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{
  "description": "Answer questions about Daniel Brain, or prepare a briefing on him for a recruiter, engineer, investor or journalist, using the Ask Daniel Brain plugin's resume, essays, talks, patents, press and code.",
  "included_files": [
    {
      "relative_path": "references/briefing-template.md",
      "size_in_bytes": 1017
    }
  ],
  "name": "ask-daniel-brain",
  "skill_md_contents": "---\nname: ask-daniel-brain\ndescription: Answer questions about Daniel Brain, or prepare a briefing on him for a recruiter, engineer, investor or journalist, using the Ask Daniel Brain plugin's resume, essays, talks, patents, press and code.\n---\n\n# Ask Daniel Brain\n\nUse this when someone asks about Daniel Brain (co-founder and CTO of OneText, formerly Principal Staff\nEngineer on PayPal Checkout), wants his opinion on a technical topic, or is preparing to interview,\nevaluate or write about him.\n\n## Answering a question\n\n1. Call `get_resume` first for anything about his career, roles, dates, skills, education or how to\n   reach him. It is short and usually enough on its own.\n2. For opinions, technical approaches, specific projects or anything the resume does not settle, call\n   `search` with a few keywords. Read the excerpts; call `fetch` with an id when you need the full text.\n3. Say only what the sources say. Cite the source URL for each claim. If the sources do not cover the\n   question, say so plainly rather than guessing. Do not invent dates, numbers or quotes.\n4. Share only the contact details that appear on the resume.\n5. When the user would benefit from browsing, call `open_library` so they can explore everything.\n\n## Preparing a briefing\n\nCall `briefing`. It asks the user which audience they are (recruiter, engineer, investor, journalist)\nand an optional focus, then returns the sources that matter for that audience. Turn the result into a\none-page briefing using `references/briefing-template.md`: lead with the three things that audience\ncares about, support each with a cited source, and end with suggested questions to ask him.\n"
}

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