Resources
Useful things to build with.
Start with the current Standard and a real workflow. Use the templates as a convenience, the examples as evidence, and the older library for deeper reference.
Download the free starter pack ↧Editable templates
A small starting kit. Adapt it to your work.
Context brief, source register, memory and decision record, capture-to-commitment review, action matrix, workflow card, and operating review with recovery checks. Readable Markdown files; no special app required.
There is no required file count. Keep the information in your existing systems when that works better. A filled template is not a passed operating test.
AI Operating Starter Pack
Seven editable template groupings, instructions, and an evidence record.
ZIP download ↧The complete free build path
Practical instructions, AI-assisted setup, paired examples, tests, and maintenance for every capability.
Read the Standard ↗AI Operating Score
Twenty checks of the capability you currently use, with concrete next steps.
Check your setup ↗Implementation examples
See what these foundations support.
Preserved reference library
The useful work behind the Standard.
Groundwork is the earlier body of guides, templates, and technical education. These links open that original library.
Historical editions
Older pages and PDFs retain Groundwork branding and their original six-layer or document-count framing. The current Standard governs the build sequence, source handling, permissions, and definitions of done. These references have not been rewritten as the current program.
Your first 30 minutes
A concrete first brief and a small starting routine.
Legacy reference ↗Context and identity templates
Identity, voice and priorities templates for a usable context brief.
Legacy reference ↗Source authority and knowledge templates
Source classification, inventory and vault structure.
Legacy reference ↗Permissions and approval templates
Auto Execute, Draft & Wait, Never Automate and escalation examples.
Legacy reference ↗A bounded AI operator
Scope, context packet, staged autonomy and a trial of real work.
Legacy reference ↗Memory and continuity templates
Durable notes, continuity and succession practices.
Legacy reference ↗Operating reviews and corrections
Measurement notes, review cadence and the miss/trace/edit/retest loop.
Legacy reference ↗The history of source authority
Historical research connecting evidence classification to the Admiralty Code.
Legacy reference ↗An operator dashboard example
Decision-oriented interface patterns and clearly captioned synthetic console exhibits.
Legacy reference ↗Groundwork Field Guide — legacy edition
Thirty-page legacy reference containing the original templates and operating practices.
Legacy reference ↗Groundwork curriculum overview
Orientation to the optional five-level technical learning path.
Legacy reference ↗Read the existing curriculum
The preserved 122-page on-site Reader.
Legacy reference ↗