Free · From the book
If you read to the back of the book, you were sent here. The working templates Bears & Mosquitoes points to, the one-page Culture Map, the Trusted Living Agent Manifest, the 15 Virtues diagnostic and the build checklists, now live on the Trust League Workbench, the shelf that holds every template, tool and demonstration twin we publish.
They work the same way there: fill them in your browser, where your work saves to your device as you type, then print a clean page or download the text. Free, because the framework is only worth something if people use it. Anything you filled in on this page before 20 October 2026 stayed on your device and is not carried over.
01 · The Template
The one document a new hire would read before speaking for you, written as the operational truth in seven prompts. Your agent is that new hire.
Chapter 10 · Culture First
02 · The Template
The answer to five questions that travels everywhere the agent goes: who it is, what it can do, who authorized it, what its limits are, and what its history is.
Chapter 12 · The Trusted Living Agent Manifest
03 · The Diagnostic
Score an agent you already run against the fifteen virtues of a trusted living agent, from absent to what a trusted colleague would do. The gaps are your build list.
Chapter 11 · The 15 Virtues of Living Agents
04 · The Checklists
The sequence and the rhythm at three scales: the Deployment Sequence, the Daily Review and the Deployment Gate.
Chapters 10, 14 & 15
05 · The Register
New on the Workbench: every agent, tool and vendor in a business with a named person beside each one. The rows with no owner are the finding.
The first step of the method, Ground