Operator Agent Skills

Power That Actually Moves Work

Source-grounded pack with AI Power Shift Scan, Coalition Building Plan, and Execution Trust Ledger, plus 3 more.

Use this pack when

Choose this pack when the work touches Power That Actually Moves Work 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.

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

AI Power Shift Scan

Use this workflow when AI changes who can access expertise, produce artifacts, analyze information, automate workflows, control gates, supervise systems, or decide what is reliable enough to use, creating new authority, dependency, legitimacy, and trust dynamics.

Output Return shifts in expertise, judgment, information, gatekeeping, speed, resources, management, dependencies, decision rights, trust and risk, plus enablement design, accountability, capability plan, and rollback.

Coalition Building Plan

Use this workflow when cross-functional work needs enough shared context, accepted authority, visible tradeoffs, dependency commitment, trust, and distributed advocacy to survive contact with reality without loyalty tests, selective truth, or private advantage.

Output Return a coalition brief with outcome, urgency, tradeoff, required parties, interests, evidence needs, mutual commitments, decision rights, coordination, credit, accountability, withdrawal conditions, and guardrails.

Execution Trust Ledger

Use this workflow when an operator’s ability to move ambiguous work depends on accumulated evidence of follow-through, judgment, truthfulness, credit, discretion, fairness, usefulness, recovery, intent, and making others more capable.

Output Return an evidence ledger, trust assets and drag, behavior diagnosis, stakeholder-specific repairs, proof plan, discretion rules, capability test, and review cadence.

Influence Network Map

Use this workflow when an important outcome is stuck and the operator must map where execution power actually lives across authority, influence, legitimacy, expertise, trust, resources, information, access, narrative, dependencies, and follow-through.

Output Return the outcome and decision, self-inventory, contextual stakeholder map, formal and invisible power, missing currency, dependencies, coalition, risks, three power moves, ethical tests, and first conversation.

Political Friction Diagnosis

Use this workflow when recurring “alignment” or communication conflict may actually signal contested decision rights, scarce resources, expertise legitimacy, risk ownership, agenda control, credit, workload, timing, or exception power.

Output Return the stated and hidden decisions, substantive evidence, power readout, cost and legitimacy map, behavior risks, resolution mechanism, guardrails, decision owner, and follow-up test.

Power Risk Review

Use this workflow when unclear approval, veto, delay, recommendation, exception, resource, or dependency power is blocking an initiative and the organization needs explicit decision rights, gate criteria, queues, escalation, and consequence ownership.

Output Return a decision-rights map, dependency-power map, hidden-power risks, authority-accountability mismatches, criteria and dates, escalation and exception paths, consequence owners, and repairs.

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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