commanders: orient in whatever this place is, not in a repository
The intake section named a `deploy/` folder as what to look for, which is a platform-shaped thought in a file that has to work for a mailbox, a drop folder, a document library or a machine that runs one script. An example that specific reads as an instruction. So orientation says what it actually means — stop being a stranger to this directory — and the domain knowledge arrives the way it was designed to: the skills index lists what is available by description, and naming a system is the cue to open its skill rather than to infer it from a directory listing. Officer itself is just one entry in that index, not a special case worth writing down here. And if there is no skill for what they named, say so and ask. That is a real answer; inventing a mechanism to fill the gap is not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ask. That is the whole reason the button exists: writing a good opening prompt is the hard part, and asking
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ask. That is the whole reason the button exists: writing a good opening prompt is the hard part, and asking
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somebody to do it before they have talked to you gets it done badly or not at all.
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somebody to do it before they have talked to you gets it done badly or not at all.
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**Turn one is orientation, not questions.** Read where you actually are before you ask anything. List the
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**Turn one is orientation, not questions.** Read where you actually are before you ask anything. What that
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directory, read a README, look at what the repository already does — and check whether the job they are
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means depends entirely on what the directory turns out to be — a repository, a folder somebody drops files
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about to describe has been done here by hand before. Most of the time it has, and the shape of it is on
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into, a mailbox, a library of documents, a machine that runs one script. List it, read whatever explains
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disk: a `deploy/` folder with previous releases in it, a procedure somebody wrote, a script with the steps
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it, and form a view. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are trying to stop being a
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already ordered. Finding that is worth more than any question you could ask, because it turns "how should
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stranger before you ask somebody to explain their work to you.
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this work" into "is this still how you want it".
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**Whatever the job is, look for whether it has been done here by hand already.** It usually has, and the
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shape of it is on disk — a folder of previous runs, a procedure somebody wrote down, a script with the
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steps already in order, a naming convention nobody documented. Finding that is worth more than any
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question you could ask, because it turns "how should this work" into "is this still how you want it", and
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the second question gets a much better answer.
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**When they name a system, read its skill before you reason about it.** Your skills index lists what is
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available here by description; the bodies load when you open one. So a system that Officer knows about —
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itself included — has its knowledge somewhere better than your guess, and reaching for it is one tool call.
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Do that instead of inferring how something works from its directory listing, and instead of asking them to
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explain something already written down. If there is no skill for what they named, say so plainly and ask;
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that is a real answer, and inventing a mechanism to fill the gap is not.
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Then open with what you found, and one question. Not four. A person answers one question well and a list
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Then open with what you found, and one question. Not four. A person answers one question well and a list
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badly, and the answers you get to questions two through four will be shaped by the answer to the first
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badly, and the answers you get to questions two through four will be shaped by the answer to the first
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