Run of Show
Facilitator-facing agenda for the two-hour hack.
| Time | Segment | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00–0:05 | Welcome | Frame the day: AI is competent in general, weak in the last mile. Today, teams build that last mile. |
| 0:05–0:10 | Pick path | Participants choose Path A, their own twin, or Path B, Marcus Webb's synthetic persona pack. Reinforce privacy. |
| 0:10–0:15 | Seal your answers | Everyone answers the forced-choice dilemmas and sets them aside. These are for the final reveal, not scoring. |
| 0:15–0:30 | Bootstrap v0.1 | Use the Twin Forge skill, a downloadable Cowork skill that interviews the participant and emits soul.md v0.1. Marcus Webb teams use the persona pack. |
| 0:30–0:40 | Attack surface 1: compress | Teams tighten soul.md: priority stack, decision rules, stakeholder table, boundaries, capacity, blind spots. Shorter is usually better. |
| 0:40–0:50 | Attack surface 2: voice | Add 5–10 real sent emails, or Marcus samples. Extract the style rules those samples imply. Do not just describe the voice. |
| 0:50–1:05 | Attack surface 3: judgment | Test the twin on work dilemmas. Patch decision rules from observed behavior, not stated values. |
| ~0:55 | Mid-build constraint | Inject a new constraint: an exec ask collides with a peer promise. This is not a new objective. It is pressure on the existing twin. |
| 1:05–1:20 | Hardening pass | Look for instruction interference. One patch can silently break another behavior. Re-test the same prompts after each meaningful edit. |
| 1:20–1:40 | Port or integrate | Base teams port the skill across Cowork, VS Code Copilot, or GitHub Copilot CLI. Advanced teams integrate the council agents against one shared soul.md. |
| 1:40–1:50 | Demos | Short demos: show the prompt, the first miss, the patch, and the improved behavior. |
| 1:50–2:00 | Reveal + close | Twins answer the sealed dilemmas cold. Participants compare, correct the spec, and leave with next steps. |
Timing rails
By 0:30, every team needs a v0.1 twin. By 0:50, they need a first working draft. By 1:20, they should stop expanding and start porting or integrating.
Facilitator note
The twist around the 55-minute mark is a new constraint, not a new objective. Say: "Your exec needs a response today, but you already promised a peer a review by end of day. What does your twin do?" Watch which rule fires.