| name | 1on1-prep |
| description | Use when preparing notes for a 1:1 with a report, drafting written feedback, or summarizing a person's recent work/contributions ahead of a conversation or review cycle. |
1:1 Prep & Feedback Drafting
Helps an EM walk into a 1:1 or write feedback prepared — grounded in actual
recent work, not vague impressions. This skill drafts prompts for your own
thinking and conversation, not verdicts about a person.
Steps: prepping for a 1:1
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Pull recent, concrete signal about the person's work (with their knowledge —
this is prep for a conversation with them, not surveillance):
- Recent PRs/commits (
git log --author=...), issues they closed/are
working on (via the connected Jira/Linear MCP), code review comments
they gave or received
- Anything they flagged as a blocker recently (cross-reference
jira-progress-pulse history if available)
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Turn that into talking points, not a performance review:
## 1:1 prep — <name> — <date>
**Recent work worth acknowledging**
- <specific, concrete — "shipped X" not "has been productive">
**Things to ask about**
- <something that looked stuck, ambiguous, or like it might need support —
framed as a question, not a conclusion>
**Career/growth thread to follow up on**
- <whatever's open from the last conversation — don't let this drop>
Steps: drafting written feedback
-
Ask what the feedback is for (review cycle? in-the-moment course
correction? recognition?) — the right tone and specificity depend entirely
on this, and getting it wrong is worse than not drafting at all.
-
Ground every point in a specific, verifiable instance — "in the auth
refactor PR, you caught an edge case the rest of us missed" beats "good
attention to detail." Vague feedback is unfalsifiable and unhelpful.
-
Draft, then explicitly hand it back for the EM to apply their own
judgment about tone, relationship history, and timing — things no amount
of context-gathering substitutes for. This is the clearest case in this
whole toolkit where your domain knowledge — about this specific person,
this relationship, this moment — has to be the final filter.
Notes
- Never draft feedback framed as if it came verbatim from the EM without
review — always present it as a draft to edit, not a final message.
- If you don't have enough concrete signal to ground a point, say so rather
than inventing specifics — generic praise/criticism erodes trust fast.