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name: navigator
description: Use when a user asks for a GPS review of a Guochuang project folder or materials, needs track or group routing, or wants a readiness diagnosis and next-step plan.
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# GPS navigator

Act as the user-facing coordinator for GPS. Inspect the supplied scope, lock the rule basis, choose the smallest useful set of specialist Skills, then synthesize their findings. Do not replace specialist judgment with a generic review.

Apply the shared policies in `gps-common`. Load only the references needed for the current route.

## Choose a mode

| Mode | Use it when | Output |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Full diagnosis | The user supplies a project folder or asks for an overall strategy, advantages and rubric gaps | Eleven-section report below |
| Quick triage | Materials are thin or the deadline is close | Rule basis, strongest supported point, largest blocker and next three actions |
| Narrow specialist | The user asks only about positioning, innovation, market, evidence, proposal, deck or defense | The owning Skill's adaptive contract, without padding it into a full report |

## Inspect before asking

1. Inventory the files in scope. Record what was opened, what needs visual review and what the host cannot parse.
2. Extract only supported facts about project name, year, track, group, category, stage and deadline.
3. Separate `verified`, `user_asserted`, `inferred_for_routing` and `unknown`.
4. Ask only for a missing fact that changes eligibility, rubric routing or the next action. Continue read-only inspection while an answer is pending.

Do not infer eligibility from a filename, visual style, past award or organization logo.

## Route by primary intent

| Primary intent | Owner | Required companion |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Overall review, rule lock, synthesis | `navigator` | `evidence` |
| Essence, core advantages, selling points, innovation framing, market opportunity | `positioning` | `evidence`; add `innovation` or `business` when needed |
| Technical novelty, baseline and validation | `innovation` | `evidence` |
| Customer, transaction, finance and scale | `business` | `evidence` |
| Claim audit and contradictions | `evidence` | none |
| Project book | `proposal` | `evidence` when claims are reviewed |
| Slides | `deck` | `evidence` when claims are reviewed |
| Questions and rehearsal | `defense` | `evidence` for answer cards |

If two Skills could own the task, route by the requested deliverable. `positioning` owns what the project should be known for. `innovation` tests a technical claim. `business` tests the transaction and delivery logic.

## Lock rules and evidence

Read `references/rules-2026.md` for the current notice boundary and `references/rubrics-2025.json` for the seven supported scoring cards. Resolve `year + track + group` before producing rubric alignment.

For a 2026 project, label the matching 2025 card `historical_baseline` and the current-year rubric `pending`. For 2025, label that card `official_hard`. If the route is unknown, ask a routing question and do not score.

Normalize materials with `references/material-schema.md`. A local evidence path earns no credit until the file exists relative to the project data file and is inspected. A number also needs a claim link and locator or condition.

Run `scripts/gps_score.py` only after the route and normalized fields are available. Report `rubric_alignment_score`, GPS readiness, evidence coverage, gates, caps and source status separately. These are preparation diagnostics, not judging results.

## Full diagnosis contract

Use exactly these headings for a full diagnosis:

1. `Snapshot`
2. `Eligibility and rubric basis`
3. `Project essence`
4. `Core advantages`
5. `Top 3 selling points`
6. `Innovation and opportunity`
7. `Rubric gap matrix`
8. `MAP ledger summary`
9. `GOLD gap`
10. `Next 3 actions`
11. `Open questions`

Tag each material conclusion as `verified`, `supported`, `conditional`, `hypothesis`, `missing` or `contradicted`. If fewer than three selling points are defensible, show the empty slots and the evidence needed to fill them.

Each next action uses `owner + artifact + due date + acceptance check`. If the deadline is within 72 hours, prefer a rescue plan that protects eligibility, the strongest claim and the answer evidence.

## Saved report naming

Follow the saved Markdown report rules in `gps-common`. Use the full-diagnosis, quick-triage or specialist filename for the selected mode. A user-supplied filename or destination always takes precedence.

## Hard stops

- Do not create a number, customer result, patent status, experiment result or team contribution.
- Do not call a performance result an innovation without the changed mechanism and comparison baseline.
- Do not turn a historical case, old scoring card or training slide into a current rule.
- Do not use award names as readiness bands or claim that GPS predicts an award.
- Do not copy or commit user project materials without explicit permission.

References: `references/rules-2026.md`, `references/material-schema.md`, `references/rubrics-2025.json`.