Operator Agent Skills

Platform Strategy

Source-grounded pack with Ecosystem Incentive Review, Platform Boundary Map, and Platform Governance Plan, plus 1 more.

Use this pack when

Choose this pack when the work touches Platform Strategy 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.

Ecosystem Incentive Review

Use this workflow when a platform needs external developers, partners, agencies, suppliers, creators, or customers to create and consume complements and must align discovery, liquidity, trust, quality, economics, support, and durable participation.

Output Return an ecosystem incentive review with valueexchange, participanteconomics, liquidityfunnel, trustsystem, incentiveandpower, failuresignals, and recommendation.

Platform Boundary Map

Use this workflow when a product with APIs, integrations, extensions, data, or external developers must decide whether it is a platform and define the stable core, extension surfaces, control points, developer contracts, trust boundary, and developer journey.

Output Return a platform boundary map with platformthesis, readiness, surfaceownership, extensioncontracts, developerjourney, sequencing, and decision.

Platform Governance Plan

Use this workflow when a platform must set predictable rules for admission, identity, permissions, data, security, review, quality, discovery, versioning, enforcement, disputes, appeals, deprecation, and change without suffocating useful extensibility.

Output Return a platform governance plan with risktiers, admissionandaccess, operatingrules, reviewandmonitoring, rankingandeconomics, enforcementandappeals, and changepolicy.

Platform Investment Brief

Use this workflow when leadership must decide whether to invest in, narrow, sequence, defer, or stop a platform initiative based on repeated external demand, core stability, developer experience, ecosystem liquidity, governance, metrics, economics, capacity, and failure modes.

Output Return a platform investment brief with decisionframe, readiness, metricslate, failurereview, optionsandtradeoffs, sequenceandstoprules, and decisionrecord.

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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