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Turn a document the team keeps rewriting into a template that actually helps — extract the recurring skeleton, mark what varies with real placeholder prompts, keep it lighter than the ceremony it replaces, and pilot it before decreeing it. Use when asked make a template from this doc, we write this same thing every week, standardize our status updates or briefs, or why does nobody use our templates. Produces the extracted template with prompting placeholders, the keep-it-light rules, the example-filled twin, and the adoption path.

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# Template Designer Skill

Templates fail in two familiar ways: the empty-headings ghost (`## Background` — helpfully blank) that guides nobody, and the forty-field bureaucratic form that takes longer than freeform writing did. A working template is extracted from documents the team *already writes repeatedly*, keeps only the sections that recur with purpose, and — the difference-maker — its placeholders are *prompts* ("One sentence: what changed since last update, and does the date still hold?") rather than labels ("Update:"). It ships with a filled example, because the example teaches what the skeleton can't.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The template** — the recurring skeleton with prompting placeholders, each section justified by recurrence
- **The filled twin** — a realistic example completed end-to-end; templates travel in pairs or don't travel
- **The light-ness audit** — what was deliberately left out, and the freeform escape-hatch section
- **The adoption path** — pilot with the next real instance, revise from friction, then propose as default (not decree)

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