📖About & Usage

About

Strategy Cookbook is Gandalf’s practical guide for shaping new Carol initiatives before anyone starts building. It exists to turn an early idea into a build-ready plan by covering the choices that are easiest to miss: provisioning a virtual machine, choosing a chat surface, preparing the build pipeline, supplying service-template details, and deciding how the drafting assistant should behave. In short, it helps the team answer “How should we set this up?” before that question becomes an expensive tangle.

Owned by Leo, the app sits within Carol’s governance toolkit and complements the delivery guidance in Build Cookbook. It is a private, authenticated service rather than a public-facing application, so its advice is intended for authorised participants working inside Carol’s ecosystem. The app has been in service since 21 May 2026.

Usage Patterns

Strategy Cookbook is used during the pre-initiative stage, when a proposal is taking shape but implementation has not yet begun. It may be consulted before an initiative enters Carol Initiatives, or alongside early architecture and design work from Albus's Analyses & Designs and Archon's Designs. Its guidance helps participants produce consistent inputs for shared build machinery such as Pipeline and Blueprint Service, without repeating those systems’ own documentation.

For example, suppose a team wants to introduce a new conversational service. Before asking Forge to build it, Gandalf can use Strategy Cookbook to clarify where the service will run, how people will chat with it, what the service template needs, how drafts should be produced, and how the build should flow. The result is a clearer starting brief, fewer setup surprises, and a smoother hand-off from strategy to engineering.

🗂️Tabs & Screens

Tab inventory is being built — see CAROL-INI-077 step 7.

👤Owner

📚Recent initiatives

Initiatives that touched this app — a short summary each; open one for the full story.