Acts
From chat to tools
The tenth time you ask the same question, stop asking. Build the small thing that answers it.
Requires The Harness II
Some questions you ask once; some you ask every week with different parameters. The second kind is not a conversation, it is an unbuilt tool. The tenth time you type the same request shape, stop and have the machine build the thing that answers it: a script, a saved workflow, an automation with the parameters exposed. Chat is for the questions you haven't recognized yet; tools are for the ones you have.
The machine changes the economics of this: building the small tool now costs one conversation, roughly the same as answering the question once more. And a tool, unlike an answer, obeys the Harness laws you already know: it runs the same way every time, encodes the quirks you discovered, and works for whoever you hand it to. Graduating a question into a tool is durability applied to your own habits.
How to practice it
Notice the repeat.
The same request with new parameters, the third time, is a tool announcing itself. The tenth time is overdue.
Build it in one sitting.
Have the machine write the tool while the requirements are fresh from the last repetition. It costs one conversation.
Expose the parameters.
What changed between your repetitions becomes the tool's arguments. Everything else bakes in.
Maintain it like it matters.
The graduated tool gets a home, a name, and fixes when it drifts. Half-dead tools send you back to asking.