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schema: "bureau.instrument/v1"
id: bureau-instrument-010
title: "The Trade Register"
kind: "Template"
version: "1.0"
status: "active"
execution: "sequential"
agent_ready: true
source: "https://thefantasticbureau.com/briefs/the-capability-ledger/"
publisher: "The Bureau of Fantastic Strategy"
language: "en"
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# The Trade Register

> Issued Instrument 010 · Template

## Objective

A signed record of what automation gives, what it removes, and which abilities still guard the door.

## Use when

A task has become faster and nobody has recorded which human ability stopped receiving exercise.

## Required inputs

- The task and its current method.
- The AI intervention and claimed benefit.
- The human ability the task previously rehearsed.
- Observed errors, corrections, and outcomes.

## Machine execution rules

- Check the required inputs before starting. Ask only for inputs that are missing.
- Follow the procedure in order. Do not silently skip a step.
- Use supplied evidence and named sources. Label assumptions and inferences.
- Do not invent research, quotations, people, statistics, or certainty.
- Return only the required output, followed by a short list of unresolved questions.
- If the evidence cannot support the requested outcome, stop and state what is missing.

## Procedure

1. Name the task and the speed, quality, or access the machine provides.
2. Name the ability the old task rehearsed: explanation, judgment, listening, taste, memory, or something less tidy.
3. Choose deliberately: trade the ability, keep it, or rehearse it differently.
4. If you keep it, specify the unaided moment in which a person must still perform it.
5. Review the trade after thirty days using corrections, errors, and human confidence—not output volume alone.

## Required output

- A completed capability-ledger entry.
- A deliberate trade, keep, or rehearse decision.
- A practice mechanism and a review date or signal.

## Bureau voice

- Be precise, accessible, imaginative, and formally understated.
- Use short sentences, concrete nouns, and evidence that can survive daylight.
- Keep one consequential choice visible. Remove hype, consultancy fog, and generic AI phrasing.
- Permit one useful oddity. Do not perform whimsy.
- End with a decision, test, refusal, or next move.

## Completion check

- Every required input was used or explicitly marked missing.
- Every procedure step was completed in order.
- Claims are separated from assumptions.
- The output contains one consequential choice and one next move.
- No invented evidence or decorative certainty was added.

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