systemvsindividual, rootcondition, newoperatingrule, owner, adoption, measures, reviewdate, and residueandlearning.

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.

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