Skill Registry

Use when a task needs the judgment of a reservation and transportation ticket agent — rebooking passengers during an irregular-operations (IROP) event, calculating denied-boarding compensation for an oversold flight, interpreting a single carrier's fare-class change/cancellation rules, or triaging a day-of-travel standby list.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Resident Director / residential-life advisor overseeing a dorm, group home, or similar live-in facility — triaging a crisis or intoxication call, mediating a roommate or resident conflict, deciding whether an incident triggers mandated reporting, designing an on-call duty rotation, or writing up a documented conduct incident.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a resilient floor installer — testing a slab for moisture, pH, and flatness before glue-down, determining whether old resilient flooring or mastic is asbestos-containing and choosing removal vs encapsulation, planning a sheet-vinyl seam or heat-weld layout, or sequencing a floating LVT/LVP installation with expansion joints.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a respiratory therapist — titrating mechanical ventilator settings against ABG and plateau-pressure targets, running and interpreting a spontaneous breathing trial for extubation readiness, titrating supplemental oxygen in a chronic CO2 retainer, or troubleshooting a sudden ventilator alarm or desaturation at the bedside.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a restaurant line cook — running a station under fire during dinner service, hitting ticket times on multi-course orders, calling an 86 or falling-behind status to the pass, setting and defending mise en place par levels, or diagnosing why a station keeps going into the weeds.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Retail/Wholesale Buyer — calculating open-to-buy (OTB) against current sales and inventory position, deciding whether a sell-through checkpoint requires an early markdown, evaluating a buy's true performance via GMROI rather than margin percentage alone, negotiating vendor terms as a package (unit cost, cash discount, dating), or planning assortment between core/replenishable and fashion/trend items.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Retail Sales Associate — diagnosing a slow-sales day or week on the floor, coaching add-on/upsell technique, handling a return or no-receipt exchange, reading a shrink or loss-prevention exception report, or planning floor coverage around peak traffic.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Retail Store Supervisor — building a shift schedule against the traffic curve, diagnosing a conversion-rate or shrink miss, running a floor coaching or corrective conversation, triaging an opening/closing cash-count discrepancy, or complying with predictive-scheduling law when a shift needs a last-minute change.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a rigger — writing an engineered lift plan for a critical or tandem-crane pick, calculating load share and center of gravity for an asymmetric multi-point lift, selecting and derating slings/shackles for hitch type and D/d ratio, setting an exclusion zone and tag-line plan for a suspended-load lift, or inspecting rigging gear against numeric rejection criteria before use.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Robotics Engineer — deriving forward/inverse kinematics for a serial-link manipulator from Denavit-Hartenberg parameters, sizing a joint actuator and gearbox against gravity and inertial torque, tuning a joint position-control loop from measured plant response, selecting an encoder or sensor to meet an end-effector accuracy budget, or computing a protective separation distance for a collaborative deployment under ISO/TS 15066. Distinct from an embedded-firmware-engineer (writes the real-time code that runs on the motor controller, taking the control law as a given input) and a robotics-technician (installs, calibrates, and repairs a robot already designed) — this role owns the system-level engineering decisions of kinematic structure, actuator/sensor selection, and control-loop design that produce the motion spec those two execute against.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Robotics Technician — installing and commissioning an industrial robot cell, remastering a joint and verifying the stored pulse count after a collision or encoder-battery replacement, running a lockout/tagout on a multi-axis cell with electrical/pneumatic/hydraulic stored energy, calibrating a Tool Center Point and judging the residual against process tolerance, decomposing a cycle-time regression by program segment to find the actual driver, or verifying a safety-rated stopping distance/time measurement against the certified spec after a repair. Distinct from a robotics-engineer (owns kinematic structure, actuator sizing, and control-loop design for a robot not yet built) — this role installs, commissions, calibrates, troubleshoots, and maintains a robot whose design is already fixed.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Rolling Machine Setter, Operator, or Tender — tracking cumulative reduction across multiple cold-rolling passes to schedule an intermediate anneal before edge cracking occurs, verifying roll crown compensation for the current width/reduction combination rather than assuming a prior setup transfers, measuring output thickness at multiple points across width, or coordinating inter-stand speed changes in a multi-stand mill.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Roof Bolter — reading a roof control plan's bolt pattern and length against measured CMRR conditions, interpreting a pull test or sounding result against the plan's anchorage assumption, selecting resin by gel/spin time for ambient temperature, deciding whether a ground condition requires a plan deviation before advancing, or sequencing an ATRS cycle within its setback limit.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Roofer — planning fall protection and anchor points for a steep-slope job, specifying a nailing pattern against a wind-zone rating, matching a roofing system to a measured slope, sizing and balancing attic intake/exhaust ventilation, or specifying ice-and-water shield extent for a climate zone.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a roofer's helper — tearing off old roofing without exceeding a dumpster's weight rating, setting up ladders and roof jacks before the crew loads material, staging shingle bundles on a roof deck without point-loading it, recognizing pre-1980 tear-off material as presumed asbestos-containing until tested, running the fall-protection and heat-stress checks that don't stop once at shift start, or writing an end-of-day tear-off and stop-work log.

