Capability Requirements Document · prepare-context-rich-work-starter
Prepare a context-rich Work Starter
Assemble a ready-to-start entry point that gives a person or agent enough purpose, context, next-step guidance, authority boundaries, and completion criteria to begin work.
- Status
- draft
- Version
- 0.1
- Architecture alignment
- directly aligned
- Adoption
- proposed
- Known public realizations
- none confirmed
- Evidence basis
- none publicly confirmed
Availability: unknown
Inventory note: Preparation does not change work state.
Core meaning
- Capability purpose
- Reduce the need to reconstruct a work situation before useful action can begin.
- Meaningful outcome
- A Work Starter is available with a connected outcome, current context, best next step, execution fit, roles, decisions, and definition of done.
- Boundaries — includes
- source-work linkage, current-context summary, proposed first action, working-mode/window metadata, participant roles, decision needs, readiness, and completion criteria.
- Boundaries — excludes
- deciding which Work Starter should be first, executing the work, changing authority, and replacing the underlying task or project.
- Terms and concepts
- A
Work Starter is a prepared entry point over canonical work, not a second task system.
Interaction Contract MLEs
Prepare a ready-to-start entry point
- Actor
- An authorized owner, planner, or assisting agent.
- Command / intent
- Prepare existing work so it can be started with minimal context reconstruction.
- Current state
- A goal, project, task, routine run, or other work object exists with enough source context.
- Policies / invariants
- The Work Starter links to canonical work; summaries and recommendations are attributable; human decisions and agent permissions remain explicit; preparation does not mark work as started or done.
- Transition
- Gather relevant context, identify the best next step and execution fit, and record a bounded ready-to-start representation.
- Result
- A current Work Starter linked to its source work and readiness evidence.
- Events / effects
- The Work Starter may become eligible for contextual ordering or execution.
- Unknowns
- Universal freshness and invalidation rules are not established.
Rules and defaults
Rules / invariants
- Canonical work state remains on the underlying work object.
- A Work Starter must expose any human decision needed before execution.
Recommended defaults
- Include purpose, current context, best next step, working mode, expected duration, and definition of done when known.
Unknown / unresolved
- The minimum context required for different work classes remains profile-specific.
Statement provenance
| Statement | Semantic class | Evidence status | Source / note |
|---|
| A Work Starter is a ready entry point carrying enough context to begin without rebuilding the situation. | capability purpose | sourced | B15. |