# Templates and skills from The Crumple Zone

Plain Markdown to paste into a design doc, a postmortem, a review or a letter, and Agent Skills (SKILL.md) for assistants that support them.

## Templates

- [Remainder statement](https://thecrumple.zone/templates/remainder-statement.md): A design-doc section for what a rule, product or policy leaves out, before it runs.
- [Postmortem: did the fix reach the level that failed?](https://thecrumple.zone/templates/correction-ladder.md): A postmortem section that checks whether a correction reached the level that failed, or fixed the case and kept the cause.
- [Stop-button spec for an automated decision system](https://thecrumple.zone/templates/stop-button-spec.md): What has to be written down before an automated decision system goes live: who can halt it, on what count, and what happens after.
- [Is this option real?](https://thecrumple.zone/templates/option-test.md): Five tests for an option that exists on paper: an opt-out, an accommodation, an appeal, a choice.
- [Justification review](https://thecrumple.zone/templates/justification-review.md): A checklist for a memo, a policy or a reply that justifies something: accept the fact, check the step.

## Skills

- [Justification linter](https://thecrumple.zone/skills/justification-linter/SKILL.md): Finds the leap in an institutional justification. Use when reviewing a memo, policy, denial letter, reply or argument that justifies a decision: it concedes the stated facts and flags each 'therefore' the facts do not license.
- [Remainder statement](https://thecrumple.zone/skills/remainder-statement/SKILL.md): Drafts a remainder statement for a rule, product spec, policy or automated system: what it leaves out, how much, who reconciles it, who pays, and when the rule itself must be reviewed. Use when writing or reviewing a design doc, PRD, policy or launch plan.

The instruments these come from run on the page at https://thecrumple.zone/instruments.

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