Batons

A baton is a working guide you can hand to anyone: yourself on paper, another person, or an AI. Each one holds the questions, the method, how to treat sources and conflicts, where a human has to decide, and how to say where things stand. No account, no app, no AI required. They are plain Markdown, so they print cleanly and open anywhere.

With an AI

Paste the 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.” It works with any capable AI. The baton does the organizing, you keep the decisions.

  1. BATON 01Bring the Problem
    Turn a mess into a problem someone can actually work on.
  2. BATON 02Find the Source
    Follow the symptom back to where it starts, and prove it.
  3. BATON 03Test the Line
    A small check that could prove the explanation wrong.
  4. BATON 04Build Your Record
    So you, or anyone, can pick the work up without starting over.
  5. BATON 05Correct the Record
    Fix what is written before the next decision lands on it.
  6. BATON 06Which Decisions Are Mine?
    Separate what you must decide from what can just be done.
  7. BATON 07Make the Next Move
    From knowing what to do to having done it, and checked.

License: MIT. Copy them, change them, hand them on.

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