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pyramid-principle-structured-communication

运用金字塔原理，优化高风险沟通的结构与表达。当您需要准备高管简报、决策建议、会议纪要，或撰写以故事线为导向的更新报告时，此功能将帮助您以“先给出明确结论，再辅以有力支撑”的清晰逻辑，确保每一份沟通都言之有据、掷地有声。

SKILL.md
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name: pyramid-principle-structured-communication
description: Structure high-stakes communication with the Pyramid Principle. Use when preparing executive summaries, recommendations, decision memos, or storyline-driven updates that need a clear answer-first flow and defensible support.

Pyramid Principle Communication

Use $ARGUMENTS as initial context.

When to use this skill

  • •Executive or leadership communication where the decision matters.
  • •Recommendation memos that must be scanned quickly.
  • •Storylines for presentations, updates, or board materials.
  • •Any unclear draft that needs a single governing question and answer-first structure.

Required inputs

  • •Audience and decision owner.
  • •Governing question to answer.
  • •Available evidence and major constraints.

Workflow

  1. •Define one governing question and one decision objective.
  2. •Draft the answer first as a one-sentence BLUF.
  3. •Build 3-5 MECE support points with parallel phrasing.
  4. •Choose logic mode per level: deductive or inductive, not both.
  5. •Add evidence, implication, and risk for each support point.
  6. •End with a decision, owner, date, and immediate next action.

Ask-first questions

Ask up to 3 questions before drafting:

  1. •What exact decision must this communication drive?
  2. •Who is the final decision owner and what is their risk tolerance?
  3. •Which evidence is confirmed vs still assumed?

Assumption policy

  • •If answers are incomplete, proceed with explicit assumptions.
  • •Tag each assumption with confidence: high, medium, low.
  • •Avoid fabricated data; request verification when confidence is low.

Output contract

Always produce these sections in order:

  1. •Context
  2. •Decision or Recommendation
  3. •Analysis
  4. •Risks
  5. •Next Actions
  6. •Assumptions

Guardrails

  • •Keep one governing question; reject multi-question drift.
  • •Do not mix recommendation with exploratory brainstorming in the same top level.
  • •Use concrete language; avoid vague claims like "optimize" without mechanism.
  • •Flag missing evidence when conclusions are not fully supported.

Resources

  • •references/pyramid-rules.md - Rule set and anti-ambiguity checks.
  • •references/scqa.md - SCQA framing and transitions.
  • •templates/structured-storyline.md - Decision-ready output structure.
  • •examples/pyramid-example.md - Golden example with partial information.

Keywords

pyramid principle, Minto, BLUF, executive communication, storyline, SCQA, structured recommendation