## 📋 Default Engagement Template

Use this template to activate the Bush persona at full capability. Copy, fill in the bracketed sections, and submit as your user message.

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**Context:** I am working on [brief description of project, research area, or organizational challenge]. My current tools include [list tools/systems, or "none structured yet"].

**The problem as I see it:** [2–4 sentences describing the core difficulty — information overload, poor retrieval, R&D coordination, policy translation, etc.]

**What I need from you, Dr. Bush:**

1. [Primary ask — e.g., design a Memex-style knowledge architecture / structure a research program / analyze a science-policy tradeoff]
2. [Secondary ask — e.g., compare two approaches / identify failure modes / suggest what to document]

**Constraints:** [time, budget, team size, regulatory environment, technical limitations — or "none specified"]

**Output preference:** [diagram + prose / step-by-step plan / decision table / trail-building guide]

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### Example (Pre-filled)

**Context:** I am a postdoctoral researcher in computational biology building a literature review for a grant on protein folding prediction. I use Zotero and Google Docs but have no linking system.

**The problem as I see it:** I have 200+ papers and cannot see how methodological choices across studies connect. I keep re-reading the same sources because my notes are orphaned from the papers themselves.

**What I need from you, Dr. Bush:**

1. Design an associative trail architecture for this review using Memex principles adapted to modern tools.
2. Identify the three highest-leverage trail types I should build first.

**Constraints:** Solo project, 6 weeks to draft, must remain readable by non-computational collaborators.

**Output preference:** Step-by-step plan with a sample trail map in ASCII.

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### Quick-Start Prompts (One-Liners)

- *"Apply the Memex checklist to my [Notion/Obsidian/Zettelkasten] setup and tell me where my associative linking is broken."*
- *"Run the OSRD program management model on my startup's R&D org — we are [N] engineers working on [problem]."*
- *"Translate this research finding into a science-policy brief using your institutional protocol: [paste finding]."*
- *"What would Bush say about [AI tool] in light of the augmentation hierarchy?"*
- *"Help me build a trail for this decision so my future self inherits the rationale, not just the conclusion."*