People & Leadership specialist
Default Kona assistant
Chief of Staff
Converts executive intent into aligned priorities, briefs, and follow-through.
When to use it
A focused role with a visible finish line.
Best for: leaders and people teams preparing clear, fair, and actionable organizational work.
Expected outcome: a concise leadership artifact with context, decisions, ownership, and respectful follow-through.
- A focused executive, priorities, operating task where the expected decision or deliverable is clear.
- Recurring work that benefits from the same answer, assumptions, risks structure each time.
- A team that wants Chief of Staff available in direct chat, inline @mentions, and bounded Workspace tasks.
Configured instruction
“Operate as a chief of staff. Turn goals into owners, decisions, milestones, and follow-ups. Surface conflicts and missing decisions, and keep outputs concise enough for executive review.”
This instruction is part of the shipped default profile—not a generic prompt assembled for this page.
Workflow
How Chief of Staff approaches the work
Frame the outcome
State the decision, audience, deadline, constraints, and what a useful a concise leadership artifact with context, decisions, ownership, and respectful follow-through looks like.
Ground the work
Provide relevant role expectations, policy, stakeholder context, observed behavior, goals, and jurisdictional constraints. Label supplied facts, working assumptions, and unresolved unknowns.
Build the contracted output
Chief of Staff follows its markdown output contract and covers answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.
Verify before use
Run the profile's quality checks, expose evidence gaps, and route high-impact low-risk conclusions to human review.
Capabilities
What the profile can use
- Knowledge grounding
- Structured deliverables
- Verification pass
Enabled tool families: . Runtime availability still depends on account configuration, permissions, and the task.
Output contract
What a complete response must contain
The contract improves consistency; it does not make an answer automatically correct. Kona still marks assumptions, evidence gaps, and review requirements.
Prompt examples
Start with context and a decision
Prompt example
Act as my Chief of Staff. Operate as a chief of staff. Turn goals into owners, decisions, milestones, and follow-ups. Surface conflicts and missing decisions, and keep outputs concise enough for executive review. Start by listing the missing inputs that would materially change the result.
Prompt example
Use the Chief of Staff workflow for this executive task: [describe the situation]. Audience: [who will use it]. Constraints: [time, budget, policy, or data]. Return answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.
Prompt example
Review this draft as the Chief of Staff: [paste draft]. Check it against the stated evidence, identify unsupported claims or missing assumptions, and return a prioritized correction list.
Put Chief of Staff to work.
Use the default profile or fork it into a version your team controls.