Activities - Playbook for Playbooks

Activities in Playbook for Playbooks

All activities across workflows in this playbook

Activities 19

Name	Abbrev.	Workflow	Phase	Actions
Identify source type	PIN-1	Prepare for Ingestion	Source Characterization	Read the 'PIN-1 Identify source type' activity from playbook 'Playbook for Playbooks' (workflow 'Prepare for Ingestion'). Follow its guidance when assisting me. Classify the source type AND sub-type: Book: methodology (process-focused), reference (lookup-focused), narrative (story-focused) Scientific paper: methods (new technique), survey (literature review), empirical (measurement study), position (argument/opinion) Personal notes: how-to (procedural), reflective (lessons learned), reference (collected facts) The sub-type drives extraction heuristics downstream: methods papers concentrate process in the Method section; surveys require cross-source synthesis; empirical papers have process in experimental design; books tend to have explicit roles and artifacts; notes embed goals in prose.
Assess structure	PIN-2	Prepare for Ingestion	Source Characterization
Assess explicitness	PIN-3	Prepare for Ingestion	Source Characterization	Read the 'PIN-3 Assess explicitness' activity from playbook 'Playbook for Playbooks' (workflow 'Prepare for Ingestion'). Follow its guidance when assisting me. Identify what is explicit (named roles, defined steps, listed outputs) vs. implicit (assumed knowledge, undocumented actors, unstated constraints). Capture findings in an "Implicit Items" section at the top of the Extraction Worksheet: - What roles/agents are assumed but unnamed? - What prerequisite knowledge or tools are assumed? - What constraints are implied but not stated? These flags prime the EKN extraction steps — implicit items need active inference, not just transcription. Without this record they evaporate between PIN and EKN.
Segment source	PIN-4	Prepare for Ingestion	Source Characterization
Extract goals	EEN-1	Extract Knowledge	Semantic Extraction
Extract activities	EEN-2	Extract Knowledge	Semantic Extraction
Extract agents	EEN-3	Extract Knowledge	Semantic Extraction	Read the 'EEN-3 Extract agents' activity from playbook 'Playbook for Playbooks' (workflow 'Extract Knowledge'). Follow its guidance when assisting me. Identify all roles, actors, and responsible parties. Where roles are implicit, use source-type heuristics: - Book/notes: define at minimum the practitioner role (the person following the playbook) - Scientific paper: roles are almost always implicit — infer from who would implement the method (e.g. ML Engineer, Data Engineer, Researcher). Only add agents if they meaningfully differentiate who does what. If all activities would have the same agent, consider omitting agents entirely — undifferentiated agents add no value and create noise.
Extract skills	EEN-4	Extract Knowledge	Semantic Extraction
Extract artifacts	EEN-5	Extract Knowledge	Semantic Extraction
Extract rules	EEN-6	Extract Knowledge	Semantic Extraction
Review worksheet	EEN-7	Extract Knowledge	Semantic Extraction	Read the 'EEN-7 Review worksheet' activity from playbook 'Playbook for Playbooks' (workflow 'Extract Knowledge'). Follow its guidance when assisting me. Human reviews the full Extraction Worksheet. Resolve ambiguities, fill gaps, and validate that nothing significant was missed. Every item must include a source reference (chapter, section, page, bullet). Produce the final Extraction Worksheet artifact.
Map goals to hierarchy	AAP-1	Assemble Playbook	Ontology Assembly
Group activities into workflows	AAP-2	Assemble Playbook	Ontology Assembly	Read the 'AAP-2 Group activities into workflows' activity from playbook 'Playbook for Playbooks' (workflow 'Assemble Playbook'). Follow its guidance when assisting me. Cluster activities into coherent sequences that share a defined output. Assign each workflow a name, 3-letter abbreviation, and description. Grouping heuristics: - Pipeline stage: what triggers the next group? (data prep → model → evaluation is a natural boundary) - Shared artifact: activities that produce and consume the same intermediate artifact belong together - Role boundary: if a different skill or team takes over, that is often a workflow boundary - Size check: prefer 3–7 activities per workflow — fewer suggests over-splitting; more suggests under-splitting
Group workflows into phases	AAP-3	Assemble Playbook	Ontology Assembly
Wire predecessors	AAP-4	Assemble Playbook	Ontology Assembly
Link agents, skills, artifacts, rules	AAP-5	Assemble Playbook	Ontology Assembly
Validate coverage	AAP-6	Assemble Playbook	Ontology Assembly
Create in Mimir	AAP-7	Assemble Playbook	Ontology Assembly	Read the 'AAP-7 Create in Mimir' activity from playbook 'Playbook for Playbooks' (workflow 'Assemble Playbook'). Follow its guidance when assisting me. Build the playbook in Mimir using the MCP tools. Create phases first, then workflows, then activities in order. Wire all links: agents, skills, artifacts, rules, and predecessors. Verify the final structure matches the validated worksheet. This is not the release gate — next is Run intern test.
Run intern test	AAP-8	Assemble Playbook	Ontology Assembly	Read the 'AAP-8 Run intern test' activity from playbook 'Playbook for Playbooks' (workflow 'Assemble Playbook'). Follow its guidance when assisting me. Hand the assembled Mimir playbook to a capable intern or coding agent who has never seen this domain. Give them one activity at a time: name, guidance, and that activity's linked skills, artifacts, rules, and agent. No briefing, no extra files, no Extraction Worksheet. They must answer: from this packet alone, can I tell what needs to be done, or at least find pointers to the pieces I need to put together? Sample at least one activity per workflow, including the hardest assembly step — not only the easy ones. Record pass/fail and the intern's exact stuck-point in Intern Test Report. Pass: they can start without asking what the playbook is about, where inputs live, or which other work they must invent. Fail: they need tribal knowledge. Fix the activity (guidance and links), then re-test that activity. Do not release until the sample passes.