Checklist

  • Anchor the goal (medium term)
  • Dissect the goal: What skills, attributes, and mindsets are needed?
  • Add skills to the Skills database
  • Where am I relative to where I need to be?
  • Set SMARTER performance goals for each process
  • Schedule weekly evaluation cadence
  • Schedule skills audit (every ~2 months)
  • Schedule Priority 0 check-in (every 6 months)

Anchoring & Dissecting the Goal

General direction:
Move from one-off agent use into reliable, agent-directed workflows.

Medium term anchored goal:
By the end of 2026, have at least three reusable agent workflows running reliably — where an agent can pick up a task, execute it, and return a usable output without significant manual correction.

What mindsets and attributes are needed?

Mindset / AttributeCurrentFinalNotes
Systems thinking6/109/10Designing for reuse, not just solving once
Precision in instruction5/108/10Writing prompts and specs an agent can act on
Willingness to iterate6/108/10Treating failures as diagnostic data

What skills are needed?

SkillCurrentFinalNotes
Prompt Design4/107/10Writing instructions an agent can follow reliably
Workflow Design3/107/10Structuring multi-step agent processes
Verification3/106/10Checking and correcting agent output systematically

Processes connected to this goal

  • Improve one prompt, workflow, or instruction per week
  • Ask an agent to inspect one small system per week
  • Convert one repeated action into a reusable process per month
  • Tighten one repo, note, or automation so an agent can use it better next time

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