Skill Registry

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Small Engine Mechanic — diagnosing a 2-stroke engine that won't idle, bogs, or smokes heavily, correcting a customer's fuel oil-mix ratio math, adjusting a diaphragm or float-type carburetor to spec, evaluating whether stale ethanol fuel varnished a carburetor after seasonal storage, or planning parts-stocking and staffing across the inverse spring mower and fall/winter snowblower service rushes.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Social Science Research Assistant — checking inter-rater reliability on qualitative coding before it scales, drafting or amending an IRB protocol/consent script, cleaning and de-identifying a participant dataset, or triaging a literature-review search strategy against a PI's deadline.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a tenure-track/tenured Social Work Professor in a CSWE-accredited BSW/MSW program — designing or mapping a practice course to EPAS competencies, deciding whether a field placement or agency partnership is accreditation-safe, weighing a field-liaison/service load against a tenure clock, or sizing program enrollment against field-education capacity.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Sociologist — designing a mixed-methods study of a social-structure or institutional-change question, building and validating a qualitative codebook, checking whether a group-level pattern supports the individual-level claim being made about it, or reading out a stratification/mobility finding for a policy audience.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Social and Community Service Manager — evaluating a new grant against mission fit and true cost, reconciling a braided funding budget across restricted and unrestricted sources, setting or defending caseload ratios against funder-required staffing, responding to a funder outcome-reporting requirement (e.g. HUD APR), or deciding how to close an indirect-cost recovery gap.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Sociology Professor — deciding how to evaluate a book-track versus article-track tenure file, scoping an IRB filing for ethnographic or interview fieldwork, designing a syllabus unit on a stratification topic (race, gender, class) without manufacturing false balance on settled findings, or triaging a journal desk rejection at a top generalist outlet.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Software QA Analyst/Tester — designing boundary value and equivalence-partition test cases for an input range, checking a test suite's shape against the test pyramid (unit vs. integration vs. E2E ratio), interpreting code coverage as a gap-finder rather than a quality guarantee, triaging a flaky test, prioritizing test effort by risk, or classifying a bug's severity and priority.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a soil and plant scientist — interpreting a soil test into a fertilizer/lime recommendation, building a nutrient management plan, diagnosing a suspected nutrient deficiency or pH-limited yield, or evaluating land-capability suitability for a proposed crop or land use.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Solar Energy Systems Engineer working on PV generation design — sizing a string against NEC 690.7 cold-temperature voltage derating, selecting a DC/AC ratio and estimating inverter clipping loss, sizing PV source-circuit conductors and overcurrent protection under NEC 690.8/690.9, building a performance-ratio-based annual energy yield model, or reconciling a P50/P90 yield estimate against measured production. Distinct from an energy-engineer (owns building/process demand-side efficiency, not generation-asset design), a wind-energy-engineer (owns turbine-specific aerodynamic and drivetrain design), and an electrical-engineer (owns general utility-scale power delivery and protection outside PV-specific code) — this role owns PV array electrical design, module/inverter compatibility, and generation yield modeling for solar-only projects.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Solar Energy Installation Manager running a contractor's install operations — reallocating crews when a job's permit or interconnection status isn't ready for its scheduled install day, classifying an inspection-failure fix against the correct budget line, tracking a jurisdiction's actual permit/interconnection timeline against what customers were quoted, reconciling installed cost-per-watt against budget on a closed job, or deciding whether a system qualifies for automated (SolarAPP+-style) permitting versus manual plan review.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Solar Photovoltaic Installer — sizing a PV string against cold-weather Voc and inverter max input voltage, specifying rapid-shutdown equipment to meet NEC 690.12, sizing a backfeed breaker against the NEC 705.12(B)(3)(c) 120% interconnection rule, specifying a flashed roof-penetration mounting method, or laying out fire-code pathways and setbacks on a rooftop array.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a residential/commercial Solar Sales Representative and Assessor — sizing a PV+storage system against a specific utility tariff, building a cash-price-equivalent financing comparison, running a site/roof/shading assessment, or catching a savings claim that won't survive contact with the actual rate schedule.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Solar Thermal Installer — sizing a solar storage tank against collector aperture area, specifying propylene glycol concentration against a site's design-low temperature, choosing a double-wall versus single-wall heat exchanger for potable-water code compliance, sizing an expansion tank and pressure relief valve for collector stagnation, or choosing drainback versus pressurized-glycol loop configuration.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Spa Manager — deciding whether a revenue shortfall is a demand problem or a scheduling/room-hour utilization problem, standardizing the service menu against treatment-room turnover, setting or enforcing a no-show/cancellation policy, classifying therapists as employees vs. independent contractors, or sizing a retail-attach-rate improvement against new hiring.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a special education paraeducator — fading a prompt so a student doesn't become dependent on adult help, choosing a data-collection method for an IEP goal, deciding whether a refusal is a skill deficit or a behavior function, de-escalating a student before a behavior becomes a safety event, or writing a same-day data note for the case manager.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a sound engineering technician — diagnosing gain-staging/noise problems in a signal chain, hitting a platform's loudness delivery spec (LUFS/true-peak), choosing mic placement to avoid phase cancellation, or troubleshooting a mix that "sounds off" but measures clean on a peak meter.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a special education teacher — writing a legally-defensible IEP goal, distinguishing an accommodation from a modification, interpreting present-levels data to set a progress-monitoring target, prepping for an IEP meeting or manifestation determination review, or resolving a disagreement between a parent's request and what the data supports.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Special Effects Artist/Animator — planning a shot through the VFX pipeline (previz through comp), diagnosing why a shot "feels wrong," budgeting render-farm time against a delivery deadline, or structuring a revision-round process with a director.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a speech-language pathologist — screening or interpreting a swallow (dysphagia) evaluation, differentially diagnosing an articulation vs. language-based communication disorder, classifying post-stroke aphasia severity and type, evaluating candidacy for an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device, or writing a treatment-plan justification for insurance or a care team.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a sports coach or team scout — grading a recruit or transfer-portal target against roster need, building a weekly practice/training plan, deciding whether to rest or clear an injured player, or setting a depth chart under a talent evaluation disagreement.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a sports medicine physician — clearing or restricting an athlete's return to play after injury or concussion, running a preparticipation cardiovascular screening, managing an on-field emergency (exertional heat stroke, sudden cardiac collapse, suspected spinal injury), diagnosing a bone stress injury or overtraining/RED-S presentation, or navigating team-physician conflict of interest against coach or parent pressure to clear an athlete early.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a sports official (umpire, referee, or crew chief) — ruling on a bang-bang or judgment-call play, running a video/monitor review under a time budget, de-escalating a coach or player argument, calibrating a crew's positioning and coverage areas, or writing a postgame incident report.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a race and sports book writer or runner — grading and settling a wagering ticket, calculating a parlay or teaser payout, determining whether a win triggers a W-2G or excise-tax event, enforcing a betting cutoff against past-posting, or deciding whether to move or hold a posted line under one-sided action.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Stonemason — selecting a stone type/density class for a climate's freeze-thaw exposure, sizing stone-veneer anchor spacing from unit weight and rated anchor capacity, laying out a dry-stack wall's batter for gravity stability, choosing a compatible repair mortar for historic stone restoration, or diagnosing a spalling/delamination failure in existing stonework.