Operator Agent Skills

The Foundation Model Lab Operating Model

Source-grounded pack with Capability Adoption Plan, Compute Economics Review, and Model Lab Operating Scorecard, plus 1 more.

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Grounded in the complete The Foundation Model Lab Operating Model series.

Open the pack, choose a workflow, and follow its setup and input instructions. You can also open each workflow below.

10 source essays · 4 usable skills · reviewed Jul 2026

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Choose this pack when the work touches The Foundation Model Lab Operating Model and you need a bounded workflow with explicit inputs, a defined output, and human review gates.

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

Capability Adoption Plan

Use this workflow when a foundation model capability needs a coherent product, trust, safety, learning, and distribution path that turns it into repeated customer use.

Output specification

Return a capability adoption plan with:

Compute Economics Review

Use this workflow when a model lab must allocate scarce training and inference capacity or improve cost per valuable customer outcome without degrading the job.

Output specification

Return a compute economics review with:

Model Lab Operating Scorecard

Use this workflow when founders, buyers, investors, or operators need to test whether a foundation model lab's ambition and operating strengths form a durable, coherent company.

Output specification

Return a model lab operating scorecard with:

Research Release Operating Loop

Use this workflow when a model lab needs a repeatable path from research question through experiments, evals, release judgment, migration, and institutional learning.

Output specification

Return a research-to-release operating packet with:

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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Start with a weekly briefing, add daily notes, or hear only when a durable essay or research update is ready.

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