Define the finish line
State the intended audience, usable deliverable, constraints, and proof of completion before assigning any box.
Creation quality field guide
Plant better instructions.
Harvest stronger work.
Spores turns quality habits into practical role arrangements. Use the guidance as a starting structure, then change every role, support role, model, and route to fit the project.
Quality multipliers
Small controls.
Compounding results.
Separate creation from verification
Give drafting and fact-checking to different boxes so the model that made a claim is not its only reviewer.
Use support roles deliberately
A primary Writer with a fact-checker behaves differently from a Writer with an editor. Choose the secondary responsibility that protects the weakest part of the task.
Route evidence with the work
Every handoff should include sources, assumptions, unresolved risks, and the exact decision the next box must make.
Keep one authority source
Name the controlling brief, canon, specification, or dataset. Tell every role what wins when materials conflict.
Match response guidance to consequence
Use light guidance for variations, medium for production drafting, and heavy for architecture, verification, security, or irreversible decisions. This setting is passed as instruction text; it does not guarantee a provider-specific reasoning mode.
Ask for visible checks
Require acceptance criteria, edge cases, contradictions, and a concise verification record instead of an unsupported claim that work is complete.
Revise the route, not only the prompt
If results drift, change which role receives the work, what evidence travels with it, and what the supervisor must flag during its post-output review.
Suggested configurations
Start with a role chain.
Then make it yours.
These are suggestions, not locked presets. The Workbench keeps every functional assignment editable.
Fiction + worldbuilding
- Suggested primary chain
- Planner → Researcher → Writer → Critic → Reviewer → Verifier
- Useful support roles
- context-keeper, researcher-aide, editor, devils-advocate
- Quality focus
- Preserve canon, character causality, voice, and continuity before polishing prose.
Manuscript editing
- Suggested primary chain
- Planner → Critic → Writer → Reviewer → Verifier → Summarizer
- Useful support roles
- editor, context-keeper, fact-checker, formatter
- Quality focus
- Separate developmental, line, continuity, and final-proof passes.
Website or application
- Suggested primary chain
- Planner → Researcher → Coder → Critic → Reviewer → Verifier
- Useful support roles
- researcher-aide, tester, devils-advocate, formatter
- Quality focus
- Lock scope and acceptance criteria before implementation; verify behavior, accessibility, and failure states.
Game system
- Suggested primary chain
- Planner → Researcher → Coder → Critic → Verifier → Reviewer
- Useful support roles
- context-keeper, tester, devils-advocate, note-taker
- Quality focus
- Track rules interactions, progression, exploits, player feedback, and implementation constraints.
Research report
- Suggested primary chain
- Planner → Researcher → Critic → Writer → Verifier → Summarizer
- Useful support roles
- researcher-aide, fact-checker, devils-advocate, formatter
- Quality focus
- Separate evidence collection, claim testing, synthesis, and citation verification.
Curriculum + assessment
- Suggested primary chain
- Planner → Researcher → Writer → Critic → Verifier → Reviewer
- Useful support roles
- researcher-aide, editor, tester, formatter
- Quality focus
- Align objectives, instruction, practice, accessibility, and assessment evidence.
Image campaign
- Suggested primary chain
- Planner → Researcher → Writer → Critic → Reviewer → Verifier
- Useful support roles
- context-keeper, researcher-aide, editor, tester
- Quality focus
- Protect visual authority, subject identity, composition variety, and delivery specifications.
Video production
- Suggested primary chain
- Planner → Writer → Voice → Critic → Reviewer → Verifier
- Useful support roles
- context-keeper, editor, fact-checker, formatter
- Quality focus
- Coordinate story beats, shot logic, spoken timing, continuity, and technical delivery.
3D asset pipeline
- Suggested primary chain
- Planner → Researcher → Coder → Critic → Verifier → Reviewer
- Useful support roles
- researcher-aide, tester, context-keeper, formatter
- Quality focus
- Carry scale, topology, materials, rigging, format, and engine constraints through every handoff.
Data analysis
- Suggested primary chain
- Planner → Researcher → Coder → Critic → Verifier → Summarizer
- Useful support roles
- fact-checker, tester, devils-advocate, formatter
- Quality focus
- Protect data provenance, assumptions, reproducibility, uncertainty, and interpretation.
Security review
- Suggested primary chain
- Planner → Researcher → Coder → Critic → Verifier → Reviewer
- Useful support roles
- devils-advocate, tester, fact-checker, note-taker
- Quality focus
- Separate discovery, exploitability analysis, validation, remediation, and regression checks.
Product launch
- Suggested primary chain
- Planner → Researcher → Writer → Critic → Voice → Verifier
- Useful support roles
- researcher-aide, fact-checker, editor, context-keeper
- Quality focus
- Keep audience, claims, positioning, channel format, and launch evidence consistent.