Skill Registry

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Computer Network Architect — auditing a redundancy design for hidden single points of failure, sizing WAN/link capacity against busy-hour rather than average utilization, designing network segmentation around trust boundaries, calculating QoS bandwidth reservation for real-time traffic like VoIP, or selecting a routing protocol matched to topology scale and convergence requirements.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Management Analyst — sizing a cost-reduction target and building the FTE/spend bridge to hit it, redesigning span of control and org layers, running a shared-services consolidation or build-vs-buy study, mapping a broken cross-functional process before recommending a fix, or reconciling an executive's headcount-cut mandate against what's actually achievable.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Marketing Manager — running a marketing team/function, allocating budget across programs, approving campaign plans, or reporting marketing performance to leadership. Broader operational/managerial counterpart to the marketing-strategist role, which focuses on positioning and channel strategy specifically.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a masonry helper — mixing and batching mortar to a mason's laying pace, staging and cutting brick/block/stone to spec, tending scaffolding and wall bracing on a live wall, or writing an end-of-day material and safety handoff.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a massage therapist — screening a new client's intake form for contraindications, choosing a technique for a presenting condition, calibrating pressure/duration to a client's tolerance, or deciding when a finding requires referring the client back to a physician instead of proceeding with the session.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a First-Line Supervisor of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators — assigning today's task mix across forklifts, order pickers, and pallet jacks against their different throughput rates, deciding whether an operator with an expired certification or an open near-miss can go back on the floor, checking whether a shift's equipment utilization is running too hot or too idle, or investigating a near-miss before it becomes a recordable incident.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Materials Engineer — selecting an alloy or process for a design under a strength/weight/cost constraint, running a fatigue-life or mean-stress (Goodman/Gerber) calculation on a loaded component, doing root-cause fractography and fitness-for-service on a field failure, specifying a heat-treatment or hardenability callout for a given section size, or setting an inspection interval from a fracture-mechanics critical flaw size. Distinct from a materials-scientist (develops new materials and characterizes fundamental structure-property relationships in the lab) and a mechanical-engineer (takes material properties as a given input to size a structure) — this role owns the applied engineering questions of which material, which process, and why a specific part actually broke.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutter/Trimmer — diagnosing why a batch fell short of its yield specification, deciding whether a temperature reading at a critical control point requires the HACCP plan's documented corrective action, evaluating a metal-detector or X-ray reject before resuming the line, or maintaining raw/ready-to-eat and allergen equipment segregation under changeover time pressure.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Computer Network Support Specialist — diagnosing a duplex mismatch from interface error counters, isolating a Path MTU Discovery black hole that hangs large transfers but not small ones, resolving DHCP scope exhaustion producing APIPA addresses, containing a broadcast storm traced to a missing BPDU Guard, or triaging a live ticket's severity against a response-time SLA before diagnosing it.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a network/systems administrator — triaging a connectivity or outage incident, sequencing an emergency patch or firmware rollout across a device fleet, reviewing backup-job and monitoring coverage, setting account-access and password policy, or planning a WAN circuit order or data-center/office move.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a neurodiagnostic technologist — running or troubleshooting a routine or ambulatory EEG, distinguishing artifact from a real epileptiform or ictal pattern, recognizing nonconvulsive status epilepticus on continuous ICU monitoring, or making a real-time alarm-criteria call during intraoperative neuromonitoring (SSEP/MEP/EMG).

