Biz-Ops Workspace

Set up or operate a business operations workspace with reporting and task management.

When to Use

• Creating a new business operations workspace with optional workIQ integration.
• Operating an existing workspace: classifying updates, maintaining tasks, and generating reports.
• Reviewing current activity, missing reports, open tasks, or a handoff.

Choose a Mode

Inspect the target before acting. DASHBOARD.md together with Tasks/ or ActivityReport/ identifies an existing BizOps workspace. Other managed content or partial structure requires confirmation; never initialize over a different workspace or infer BizOps from a single shared folder.

Mode	Use when	First action
Setup	A new, explicitly chosen target has no managed structure	Interview and initialize the workspace.
Operate	New activity, task, or report request in an existing workspace	Read the relevant records and source evidence before updating.
Review / Handoff	Status, missing work, or continuity is requested	Read the dashboard, active tasks, report index, and relevant customer records.

Never rerun the initialization or template deployment scripts during Operate or Review. Template deployment can rewrite customer mappings in an existing agent file even when other files are skipped. Add missing assets only when requested and after checking existing content.

Prerequisites

Item	Required	Description
VS Code + GitHub Copilot	Yes	Agent execution
Git + PowerShell 7+	Yes	Version control/scripts
workIQ MCP Server	Optional	M365 integration

Setup Flow (New Workspace Only)

Interview → Folder Structure → Deploy Agents → Customer Workspaces → Config → Done

Phase 1: Interview (MANDATORY)

Collect the following information:

1. Customer list: Name, ID, primary contact
2. External folders: Tech QA, Blog, OneDrive paths (optional)
3. Holiday config: japan / us / other
4. workIQ availability: Yes (M365 auto) / No (manual input)

Run Get-Date before generating reports; do not infer today's date.

Phase 2-5: Setup Execution

Recommended: Use scripts

# Phase 2: Create folder structure
.\scripts\Initialize-BizOpsWorkspace.ps1 -WorkspacePath "<workspace-path>" -Customers @("contoso")

# Phase 3: Deploy agents and prompts
.\scripts\Deploy-BizOpsTemplates.ps1 -WorkspacePath "<workspace-path>"

Manual setup → references/setup-phases.md

Deployed Components

Type	Count	Examples
Agents	9	orchestrator, report-generator, task-manager, availability-finder
Prompts	4	daily-report, weekly-report, monthly-report
Folders	7	ActivityReport/, Customers/, Tasks/, _inbox/

Operate an Existing Workspace

Input	Canonical record and action
New activity	Store the source once: confirmed customer items in Customers/{id}/_inbox/, confirmed internal items in _internal/_inbox/, and unresolved items in _inbox/; link from summaries instead of copying it.
Task update	Keep Tasks/active.md or Tasks/completed.md as the overall index; link to details in Customers/{id}/tasks.md for confirmed customer tasks, and sync both task records and DASHBOARD.md together.
Daily, weekly, or monthly report	Read existing reports and _datasources/ configuration; collect available dated evidence, mark unavailable sources explicitly, then use the matching report prompt.
Ambiguous customer or project association	Keep the original input unclassified and ask for confirmation before creating a customer or project folder.

Use the deployed task-manager, data-collector, and report-generator for their respective workflows. Keep original evidence authoritative; reports and indexes summarize or link instead of copying source content. workIQ is optional and missing data is not evidence of no activity. Customers/{id}/ is a lightweight BizOps record, not a full per-customer workspace; do not run any other workspace initializer (such as a dedicated customer workspace setup) inside it. Link to a separately managed customer workspace when one exists. Do not treat a customer project thread as a separate project workspace unless the user explicitly requests one.

• Select external rechecks from current owner-relevant actions, due dates, and changed evidence or restart conditions. Do not reopen completed details or expand unchanged blocked items into queries; count candidates and actual calls separately.
• Retain original query/response evidence and its acquisition time. Saving or copying evidence is not a new query; unknown acquisition time must stay explicit.
• Where independent review is required, retain a separate reviewer's original verdict against the exact artifact version. Producer self-assessment or validation PASS is not approval; quality approval does not make incomplete data complete. Substantive post-review changes require another review.

Review / Handoff

Read DASHBOARD.md, Tasks/active.md, recent ActivityReport/ entries, and only relevant Customers/ records. Report the source of the current status, owner, next action, and any unavailable or unconfirmed information; do not fill gaps by rerunning setup.

Done Criteria

• Setup: folders, agents, prompts, mappings, daily activity roots, and report preflight are verified without replacing existing records (see agent list).
• Operate: the owning task or activity record and relevant index reflect the input; reports identify their evidence and any unavailable sources.
• Review / Handoff: the current status, owner, next action, and unresolved questions are traceable to existing records.

Key References

Topic	Reference
Setup Phases	references/setup-phases.md
Folder Structure	references/folder-structure.md
Agent List	references/agent-list.md
Holidays	references/holidays.md
Daily Evidence	references/daily-activity-collection.md
Data Sources	references/external-datasources.md