The Tool Selection Relay
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Shift briefing · Tool Dispatch Deck
The same task can be handled by a local parser, search, calculator, code runner, or language model. Route each job to the simplest tool that can do it safely.
Read before the shift. It tells you what is at stake, never how to do it.
What you practise
Choose tools by capability, privacy, cost, latency, and reliability rather than habit.
- Tool selection
- capability fit
- trade-offs
- fallbacks
Decide Commit to a defensible choice under real constraints.
The facility for this shift
3 rooms, 4 stations, two hands.
- 01Capability GalleryCapability board
- 02Test BayPrivacy meter · Cost/latency clocks
- 03Dispatch DeckDispatch gates
Compromised Signal · sealed
Something in this shift will change, and the briefing will not tell you what. You find it from the evidence, or your after-action review shows you where it was.
How the shift is assessed
3 criteria · 0 to 6
Scored from what you did: the evidence you checked, the stations you operated, the artifacts you produced and the gates you passed. The criteria are revealed in your after-action review, not before.
Capabilities evidenced
- ReasonModels dependencies, constraints, causal paths, and trade-offs.In 22 of 48
- JudgmentChooses proportionate actions and knows when to verify, abstain, or escalate.In 27 of 48
- CreationDesigns prompts, workflows, systems, and workable artifacts.In 23 of 48
Chamber I · The Tool
Know what a tool can be trusted with, and check before you rely on it.
Understand AI tools, evidence, context, prompt construction, modality, oversight, privacy and tool choice.
Play Protocol 12 in first person, with the clock running.