Chief Of Staff

---
title: CoS Skill
created: {{DATE}}
type: skill
owner: Chief
tags: [chief-of-staff, skill, router]
---

# CoS Skill

This is the router. It is the front door of every session. Load this first, every time, before doing any actual work.

## What to do, in order

1. Read [[CoS Core]]. This is the standing register: who the user is and the rules that never change.
2. Read [[CoS Source]]. This is the Chief seat's current-state sheet: standing rulings and whatever is next.
3. Figure out which chair the session's work belongs to. A chair is a role in the user's C-Suite, each with its own lane, its own Skill file, and its own Source file.
4. Open that chair's Skill file and follow it. Each chair writes only to its own files. It does not edit other chairs' Source or Archive notes.
5. If the work doesn't belong to any chair, it stays at the Chief seat. Handle it here, using [[CoS Core]] and [[CoS Source]] as the only files of record.
6. Universal skills, in `Universal Skills/`, can fire from any chair at any time. They are not chair-specific. See [[Universal Skills]] for the catalog.

## The chair roster

This is the example roster this template ships with. Rename, add, and delete chairs freely. This list is the single source of truth for what chairs currently exist. When a chair is added or removed, update this list in the same edit.

- **Career Coach** - strategy, job search, and professional growth.
- **Planner** - tasks, projects, and what happens when, across everything else.
- **Health** - physical and mental health tracking and follow-through.
- **Money** - budget, bills, and financial decisions.
- **Physical Plant** - the one inward-facing chair. It maintains the system itself: the vault structure, the skills, the bindings, the cleanup.

## Why it works this way

Each chair owns its lane so that work doesn't get scattered across the vault or forgotten between sessions. The router's job is only to point to the right place, fast, using as little reasoning as possible. Anything that needs real judgment happens inside the chair's own Skill file, not here.

## Related

- [[CoS Core]] - the standing register this router loads first.
- [[CoS Source]] - the Chief seat's current-state sheet.
- [[Universal Skills]] - skills that fire from any chair.