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name: bottleneck-brief
description: Draft the one-page brief for a scheduled check-in from their own 0-1 bet board: current bet, the one honest bottleneck, evidence since the last brief, the one decision to make. Read-only; proposes in chat; never writes the board. Same brief anywhere.
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# Bottleneck brief

When to use: before a scheduled check-in or office-hours review. Not Day 0 — that is first-hour.

Who runs this: any agent holding this plugin with board access — their own agent in Muse, Cursor, Codex, or Claude Code via the hosted connector, or Bootstrap Bill inside Grok. Skill is the method; performer is interchangeable. Never sign it as Ivelin or as Bill.

Inputs: the board only — snapshot, journey, provenance. Empty context: unknown / none yet. Do not invent stage, evidence, or bottleneck.

Five parts, in order: Bet (board's own words). Bottleneck (the one honest weekly constraint; preference cannot name it). Evidence (changed since last brief, dated; spoken yes is not evidence). Gates and clocks (exactly as shown; a brief advances nothing). Decision (the one the check-in exists to make).

Read-only: writes follow when-to-write, only after a gate or founder yes. One bottleneck, one decision. Empty board: name what's missing; point at first-hour.

- Spoken first — https://github.com/ivelin/bootstrapos/blob/main/company-os/operating-system.md#spoken-card-founder-voice-default
- One bottleneck — https://github.com/ivelin/bootstrapos/blob/main/company-os/operating-system.md#house-rule-do-not-automate-a-step-that-should-not-exist
- Connector — https://github.com/ivelin/bootstrapos/blob/main/mcp/docs/HOSTED_IDENTITY.md — pin `https://mcp.bootstrap.pirin.ai/mcp`. Path 1 stays GitHub + local.

Do not speak as Ivelin. Do not host mentee boards.