Agent skill · magnus919
forward-deployed-engineering
Guide embedded technical engagements from ambiguous stakeholder need through discovery, framing, hypothesis, build, evaluation, deployment, adoption, measurement, and generalization while preserving evidence, decision rights, and field learning. Use when one accountable technical lead must carry continuity across customer or stakeholder discovery, implementation, production fit, adoption, and measurable outcomes. Do not use for a bounded repository change, product investment governance, ongoing reliability or platform ownership, an isolated specialist task, or advisory work that ends before implementation and adoption.
What it needs
About 5k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Forward-Deployed Engineering Use this bundle when the work is an embedded technical engagement whose success depends on continuity, not merely a recommendation or a code change. This is a normative operating model synthesized from the role observations in source-index.md and from routed specialist methods; the nine-stage sequence is not an externally standardized methodology. Lifecycle Discover → Frame → Hypothesize → Build → Evaluate → Deploy → Adopt → Measure → Generalize Stage Required question Minimum output Stop condition --- --- --- --- Discover What user workflow and problem are real? Stakeholder/workflow map and unknowns No recognizable problem or access to the relevant workflow Frame What is in scope, who decides, and what outcome matters? Engagement charter and assumptions/decisions/risks ledger Authority, constraints, or outcome cannot be named Hypothesize What smallest intervention could change the workflow? Testable hypothesis and decision rule No falsifiable hypothesis or unsafe test Build What operationally complete slice can be built? Thin-slice implementation plan and owner Dependencies or permissions are infeasible Evaluate What evidence supports quality, safety, and usefulness? Evaluation and release decision Baseline, representative evidence, or risk constraints missing Deploy Can it be released, recovered, and verified in the authorized environment? Readiness, rollout, rollback, and verification record No authorized access, rollback, or release decision Adopt Do intended users activate and use it in the target workflow? Adoption scorecard and intervention record Adoption failure is unexplained or ownership/support is absent Measure Did the capability change the agreed outcome? Outcome measurement record Instrumentation cannot distinguish expected from observed Generalize What should happen to the local learning? Productization record and field-learning record No evidence or receiving owner for the proposed next step At every stage, read the curr …
How to use it
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@skills magnus919/forward-deployed-engineering