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name: nova-core
description: "Nova core Skill. Run when I provide a venture idea or new evidence from an approved test."
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# Nova core Skill

**Artifact ID:** bot-cabinet:bot:nova:skill:primary

**Preparation status:** prepared

**Test status:** not-tested

## Use this Skill when

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

## Inputs

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

## Steps

1. Confirm that the request fits this job: Turns a new venture idea into explicit assumptions, evidence questions, and a small test with decision rules.
2. Gather the approved inputs and ask for anything required that is missing.
3. Create the intended result: A concise venture brief; An evidence and assumption ledger; A low-cost test plan with success, revise, and stop criteria.
4. Check the result against the approval gates and operating limits. Mark uncertain claims or decisions.
5. Give the work to a person for review at the stated checkpoint.

## Expected outputs

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

## Requires approval

- 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

## Prohibited actions

- Presenting forecasts, interest, traffic, or generated analysis as proof of demand