Behavioural Skills

Overview

Built at the request of Irrational Labs for The Agency Fund, who wanted a repository of behavioural science skills their team could reuse across projects. Rather than long guides that get read once and forgotten, the repository breaks behavioural science down into small, practical units that can be picked up and applied directly.

Design

Each skill does a single job, simple enough to explain in one sentence, and is built so its output can be passed straight into the next. That composability was the core design decision, since it lets skills chain together into workflows and a team can go from framing a problem to designing an intervention without leaving the system.

The site itself is deliberately simple, written in plain JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, so it can be hosted anywhere, handed over easily, and maintained without a build step.

Workflow Builder

The workflow builder lets a researcher assemble a behavioural science pipeline by dragging skill cards, such as defining the target behaviour or diagnosing the barriers, into the order they will actually use them for a given intervention. As the sequence is built, it checks in real time whether each step has what it needs from the step before it and flags any gap.

Once the sequence is ready, one click generates a runnable install command along with a shareable Markdown plan, so the whole workflow can be handed off to someone else or dropped straight into a project.