| name | what-to-change |
| description | The flagship "what should I change in my business now" routine. Trigger on "what should I change", "what to change in my business", "what's the most important thing to fix", "monthly review", "where should I focus this month", or "what needs to change now". Returns exactly three ranked changes, each gated on a dated citation you can open, in a plain-language urgent/important matrix. It reads only from a deterministic candidate gatherer that excludes parked, paused, and resolved items, so it never manufactures urgency from a stale or already-decided item. If fewer than three changes have real dated signal, it says so rather than padding. Closes by proposing one concrete skill improvement for you to approve, never auto-editing.
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| why | An OS that sits unused is dead weight. This is the routine that earns its keep: it checks the real dated signal in your brain layer and tells you the three things worth changing now, with the receipts. The hard part is honesty - the documented failure is false urgency, so the candidate gate and parked filter are mechanical, not a promise. |
| enhance | Run it monthly, or whenever you feel busy but unsure what matters. The more honestly your flags and log carry dates and parked markers, the sharper the three changes get. |
| allowed-tools | ["Bash","Read"] |
| mcp_requirements | [] |
What to change
Runs on: local-exec - runs the candidate gatherer script and reads its output; on a surface that cannot run a script, read the brain files directly and apply the same parked/dated rules by hand, and say you did.
The routine that tells the founder the three things worth changing in their business right now, each backed by a dated source they can open. It exists to beat the one failure that kills this kind of routine: false urgency from a parked or already-handled item.
Pre-flight
- If
core/identity.md does not exist, stop with: Founder OS not set up here. Run /founder-os:setup first.
- If
scripts/what-to-change.py does not exist, stop with: Routine helper not found. Run /founder-os:update to install it.
Procedure
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Gather candidates (mechanical). Run python scripts/what-to-change.py gather. This returns JSON: as_of, within_days, parked_excluded, count, and signals. Each signal carries source, anchor, date, age_days, kind, and title.
- The gatherer has ALREADY excluded parked, paused, and resolved flags and anything named in
brain/decisions-parked.md. Do NOT add candidates from your own reading of the brain files. The gatherer's signal list is the ONLY candidate pool. This is the guard against false urgency - respect it.
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Honesty gates on the count.
count == 0: say plainly "No change has real dated signal in the last within_days days. Nothing to surface this period." Then stop. Do not invent work.count < 3: present only what qualifies, and say so in literal words, for example "Only two changes have real signal this period; here they are." Do NOT pad to three.count >= 3: pick the three highest-signal changes (most recent, decay-passed, or highest flag severity).
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Verify each citation resolves. For each change you surface, build its citation [source: <source>#<anchor>] from the signal and confirm it with python scripts/what-to-change.py resolve <source>#<anchor>. If a citation does not resolve, drop that change - never surface an unresolvable source.
