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Protocol Handbook v0.3

dotCoach

Depth

The second pseudoskill that ships with dotHuman. Where dotHumanize lays the floor, dotCoach teaches you to use it — the practices a scaffold can't teach on its own, learned by doing.

dotCoach is a loose pseudoskill that teaches the protocol's emergent practices — sidequests and turning a recurring task into a pseudoskill — by dropping a couple of small, real starter goals onto your calendar, so you learn the moves on actual work.

The gap it fills

dotHumanize gives you a floor you trust and shows you how to run goals — but scaffolding alone can't teach the practices that make work compound: spinning off a sidequest mid-goal, or noticing you keep doing a task and promoting it into a pseudoskill. Those you learn by doing. dotCoach is where you do them.

When it runs

  • Offered by dotHumanize at review-close — once your floor is reviewed and trusted, it asks whether you'd like a couple of starter goals to learn the practices.
  • Run it standalone anytime — "remind me how sidequests work," or whenever you want the drills again.

It's opt-in: decline and nothing is created; accept and it scaffolds the goals.

What it gives you

Up to two starter goals, dated to slot in right after your current ones, each marked a STARTER drill and safe to delete:

  1. Run a sidequest — handle a small thing that came up in review as a sidequest, without derailing your main goal. (Sidequests)
  2. Promote a recurring task to a pseudoskill — capture a task you keep repeating as a loose pseudoskill in .human/pseudoskills/. (The lifecycle)

Re-running is safe — it only adds the drills you don't already have.

Loose by design

dotCoach is the clearest example of a loose pseudoskill. Unlike dotHumanize — which has a deterministic core (a script that extracts facts) — dotCoach is agent + templates only: no script, no extraction, no network. That's deliberate. It teaches practices that are still being figured out, so it ships loose and evolves as we learn what teaching lands, rather than freezing prematurely into a Skill. It's the worked example that not every pseudoskill needs a deterministic core — and that the seed isn't the only one.

Where it sits

dotHumanize and dotCoach are the two pseudoskills that ship pre-authored to bootstrap a project — one lays the floor, the other teaches you to build on it. Every other pseudoskill you'll grow from your own accumulated Lessons, the normal way.

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