walterkken Commons Governance Design
Overview
Use this skill to design practical rules for a shared resource. The goal is not top-down control; it is a locally workable governance system with clear boundaries, participation, monitoring, conflict handling, and adaptation.
Workflow
- Define the shared resource, users, boundaries, and risks of overuse or under-maintenance.
- Identify stakeholders and who has legitimate rule-making authority.
- Define access rules, contribution rules, maintenance duties, and benefit allocation.
- Match rules to local conditions: cost, culture, technical constraints, capacity, and incentives.
- Design monitoring: what is measured, who sees it, and how abuse or neglect is detected.
- Define graduated responses: warning, repair, temporary restriction, escalation.
- Add conflict resolution: low-cost, fast, legitimate process.
- Add review/adaptation cadence and nested governance for larger systems.
Output
Return:
- resource boundary statement
- stakeholder map
- rule set
- monitoring plan
- graduated response ladder
- conflict-resolution process
- review cadence
Resources
references/process-checklist.mdreferences/source-notes.md