# the agency practice: running field sheet

keep one copy in your own notes. update it after each lesson. the point is to preserve enough of the run that tomorrow's conversation can begin where today's ended.

## 1. the undertaking

- what i want to change:
- why it matters:
- one meaningful move possible this month:
- what i will not trade away to get there:

## 2. current context

| claim | observed, reported, inferred or predicted? | source | what would change my mind? |
|---|---|---|---|
| | | | |

decisions already made:

constraints and commitments:

open questions, ranked by how much the answer could change my next move:

## 3. the map

different possible routes, with their mechanisms and first tests:

the causal path from here to the desired state:

the current constraint, and evidence that it is the constraint:

## 4. the move

- next intervention:
- why this one:
- what it displaces:
- what i may do without approval:
- what requires exact approval, from whom:
- what would count as done:
- stop or revise if:

## 5. the readback

- action actually taken:
- source of truth checked:
- what changed outside the conversation:
- what did not change:
- another explanation that fits:

## 6. the method

trigger: when should i run this again?

inputs needed:

steps that worked:

judgment points and boundaries:

failure modes:

version and reason for revision:

## 7. re-entry note

what i was trying to change:

what happened:

the next smallest move:

links to evidence and artifacts: