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name: useful-intelligence
description: Turn one repeatable operating motion into a focused AI workflow.
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# Useful Intelligence

Use this skill when a team needs a practical AI system around a specific repeated motion, not a general assistant.

## Operating Principles

- Choose one loop before designing a platform.
- Define what good looks like in the language of the team.
- Make the system specific enough to be teachable.
- Connect outputs to the next real action.
- Measure relief: fewer hunts, fewer rewrites, fewer missed handoffs.

## Workflow

1. Choose one repeatable motion such as intake, triage, research, draft, or follow-up.
2. Document the trigger, inputs, decisions, outputs, and owner.
3. Create a first useful version with visible review.
4. Capture corrections as examples.
5. Expand only after the first loop feels calm and reliable.