role-switch SKILL.md skillA

role-switch from the-utopia-studio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add the-utopia-studio/skills/role-switch@git:20260806.73fec06

Pins git:20260806.73fec06 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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SKILL.md skill
Repository
the-utopia-studio/skills
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plugins/utopia-founder-productivity/skills/role-switch/SKILL.md
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License
Apache-2.0

Analyzes decisions from multiple stakeholder perspectives (engineering, product, legal, finance, users) to uncover blind spots, surface tensions, and synthesize alignment paths with explicit tradeoffs. Use when stakeholders have conflicting priorities, need to pressure-test proposals, build cross-functional empathy, or when user mentions "what would X think", "stakeholder alignment", "see from their perspective", "blind spots", or "conflicting interests".

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Role Switch

## Table of Contents
1. [Workflow](#workflow)
2. [Role Selection Patterns](#role-selection-patterns)
3. [Synthesis Principles](#synthesis-principles)
4. [Common Patterns](#common-patterns)
5. [Guardrails](#guardrails)
6. [Quick Reference](#quick-reference)

## Workflow

Copy this checklist and track your progress:

```
Role Switch Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Frame the decision or situation
- [ ] Step 2: Select relevant roles
- [ ] Step 3: Inhabit each role's perspective
- [ ] Step 4: Surface tensions and tradeoffs
- [ ] Step 5: Synthesize alignment and path forward
```

**Step 1: Frame the decision or situation**

Clarify what's being decided, key constraints (time, budget, scope), and why alignment matters. See [Common Patterns](#common-patterns) for decision framing by type.

**Step 2: Select relevant roles**

Choose 3-6 roles with different goals, incentives, or constraints. See [Role Selection Patterns](#role-selection-patterns) for stakeholder mapping. For complex multi-stakeholder decisions → Study [resources/methodology.md](resources/methodology.md) for RACI + power-interest analysis.

**Step 3: Inhabit each role's perspective**
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add the-utopia-studio/skills/role-switch@sha256:feda9fa1649b1e33

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260806.73fec06, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source

GitHub

the-utopia-studio/skills · 7 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ihrrnwwp57dkrn6v
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-utopia-studio/skills/role-switch
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/feda9fa1649b1e339883c47b0a4fce366c923fa86e71e6cd78b614566ad8362a

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