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Give your Founder OS hands - let it DO things, not just answer. Trigger on "add hands", "let it do things", "give it hands", "let it take actions", or "set up actions". The default ships only SAFE, reversible, local actions (open a file, folder, app, or link; save a note to your log) that run with no confirmation.…
Give your Founder OS a mouth - have it read an answer out loud or render it to an audio file, from any skill, without the full conversational voice loop. Trigger on "add a mouth", "add mouth", "read this out loud", "let it speak", "give it a voice out", or "set up text-to-speech". The default holds the accessibility…
Give your Founder OS a voice - talk to it out loud and hear it answer. Trigger on "add voice", "let me talk to my OS", "voice mode", "talk to it out loud", or "set up voice mode". This is SPEAKING and LISTENING; if they mean how their WRITING sounds, that is voice-interview, not this. Installs the Tier-0 loop by…
Check whether an action needs approval before doing it. Say "do I need approval for this" or "should I ask first". Triggers when you are about to send, publish, pay, sign, delete, or push something public. Reads rules/approval-gates.md and classifies the action as auto-runnable, ask-first, or refused. Other skills…
Audit the OS in one composite report. Say "audit the OS", "check OS health", "full audit", or "is the OS healthy" (or run /founder-os:audit). Runs readiness, lint, wiki graph state, brain staleness, and voice completeness together. Read-only.
Back up the founder's OS to a destination they choose, on command only. Trigger on "back this up", "back up my OS", "set up a backup", "push this somewhere safe", "mirror this offsite", or any plain request to keep an offsite copy. Destination-agnostic: GitHub is the recommended default for long-term durability, but…
Pressure-test a draft for blind spots before pre-send review. Say "find blind spots", "what am I missing", or "review for risk". Runs nine fixed review categories covering evidence, risk, timing, relationships, data, upside, and walkaway planning. Read-only.
Find the real bottleneck in the business. Say "what's blocking me", "why does everything route through me", "can the business run without me", or "where am I the bottleneck". Scores founder dependency across five practical dimensions and names the highest-impact thing to shed.
Capture a thought, flag, or decision into the brain system. Trigger on "capture this", "log this", "flag this", "park this decision", "note this", "remember this", "save this thought", "brain dump", "I had an idea", "something to track", or any variation. Also fires on user-vocabulary equivalents: "journal entry"…