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name: mosaic-board
description: 'Run a Board of Directors review on a brief or proposal. CEO, CTO, CFO, and COO personas evaluate strategic, technical, financial, and operational viability. Use when you need a go/no-go decision, strategic review, or multi-perspective evaluation of a plan. Triggers on: board review, evaluate this brief, strategic review, go/no-go, board of directors.'
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# Mosaic Board of Directors

Run a multi-persona strategic review of a brief, proposal, or plan. Four executive personas independently evaluate, then a synthesis merges their verdicts into a single recommendation.

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## When to Use

- Evaluating a new feature, product, or architectural decision
- Go/no-go decisions before committing resources
- Strategic review of a PRD or project brief
- Any time you want structured multi-perspective feedback

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## The Board

| Role    | Perspective                     | Key Question                               |
| ------- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| **CEO** | Vision & mission alignment      | "Does this serve the mission?"             |
| **CTO** | Technical feasibility & risk    | "Can we actually build this?"              |
| **CFO** | Cost, ROI, budget impact        | "What does this cost vs return?"           |
| **COO** | Operations, timeline, resources | "What's the timeline and resource impact?" |

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## How It Works

### Step 1: Identify the Brief

The user provides a brief, PRD, proposal, or describes what they want reviewed. If no written document exists, help them articulate the key points:

- What is being proposed?
- What problem does it solve?
- What are the success criteria?
- What are the known constraints?

### Step 2: Run Individual Reviews

For **each board member**, adopt their persona and evaluate the brief independently. Each review must output:

```json
{
  "persona": "CEO|CTO|CFO|COO",
  "verdict": "approve|reject|conditional",
  "confidence": 0.0-1.0,
  "concerns": ["specific concern 1", "specific concern 2"],
  "recommendations": ["actionable recommendation 1"],
  "key_risks": ["identified risk 1"]
}
```

**Rules for each persona:**

- **CEO**: Focus on strategic alignment, market positioning, user value, mission fit. Ask "why should we do this?" not just "can we?"
- **CTO**: Focus on architecture implications, technical debt, integration complexity, security surface. Be realistic about build effort.
- **CFO**: Focus on cost (compute, human time, opportunity cost), ROI timeline, budget impact. Demand numbers or reasonable estimates.
- **COO**: Focus on timeline, team capacity, operational overhead, maintenance burden, deployment complexity.

### Step 3: Synthesize

Merge all four reviews into a board synthesis:

- **Verdict**: `reject` if ANY member rejects. `conditional` if any member is conditional. `approve` only if all approve.
- **Confidence**: Average of all member confidence scores.
- **Concerns**: Deduplicated union of all concerns.
- **Recommendations**: Deduplicated union of all recommendations.
- **Key Risks**: Deduplicated union of all risks.

### Step 4: Present Results

Format the output as a readable Board Decision document:

```markdown
# Board Decision: [Brief Title]

## Verdict: APPROVED / CONDITIONAL / REJECTED

**Confidence: X.XX**

## Individual Reviews

### CEO — [verdict]

- Concerns: ...
- Recommendations: ...

### CTO — [verdict]

- Concerns: ...
- Recommendations: ...

### CFO — [verdict]

- Concerns: ...
- Recommendations: ...

### COO — [verdict]

- Concerns: ...
- Recommendations: ...

## Synthesis

- Combined concerns: ...
- Combined recommendations: ...
- Key risks: ...

## Next Steps

[Based on verdict — what should happen next]
```

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## Standalone vs Full Pipeline

This skill works **standalone** — you don't need the full Mosaic Stack or Forge pipeline. Just invoke `/skill:mosaic-board` with any brief or proposal.

When used within the **Forge pipeline** (`@mosaic/forge`), the board stage is automated with parallel persona tasks and mechanical synthesis via `board-tasks.ts`.

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## Board Persona Files

If detailed persona definitions exist at `~/.config/mosaic/forge/agents/board/`, load them for richer persona context. The personas work without these files — the role descriptions above are sufficient for standalone use.

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## Classification Shortcut

Not every proposal needs a full board review:

- **Strategic** (new features, architecture, integrations, security): Full board review
- **Technical** (refactors, bugfixes, UI tweaks): Skip board — go straight to implementation
- **Hotfix** (urgent patches): Skip board and analysis — just fix it

If the user's request is clearly technical or a hotfix, suggest skipping the board review and proceeding directly.

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## Save Results

Save the board decision to `docs/board-reviews/` or the project's `.forge/` directory:

```
docs/board-reviews/YYYY-MM-DD-brief-name.md
```

This creates an audit trail of strategic decisions.