Use when a task needs the judgment of an oilfield roustabout — testing atmosphere before entering a below-grade cellar or valve pit, deciding whether it's safe to manually gauge a tank at an open thief hatch, sizing a trench protective system before digging a flowline ditch, sequencing a rig-up/rig-down with pinch-point and line-of-fire controls, or reviewing a wellsite near-miss for confined-space or lockout gaps.

Use when a task needs senior RV-service-technician judgment — leak-testing an LP-gas system before returning it to service, diagnosing a roof-seal or water-intrusion complaint before it reaches structural delamination, correcting a slide-out racking or binding complaint, diagnosing a 12V/120V converter-or-inverter electrical fault, or winterizing a fresh-water and plumbing system.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Sailor/Marine Oiler (unlicensed deck or engine-room rating) — positioning crew clear of a mooring line's snap-back zone before heaving in, running an engine-room gauge/sounding round and deciding what's a normal reading versus what needs escalation to the engineer of the watch, sequencing a chipping/priming/painting preservation cycle on exposed steel, or checking a vessel's abandon-ship and lifeboat drill compliance against SOLAS intervals.

Use when a task needs sales-engineer judgment — scoping a proof-of-concept with measurable success criteria, running a technical discovery call and qualifying deal fit, building or presenting a competitive-bake-off demo, answering an RFP's technical sections, or writing a technical-win exit report that hands off to closing.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Sales Manager — coaching and managing a sales team, setting or evaluating quota/territory design, running pipeline reviews, or diagnosing why a team is missing its number. Broader team-management counterpart to the sales-account-executive role, which focuses on individual deal execution.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a first-line supervisor of non-retail sales workers — running a daily/weekly floor report for an inside or outside B2B sales team, diagnosing a quota miss down to the funnel stage that broke, approving a discount or credit-term exception, rebalancing account territories, or catching a compliance exposure (call-abandonment rate, commission-draw handling, outside-sales classification) before it becomes a fine.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a school bus driver — running the loading/unloading danger-zone scan before releasing students, handling a stop-arm violation without leaving the bus, managing student behavior with no administrator aboard, or executing a railroad-crossing stop with students on board.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a school bus monitor — securing a wheelchair user with the four-point tiedown sequence before a route, responding to a mid-route seizure or medical event against a student's individualized health care plan, reconciling a headcount discrepancy against the manifest before releasing any student, or executing an evacuation-drill role assignment during a bus emergency.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a School (Educational, Guidance, and Career) Counselor — stating the limits of confidentiality to a student before a substantive disclosure, triaging whether a student's presenting issue fits brief school-based support or needs an outside clinical referral, applying a mandated-reporting threshold without weighing it against rapport concerns, reasoning through the multi-year consequences of a course/track placement decision, or defending counseling time against non-counseling duty creep using caseload and ASCA-model data.