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- Underperformance SupportWork is falling short and you need a fair support conversation. Use when a founder or manager asks for underperformance support. Produces an evidence note and a draft improvement-and-support plan.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Voice And SafetyPeople are hesitant to raise concerns, admit mistakes, or disagree. Use when a founder or manager asks for voice and safety. Produces a safe input plan and a visible response-and-action loop.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Working AgreementsRecurring friction needs clear expectations about how the team works. Use when a founder or manager asks for working agreements. Produces a small set of testable team agreements with a review date.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Workload And BoundariesOverload or burnout concerns require a change to the work. Use when a founder or manager asks for workload and boundaries. Produces a capacity decision and a boundary agreement with owners.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Workplace Pattern ReviewThe same human problem keeps returning despite good intentions. Use when a founder or manager asks for workplace pattern review. Produces a system hypothesis and a small, owned experiment.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Focal Question FramerTurns a vague wish to "think about the future" into one focal question with a time horizon, a scope, and the decision it must inform, and fills the engagement brief every other skill reads, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run focal-question-framer", "we need a trends piece", "the client wants a future-of session", "help me frame this futures work", "what should our offsite be about", or when someone has an appetite for the future and no que...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Future Artifact MakerMakes artifacts from each scenario's future (a headline, a product listing, a complaint letter, an annual report excerpt, a job ad, a policy notice), clearly marked fictional and built to make a room react rather than nod, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run future-artifact-maker", "make the scenarios tangible", "write a headline from 2030", "design fiction for the workshop", "something people can hold", or when the scenarios read as reason...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Implications Roadmap BuilderTurns scenarios and wind-tunnel results into a roadmap of moves (no-regret moves now, options to keep open, big bets with triggers), each with an owner and a date, without choosing the bet for the leadership team, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run implications-roadmap-builder", "so what do we do", "turn the scenarios into actions", "build the roadmap from the offsite", "implications for our strategy", or when the workshop is over, the ene...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Leadership Playback DesignerDesigns the playback that makes leadership care about the futures work (the pre-read, the 45-minute session arc, the one decision asked for, and the capture afterwards) and will not ship the playback as a document instead of a session, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run leadership-playback-designer", "present the scenarios to the board", "how do I get leadership to care", "playback session for the partners", "the readout", or when the work...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Scenario BuilderBuilds three or four internally consistent constructed futures from the agreed axes, each with its logic, its timeline, who wins and who loses, and the first signs you would see, with every scenario labeled a constructed future and never a prediction, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run scenario-builder", "write the scenarios", "build four worlds for 2030", "turn the axes into stories", "what could this look like", or when the axes are agre...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Scenario Workshop RunnerDesigns and supports the half-day or full-day workshop where a client team or your own firm sorts the uncertainties, builds or tests the scenarios, and claims the first moves, with agenda, materials, facilitation prompts, and capture, while the room itself stays human, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run scenario-workshop-runner", "plan the scenario workshop", "design the offsite session on the future", "facilitation guide for the scenarios...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Signal ScannerResearches the web and logs concrete, dated, sourced signals of change, one card per signal with a link, across social, technological, economic, environmental, and political territory, and merges signals your team spotted, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run signal-scanner", "find signals for our focal question", "what's changing in [market]", "scan the horizon for us", "we need evidence, not opinions", or when the team keeps saying "everyo...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Signpost TrackerDesigns the early-warning indicators for each scenario, with thresholds and a review cadence, and runs the quarterly re-scan and review so the scenarios and the roadmap stay alive after the workshop, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run signpost-tracker", "which future are we in now", "set up the early warning indicators", "quarterly scenario review", "has anything changed since the offsite", or when it is three months later and someone wond...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Strategy Wind TunnelerRuns the firm's current strategy, or a set of options, through every scenario and grades each as holds, conditional, or fragile, naming the trigger that would force a change and guarding against the team's favorite answer, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run strategy-wind-tunneler", "stress-test our strategy against the scenarios", "are we fine in all four worlds", "which of these options survives", "test the plan", or when leadership asks ...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Trend Report WriterWrites the publishable trend report a firm sends to clients, with each trend framed as a tension and a question for leaders, sourced signals, implications, and a provocation, and refuses to print a trend that has no sourced signals behind it, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run trend-report-writer", "write our annual trends report", "turn the trends into a client piece", "we need a point of view on the future of [market]", "draft the trends...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Trend SynthesizerClusters sourced signals into named trends with a direction, a maturity, and an honest evidence grade, and files anything with too little evidence as a hunch rather than a trend, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run trend-synthesizer", "what do these signals add up to", "turn the signal log into trends", "name the trends for the workshop", "cluster these", or when the team has a wall of cards and is starting to argue. Use it even for "can yo...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Uncertainty MapperSeparates what is already settled from what could go either way, sorts the drivers by impact and uncertainty, and proposes the two axes (or the archetype set) the scenarios will stand on, recording the team's argument rather than replacing it, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run uncertainty-mapper", "which trends matter most", "pick the scenario axes", "what's certain and what isn't", "impact versus uncertainty", or when the trends are on t...