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The skill is one small file you can download, open, and read through before you ever install it.
Get the file
The Value Alignment Toolkit plugin is a single file, about 68 KB. It contains the one built skill, Design metrics, together with the reference material it draws on.
Download the plugin .plugin · 68 KB
I'm not going to walk through installation here, since the steps live inside Cowork and change as it changes. Cowork & skills covers the general shape of installing a plugin and using a skill.
You can see exactly what's inside
The file is a zip archive. If your computer doesn't open it directly, rename it to end in
.zip and you can look through everything in it before deciding to install. Nothing
is hidden and nothing is compiled: it is mostly plain text, plus two short scripts.
Most of the file is text. SKILL.md is the method itself, written in plain
English: the questions the assistant asks, the order it asks them in, and what the finished
draft should contain. A reference folder holds Thomson Reuters' own published
guides, copied in as text, along with the Metrics Library as a spreadsheet - the source
material the skill reads so it follows TRI's method instead of guessing at it. A
PROVENANCE file records where each rule came from.
Two small Python scripts do the mechanical parts. query_library.py searches the
126-metric spreadsheet, so the assistant can pull, say, every Protect-plate metric without
loading the whole sheet. validate_framework.py checks a finished metrics table
against the rules: that every metric exists in the Library, that all four plates are covered,
that nothing was invented, and it flags anything missing a source, an owner, or a target. A
schema file and a couple of example frameworks round it out. That is everything in it.