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Mental Health Counselor — running a suicide risk assessment and safety plan, choosing between CBT/DBT/MI for a presenting problem, deciding whether a case needs a level-of-care step-up (IOP/inpatient) or a psychiatry referral, writing a defensible progress note, or navigating a duty-to-warn situation.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Worker — routing a co-occurring client to integrated vs. sequential treatment using the severity quadrant, testing a crisis presentation against a civil-commitment standard, deciding what a 42 CFR Part 2 disclosure requires versus a routine HIPAA release, building a discharge/transition plan that verifies entitlements and housing rather than just referring, or matching case-management intensity (ACT vs. standard) to hospitalization and stability history.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a neurologist — localizing a lesion from an exam and history, triaging a time-critical presentation (stroke, status epilepticus, acute weakness), building a differential for a chronic or progressive neurologic complaint, or deciding what workup a symptom actually warrants. A reasoning aid, not medical advice.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a doctoral-level Clinical Neuropsychologist — designing a test battery for a dementia/TBI/epilepsy referral, checking whether a cognitive profile is valid before trusting it, interpreting a score pattern for brain-behavior localization, applying a reliable-change calculation to serial testing, or writing a neuropsychological evaluation report a neurologist or court can act on.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Motorboat Operator — a licensed small-craft operator running tour boats, water taxis, harbor launches, or patrol/workboats — checking a passenger count against a vessel's Certificate of Inspection before departure, deciding how to handle a following sea or bar crossing without broaching, running a pre-departure passenger safety briefing, verifying whether an OUPV ("six-pack") license covers a given job, or timing a man-overboard response in cold water.

Use when a task needs senior motorcycle-mechanic judgment — running a T-CLOCS-style intake inspection on a vague handling complaint, diagnosing a rough-idle or no-start complaint on a fleet split between carbureted and fuel-injected machines, deciding whether chain/sprocket or tire wear is ride-safe versus stop-ship, scoping a valve-clearance service against architecture-specific spec, or pricing seasonal storage-prep against the spring comeback it prevents.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Moving Crew Supervisor (van line or local moving company foreman) — confirming whether a shipment's estimate is binding or non-binding before the truck loads, deciding how much can legally be collected at delivery once the actual weight comes in over estimate, calling a team-lift or mechanical-aid decision on an oversized item, writing up an additional-service order for items added after the bill of lading was signed, or handling a damage claim under released-value versus full-value protection.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a new accounts clerk — opening a personal or business deposit account under CIP/KYC requirements, screening a new customer against the OFAC SDN list, identifying beneficial owners on a legal-entity account, setting up a signature card with the correct authority scope, or matching a customer's stated need to the right account product.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a materials recovery facility (MRF) sorter/Recycling and Reclamation Worker — deciding whether a lithium battery or propane canister on a moving sort line needs an immediate line stop versus a routine hazardous pull, judging why a baled commodity dropped a purity grade and what it cost, working a picking-station reach zone without crossing into a nip point, triaging ambiguous material at sorting speed, or classifying a contamination item as quality-only versus safety-critical.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an ARRT(MR)-certified MRI technologist — screening a patient or implant for MR safety and zone entry, selecting or adjusting a pulse-sequence protocol against a diagnostic question and time budget, monitoring or predicting specific absorption rate (SAR) and gradient limits during a scan, judging gadolinium contrast eligibility against renal function, or troubleshooting a motion/artifact problem before images reach the radiologist. US practice default (ACR Manual on MR Safety, FDA/IEC SAR limits). A reasoning aid, not medical advice.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a News Journalist — deciding whether a claim has enough independent corroboration to publish, handling an anonymous or off-the-record source without burning credibility, structuring a breaking-news story under deadline, or triaging which parts of a developing story are confirmed versus still rumor.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Non-Destructive Testing Specialist — sizing an ultrasonic (UT) weld indication with the DAC/6dB-drop technique and deciding whether it's planar or volumetric, calculating radiographic (RT) exposure time and geometric unsharpness for a source-to-film setup, verifying a magnetic particle (MT) yoke or prod meets code field-strength minimums, evaluating a discontinuity against ASME Section V / API 510 / API 570 acceptance criteria, or computing corrosion rate and remaining life from a UT thickness survey.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Nuclear Engineer — sizing radiation shielding against a dose target, screening a proposed plant change under 10 CFR 50.59, ranking systems for maintenance rigor using PRA importance measures, checking a safety analysis for design-basis vs. best-estimate conservatism, or evaluating whether a redundant safety train is truly independent (common-cause failure).