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Delegation Authority MapAn explicit decision map and escalation boundaries. Part of Polar Bear's Delegation Pack. Use when the user says 'run delegation-authority-map' or 'clarify delegated decision authority', including a rough request about this specific delegation problem.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Delegation Capacity CheckA feasible scope and a concrete workload trade-off. Part of Polar Bear's Delegation Pack. Use when the user says 'run delegation-capacity-check' or 'check whether someone has room for delegated work', including a rough request about this specific delegation problem.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Delegation Checkpoint PlanA small review schedule tied to risks and decisions. Part of Polar Bear's Delegation Pack. Use when the user says 'run delegation-checkpoint-plan' or 'set delegation checkpoints without micromanaging', including a rough request about this specific delegation problem.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Delegation Close And LearnA completion decision and one change for the next handoff. Part of Polar Bear's Delegation Pack. Use when the user says 'run delegation-close-and-learn' or 'review completed delegated work', including a rough request about this specific delegation problem.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Delegation Coach Without Taking OverA support conversation that resolves the blocker and makes ownership explicit. Part of Polar Bear's Delegation Pack. Use when the user says 'run delegation-coach-without-taking-over' or 'stop taking delegated work back', including a rough request about this specific delegation problem.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Delegation Handoff ConversationA short conversation guide and an agreement awaiting human confirmation. Part of Polar Bear's Delegation Pack. Use when the user says 'run delegation-handoff-conversation' or 'prepare a delegation conversation', including a rough request about this specific delegation problem.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Delegation Outcome BriefA one-page brief defining useful completion without prescribing every method. Part of Polar Bear's Delegation Pack. Use when the user says 'run delegation-outcome-brief' or 'write a delegation brief', including a rough request about this specific delegation problem.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Delegation Pattern ReviewA fairer distribution experiment and a manager commitment. Part of Polar Bear's Delegation Pack. Use when the user says 'run delegation-pattern-review' or 'review who gets delegated opportunities and routine work', including a rough request about this specific delegation problem.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Delegation Reset HandoffA recovery agreement addressing outcome, capacity, authority, and support. Part of Polar Bear's Delegation Pack. Use when the user says 'run delegation-reset-handoff' or 'reset delegated work that is going wrong', including a rough request about this specific delegation problem.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Delegation Task PickerA task shortlist with reasons, retained decisions, and a first handoff. Part of Polar Bear's Delegation Pack. Use when the user says 'run delegation-task-picker' or 'choose work to delegate', including a rough request about this specific delegation problem.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Challenge FramerTurns a vague client ask into a long-term goal, three to five sprint questions, one challenge statement, and the sprint brief every other skill reads, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run challenge-framer", "frame the sprint challenge", "write the sprint brief", "what is this sprint actually about", "pick the sprint format", or when a sprint is confirmed and the challenge is still a paragraph of client language. Use it even for a vague ask like "h...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Decision Day RunnerRuns the sprint's decision mechanics from art museum through heat map, speed critique, straw poll and the Decider's supervote, including what to do when the Decider votes against the room, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run decision-day-runner", "run the heat map", "how does the supervote work", "we need to pick a sketch", "run the straw poll", or when the sketches are on the wall and the room has to choose. Use it even for a vague ask like "how...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Friday Debrief SynthesizerTurns the five test sessions into an answer, with patterns confirmed by the room, each sprint question marked yes, no or unclear, and an honest statement of what five users can and cannot tell you, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run friday-debrief-synthesizer", "synthesize the test sessions", "what did we learn", "debrief the sprint", "did the prototype work", or when the last tester has left and the room needs a conclusion before it goes home. ...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Map And Target RunnerRuns the sprint's first day end to end, from the goal check through the map and the expert interviews to the Decider's target choice, with Claude doing the capture so nobody is writing while listening, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run map-and-target-runner", "run day one of the sprint", "build the sprint map", "capture the expert interviews", "pick the target moment", or when the sprint week has started and the room needs to agree on where to ...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Monday After PlannerConverts the sprint's result into a decision record, a named owner, a two-week plan, and the extra evidence a sponsor will ask for before funding a build, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run monday-after-planner", "what happens after the sprint", "write the sprint readout", "the client wants to know next steps", "our sprint results are going nowhere", or when a sprint has finished and the momentum is about to leak away. Use it even for a vague as...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Prototype Plan WriterPlans and staffs the build day, decides what is real and what is facade, writes the prototype's content, and forces the trial run, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run prototype-plan-writer", "plan the prototype", "who builds what tomorrow", "what tool should we prototype in", "write the prototype copy", or when the storyboard is done and something has to exist by tomorrow evening. Use it even for a vague ask like "how do we build this in a day".Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Sketch Day RunnerRuns the sketch day end to end, scouting Lightning Demos, setting up the four-step sketch, and generating machine concepts that compete on the wall under the adoption rule, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run sketch-day-runner", "find lightning demos", "run the sketch day", "generate concepts for the sprint", "prepare Crazy 8s", "what do we do on Tuesday", or when the target is chosen and the room needs concepts to choose between tomorrow. Use it...