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Skills
Scaffolded curricula, anchored to your real work. Each path reads → practices → checks → reflects, with a real artefact at every step. The path is doing its job when your work this month is better than last month.
Skills are not reading lists. They are the corpus's pedagogy — read a phase part, hold a session, write an artefact, run a check, retro on your own output, teach back to a junior. Pick a path that matches your role and level. Bring a real story from your sprint.
CS Lead foundations
Six weeks. From sitting on L1 for a day to signing your first handoff and voice-of-customer note.
Designer foundations
Six weeks. From sitting next to a person to defending a flow's empty state.
Developer foundations
Six weeks. From sketching a story to watching your code in production.
Leadership foundations
One quarter. From reading the canon to signing a portfolio review with a kill in it.
On-call foundations
Six weeks. From shadowing a shift to driving your first postmortem to a chain-level fix.
PO foundations
QA foundations
Six weeks. From sitting silent at amigos to signing your first safe-to-ship paragraph.
Tech Lead foundations
Six weeks. From reading the canon to driving your first postmortem chain-level fix.
How a path works
| Step shape | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Read | Cycle canon or Practice page |
| Worked example | A real artefact from the corpus, annotated |
| Practice prompt | Apply to your current work — bring a real story |
| Mini-check | 3–5 questions, including a negative case |
| Pair task | With a more senior role; explicit handoff |
| Retro on own work | Use the corpus's own checklists on yourself |
| Teach-back | Write a one-pager for a junior — the Feynman gate |
| Authoring contribution | PR a refinement to the corpus |
Each step belongs to one of these shapes. A path that doesn't reach retro on own work and teach-back by the end has not finished — these are the two steps that compound.
Levels
| Level | Duration | What it produces |
|---|---|---|
| Foundational | 6 weeks (12 for leadership) | One full cycle's artefacts: brief, check, model update |
| Practitioner (coming) | 1 quarter | Two or three cycles, mentoring, cross-role craft |
| Advanced (coming) | 2+ quarters | Studio-level contribution to the role's craft |
Looking for your role hub?
The Teams section has each role's stance, first-30-days track, and anti-symptom catalogue. Pair it with the foundations path above.