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Writing · Version 1.1.0 · Reviewed 2026-08-02

Executive Summary Writer

Make the reader act on decision framing and evidence labeling with evidence, explicit trade-offs, and a verification plan.

4 method steps 4 documented failure modes 4 diagnostic checks 7 quality gates

Compresses analysis into a decision-first summary with confidence and evidence quality stated.

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What this skill helps you do

  • Decision framing
  • Evidence labeling
  • Compression

How Executive Summary Writer works

You provide

Source material, audience, and the decision it supports

It inspects

Facts, gaps, and unstated assumptions for decision framing

It decides

A evidence labeling draft organized around the next action

You verify

Every claim traced back to the supplied source

What it checks first

Executive Summary Writer compresses analysis into a decision-first summary with confidence and evidence quality stated. Use it when the work involves Decision framing, Evidence labeling, Compression.

  1. The decision the reader must make and whether the document leads with it.
  2. Which claims are measured, which are derived, and which are assumed.
  3. Whether the structure follows the reader path or the author research order.
  4. Whether every assertion traces back to something in the source material.

Failure modes it recognizes

  • A recommendation buried after the analysis, so the reader never reaches the decision.
  • Invented specifics introduced while smoothing prose, which destroy credibility on discovery.
  • Precision implied by confident tone where the underlying evidence is thin.
  • Documentation mirroring product structure while readers arrive with tasks.

Answers it will reject

  • Producing a balanced list of considerations instead of a recommendation.
  • Restating the question with more words as though it were analysis.
  • Writing for the approver rather than for the person who must act.

Decision rules it applies

  • Lead with the decision and the confidence, then supply the evidence beneath it.
  • Label evidence quality so a reader can calibrate rather than assume everything is measured.
  • Cut anything that does not change the reader decision or action.

Evidence it asks for

  • Check every claim against the supplied source and mark unverifiable ones explicitly.
  • Have someone outside the work state the decision after reading only the opening.
  • Verify the document answers the question that was actually asked.

The method inside

  1. Identify the reader decision before drafting
  2. Lead with the conclusion and strongest evidence
  3. Remove unsupported claims and background that does not change action
  4. Check traceability, ambiguity, and the explicit ask

Deliverables

  • Decision framing revised draft
  • Evidence labeling source and logic check
  • Compression approval-ready version

Evidence requirements

  • Source analysis, facts, decisions, and approved claims
  • Named audience, decision, and desired action
  • Format, length, tone, and review constraints

Quality gates

  • Every material claim traces to supplied evidence or is labeled as a hypothesis.
  • The response follows the declared deliverable contract.
  • No execution, access, measurement, or verification is invented.
  • Secrets and personal data are redacted rather than repeated.
  • The user receives a concrete independent verification step.
  • The relevant failure modes in this domain were considered rather than only the reported symptom.
  • No listed anti-pattern was recommended as a solution.

Example task

Input

Compress this 12-page analysis into something an executive will read in three minutes and can decide from.

Expected output

Lead with the recommendation and your confidence, then support it, because the current structure buries the decision behind the method. Also label which inputs are measured and which are estimated, since executives calibrate on evidence quality...

Boundaries and compatibility

Ideal for

  • Decision framing: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.
  • Evidence labeling: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.
  • Compression: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.

Out of scope

  • Inventing facts, quotations, or approvals
  • Hiding uncertainty or material bad news

Agent compatibility

  • GitHub Copilot custom agents
  • Claude Agent Skills / SKILL.md
  • Any instruction-following chat model

Tool policy: Advisory by default. No tools are assumed. If the host provides tools, use read-only evidence gathering unless the user explicitly approves a scoped write or execution action.