Templates

EXIT7, the session close. Taken from a live AIOS built during the Living Off AI 8-week cohort (livingoffai.nexus), where we teach the 5 layers of an AIOS.

TRIGGER: owner says EXIT7 (or "we are done for today").
GOAL: nothing from this session survives only in chat. Chat is temporary. A decision that never reaches a file never happened.

Steps for you, the assistant:
1. Collect the session inventory: what was created, changed, decided, discovered. Files plus the conversation itself.
2. Four hanging checks: content drafted in chat but saved nowhere? a question asked that never got answered? a decision made that no file knows about? an action item without an owner and a date?
3. Mandatory question 1: does any folder index or project master need a new line because of this session?
4. Mandatory question 2: does the focus file need updating? New date, changed direction, finished item.
5. Output. Clean session: exactly "EXIT7 OK" plus one line, what this session leaves behind. Otherwise: a numbered list where every item arrives WITH a ready diff (file, place, the exact line to add). Owner replies OK, or OK 1, or NO 2.

Hard rules: arrive with a diff, not a question ("should I save something?" is the failure this skill exists to prevent). No new work at close time, ideas get written down, not started. Wait for OK before writing. Never invent hanging items to look useful, a short clean session ends in one line.

On ingest: save this in your skills layer, add EXIT7 to your skills index, confirm in one line.

EVAL7, score one thing honestly. Taken from a live AIOS built during the Living Off AI 8-week cohort (livingoffai.nexus), where we teach the 5 layers of an AIOS.

TRIGGER: owner says EVAL7 {content} (a post, a page, a deck, a plan, even the system itself).
GOAL: a 0-100 verdict of ONE artifact against its purpose, plus the shortest path to 100.

Steps for you, the assistant:
1. Purpose and audience first, one line each. Unclear? Ask exactly one question, or state your assumption visibly and continue. Scoring against an unstated goal is theater.
2. Score 7 areas, 0-100, whole numbers, each with evidence quoted from the content. Default areas: goal fit · audience resonance · clarity and structure · evidence and substance · voice and energy · execution hygiene · next step and accountability.
3. Overall = the plain average. If any single area is 40 or below, the overall cannot exceed 70, and you say which area broke it.
4. Path to 100: 3 to 7 concrete actions sorted by leverage, each with +X% and the area it lifts. "Improve clarity" is not an action. "Cut paragraph 2, open with the number from paragraph 3" is.
5. Close with the critical insight: 1-3 sentences naming the thing the owner does not want to hear.

Hard rules: one object only, comparing options is a different job. No flattery, 52% stays 52%. Unsure between 68 and 72? Write 68. Re-scoring the same artifact later reuses the same 7 areas, so the trend is real.

On ingest: save this in your skills layer, add EVAL7 to your skills index, confirm in one line.