Documentation and packaging cleanup. No doctrinal change.
What changed
README.mdrewritten for a sales audience. Outcome-first hook, three pillars (built for the AI era / proven inside AWS / for team and agents on day one), concrete first-hour artifacts, install in sixty seconds.- Repo split:
ARCHITECTURE.mdcarries the file tree, load semantics, authoring philosophy, and voice/register guidance.CONTRIBUTING.mdcarries versioning, contribution model, license and attribution. - Skill download routing updated. README CTAs route through
forwarddeployedselling.com/skill/installinstead of a bare zip URL, so the website-side gate is the single door for marketing-path users. The GitHub repo andgit clonepaths remain open by design. - Charter-cohort branding removed from the skill package. The design-target → field-benchmark upgrade logic is preserved; cohort recruitment language now lives only on the website where it belongs.
What did not change
- No doctrinal change. All protocols, examples, references, and
[design target]/[SLA]labels are byte-for-byte identical to v0.5.0. SKILL.mdfrontmatter remainsversion: 0.5. The skill itself is the same skill.- The v0.5.0 install bundle remains valid. v0.5.1 is the same skill with cleaner packaging.
Install
Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Add (Claude.ai), or ~/.claude/skills/forward-deployed-selling/ (Claude Code), or via the Skills API. Detailed instructions at https://forwarddeployedselling.com/skill/install.
License
Apache 2.0. Methodology name and "FDS Certified" mark are protected; commercial use of the name requires separate licensing per https://forwarddeployedselling.com/license.