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Sprint Cast BuilderCasts the Decider and the sprint team, lines up the expert interviews, writes the pre-reads, and builds the hour-by-hour calendar for the chosen variant, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run sprint-cast-builder", "who should be in the sprint", "build the sprint schedule", "the Decider cannot make Wednesday", "write the sprint invite", or when a sprint is booked and the room is not yet filled. Use it even for a vague ask like "help me get people to...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Sprint Facilitator KitThe room craft for running a sprint week, covering timeboxing, silent work, the people problems, energy across five days, and remote facilitation, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run sprint-facilitator-kit", "how do I facilitate this", "someone keeps derailing the room", "the room has gone flat", "how do I run this remotely", "I have never facilitated a sprint", or when a sprint is about to start and the person running it wants the human mechanic...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Sprint QualifierTests whether a design sprint is the right tool for a client's problem and produces a qualification memo plus the words to say if the answer is no, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run sprint-qualifier", "should we run a sprint", "the client wants a design sprint", "is this a sprint problem", "scope a sprint for this client", or when a sprint has been requested and nobody has checked whether it fits. Use it even for a vague ask like "a client aske...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Storyboard BuilderTurns the winning sketches into a fifteen-panel storyboard with a real opening scene and stress-tests it for the gaps a tester will fall into, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run storyboard-builder", "build the storyboard", "what screens do we need", "write the opening scene", "turn the winning sketch into a flow", or when the supervote is done and the build crew needs a spec. Use it even for a vague ask like "what exactly are we prototyping".Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Test RecruiterGets five real target users booked for the sprint's test day, with a screener, sourcing routes, incentives, scheduling, and consent terms, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run test-recruiter", "recruit five users for Friday", "write the screener", "we need testers for the sprint", "nobody has booked the test sessions", or when a sprint is happening and the customers who will see the prototype are still hypothetical. Use it even for a vague ask lik...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Test Script WriterWrites the five-act interview script for the sprint's own questions, strips the leading questions out of it, and sets up the note grid the room fills live, part of the Design Sprint Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run test-script-writer", "write the test script", "what do we ask the testers", "five act interview", "set up the note grid", or when the prototype is nearly done and nobody has written what the interviewer will say. Use it even for a vague ask like "how do we r...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Assumption MapperSeparates what the team believes from what it knows and ranks the risk, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run assumption-mapper", "what are we assuming", "map our assumptions", "what could kill this project", or the team is confident and nobody can say where the confidence comes from. Use it even for "we're pretty sure users want this".Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Concept Card WriterWrites one-page concept cards in a consistent format, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run concept-card-writer", "write up these concepts", "make concept cards", "turn these ideas into one-pagers", or ideation produced winners and they need a fair, comparable write-up before prioritization. Use it even for "we picked five ideas, now what".Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Design Challenge FramerTurns a fuzzy ask into a proper design challenge brief, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run design-challenge-framer", "frame this challenge", "write the challenge brief", "help me scope this design project", "we want to improve X, where do we start", or a new project is starting and the problem is still a feeling rather than a statement. Use it even for "the client wants an app".Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Desk Research DigestDigests what's already known before new research spends anyone's time, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run desk-research-digest", "what do we already know", "summarize the existing research", "pull together prior findings", or a discovery is starting and old reports, analytics, and support logs are sitting unread. Use it even for "I think someone studied this before".Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Dfv CheckerStress tests concepts for desirability, feasibility, and viability, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run dfv-checker", "stress test these concepts", "check desirability feasibility viability", "is this idea actually sound", or concepts are about to get investment and nobody has asked the three hard questions on paper. Use it even for "poke holes in this idea".Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Diary Study DesignerDesigns diary studies for behavior that interviews can't reach, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run diary-study-designer", "set up a diary study", "we need to see behavior over time", "how do people use this across a week", or the research question involves habits, moods, or moments no one can recall accurately afterward. Use it even for "we wish we could see what they do between sessions".Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Empathy Map BuilderBuilds empathy maps from real research data, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run empathy-map-builder", "make an empathy map", "map what users say and feel", "what's going on in our users' heads", or research exists and the team wants the says/thinks/does/feels view of a segment. Use it even for "help the team feel what the research found".Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Five Whys RunnerRuns evidence-backed root-cause laddering on a chosen pain, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run five-whys-runner", "do a five whys on this", "what's the root cause here", "why does this keep happening", or a pain point is well documented and the team is about to solve its symptom. Use it even for "users keep abandoning at checkout and we don't know why".Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Hmw GeneratorGenerates the How Might We question set from POVs and insights, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run hmw-generator", "write the how might we questions", "generate HMWs", "prep the ideation questions", or a problem statement exists and an ideation session needs its launching questions. Use it even for "we're brainstorming Thursday, what do we brainstorm on".Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2
- Idea ExpanderExpands the idea space beyond the first obvious directions, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run idea-expander", "give us more directions", "expand on these ideas", "we're stuck on three obvious solutions", or ideation happened (or is about to) and the pool needs more genuinely different options. Use it even for "everyone keeps suggesting the same app".Votes: 0GitHub stars: 2