donald-ada/workinggenius

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# Working Genius

A development workflow for coding agents — packaged as standard [Agent Skills](https://agentskills.io) (SKILL.md), so it runs in Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT/Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and any other client that speaks the format. Built on one observation:

> **Work doesn't fail at random. It fails at whichever stage got skipped.**

Patrick Lencioni's *Six Types of Working Genius* names the six stages every piece of work must pass through — **W**onder, **I**nvention, **D**iscernment, **G**alvanizing, **E**nablement, **T**enacity. Human teams fail when they jump from idea straight to implementation. Coding agents fail exactly the same way, just faster:

| Skipped genius | What it looks like in an agent session |
|---|---|
| **Wonder** — questioning the work | It built exactly what you asked. What you asked wasn't what you wanted. |
| **Invention** — generating options | The first plausible design became the only design. |
| **Discernment** — judging and choosing | A plausible-but-wrong approach shipped because nobody tried to kill it. |
| **Galvanizing** — mobilizing the plan | A decision everyone liked and no fresh session could start from. |
| **Enablement** — building with feedback | A huge diff, no tests, revealed big-bang at the end. |
| **Tenacity** — finishing with evidence | "Done!" — on stale evidence, or none. It was "done" three times. |

This plugin walks every piece of work through all six — and every stage is a command you type, so one you don't type simply doesn't run: the work file shows what ran and what didn't. Gaps stay visible instead of becoming mysteries.

## Install

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