{
  "description": "Adopt and build AI systems: readiness assessment, use-case triage, rollout and acceptable-use policy, plus agent loop design, subagent orchestration, spend budgets, agent security review, eval harnesses, and AI-usage reporting.",
  "display_name": "AI engineering",
  "keywords": ["ai-adoption", "agents", "evals", "governance", "budgets"],
  "links": {
    "documentation": "https://sananthanarayan.github.io/skilldrop/packs/ai-engineering/"
  },
  "maintainers": [
    {
      "name": "sananthanarayan"
    }
  ],
  "first-value": {
    "audience-posture": "non-technical",
    "prerequisites": [],
    "starter-task": "Find out whether a team is ready to adopt AI tools, and what blocks it first",
    "starter-prompt": "Are we ready for AI? Our support team has 12 people on Zendesk, no AI tools today, and a legal team worried about customer data.",
    "verification": "ai-readiness-assessment scores six dimensions (data, tooling, skills, governance, process, culture) with evidence for each, and ranks the gaps that block adoption first.",
    "recovery": "If ai-readiness-assessment does not activate, ask for it by name and check that its folder exists in your skills folder (`~/.claude/skills/` by default)."
  },
  "requires": ["core"],
  "journey": {
    "when": "A team wants to adopt AI tools and needs to know whether it is ready, where to start, what the rules are, and how to roll out.",
    "you_bring": [
      "the team or organisation in scope and what the answer will feed (a go/no-go, a budget, a sequence)",
      "evidence about current tools, data, policies and practices",
      "the candidate AI use cases",
      "any regulatory or contractual limits on data"
    ],
    "steps": [
      {
        "skill": "ai-readiness-assessment",
        "you_do": "Describe the team, its tools and data, and the concerns already raised.",
        "you_get": "Scores from 0 to 4 on data, tooling, skills, governance, process and culture, each with an evidence line, the gaps ranked by what blocks first, and a one-sentence posture.",
        "decide": "Decide whether to go ahead, and at what scope, from the stated posture."
      },
      {
        "skill": "ai-use-case-triage",
        "you_do": "List the candidate use cases.",
        "you_get": "A ranked portfolio scored on value, feasibility and risk with the weights shown, one first slice with the observable that proves or kills it, and a not-yet list with promotion conditions.",
        "decide": "Confirm the first slice."
      },
      {
        "skill": "ai-usage-policy",
        "you_do": "Give the population, the tools and any data rules already in force.",
        "you_get": "An acceptable-use policy with three data tiers, permitted and prohibited uses as behaviours, a human-review matrix, approved tools with an exception route, and an owner per section."
      },
      {
        "skill": "ai-adoption-rollout",
        "you_do": "Name the chosen tool or workflow and who it is for.",
        "you_get": "A rollout in waves with enablement per cohort, named champions, a comms plan that says what will not change, and an adoption gate on every wave.",
        "decide": "Each wave's gate must be met before the next cohort opens."
      }
    ],
    "you_end_with": "A readiness baseline, a chosen first use case, a usage policy, and a gated rollout plan."
  }
}