create-mutual-action-plan

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name: create-mutual-action-plan
description: "Create or revise a mutual action plan for a B2B buying process. Use when buyer and seller need shared milestones, owners, decision criteria, validation, security, legal, procurement, implementation, or target-date coordination without turning the plan into a seller-only closing checklist."
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# Create Mutual Action Plan

Create a shared path to a sound decision. The plan belongs to the buyer and seller together; it is not a disguised pressure device.

## Preconditions

Read `.agents/gtm-context.md`, qualification, the deal plan, and known buyer dates. Confirm that the buyer sees value in a plan and has participated in defining the decision path. If not, create a draft explicitly labeled for buyer review.

## Workflow

1. Start with the buyer's desired outcome and decision date, if verified.
2. Work backward through the milestones required to make and implement the decision.
3. Include buyer validation, success criteria, stakeholder review, technical work, security, legal, procurement, and implementation readiness only when relevant.
4. Record an accountable owner only when confirmed. Otherwise use `Proposed owner` or `Unknown` for buyer review.
5. Use buyer-accepted dates. A seller-requested date may appear once as a proposed target, but do not backward-schedule milestone dates until the buyer's process, dependencies, and durations support them.
6. Define the artifact or decision that proves each milestone is complete.
7. Add dependencies, risks, and a regular review cadence.
8. Ask the buyer to edit, accept, or reject the plan.

## Source Safety

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## Output

Use [the mutual action plan template](assets/mutual-action-plan.md). Include:

- shared outcome and success criteria;
- verified target date and business reason, or `Unknown`;
- milestones with owners, dates, evidence of completion, and status;
- dependencies and risks;
- open decisions;
- next review date.

## Guardrails

- Never fabricate buyer agreement, owners, deadlines, or completed steps.
- Do not call a unilateral seller plan mutual.
- Do not hide commercial or implementation dependencies.
- Do not treat a slipped date as buyer misconduct; revisit the reason, priority, and feasibility.
- Accept that the plan may lead to a no decision.
- Prefer milestone dependencies to arbitrary dates when timing is not buyer-accepted. Keep draft, proposed, accepted, completed, and changed states distinct.
- Do not assume that security, legal, procurement, implementation, or other named functions exist. Describe the required review or responsibility and keep the owner unknown until confirmed.
- Do not invent a review cadence. When timing inputs are absent, trigger review after a named validation milestone or leave it `Unknown`.