Toolkit
The toolkit behind the systems
The operation runs on 24purpose-built skills and agents — each a small, single-job tool rather than one large assistant. Some are autonomous agents (the diagnostic pipeline orchestrates a panel of specialist advisors); most are commands I reach for by hand. They're grouped here by what they do. The longer write-ups in Systems explain how they fit together; this is the inventory underneath them.
Session & governance
The operating rhythm — how every session opens, captures, and closes.
Session governor
Opens and closes every session — sets the focus, captures what was learned, enforces the governance rules, and hands off cleanly to the next one.
Capture
Quick-drops an idea into the inbox with the right metadata, to route properly later.
Intake
The filing clerk: triages anything received, proposes a destination, flags sensitivity, detects duplicates — and moves nothing without approval.
Simplify
Re-renders a deep technical stretch of conversation back into plain English.
Diagnostic pipeline
Taking a raw idea to a verdict — the agents that do the thinking.
Diagnostic lab
Structured early-stage ideation and diagnosis; every idea that passes through is indexed for later reference.
Diagnostic agent
An autonomous orchestrator that runs the full cycle — live research, debate, specialist advisors, strategy — into a single compiled verdict.
Brainstorm team
Five distinct voices debate an idea through structured rounds — built for genuine tension, not polite agreement.
Specialist advisors
The panel the pipeline convenes — each pressure-tests one dimension before anything is built.
Commercial strategist
Positioning and go-to-market in one voice; diagnosis before tactics.
Financial analyst
Unit economics, break-even, pricing and runway — money in numbers, not vibes.
Technical advisor
Buildable? And the smallest thing that tests the riskiest assumption.
Distribution realist
Is there a credible path to customers? Names the distribution problem before anyone starts building.
Legal & regulatory advisor
A structured risk scan (UK-focused) that flags what needs professional attention before time or money is committed.
UX / customer-experience advisor
Will the first use actually reach value before the customer drops off?
Deep researcher
Grounds an idea in market reality — size, demand, competition — and gives a blunt call.
Knowledge & retrieval
The RAG and learning layer — grounded, cited answers over my own corpus.
RAG
Question-answering over the operator-workspace corpus, with grounded, cited answers.
Learn-ask
The same, over the separate learning corpus.
Learn-extract
Turns a podcast, talk, article or paper into a structured episode record.
Learn-bundle
Synthesizes a set of episodes into a single cross-episode bundle.
Learn-course
Captures a course as a structured record, mapped to the capability matrix.
Quality gates
Nothing ships unreviewed.
Communication review
Scores a written artefact against quality standards and fixes the AI-tells.
Strategic review
A governance gate between thinking and building.
Site health
A build, security, pages and data-quality check across projects.
Measurement & profile
Keeping the capability picture honest.
Skills scan
Scans the workspace for the evidence behind each capability claim — and flags where I'm over- or under-claiming.
Skills export
Audience-shaped career outputs (CV, LinkedIn, bio, capability statement) generated from one source of truth.
Built and refined in daily use — the toolkit grows as the work does.