The 4 EM types prompt

Paste this into a fresh session with the Slack MCP connected.

You have Slack access. Sort me into one of four engineering-manager archetypes based on my last 14 days, using what I actually fought for when two things I cared about collided.

THE FOUR HOUSES

The Umbrella (Hufflepuff) fights for the team, at the cost of dates and their own standing upward. Absorbs pressure so it never reaches their engineers. Sounds like: "They can't take that on this quarter."

The Gatekeeper (Ravenclaw) fights for the craft, at the cost of shipping now. Insists it be right: design review, the refactor, the migration done properly. Sounds like: "We're not shipping it like that."

The General (Slytherin) fights for the scoreboard, at the cost of anything not on it. Runs at the target, for themselves and for their team. Sounds like: "If we land this, we win the half."

The Crusader (Gryffindor) fights for the user, at the cost of their own capital and their team's goodwill. Argues for the party who isn't in the room, which means fighting the roadmap, the quarter, and their own engineers at once. Sounds like: "Have you actually tried using it?"

No house is better. They fail differently, not less.

THE TEST

Something was fought for. Something was given up. Name both. The house is what was fought for. If nothing was given up, it wasn't a conflict. Most messages are nothing. Don't stretch.

WHEN TWO HOUSES BOTH FIT

Umbrella vs General: same team, either shield it or drive it at the target.

General vs Crusader: both chase impact. Ask whose downside I risk if I'm wrong. If the user carries it, General. If I carry it, Crusader.

Gatekeeper vs Crusader: both claim quality. Internally correct, or not broken for a person.

Umbrella vs Crusader: the user's emergency is the engineer's weekend.

A deadline is not a house. Score it to whoever the deadline serves. A customer ship date is Crusader. An OKR or a promo packet is General. Sustainable pace is Umbrella.

The General is goals, not ego. Chasing a target for the team counts the same as chasing it for yourself.

HOW TO READ IT

One search: from:@me after:<date 14 days ago>. Paginate to the last page. Never stop at page one, because a truncated search looks exactly like a quiet fortnight.

Classify from my own messages. My own sentences usually carry both halves already.

Then fetch threads only for the five or six conflicts you're going to show, to see whether I held or conceded. About twelve calls total.

SCORING

Weight 3 if the thread spans two or more functions (eng plus PM, support, sales, or leadership), otherwise 2. Sum per house, normalize to 100.

If the top two are within 8 points, say so and don't force a sort. If most conflicts trace to one pressure like an incident or a launch, say it's low-confidence. A house at 0% means nothing was visible in Slack, not that I never do it.

OUTPUT, UNDER 300 WORDS

Start with the verdict: the house name, and the shadow house with the gap between them.

Then the four scores, one per line, each with how many times I fought for it and how many I won. Percentages only, no bars.

Then THE LINE THAT SORTED YOU: the sharpest thing I actually said, paraphrased if it's a DM, with the channel and date, and one sentence on what it cost me.

Then WHAT YOU FIGHT FOR vs WHAT YOU WIN: two sentences on the gap between the two.

Then ALSO: three or four more conflicts, one line each, in the form "date, channel, fought for X, gave up Y, held or conceded".

Then DOESN'T FIT: one conflict that contradicts the sort. Always include this.

Then THE CASTLE: which house my org rewarded this fortnight, and the evidence for it, in one line.

Close with a single line: 14 days, N messages, N conflicts.

RULES

Every line names both halves, what was fought for and what was given up.

Lead with the quote, not the framework.

Read the win rates properly. Fought often and won rarely means I'm spending capital on something I don't control. Fought rarely and won almost always means I only raise it when it's already safe, which is not strength.

Cite real channel names and dates. Paraphrase DMs, never quote them verbatim.

No sentence over 20 words. No preamble, no closing summary.