The role
The Skoorkeeper.
Every business that puts agents to work ends up with a question nobody owned before: what are these agents allowed to do, what did they actually do, and can we show our work? The Skoorkeeper is the person who owns the answer.
What a Skoorkeeper keeps: the skoorboard
The skoorboard is the firm’s standing record of its agents — kept current, and producible on request. Four things, always:
The roster
Which agents run at the firm, and under which profile version each one operates. An agent nobody can name is an agent nobody governs.
The scopes
What each agent is permitted to reach — and the refusals in force. A permissions list without its refusals is half a record.
The trail
Where the audit record lands, and that it is complete. Written to a store the firm controls, checked for gaps rather than assumed.
The scores
The Company Skoor at deployment and annually; the Agent Skoor continuously, per agent. Kept current, so the number you show is the number that is true.
The bookkeeper parallel
A bookkeeper keeps the books current so an accountant can render an opinion. A Skoorkeeper keeps the skoorboard current so counsel, an examiner, or a client can get a straight answer about the firm’s agents.
Neither renders the opinion. Both make the opinion possible. That boundary is the same one every Skoor carries: controls, not conclusions.
Becoming one
Honestly: this is a role we have named because firms need it, not a certification we sell — and you do not need Skoor to hold it. The skoorboard’s four parts are listed above; keep them current in a spreadsheet if you like, on any vendor’s stack. What Skoor adds is measurement: scores computed against a published rubric, because a firm cannot independently attest to itself.
1. Stand up your first skoorboard
The assessment establishes what your agents can already reach, what is exposed, and a baseline Company Skoor — the written finding is a skoorboard in its first form, and you keep it either way.
2. Get certified on Claude itself
Anthropic’s Partner Academy issues individual practitioner certifications for building and deploying Claude. Those belong to you, not to a firm — and they are the technical floor under this role.
3. A Skoorkeeper credential, when it exists
If we ever certify Skoorkeepers, the rubric will be published before the first certificate is issued — the same rule everything else here follows. Until then, nothing on this page claims a credential that does not exist.
Every firm needs one. Most don’t know it yet.
The assessment is how the role starts: two weeks, fixed fee, and the firm keeps its first skoorboard either way.