high-agency
High Agency
Use $ARGUMENTS as initial context.
When to use this skill
- Founder and leadership decisions under uncertainty.
- Execution stalls where teams say "blocked" or "impossible."
- Vague constraints that hide solvable problems.
- Cross-functional deadlock with unclear ownership.
- High-stakes moments needing fast, pragmatic action.
Required inputs
- Decision to make now.
- Desired outcome.
- Deadline or decision window.
- Hard constraints (time, money, team, legal, technical).
- Key stakeholders and decision owners.
- Known leverage and available resources.
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