cyberneticlibrary

Define scope and appetite before building

conducty-shapeskillsetup L10
Sheshiyer/skill-clusters
What it does

Design scoped work with appetite, scope boundaries before planning

Best for

Medium/high-complexity goals where requirements are unclear and scope needs bounding before implementation.

Inputs
  • · Goal description
  • · Initial requirements or ambiguity
Outputs
  • · Design doc with appetite (time budget), scope, no-go zones, approach trade-offs, approved design
Requires
  • · LLM/Claude API
  • · Vault/Obsidian
  • · HTTP/REST API
Preconditions
  • · Clear business goal
  • · Stakeholder availability for questions
Failure modes
  • · Appetite renegotiation mid-execution
  • · Scope creep despite no-go zones
  • · Design ambiguity surfaces during execution
Trust signals
  • · Enforces appetite constraint (hard gate)
  • · Explicitly names rabbit holes and trade-offs
  • · Decomposes to sub-goals