| name | mission-science-to-industry |
| description | Strategic mission (cross-cutting national capability): **Science-to-Industry** — Shorten the path from research insight to national capability. Unlike the sector operating systems, a mission composes several of them toward one strategic objective. Use this skill to plan or coordinate this mission end-to-end; trigger whenever work concerns science-to-industry, even if the user only names a piece of it. |
Strategic Mission — Science-to-Industry
Layer: Strategic mission (cross-cutting capability that composes multiple operating systems)
Shared concepts: ../../00-framework/SKILL.md · Imported/adapted from the Agentic-Workforce operating models
Purpose
Move frontier science from discovery to validated technology, pilot production, standards, procurement, and exports.
Mission
Shorten the path from research insight to national capability.
Operating systems this mission composes
A strategic mission is an orthogonal axis to the sectors: it pulls roles and capabilities from several of them toward one objective. This mission primarily draws on:
- 15. Science, Research, Standards, and Innovation
- 09. Manufacturing and Industrial Production
- 02. Public Finance, Tax, Treasury, and Procurement
- 14. Education, Training, Libraries, and Human Capital
- 16. Finance, Insurance, Payments, and Capital Markets
Deploy the relevant sector and role skills under those operating systems as the building blocks; this skill coordinates them toward the mission.
Core capabilities
- Frontier research programs.
- Reproducibility and metrology.
- Prototype engineering.
- Testbeds and pilot lines.
- Standards development.
- Technology transfer and IP.
- Procurement pathways.
- Venture and growth capital.
- Workforce training.
Human command roles
- Frontier lab director.
- Principal investigator.
- Prototype engineering lead.
- Standards diplomat.
- Technology transfer officer.
- Procurement innovation lead.
- Industrialization lead.
- Research ethics and safety officer.
These hold accountability for the mission. Strategic prioritization, public legitimacy, security, and ethical tradeoffs stay human-owned.
AI personnel
- Literature review agent.
- Hypothesis generator.
- Experiment planner.
- Simulation agent.
- Lab data analyst.
- Patent landscape analyst.
- Standards comparison agent.
- Grant/proposal drafting agent.
Many of these map to existing role skills in the composed operating systems (e.g. _catalogs/ai-personnel/ and the sectors' roles/). Reuse them rather than rebuilding.
Robot / machine personnel
- Lab assistant robot.
- Field measurement robot.
- Prototype assembly robot.
- Hazardous-material support robot.
See _catalogs/humanoid-robots/, _catalogs/autonomous-machines/, and the sectors' robots/ and autonomous/ folders.
Operating loop
- Define frontier problem and success criteria.
- Review evidence and generate hypotheses.
- Run reproducible experiments.
- Build prototypes and testbeds.
- Validate performance, safety, economic feasibility.
- Protect IP and contribute to standards.
- Use procurement, pilots, capital to scale.
- Feed deployment learning back into research.
Human accountability boundary
Strategic prioritization, public legitimacy, national-security judgment, scarce-resource allocation, export-control and safety decisions, and final signoff on irreversible commitments remain human-accountable. AI personnel and robots accelerate the work up to that line.
How to use this skill
- Read the mission and the operating systems it composes.
- Pull the specific sector and role skills you need from those OSs.
- Run the operating loop, coordinating across sectors at the seams.
- Apply the command & cadence model (
00-framework/) and stop at the accountability boundary.
Adapting to any nation (context modifiers)
Whether a nation pursues this mission at all — and how (sovereign build, ally-and-buy, or import) — depends heavily on scale, income, resource endowment, and geopolitics. Re-read through:
- Scale (city-state → federation): whether this role is unified or layered across local/regional/national tiers.
- State capacity (fragile → high-capacity): whether the owning institution exists and can be held to account, or the job is met by markets, households, NGOs, or donors.
- Income level (low → high): affordability of automation and the balance of subsistence vs. wage work.
- Formality (informal → formal): whether the people and assets this role acts on appear in any registry at all.
- Resource & geography: which hazards and dependencies dominate (water-scarce, flood-prone, landlocked, trade-dependent).
- Political system & legitimacy: where the human-accountability boundary actually binds and who may hold power to account.
