Trade Briefs
A Trade Brief is a markdown document that teaches how a specific trade role thinks and works, so AI can help from that role's perspective rather than guessing. 64 briefs are ready.
When to use one
DARP records
When a record needs trade-specific vocabulary, the brief provides enough context to attribute correctly.
Trade role-grounding
When you want AI grounded in a specific trade perspective before doing real work, like thinking as a film editor or a data journalist.
Trade role-grounding is not certification, a DARP ruling, or permission to invent missing rules.
Music (5)
- music:record-producer Set the creative direction and sound of a recording and oversaw how it was made. Open brief
- music:a-and-r Signed the artist and provided the resources to make the record. Open brief
- music:beatmaker Made the beat. Open brief
- music:session-musician Played the take. Open brief
- music:turntablist Performed on turntables. Open brief
Film (18)
- film:director Set the film's creative direction and guided how it was made. Open brief
- film:producer Greenlit the film and provided the funding to make it. Open brief
- film:screenwriter Wrote the screenplay. Open brief
- film:cinematographer Made the photographed image. Open brief
- film:vfx-artist Made the visual effects. Open brief
- film:gaffer Head of lighting who designed and rigged the set's lighting. Open brief
- film:composer Wrote the film's original score. Open brief
- film:costume-designer Designed the wardrobe worn by the cast. Open brief
- film:storyboard-artist Drew the shot-by-shot panels visualizing the script before shooting. Open brief
- film:compositor Combined rendered CG, plates, and elements into a finished seamless shot. Open brief
- film:matte-painter Painted photoreal background environments that don't exist in reality. Open brief
- film:choreographer Created the dance/movement work that performers then executed on camera. Open brief
- film:actor Performed the role. Open brief
- film:stunt-performer Performed the stunt. Open brief
- film:editor Selected and placed existing shots into the cut. Open brief
- film:colorist Routine shot-matching grade. Open brief
- film:finishing-artist Conformed the finished film to its release form. Open brief
- film:distributor Released the film, made it reachable. Open brief
Journalism (15)
- journalism:assigning-editor Greenlit the story and assigned the resources to report it. Open brief
- journalism:reporter Reported and wrote the story. Open brief
- journalism:data-journalist Made the story from data. Open brief
- journalism:photojournalist Made the news images. Open brief
- journalism:stringer Filed reporting as a freelance contributor. Open brief
- journalism:columnist Regularly produced original opinion or commentary columns. Open brief
- journalism:critic Produced original published reviews of works as bylined articles. Open brief
- journalism:cartoonist Drew original editorial cartoons. Open brief
- journalism:videographer Shot original video footage for a news story. Open brief
- journalism:photo-editor Selected which images run with a story and arranged the photo presentation. Open brief
- journalism:fairness-editor Judged the story against fairness standards. Open brief
- journalism:fact-checker Checked claims against sources. Open brief
- journalism:editor Corrected the copy toward the verdict. Open brief
- journalism:copy-editor Corrected the copy to meet the publication's standards. Open brief
- journalism:publisher Released the work, made it reachable. Open brief
Software (14)
- software:product-manager Supplied what the product would be. Open brief
- software:architect Set the technical direction and shaped how the software was built. Open brief
- software:tech-lead Senior engineer who set technical direction and standards the team's code follows. Open brief
- software:sponsor Funded the project and authorized it to proceed. Open brief
- software:engineering-manager Decided what the team built and assigned the people and resources to do it. Open brief
- software:developer Wrote the code. Open brief
- software:ux-designer Made the UX/interface artifact. Open brief
- software:code-reviewer Judged the change and rendered a verdict. Open brief
- software:qa-engineer Checked the work against spec/function. Open brief
- software:security-researcher Checked the work for vulnerabilities against a security standard. Open brief
- software:bug-reporter Reported where the work fails to match intended behavior. Open brief
- software:tester Applied a change and confirmed it produces the intended effect. Open brief
- software:devops-engineer Built and ran the CI/CD pipeline that delivers code into shipped releases. Open brief
- software:sre Kept a running service reliable, available, and operating over time. Open brief
Academic (11)
- academic:co-investigator A named senior partner who helps set the study's direction and aims. Open brief
- academic:funder Granted the funding that made the research possible. Open brief
- academic:experimenter Ran the experiments and made the data. Open brief
- academic:analyst Made the analysis that turns the data into findings. Open brief
- academic:meta-analyst Synthesized prior studies into a new work. Open brief
- academic:statistician Built the statistical analysis that turns data into findings. Open brief
- academic:translator Rendered a scholarly text into another language as a new work. Open brief
- academic:peer-reviewer Judged the manuscript and rendered a verdict. Open brief
- academic:examiner Judged a thesis and rendered a pass/revise verdict at the defense. Open brief
- academic:replicator Checked the result against reproducibility. Open brief
- academic:data-steward Keeps the data available over time. Open brief
Visual art (1)
- visual-art:art-director Set the visual direction and shaped how the work looked. Open brief
Brief URLs follow the pattern /darp/{slug}.md, where the slug replaces : with - (e.g. software:product-manager becomes /darp/software-product-manager.md).