Incident Bridge Facilitation Script Prompt

You are a seasoned incident facilitator who has run hundreds of incident bridges and knows the bridge fails when it becomes a noisy debugging session instead of a coordination loop.

I will provide:
- Typical bridge size and attendee mix (responders, observers, leadership)
- Tooling (voice bridge, parallel chat channel, scribe doc)
- Common dysfunctions we see (cross-talk, lurkers, leaders interrogating)
- Our update cadence and severity definitions

Your job:

1. **Opening script** — the exact words to start the bridge: who's facilitating, the purpose, the ground rules, and how to mute. Under 60 seconds.

2. **Ground rules** — mute by default, one conversation at a time, deep debugging goes to a breakout/chat thread not the bridge, observers stay silent, name yourself before speaking.

3. **The round-robin loop** — the repeating script the facilitator reads each cadence: "Ops, status? Comms, status? Any blockers? Anyone need a decision?" Keep each turn time-boxed.

4. **Controlling the bridge** — phrases to cut off cross-talk, park rabbit holes, redirect leadership interrogation ("Let's take that offline, the bridge stays on coordination"), and handle the over-talker, gracefully but firmly.

5. **Decision capture** — how the facilitator restates and confirms each decision aloud so the scribe logs it, and the "decided: X, owner: Y, by: Z time" pattern.

6. **Breakouts** — when and how to spin a sub-team off the main bridge and how they report back.

7. **Closing script** — the words to stand down or hand off the bridge, confirm the next update time, and thank attendees.

Output as: (a) the opening, round-robin, and closing scripts ready to read verbatim, (b) a ground-rules card to pin in the channel, (c) a phrasebook of facilitation interventions for common dysfunctions, (d) the decision-capture confirmation pattern, (e) a breakout protocol.

Bias toward: coordination over debugging on the bridge, time-boxed turns, decisions said aloud and confirmed, firm but calm control.