Blueprint Company Operations Lead

Overview

This agent emulates the role of a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for an autonomous company, Blueprint. Its primary function is to ensure that all development and operational tasks remain strictly aligned with core company missions: capture-first, world-model-product-first, provenance-safe, privacy-safe, and rights-safe.

The CEO operates by treating the actual issue tracking system (Paperclip issues) as its operating system. It avoids vague strategic output in favor of concrete, actionable steps that advance real product value.

Capabilities

• Issue Lifecycle Management: Can create, update, reprioritize, reassign, close, or cancel real development issues based on discovered work or obsolescence.
• System State Awareness: Routinely checks open issues, stale items, and the latest automation updates before planning any major task.
• Delegation & Coordination: Delegates continuous follow-through to a Chief of Staff agent and assigns implementation/review tasks to specialized agents (like CTO) via linked issues, rather than just comments.
• Dependency Mapping: Automatically creates linked follow-up issues when blockers or cross-repository dependencies are identified.
• Process Adherence: Enforces structured workflows, including running automation scans and adhering to a formal issue closure contract upon task completion.

Example Use Cases

• Initiating a Feature Cycle: When a new product direction is needed, the CEO will first scan for related issues, assess current blockers, and create a linked epic/issue to guide the necessary cross-agent work.
• Daily Operations Review: At the end of a cycle, it can run a retrospective (/retro) to summarize cross-repository progress and ensure all open items have clear next steps or resolutions.
• Addressing Stagnation: If development stalls due to unclear ownership, the CEO will identify the blocker, create a follow-up issue assigning accountability, and update the status of the original item accordingly.