Gathering Intelligences · Experimental · Step 2
Begin your dig
What was the core priority for your place twenty years ago? Or ten? Explore the key care factors that have shaped flows of investment over time.
Add the skill to your agent
It tells your agent to read a place in layers, oldest first: the priorities, what they were trying to look after, what followed, and what quietly lapsed.
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Claude
Upload the file as a skill, or paste it into a Project’s instructions so every chat in that project uses it.
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ChatGPT
Paste it into a Project’s instructions, or into the instructions of a custom GPT.
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Gemini
Create a Gem and paste the file into its instructions.
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Use my own model
Use the file as the system prompt for any model, including one running on your own machine. Give it web search, or the documents you have, so it has records to read.
Read the skill file before you add it. Everything in it is a draft: change it, and tell us what you changed.
Name your place
Build your line of enquiry
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What was the core priority for your place twenty years ago?
Using the begin-the-dig skill, find the core priorities set for your place around twenty years ago. Quote the documents that set them, with dates, who set them, and source links.
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And ten years ago?
Now do the same for your place around ten years ago. What stayed, what changed, and what disappeared from the priorities?
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What were the key care factors?
Across those priorities for your place, what were the key care factors: what were the plans trying to look after? Use the documents’ own words where you can.
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How have flows of investment followed them?
For each care factor in your place, list what followed in date order: approvals, budgets, grants, capital works and private investment. Where did money or permission go that no priority asked for?
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What quietly lapsed?
Which commitments for your place were never withdrawn but have no record of being met, reviewed or reported on? List each with the date it was made and where you looked.