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Guide № 03 — Foundation Plugin
~15 min setup
guide № 03 · vol i A field manual for installing your team's Claude system filed 17 apr 2026
Guide № 03

The Nobo Foundation Plugin.

Your team's Claude system — built around how you actually work. Install once, and every conversation starts with full context.

17
skills total
10
specialists
4
workflows
~15 min
to first use
Before you start

What you'll need.

A Claude account with Cowork enabled
Admin access to your team's shared Google Drive
15 minutes of uninterrupted time
One real project to run it against (not a dry run)
Same prompt, different system
Without Foundation

"Hi Susan — thanks for the meeting today. It was great discussing the project direction. As discussed, we'll be adjusting the scope to reflect the changes your team raised. I'll send over an updated timeline by end of week. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions in the meantime."

competent · generic voice · vague on specifics · needs rewriting
With Foundation

"Hey Susan — good call today. Two things needed from you:

1. Confirm you're okay pulling the reporting dashboard out of phase one and moving it to phase two.
2. Let Jack know we're holding on the onboarding flow rework until his team signs off on the ops feedback. We won't start until he gives the green light.

Timeline stays the same for everything else. I'll have an updated scope doc over by Wednesday."

voice-matched · names decisions · structured asks · ready to send

Same prompt: "write a follow-up to Susan from today's call." The difference is everything Foundation configures — context files that know your business, your voice, and this specific client.

Part One · Setup

Install & onboard.

~15 minutesfour steps, in order

The plugin connects to your team's shared Drive folder where company context lives. Each teammate runs onboarding once. After that, every skill knows who they are, how they write, and how the company works.

01

Install the plugin.

In Cowork, open Customize → Plugins. Paste jmason33333-ux/nobo-foundation-plugin into the search bar. Click Install. All 17 skills load automatically.

~2 minutes · one-time per workspace
02

Run /onboard.

Type the slash command in any Claude conversation. A 10-minute guided dialog creates your personal profile:

  • Your role & responsibilities
  • Your voice — how you write, what you avoid
  • How you prefer to work — tools, schedule, output style
  • Your Google Drive connection for the shared company files

No forms to fill out. It's a conversation, not a questionnaire.

~10 minutes · one-time per teammate
03

Start your first project.

Create a new project in Claude. Type /new-project and answer a few questions about the client or engagement. All context files are written automatically — every specialist now knows the landscape.

~2 minutes · per engagement
04

Delegate.

Ask naturally, or invoke a skill by its slash handle. Claude picks the right specialist, reads your context, and produces output in your voice.

From here on · every working day
Part Two · Foundation

The context files.

Foundationthe system behind the skills

When you run /onboard and /new-project, the plugin creates context files every specialist reads before responding. These are why output sounds like your company, not like a generic AI. In your shared Drive folder they live as Google Docs with Title Case names (for example, How We Communicate). The plugin creates local working copies with the kebab-case names below when skills run.

how-we-communicate.md
Your brand voice, tone rules, preferred phrases, phrases to avoid. Primary reference for every writing skill.
what-is-[company].md
Company identity, positioning, values, and what you stand for. Ensures content reflects who you actually are.
how-we-work.md
Team structure, tools, processes, how decisions get made. Used by the project-management and operations skills.
who-i-am.md
Your role, responsibilities, what you own, who you report to. Shapes how skills tailor output to your level.
how-i-talk.md
Your personal communication style — sentence structure, warmth, directness, vocabulary. Drafts sound like you wrote them.
how-i-work.md
Your tools, schedule, output preferences, and pet peeves. Skills deliver work the way you actually want it.
project-brief.md
Client name, engagement type, key contacts, timeline, constraints. Created per-project by /new-project.
project-log.md
A running log of what's happened on the engagement. Skills read it to avoid repeating work and build on what's been done.
Part Three · Specialists

The ten specialists.

Referenceskim now, return later

Each skill reads your context files before responding — your brand voice, your team structure, the current engagement. The output sounds like your company wrote it, because in every meaningful sense, your company did.

Client Operations one specialist
/client-comms
Communications

Client Communications Specialist

Drafts, reviews, and improves any message going to or from a client — status updates, follow-ups, meeting summaries, difficult conversations, scope discussions. Writes in your voice, calibrates tone to the situation, treats every message as relationship capital.

