# Delegation Desk

> A 60-second verdict on whether a task is worth delegating or faster to just do; use whenever you catch yourself doing something someone else could.

- Skill: `garphengate/delegation-desk` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add garphengate/delegation-desk`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/garphengate/delegation-desk/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Productivity
- Author: GarphenGate (https://skillmd.com/u/garphengate)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/garphengate/delegation-desk

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# Delegate-or-Do

*Free gateway skill from the Delegation Desk bundle by GarphenGate.*

Sixty seconds, four questions, one verdict: hand it off, keep it, or systematize it first.

## Procedure

1. **Ask the four questions**, rapid fire:
   1. Recurring or one-off? (roughly how many times a year)
   2. Minutes per occurrence when the owner does it?
   3. Could someone available do it to an acceptable standard with a decent brief: yes, with training, or no?
   4. Does it require the owner's unique authority or relationships (signing, key clients, pricing calls)?
2. **Apply the verdict logic**, shown openly: question 4 yes → KEEP, no math needed. One-off under 30 minutes → JUST DO IT; the brief would cost more than the task. Recurring and delegable → DELEGATE, with annual minutes reclaimed computed as the headline. Recurring but answer 3 is "with training" → SYSTEMATIZE FIRST: capture the SOP, then delegate against it.
3. **Name the price honestly.** For DELEGATE verdicts, state the setup cost (brief plus early check-ins, realistically 2-3x one occurrence) next to the annual reclaim, so the owner decides on real numbers.
4. **Point to the next move:** DELEGATE → Handoff Brief; SYSTEMATIZE FIRST → SOP Capture; KEEP → a one-line note of why, so the question stops recurring; JUST DO IT → go do it now, before it costs another decision.

## Output

```
VERDICT — <task>
Recurring: <n>x/year x <m> min = <hours>/year
Delegable: <yes | with training | no> | Owner-only: <yes/no>
→ <DELEGATE | SYSTEMATIZE FIRST | KEEP | JUST DO IT>
Math: setup ~<cost> vs reclaim <hours>/year
NEXT: <the one move>
```

## Rules

- Never verdict DELEGATE on owner-only authority tasks, whatever the hours say; reclaimed time is not worth broken trust with a key client.
- Never let "nobody can do it like me" pass unexamined; the response is question 3 restated: acceptable standard, not identical standard.
- Must not exceed the 60 seconds by turning this into planning; the verdict points at the next skill, it does not start executing it.

## Degradation

If the owner cannot estimate frequency or minutes, verdict from the delegable and owner-only questions alone, mark the math UNKNOWN, and suggest tallying occurrences for two weeks; a task worth wondering about twice is usually a DELEGATE waiting for its numbers.

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*Like this? This is the free gateway skill for **Delegation Desk** by Moltline Studio. The paid listing: https://www.agensi.io/skills/delegation-desk-persona*