Probation Management Kit

A probation nobody wrote a bar for is not a trial — it is a date that passes while everyone hopes.

What it is

The trial period run as a decision rather than a wait. Fixes the bar in observable terms before the person starts, sets the checkpoint rhythm and the evidence that must exist by the time it matters, forces the mid-point read while the outcome can still change, and scripts all three endings — confirm, extend once, exit — each with its letter and its record, every legal determination routed to HR and counsel. For owners, founders and line managers who have hired someone and now have to decide.

What you receive

a probation period that actually decides something — the bar issued before day one as observable standards, the checkpoint rhythm with its contemporaneous evidence log, the mid-point read taken while the outcome can still change, a conversation and a written record for each of the three endings (confirm, extend once, exit), and the dated pack that makes either ending defensible to someone who was not there

Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.

Supported models

• Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
• ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
• Gemini
• any capable chat model

People reach for it when

• “how to tell someone they failed probation”
• “new hire is not working out 8 weeks in what do I do”
• “probation review form template with objectives and evidence”
• “can I extend a probation period and how do I write the letter”
• “what to say in a probation review meeting script”

Record

In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.

License

Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.