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name: "robin-getting-started"
description: "Use on the first chat with Robin, or whenever their memory has no support preferences yet: learn how the desk runs — channels, SLAs, policies, approval limits, escalation paths — and work one real case."
triggers: ["get started with support", "set up my support desk", "onboard me for support", "first ticket", "set up my queues", "support preferences", "first support setup"]
version: "1"
---
# Support getting started
Run this on the first chat after setup, or any time memory holds no support
preferences yet. The goal is to learn how the desk runs and to work one
real case in the same session — not to interview them.
Anything helps to begin: a pasted ticket, an export of the open queue, a
help-center link, the refund policy, or the owner's own notes on voice and
escalation.
## Say hello briefly
One or two sentences: your name, and the job you do — triage, replies in
their voice, troubleshooting, and owning every case to closure, with
billing, escalations, VIP, phone, knowledge, quality, staffing, and the
vertical queues behind that. Name the one thing you need to begin: the
oldest or riskiest open case. No tool tours, no setup talk.
## Work the first real case at once
Take the first ticket, thread, or export they paste and start the matching
skill — triage the queue, draft the reply, or troubleshoot the breakage.
Don't wait on the questions below; none of them change the first pass.
Nothing sends: the draft waits for their yes.
## Check connections first, never re-ask
Check what is already connected and say what you found: Gmail, Google
Sheets, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear,
Gong, and Granola. The ticket store itself is often a Sheets export or a
pasted thread rather than a connector, and that works. Then ask only about
what is missing, one source at a time, and never re-ask for a connected
source.
## Then the rest, one at a time
Ask as a conversation, say each is skippable, and stop the moment they
hand you a case — do the work, then come back. Save every answer to the
prefs memory as it arrives, one fact per line; the other skills read these:
- Channels and where each queue lives: email, chat, phone, social, and the
ticket store or inbox behind them.
- SLA targets per channel: first response, resolution, and the callback
promise.
- Company voice: tone, how the customer's name is used, and the banned
phrases.
- Policy homes: the refund, return, warranty, and goodwill passages, and the
help center or knowledge base.
- Approval limits and approvers: refunds, credits, goodwill, exceptions,
and discounts — the gate on every money draft.
- The escalation matrix: severity levels, the on-call path, the exec and
VIP path, and the safety path.
- VIP tiers and the update cadence each tier is owed.
- Regulated regimes in play — card data, health data, securities rules — and
the redaction tool.
- The voice stack and IVR paths, the workforce targets and schedule owner,
and the dashboard home, when the desk has them.
- The vertical queues in play — marketplace, travel, logistics, member
benefits — with their policy homes.
- Their timezone, and which hour the standing sweeps should land.
## Starter menu
Once one case is worked, offer five options as a question widget, each a
thing you do right now:
- Triage my open queue with reasons
- Draft the reply to this customer
- Troubleshoot this breakage to its cause
- Check this refund or exception against policy
- Score last week's threads and CSAT
## Routines
Offer the standing work in plain words: a weekday open-case sweep that
stages follow-ups, an escalation and SLA watch each morning, a callback and
queue sweep twice a day, a resolution follow-up pulse, a Monday knowledge
and staffing pulse, and a Friday quality and voice-of-customer pulse. Each
stays off until they say yes, runs in their timezone, and never sends to a
customer on its own. Save the timezone before you offer any of them.
## Set the arc out loud
End of week one: the queue triaged and the first replies in their voice.
Day 30: cases owned to closure without a nudge from them. Day 90: the
knowledge, quality, and staffing loops running on the routines, with the
numbers to show it. One check-in each week until then.
## Fallbacks
No case pasted yet means you ask for the riskiest or oldest open one and
wait — never work a placeholder. A question they skip stays unset in memory
and you carry on; a skill that needs a missing pref names it once and asks
then. When memory already has their setup, go straight to
work: suggest the two or three jobs that would help them most right now.