Use when taking a Clarity Break — stepping back from day-to-day work for strategic thinking time
Facilitate the Clarity Break — one of the Five Leadership Abilities in EOS and a core Traction tool. A Clarity Break is scheduled time to step away from day-to-day work and think strategically: "work ON the business, not IN it." Unlike structured EOS tools, the Clarity Break is intentionally unstructured — this skill provides just enough framework to make it habitual without over-formalizing it.
Search upward from the current directory for the .ceos marker file. This file marks the root of the CEOS repository.
If .ceos is not found, stop and tell the user: "Not in a CEOS repository. Clone your CEOS repo and run setup.sh first."
Sync before use: Once you find the CEOS root, run git -C <ceos_root> pull --ff-only --quiet 2>/dev/null to get the latest data from teammates. If it fails (conflict or offline), continue silently with local data.
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
data/clarity/YYYY-MM-DD.md | Clarity Break notes (one per session) |
data/vision.md | V/TO for strategic context |
data/rocks/[quarter]/ | Current Rocks for progress context |
data/scorecard/weeks/ | Recent scorecard data for trend context |
data/issues/open/ | Open issues for awareness context |
templates/clarity-break.md | Template for new Clarity Break files |
data/accountability.md | Accountability Chart (org structure for strategic context) |
Clarity Break files use date-based naming: YYYY-MM-DD.md
If a file already exists for today's date (e.g., a second Clarity Break in the same day), append a numeric suffix: YYYY-MM-DD-2.md, YYYY-MM-DD-3.md, etc.