Decide which of your recurring rituals to put on autopilot — and which to keep manual.
SkillScore86Maintained
Automatic
◆Project Management pack
Last verified 8/14/2026
What it changes
Passed 19 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 14 of 22 without it.
Without skill64%
With skill86%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
The response includes a Staleness marker specification.
The response classifies the report as Assist or draft-only.
The response explicitly includes kill criteria for all automated rituals.
and 8 more in the full report
6 fixed13 passed either way2 still failing1 broke
Pass-rate lift
+23 pp
Tokens
+20%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-30%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/14/2026v119 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 6 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 6
Prompt
We have an internal status report where git log data is accessible automatically, errors are low-cost, and changes are delta-based, but the formatting structure varies heavily based on custom customer requests each week. What is the appropriate classification?
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
The response classifies the report as Assist or draft-only.
Missed
Passed
case-09 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/14/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md73 linessingle file
Autopilot Charter Skill
Inventory the reports, briefings, and reviews you produce on a rhythm, and decide — deliberately — which ones an AI should run on a schedule, which it should only draft, and which stay human.
What This Skill Produces
A ritual inventory: every recurring artifact, its cadence, audience, and inputs
An automate / assist / keep-manual call per ritual, with the reason
Guardrails for each automated ritual (review gate, failure behaviour, escalation)
A rollout order — which ritual to automate first and why
Required Inputs
Ask for (if not already provided):
The recurring outputs the user or team produces (weekly updates, monthly reviews, monitors, digests)
Who consumes each one and what they do with it
Where the inputs live (git, analytics, CRM, inbox, notes) and whether an agent can reach them
Tolerance for error per artifact — what happens if a run is wrong or missing?
Classification Framework
Score each ritual on four questions, then classify:
Question
Points toward automating
Inputs reachable? Can an agent read the sources without a human fetching them?
Yes
Structure stable? Does the output look the same every cycle?
Yes
Cost of a bad run? Would a wrong or stale edition mislead a decision?
Low cost
Delta-shaped? Is the value "what changed since last time" rather than fresh judgement?
Yes
Automate — all four favourable. Schedule it end-to-end; the human sees the result, not the work.
Assist — structure is stable but judgement or unreachable inputs remain. Schedule a draft; a human finishes it.
Keep manual — high cost of error, or the ritual's value is the human thinking (performance feedback, strategy). Do not automate; record why so nobody re-litigates it.
Guardrails (required for every "Automate")
For each automated ritual, define:
Review gate — does an edition ship unreviewed, or land as a draft for approval? Default to draft for anything audience-facing.
Failure behaviour — if a run fails or a source is unreachable, does it skip, retry, or alert? A silent gap is worse than an error message.
Staleness marker — every edition states when it ran and which sources it read.
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