Say: "Email Sarah about the timeline" · "Reply to this client message" · "Draft a follow-up from today's call"
Content & Marketing one specialist
/content-strategist
Content

Content Strategist

Writes brand-aligned content across every format — emails, proposals, blog posts, LinkedIn, case studies, newsletters, website copy. Adapts tone to the channel while staying inside your company's established voice. A LinkedIn post sounds different from a proposal, but both sound like you.

Say: "Write a LinkedIn post about our new service" · "Draft the case study" · "Blog post on AI in professional services"
Project Management one specialist
/project-manager
PM

Project Manager

Tracks project status, surfaces risks before they become problems, maps dependencies across people and timelines, keeps everyone aligned. Produces structured status reports — Progress / Risks / Next Actions — where every action has one named owner and every status is honest.

Say: "Project status update" · "What's at risk?" · "Map out the dependencies" · "Who owns what?"
Call Preparation one specialist
/prep-for-call
Preparation

Call Preparation

Produces a complete pre-meeting brief so you walk in informed, prepared, and able to send a follow-up within five minutes of hanging up. Works for both prospect meetings and existing-client check-ins.

Say: "Prep me for the Greenleaf call" · "I have a meeting with Sarah at 2" · "Call prep for the new prospect"
Also included
/brand-strategist
Reviews any draft for brand consistency
/research-specialist
Structured research and synthesis
/executive-comms
Sharp summaries for senior audiences
/data-analyst
Makes sense of numbers for non-technical audiences
/financial-analyst
Fee proposals, budgets, profitability analysis
/process-optimizer
Maps, documents, and improves workflows

Full descriptions and example prompts for every skill: Delegation Guide →

Part Four · Workflows

The four workflows.

Compoundmulti-step in one pass

These handle multi-step tasks in one pass and keep the system's memory current. The value isn't any one piece — it's the orchestration and continuity across everything you do.

/weekly-review

Weekly Review.

A consolidated end-of-week brief across every active engagement. Run it once on Friday and walk away with a complete picture plus ready-to-send client check-ins. No engagement falls through the cracks.

Produces Multi-project status summaryleadership-ready briefdraft check-in email for each active client
/daily-log

Daily Log.

Runs as a scheduled task at the end of each workday, or manually when you say "wrap up the day." Reviews everything from the session and writes a structured entry — what got done, what was decided and why, what files changed, what's still open, what to pick up tomorrow. Next morning, Claude reads this first, so every session starts where yesterday left off.

Produces Structured daily entry (done / decided / changed / open / priorities)rolling 5-day logautomatic session continuity
Schedule it

Go to Cowork → Scheduled → set daily-log to run at end of day. Important: schedule this within each project — one schedule doesn't run across all projects.

11:50 PM
Log captures the day
Overnight
Context updates
7:00 AM
Running start
/refine-voice

Voice Profile Refinement.

Makes your voice profile more accurate over time by studying real evidence. Paste examples of what Claude wrote versus what you actually sent — the skill extracts the patterns that define your real voice and updates your profile so every skill produces better output going forward.

Produces Pattern analysis of your real writingupdated voice profilebetter output from every skill
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A note on when to stop

Don't try to onboard your whole team on day one. Start with yourself. Run it against one real engagement for a week. When it feels like a tool you reach for without thinking, then roll it out to the next teammate. A plugin used well by one person beats a plugin installed poorly by ten.

Part Five · Refinement

Gets smarter over time.

Refinementfour feedback loops

The plugin doesn't stay static. Four mechanisms make it better with every use.

01

Voice learning.

When you correct a draft's tone — "too formal," "I wouldn't say it that way" — the skill adjusts and offers to save the learning to your voice profile. Next time, it gets it right without being told. This happens automatically in /client-comms, /content-strategist, and /executive-comms.

02

Project memory.

Every specialist appends a one-line entry to project-log.md after producing output. Next time any skill responds on the same engagement, it reads the log first — so it knows what's been communicated, what's been decided, what's been flagged. You don't have to re-explain.

03

Daily continuity.

At day's end, /daily-log captures what got done, what was decided and why, what changed, and what to pick up tomorrow. Every new session starts by reading it — Claude knows exactly where things stand without a re-brief. Decisions are logged with their reasoning, so "why did we do it that way?" always has an answer.

04

Voice profile refinement.

Run /refine-voice periodically with before/after examples — what Claude wrote versus what you actually sent. The skill extracts the real patterns that define your voice and updates your profile. After one session, drafts match significantly better. Recommended at the 30-day check-in.