Where a policy-brief is short (~1,000 words), external-facing, and answers one narrow question, a primer is longer, comprehensive, and built to fully inform — the reader should finish it needing nothing else to discuss the topic with authority. Primers are descriptive and analytical, never advocacy, and are written in the house style of the user's Inside Global Tech posts: measured, precise, attributed, primary-source-anchored.
Each primer is produced as both a markdown wiki page and a matching Word document.
Filename convention
<topic-slug>-YYYY-MM-DD.md (and .docx) — the date is part of the primer because policy state is dated. Refresh an outdated primer via the supersede workflow.
Primer types
- document — a single EO, report, framework, or system card, walked through section by section.
- legislation — a single law or bill, walked through provision by provision.
- legislation-family — a type of legislation (e.g. frontier-model safety laws), with a comparison table and cross-cutting analysis.
- issue — a cross-cutting topic, organized by the dimensions of the issue.
- actor — a key entity, company, or person.
- landscape — a bounded survey of a multi-component area.
Skill reference
Full procedure: .claude/skills/policy-primer/SKILL.md.
Live primers
(Add new primers here in reverse-chronological order.)
- 2026-05-24 — Policy Primer: Draft Trump AI-Cybersecurity Executive Order (Unsigned, May 2026) — Draft Trump AI-Cybersecurity Executive Order (Unsigned, May 2026) (document)