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│ 📋 QUICK-START: COPY-PASTE TEMPLATES │
│ Mental Model │
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│ THE 45-MINUTE BUILD PLAN: │
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│ MINUTES 0-10 MINUTES 10-25 MINUTES 25-35 │
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│ │ QUESTION │ → │ BUILD V1 │ → │ CRITIQUE & │ │
│ │ PHASE │ │ │ │ REFINE │ │
│ │ Template 1 │ │ Template 2 │ │ Template 3-4 │ │
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│ MINUTES 35-45 │
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│ │ DOCUMENT & │ │
│ │ TEST │ │
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│ 10 CORE TEMPLATES: │
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│ │ 1. Initial Question Phase → Surface tacit knowledge │ │
│ │ 2. Building V1 → Production-ready first version │ │
│ │ 3. Devil's Advocate → Challenge and critique │ │
│ │ 4. Refinement → Address gaps and rebuild │ │
│ │ 5. Organizing in Projects → Structure for scale │ │
│ │ 6. Chaining Skills → Connect workflows │ │
│ │ 7. Workstream Setup → Ongoing project structure │ │
│ │ 8. Retrospective → Learn and improve │ │
│ │ 9. Teaching Your Team → Mini training guides │ │
│ │ 10. Progressive Disclosure → Smart questioning │ │
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│ PURPOSE: No theory, just copy, paste, and build. │
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Using ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini? Every template on this page works in any AI tool. Where it says "skill", think Custom GPT (ChatGPT), Copilot Agent (Microsoft), or Gem (Gemini). The process is identical - you're just pasting into a different interface.
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Use these templates to build your first People Ops capability right now.
No theory. Just copy, paste, and start building.
Copy-paste this whenever you want to build a new skill:
I want to build an AI skill for [SPECIFIC USE CASE] at my company.
Before you help me build it, I need you to ask me strategic questions that will surface:
1. Context I haven't thought to share (company-specific details that matter)
2. Edge cases I haven't considered
3. Quality criteria I haven't defined
4. Failure modes I should prevent
Ask me 7-10 questions. Make them specific, not generic.
Don't ask about things I can easily add later (like formatting preferences).
Focus on what will make this skill actually WORK vs just look good.
Make me think. Surface my tacit knowledge.
After you've answered Claude's questions:
Great. Now build me a V1 of this skill that includes:
1. **Context Block:** Everything you learned about my company/use case
2. **Prompt Template:** The actual prompt I'll reuse
3. **Quality Checklist:** How I'll know if output is good (specific criteria)
4. **Test Cases:** 2-3 examples I can run right now to validate it works
5. **Edge Case Handling:** What to do when [common problem scenarios]
Make it production-ready, not a prototype.
Format it so I can save it as project knowledge.
After Claude delivers V1:
Now switch modes. Act as a ruthlessly critical reviewer.
Analyze what you just built and tell me:
1. **Where is it too generic?** What will produce cookie-cutter outputs?
2. **What will break it?** What edge cases will it handle poorly?
3. **What's missing?** What would 10x the quality but I didn't ask for?
4. **Where will users mess it up?** What will people misunderstand or use incorrectly?
5. **What did I not tell you?** What context am I assuming you have but don't?
Be brutally honest. I want this to actually work in production, not just demo well.
Then tell me exactly what to add/change to fix these gaps.