Discovery Eyes Skill

Every message your team writes is a potential exhibit with a highlighter across it, read aloud years later, stripped of tone and context. This skill performs that reading on sample messages — jokes that become admissions, speculation that becomes knowledge, "delete this after reading" that becomes the whole case — as prevention training. Its purpose is writing carefully and acting properly, never hiding, deleting, or evading: concealment is both the crime and the cover-up, and this skill refuses to help with either.

What This Skill Produces

• The exhibit reading — supplied sample messages, highlighted and characterized as a plaintiff's lawyer would
• The pattern list — the recurring habits that manufacture legal risk out of ordinary work
• The debrief — write-it-this-way rules that keep candor AND hygiene, plus when-to-pick-up-the-phone guidance

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

• Sample messages/threads — real (sanitized) or representative of the team's style
• The context — industry and the risk surfaces that matter (employment, IP, competition, safety, securities)
• The audience — engineers, sales, execs — the patterns differ by tribe

Framework: How the Highlighter Reads

1. Tone strips off: sarcasm, hyperbole, and dark jokes read literally ("this feature will literally kill someone 😂" reads exactly as written, without the emoji's protection).
2. Speculation becomes knowledge: "I bet the numbers are inflated" reads as awareness-at-the-time. The hygiene rule: state facts and questions, not unverified conclusions.
3. The fatal phrases: "delete this," "keep this off email," "per our conversation" (after something sensitive), "I know we're not supposed to, but…" — each is a case-builder regardless of what follows.
4. Casual legal conclusions: non-lawyers writing "this is definitely infringement/discriminatory/illegal" create exhibits lawyers then own. Rule: describe behavior, route legal characterization to counsel.