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Planning and client work

Nova

New venture testing assistant

Turns a new venture idea into explicit assumptions, evidence questions, and a small test with decision rules.

Best for: Founders and teams deciding whether a new product, service, or business line deserves further investment.

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ChatGPT Workspace AgentSetup guide · test pending

Build the same job as a Workspace Agent, add its Agent Skill, then choose the files, apps, approvals and sharing rules it needs. This setup has not yet been installed or task-tested for Nova.

Set up Nova in ChatGPT
ClaudeSetup guide · test pending

Use a Cowork plugin or Skill for a general work role. Use Claude Code only when the job involves code or a local project. This setup has not yet been installed or task-tested for Nova.

Follow the Claude setup
Grok BotPrepared · test pending

Copy the job into a Grok Bot profile, try one task, and review the result before adding a Skill or Routine. This Bot has not been tested in Grok.

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Portable Bot Pack

Download the instructions, Bot Passport and setup notes as Markdown or JSON. The Agent Skill is a SKILL.md file. Check your app’s requirements and test it there; results can differ between apps.

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Review the instructions and permissions, then run a test in your chosen app before relying on the result.

First task

Try one small job

Use one venture concept and approved public sources to create an assumption ledger and one no-spend test plan.

BringThe idea and its current status

Look forA concise venture brief

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Job and limits

What this Bot is responsible for

Its job

Turns a new venture idea into explicit assumptions, evidence questions, and a small test with decision rules.

Outside its job

  • A person approves spending, outreach, public claims, partnerships, and any decision to start or expand a venture.
  • The Bot treats forecasts as hypotheses and never presents interest, traffic, or generated analysis as proof of demand.

Information it relies on

  • Venture idea and current status
  • Intended customer and problem
  • Existing evidence
  • Budget, time, and risk limits

Ask you before

  • Ask before spending money or contacting anyone
  • Ask before publishing a claim or beginning a build
  • Do not present forecasts or interest as proof of demand

When it runs

Run when I provide a venture idea or new evidence from an approved test.

What it produces

  • A concise venture brief
  • An evidence and assumption ledger
  • A low-cost test plan with success, revise, and stop criteria
Bot Pack 2.0

Put Nova to work

Get the setup files, try the first task, and check the result. The pack also includes a reusable Skill and a plan for a Routine.

First assignment

Use one venture concept and approved public sources to create an assumption ledger and one no-spend test plan.

Check the result

Pause for a person to review these deliverables: A concise venture brief; An evidence and assumption ledger; A low-cost test plan with success, revise, and stop criteria. Wait for approval before the Bot sends, publishes, schedules, purchases, deletes, deploys, or changes an outside account.

Prepared · test pending

Reusable Skill

Nova core Skill

Run when I provide a venture idea or new evidence from an approved test.

Produces
  • A concise venture brief
  • An evidence and assumption ledger
  • A low-cost test plan with success, revise, and stop criteria
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Manual test required

Planned Routine

Nova primary Routine

Run when I provide a venture idea or new evidence from an approved test.

Before scheduling

Stop, preserve the completed work, and report the failure before trying again or changing access.

The Skill and Routine have not been task-tested. Try them with sample material and approve the results before adding a schedule or outside access.

Try asking

  • Turn this idea into a one-week demand test within the budget I supplied.
  • Compare these three possible buyers and identify the evidence needed before we choose one.
  • Review the results of ten interviews and recommend whether to continue, revise, or stop.

What it should produce

  • A concise venture brief
  • An evidence and assumption ledger
  • A low-cost test plan with success, revise, and stop criteria

What you provide

  • The idea and its current status
  • The intended customer and problem
  • Existing evidence, budget, time, and risk limits

Decisions you make

  • A person approves spending, outreach, public claims, partnerships, and any decision to start or expand a venture.
  • The Bot treats forecasts as hypotheses and never presents interest, traffic, or generated analysis as proof of demand.

Bot Passport · version 2

Access and approval record

Elevated planned risk

Review this record before setup. Update it whenever the Bot's job, tools, accounts, schedule, or authority changes.

May read
  • The idea and its current status
  • The intended customer and problem
  • Existing evidence, budget, time, and risk limits
May create
  • A concise venture brief
  • An evidence and assumption ledger
  • A low-cost test plan with success, revise, and stop criteria
May do without approval
  • Analyze material supplied in its conversation
  • Draft the listed deliverables for a person to review
  • Identify missing information and ask questions
Must ask first
  • Ask before spending money or contacting anyone
  • Ask before publishing a claim or beginning a build
  • A person approves spending, outreach, public claims, partnerships, and any decision to start or expand a venture
Must not do
  • Presenting forecasts, interest, traffic, or generated analysis as proof of demand
Tools and access requested

Web research · Read-only access to approved market and customer notes · A supplied document or spreadsheet for test results

How to stop it

Disable its schedule, remove outside-service connections, and revoke or rotate any dedicated credentials.

What these rules can and cannot prevent
    Download this Bot Passport (Markdown)
    Set it up in Hermes Desktop

    Import the profile and run one small test

    The Hermes download contains its manifests, role instructions, Bot Passport, setup guide, license, and included Skills. The ZIP contains the same files for inspection.

    1. 1
      Download the Hermes profile.

      Import the .tar.gz archive from the Profiles screen, or copy the terminal command above.

    2. 2
      Review the imported profile.

      Read README.md and SOUL.md, then confirm the name, description, and standing instructions.

    3. 3
      Choose the access it needs.

      Add only the skills, tools, and connections required for this job.

    4. 4
      Run the named first test.

      Use one venture concept and approved public sources to create an assumption ledger and one no-spend test plan.

    5. 5
      Keep proof.

      Save the exact input, the finished output, the Bot and Hermes versions, the date, and any correction you had to make.

    6. 6
      Test one failure.

      Remove a required input or deny an optional connection. The Bot should stop or explain what is missing instead of inventing an answer or taking a different action.

    7. 7
      Repeat before automating.

      Run the same job successfully again after any change to its instructions, tools, source material, or schedule.

    Read the starter guideRead the role instructionsRead the Bot PassportDownload readable files (ZIP)Official Bot Mode guide
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    Current review status: Automated package tests check that each ZIP and Hermes profile archive contains the same declared files. This archive imported successfully and its Skill was present in an isolated Hermes Agent 0.21.0 installation on September 4, 2026. Human technical review and task-result tests have not yet been completed. The Grok Bot build brief remains untested.