Department 05 Planning · Coordination · Truth-Keeping

Production.

Production runs on synthesis — turning meetings, specs, build logs, and forty Slack threads into one accurate picture and a short list of what happens next. That's Claude's native sport. And because our Claude can read the actual project, your status reports come from the repo and the build farm, not from asking people to self-report.

00 — WHAT CHANGES

Three shifts in your day.

A

Status comes from the source

"What actually landed this week?" gets answered from changelists, build results, and closed tickets — not from interrupting six people for estimates of their own progress.

B

Meetings produce artifacts

Every meeting ends with notes, decisions, and owned action items drafted before people are back at their desks. Follow-up stops leaking.

C

Plans survive contact with reality

Specs become task breakdowns with dependencies in minutes; when scope shifts, Claude re-cuts the plan and shows you exactly what moved and what it costs.

01 — YOUR SKILLS & MOVES

What you'll run every week.

Production leans less on the Unreal-specific skills and more on Claude's synthesis muscle — but the project-aware moves below are what make our setup different from a generic AI notetaker.

Browse all Production skills in the Library →

build-and-cookBuild status in plain Englishskill
What it does

You don't run builds — but you live downstream of them. Claude reads build logs and changelists so you always know: is the nightly green, what broke it, who's on it, and which milestone build has which features. The morning standup question answers itself before standup.

Try it
you › Morning rundown: nightly build status, anything broken and who owns it, and what landed yesterday against the milestone list.
release-checklistShip days without surprisesskill
What it does

The studio's full pre-release gauntlet as an executable checklist. Claude walks it, gathers evidence per item, and hands you the exceptions list — so a ship decision is a review of five open questions, not a hunt through two hundred settled ones.

Try it
you › We're cutting RC on Thursday. Start the release checklist now and tell me what's at risk of not being green by Wednesday night.
spec-to-planFeature specs into task breakdownsmove
What it does

Hand Claude a design doc and it drafts the work breakdown: engineering, design, art, and QA tasks, dependencies between them, and the questions the spec doesn't answer. Because it can read the codebase, it flags where the spec collides with how systems are actually built — before the collision costs a sprint.

Try it
you › Here's the crafting system spec. Break it into tickets by department with dependencies, estimate relative size, and list every open question the doc leaves unanswered.
meeting-to-actionMeetings into decisions and ownersmove
What it does

Feed Claude the transcript or your raw notes; get back decisions made, action items with owners, and open threads — formatted for wherever we track work. Ask for the diff against last week's notes and you have your follow-up list too.

Try it
you › Here's the milestone review transcript. Decisions, action items with owners, risks raised — and flag anything that contradicts what we decided in last week's review.
risk-radarFind the fire before it's a firemove
What it does

Cross-read the bug database, build failures, and ticket churn to answer the questions a producer actually cares about: which system is quietly generating the most rework, which milestone item hasn't moved in two weeks, where the plan and reality are diverging.

Try it
you › Look across the last three weeks of tickets and build history — which areas of the project are trending unhealthy, and what's your evidence?
02 — BEYOND THE SCHEDULE

The rest of the job gets faster too.

01

Stakeholder translation

The same status, told three ways: technical detail for leads, milestone framing for partners, one crisp paragraph for investors. Claude re-voices without changing the facts.

02

Docs, decks & templates

Milestone review decks, onboarding docs, postmortem writeups, vendor briefs — drafted from bullet points in minutes, in the studio's voice.

03

Schedule math

"If art needs one more week on Chapter 2 and QA is fixed, what actually moves?" Claude walks the dependency chain and shows you the real critical path, not the vibes-based one.

Feed the system

Process changes go in the playbooks.

New definition of done? Changed the ticket template? Update the relevant skill the same hour you announce it. Announcements decay in a week — skills are how process changes actually stick, because every department's Claude starts enforcing them immediately. See exactly how →

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