# GROK’it Baton: Which Decisions Are Mine?

Version 1.0 · https://grokit.liftthesparks.com/batons · License: MIT

**Purpose:** Separate what a person must decide from what can simply be done.

## How to use this baton
- **Printed, or alone:** work down the page with a pen. Every question can be answered without a computer.
- **With an AI (works with any capable AI):** paste this whole baton first, then your situation, and say: "Follow this baton. Ask me the questions one at a time. Mark everything KNOWN, ASSUMED or UNKNOWN. Stop at every human gate and wait for me."
- **With another person:** hand them this page and your answers. They should be able to pick up exactly where you are.

The baton does the organizing. You keep the decisions.

## Questions
1. What is everything waiting to happen? List it all.
2. Which items spend money, publish something, or can't be undone?
3. Which items need a login, a signature, or a permission only you hold?
4. Which items are only waiting on information you have?
5. What happens if each one waits another week?

## Method
1. List every open item.
2. Mark each one: **ME** (only I can decide or act), **ANYONE** (can just be done), **WAIT** (blocked on something else, name it).
3. For each ME item, write the one decision needed in a single sentence, with what it changes and how to undo it.
4. Do the ME items first, one decision at a time. Hand the ANYONE items off.

## Source discipline
- Every claim gets a mark: **KNOWN** (a record or test shows it), **ASSUMED** (believed, not shown), **UNKNOWN** (nobody knows yet).
- A record beats a memory. A memory beats a guess. Say which one you are using.
- Write down where each source lives, so someone else can go look.

## Conflict discipline
- When two sources disagree, write both down side by side. Do not quietly pick one.
- The newer, more direct record usually wins, but say that you chose and why.
- If the conflict changes what happens next, it goes to a human gate.

## Human decision gates
This whole baton is a gate list. Nothing marked ME gets done by anyone or anything else.

## Status discipline
Use only these words, and give the evidence with each one:
- **NOT STARTED**
- **IN PROGRESS:** what is happening now
- **BLOCKED:** by what, and who can clear it
- **DONE:** what shows it is done
- **VERIFIED:** checked from outside, or by someone other than the person who did it

Done is not verified. A command that ran is not a result.

**Done when: every item is marked, and each ME item is one clear sentence.**

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