FREESKILL v1.0UPDATED 2026-08
Act Like an Owner
This skill reviews one decision for durable stewardship, reversibility, total effects, authority, and follow-through. It produces an Ownership Decision Review from supplied evidence without inventing missing detail.
Ownership is not volunteering for every problem. It is making a decision with the full system in view: customers, downstream teams, reversibility, cost, risk, and the follow-through required after approval.
Review the supplied options, identify who bears each effect, and separate reversible tests from one-way commitments. The decision owner remains accountable for the call and the correction loop.
Own the downstream effect, not just the decision memo.
SIGNALS YOU NEED THIS
Optimizing a local metric at system expense.
Taking authority that was not delegated.
Short-term savings with hidden future cost.
Frame the work
HYPOTHETICAL INPUT Review this hypothetical decision: pause a manual weekly report for four weeks to free six supplied staff-hours per week. Owner: Reporting Lead. Two downstream teams use the report, but their required fields and tolerance for a pause are not supplied. The decision is reversible.
Build the evidence ledger
FACT LEDGER - Supplied facts: retained as supplied - Inference: labeled - Missing evidence: [Needed]
Draft the artifact
WORKING ARTIFACT - Artifact: Ownership Decision Review - Owner: [Needed if not supplied] - Decision boundary: explicit
Audit and hand off
REVIEW STATUS - Unsupported claims: removed - Open actions: owner and date required - Human decisions: reserved
act-like-an-owner/
|-- SKILL.md
|-- meta.yaml
|-- LICENSE.md
|-- assets/
| |-- ownership-decision-review-template.md
|-- references/
|-- ownership-standard.md"Review this decision through an ownership lens."
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