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Write a team's working agreements — the small set of explicit norms (communication, meetings, decisions, conflict) that replace the assumptions people were silently violating, built from the team's actual frictions and revisited on a cadence. Use when asked create team working agreements, set norms for our new team, we keep clashing over how we work, or onboard people into how this team operates. Produces the friction-derived agreement set, the specific-behavior phrasing, the disagreement protocol, and the review cadence.

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# Working Agreements Skill

Teams run on invisible rules — response-time expectations, camera norms, how decisions happen, whether 6pm messages demand answers — and every clash between two people's invisible rules gets misread as a character flaw ("he's unresponsive," "she's pushy"). Working agreements make the rules visible: a *small* set (6–10, not a constitution), derived from the team's actual frictions (not copied from a blog), phrased as observable behaviors ("we respond to non-urgent messages within one working day" — checkable) rather than values ("we communicate respectfully" — vibes), and revisited quarterly, because teams change and dead agreements poison live ones.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The agreement set** — 6–10 norms across the friction zones: communication, meetings, decisions, availability, conflict
- **The friction derivation** — each agreement traces to a real clash it resolves (the trace is what makes it stick)
- **The disagreement protocol** — the one agreement every set needs: how we disagree, escalate, and commit
- **The living rules** — where the set lives, how newcomers meet it, and the quarterly revisit

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