# Robot Assistant Field Guide Build Log

## Video 3 — CLAUDE.md
**Date:** 2026-02-23
**Name:** Connor
**Role:** Solutions engineer at a physical security company
**Key preferences:**
- Address by first name
- Keep responses concise unless detail is asked for
- Casual and direct with Connor; polite and consultative with outside parties
- Never use the word "delve"
- Always ask before making changes to existing files
- Never use em-dashes in writing; use commas or colons instead
**Files created:** CLAUDE.md (now AGENTS.md)

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## Video 5 — Skill Index
**Date:** 2026-04-02
**Index state:** All current skills documented (drafts-inbox, daily-briefing, shutdown-routine, weekly-review, file-organizer, robot-assistant-assembler, skill-creator, pro-dev-justification)
**Routing preference:** Always check index before starting any task
**Planned future skills:** None reserved at this time
**Files updated:** skills/_skill-index.md (confirmed current), AGENTS.md (already had always-check instruction)

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## Skill: update-skill-index
**Date:** 2026-04-02
**Skill:** update-skill-index
**Purpose:** Keeps `_skill-index.md` accurate by reconciling it against skills on disk. Adds missing entries, garbage-collects orphaned entries, refreshes stale triggers. Built via skill-creator with 3 evals (add, garbage-collect, no-op). With-skill pass rate: 100%; baseline: 83%. Key differentiator: skill enforces a proposed-diff step before writing.
**Triggers:** "update the skill index," "sync the skill index," "refresh the skill index," "clean up the skill index," "garbage collect the index"
**Files created:** skills/update-skill-index/SKILL.md

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## Video 4 — First Skill
**Date:** 2026-04-02
**Skill:** pro-dev-justification
**Purpose:** Writes a single-paragraph business justification for professional development expenses; audience is Connor's manager and HR
**Triggers:** "pro dev expense", "professional development expense", "write a business case for a pro dev expense", "write a justification for a pro dev expense", "professional development business case"
**Files created:** skills/pro-dev-justification/SKILL.md

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