# Under Glass

> A light-hearted crew planner. List three to eight people you know - flatmates, family, a club - with a few words about each, and pick how long a glass dome habitat stays sealed (a fortnight, six months or two years). Each person gets a kind of crewmate, a dome job and a post in one of the dome's eight biomes; then the app names the glue, the likeliest friction, writes a crew log and gives a verdict on whether to seal the dome.

URL: https://under-glass.skillsafe.ai/
API tutorial: https://under-glass.skillsafe.ai/api.html

## Free, in the browser
- One crewmate per line: the words before the dash are the name, the words after are all the page reads (three to eight people; bullets and numbering stripped; only the first eight are cast).
- A keyword guess of each person's kind of crewmate, in a fixed order: specialist (a named trade or training), facilitator (calming, settling disagreements), connector (birthdays, parties, warmth), analyst (questions, puzzles, checking), executor (rotas, lists, budgets), visionary (ideas, plans, art).
- Eight dome jobs, each held once, one per biome: farmer (farm plot), air and water keeper (marsh), biome tender (rainforest), fixer (machine deck), cook (galley), medic (sick bay), morale officer (commons), chronicler (lookout). Jobs go first to whoever's words name the work, then by kind of crewmate.
- The dome cut away into its eight biomes with a token per crewmate, the crew balance across the six kinds, and an air gauge for the verdict.
- The verdict, by a fixed rule over the kinds: back to the airlock (two kinds or fewer); otherwise seal after one swap (nobody is a connector or facilitator, a crew of four or more has fewer than four kinds, or one kind is more than half the crew); otherwise seal the dome.
- Exports: a plain-text summary for the group chat (the share sheet where the browser has one, else the clipboard), Markdown, JSON and the crew as CSV; saved crews in the browser, or in your account when signed in.

## Metered (gpt-terra), one task: cast the crew
- Every person cast from their own words: a kind of crewmate, a dome job and a one-line reason.
- The glue (a connector or facilitator who holds the crew together), where it will rub (two people's habits), a crew log through the four stages of team development - forming, storming, norming, performing - timed to the stay, three crew rituals, one warning sign to watch, and the one habit to keep or the change to make before sealing.
- The page re-checks every reply: one post per person, every job held once, the verdict against the reply's own casting, the glue really a connector or facilitator, the log in its four stages, no he or she for anyone, and no internal field ids in the prose.

## Limits and honesty
- Under Glass is a game. The kinds of crewmate are a playful reading of a few words about each person, not an assessment of anyone.
- The planner uses only the words you typed: no invented hobbies, relationships, traits or backstory.
- Nothing is sent anywhere until you press "Seal the crew".
- Trend it answers: in October 2026 the English Wikipedia article on the 1990s sealed glass-dome experiment in Arizona averaged about 515 human page views a day from 22 September to 14 October, then drew 2,041 on 20 October and 7,907 on the 21st (Wikimedia daily page-view counts).

## Source
Built on the SkillSafe skill @erichowens/team-builder (https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@erichowens/team-builder): designs team structures with organizational psychology - complementary archetypes, the glue role, Tuckman's stages of team development, warning signs and collaboration rituals.