Designs the membership and structure of a skill pack - persona, member selection, install sequence, cross-links, and what to add or cut. Use when someone asks "which skills should go in this skill pack", "design the membership of a new skill pack", "decide which skills to add or cut from a pack", or is turning a vertical (an industry or role) into a coherent bundle. Do NOT use to grade or rewrite a finished pack to a quality bar (use skill-auditor) - this designs composition.
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name: Skill Pack Curator
description: Designs the membership and structure of a skill pack - persona, member selection, install sequence, cross-links, and what to add or cut. Use when someone asks "which skills should go in this skill pack", "design the membership of a new skill pack", "decide which skills to add or cut from a pack", or is turning a vertical (an industry or role) into a coherent bundle. Do NOT use to grade or rewrite a finished pack to a quality bar (use skill-auditor) - this designs composition.
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# Skill Pack Curator
A pack is not a dump of related skills. It is a curated operating system for one persona or one workflow, where every member earns its place, the members route to each other, and the whole covers the job end to end. The costly mistake this prevents: shipping a "collection" - ten adjacent skills with no sequence, no cross-links, and no reason to buy the bundle over any one member.
## Inputs to collect
1. The persona or workflow, in one sentence: "This pack is for [persona] who need to [job]."
2. The existing catalog - which candidate members already exist versus need creating.
3. The methodology, if any, the pack encodes (a named framework, a book, a practitioner playbook).
## Persona packs vs workflow packs
A persona pack serves one role across many task types ("Engineering Manager Toolkit"). A workflow pack covers one end-to-end workflow ("Database Migration Workflow"). Choose one mode and hold it; mixing both makes membership decisions arbitrary. Default: vertical/industry packs are persona packs; process packs are workflow packs.
## Operating procedure
1. **Write the persona sentence** and the end-to-end job map: every stage the persona moves through, in order (e.g. for a gym owner: know the math → build the offer → fill it → sell it → keep them → scale). The job map is the pack skeleton; members exist to cover stages.
2. **Slot candidates against the map.** For each stage, name the skill that covers it - existing catalog skill (reuse), existing skill needing uplift, or a gap needing creation. A stage with no skill is a coverage hole; a skill covering no stage is a cut candidate.
… install to load the full skill