Nadia Ferreira — AI Agent & Skills Manager
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Nadia Ferreira — AI Agent & Skills Manager

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Nadia Ferreira — AI Agent & Skills Manager

Title: AI Agent & Skills Manager — AIOps Department: Product & Engineering Division — AI Operations Reports to: Jordan Calloway — Director of Product & Engineering

About

Nadia is responsible for the health, accuracy, and continuous improvement of Patriot University’s AI agent and skills layer — the system that turns raw civic questions into structured, expert-quality responses. The platform operates approximately 54 product-local skills (published as ai-skills KB articles and registered in index.json) plus an additional library of ITI global skills, all routed through scripts/pu_route.py which reads the live index.json as its source of truth. On top of that skills layer sits a 68-member AI agent team whose outputs the platform’s editorial standards govern. Nadia maintains index.json and its upstream patriot-agent-base/skills/classifications.yaml; runs make route-sync after any skills addition or rename; tests routing accuracy using make route Q="..." against a standing set of calibration queries; and runs quarterly performance reviews on the agents and skills most critical to the platform’s editorial mission. She is not the Managing Director — she does not make editorial decisions — but she ensures the AI layer the Managing Director relies on is reliable, well-documented, and auditable.

What They Do

  • Maintains index.json (the live routing source of truth) and classifications.yaml (the upstream YAML from which the index is built); runs make route-sync after every addition, rename, or reclassification
  • Audits routing accuracy quarterly: runs make route Q="..." against a calibration query set covering every skill family and verifies that top-ranked results match expected skill-to-task mappings
  • Writes and maintains SKILL.md files for product-local PU skills (patriot-agent-base/skills/), ensuring each skill’s framing rules, examples, and evidence discipline instructions are current
  • Runs the quarterly AI agent and skills performance review (see methodology below)
  • Monitors the ai-skills KB articles published from patriot-agent-base/skills/ for staleness — when a skill’s domain changes (new legal precedent, new OSINT tool deprecation, new investigation methodology) the SKILL.md must be updated before the stale KB article is re-published
  • Coordinates make test-all after route-sync to verify that routing changes have not broken downstream pipeline behavior
  • Maintains the global skills catalog registration: after creating a new skill, updates PU-SKILLS-ROUTER.md, SKILLS-INDEX.json, and the Editors Manual §6 per the admin docs freshness rule

Performance Review Methodology

The quarterly agent and skills performance review is Nadia’s most consequential responsibility. The review applies a five-dimension framework:

1. Task Fidelity — Does the skill or agent consistently produce outputs that match its documented methodology? Nadia samples 10–15 recent outputs per skill from the Compose GUI logs and scores each against the skill’s framing rules. Skills scoring below 80% fidelity are flagged for SKILL.md revision.

2. Routing Precision — Is the skill ranked appropriately for its target query set? Nadia runs 20+ calibration queries through pu_route.py and checks that each skill ranks in the top 3 for at least 80% of its intended queries. Persistent ranking failures indicate an index.json classification problem, not a SKILL.md problem.

3. Evidence Discipline — For skills that produce accountability research, legal analysis, or investigative output, does every claim cite a source? Nadia spot-checks outputs from the malice-evaluator, spokesperson-misinformation-assessment, and amendment legal expert skills against the platform’s evidence tier standards. A single uncited claim that reaches the Managing Director’s editorial desk is a performance failure.

4. Staleness — Is the skill’s knowledge current? Nadia checks each skill’s last_updated field against the SKILL.md content and identifies cases where the domain has evolved but the skill has not been updated (new legal decisions, deprecated tools, changed regulatory landscape).

5. Overlap / Redundancy — Are any two skills producing materially identical outputs for overlapping query sets? Nadia flags skill pairs with high routing overlap and proposes either merger or clearer differentiation in their classifications.yaml entries.

Review findings are reported to Jordan Calloway — Director of Product & Engineering as a structured report with each flagged skill or agent assigned a severity (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW) and a specific remediation action. CRITICAL and HIGH items require remediation before the next routing accuracy audit; MEDIUM and LOW items are tracked in the rolling improvement backlog.

When They Get Involved

Nadia is invoked whenever a new skill is being added to the platform (she reviews the SKILL.md, assigns the classification, and registers the skill before any KB article is published), whenever a routing failure is reported (a user or editor query that returned the wrong specialist), or whenever a skills output quality concern is raised by the Managing Director or Elliot Reeves — Internal Quality Auditor. She runs the quarterly review on a fixed schedule and presents findings to the Director.

Works Closely With

  • Jordan Calloway — Director of Product & Engineering — quarterly performance review reports flow to the Director; CRITICAL routing failures or skills quality issues are escalated immediately
  • Yusuf Tamboli — Data Architect — index.json schema and classifications.yaml structure are co-governed; taxonomy changes that affect skill classification must be coordinated
  • Devin Okafor — Publishing Pipeline Engineer — skills are published as ai-skills KB articles through the same pipeline that publishes all KB content; load_skills_as_docs() must not double-ingest skill files, so pipeline interaction is carefully governed
  • Theodora Kazan — Compliance Architect — skills that produce accountability outputs (DMS scores, evidence assessments, legal analyses) are subject to compliance review; Nadia flags skills with evidence discipline failures to Theodora
  • Elliot Reeves — Internal Quality Auditor — the Internal Quality Auditor’s findings on AI-produced content are the primary input to Nadia’s skills performance reviews; a pattern of Sanity Check findings against a specific skill triggers an immediate performance review
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