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Static visual content across 20+ formats — diagrams, mermaid, infographics, D3 dashboards, comics, icons, wallpaper — via Nano Banana Pro (default), Nano Banana, and Flux. USE WHEN art, illustration, diagram, flowchart, infographic, header image, blog social thumbnail, visualize, generate image, mermaid, architecture diagram, comic, icon, blog art, framework diagram, D3 chart, remove background, wallpaper. NOT FOR locked house-style YouTube/channel/video thumbnails, video or animation (use Remotion), or web UI design and integrated frontend layout (use Webdesign).

Owns the Ideal State Artifact — the primitive holding a project or task's articulated ideal state; scaffolds, interviews, grills a half-formed idea into shape via checkpointed discovery, scores completeness, reconciles feature excerpts to master, seeds from a repo, and appends decisions/changelog/verification across a locked seventeen-section order. USE WHEN ISA, ISC, ideal state, ideal state criteria, project specification, hill-climb, articulating done, fog, not yet specified, grill me, discovery interview. NOT FOR creating new skills (use CreateSkill).

Drives cmux as an agent cockpit to boot, race, and monitor visible agent teams. Mac-only. USE WHEN cmux, agent cockpit, boot an agent team, orchestrate agents, three-tier orchestration, agent race, needle-in-haystack hotfix, agent fleet, 2x2 fleet, watch/monitor my agents, scale compute to scale impact, send a prompt to a running agent, multiplexer, terminal cockpit, orchestrator lead worker. NOT FOR one-shot in-harness subagents with no terminal to watch (use Agent/Workflow), the Pulse dashboard itself (cmux feeds it, use Pulse), browser deploy-verification (use Interceptor), or Linux/Windows (cmux is Mac-only — use tmux).

Renders the current session's output (analysis, research, red team, report, plan) as an extremely well-designed, self-contained HTML artifact via a deterministic renderer — the model distills content into typed JSON, the tool owns all layout/typography/color. USE WHEN /HTML, HTML artifact, render this as HTML, make this an HTML page, artifact of this analysis, designed HTML output. NOT FOR deployed websites or web apps (build the project directly), web UI design systems (use Webdesign), static images or diagrams (use Art), or writing the underlying analysis itself (run the analysis first, then /HTML renders it).

Iterative improvement loop — refine a target across multiple Algorithm cycles toward ideal state. USE WHEN loop, iterate, refine, multiple passes, keep improving, revisit, rework.

Reduces an always-on LifeOS context file that has grown too big via a human-gated pass — deterministic GC of stale entries first, then semantic merges and relocations — never dropping a directive and committing every change reversibly. USE WHEN /trim, trim the context, trim OPERATIONAL_RULES, this file is too big, reduce a doctrine file, prune an always-loaded file, fold the proposal inbox, shrink CLAUDE.md or DA_IDENTITY. NOT FOR general code refactoring, trimming video or audio media (use AudioEditor for audio files), or removing AI writing patterns from prose.

Scrapes social platforms, business data, and e-commerce via Apify actors — Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Google Maps, Amazon, and web crawls — filtering in code. USE WHEN scrape Instagram, scrape LinkedIn, scrape TikTok, scrape YouTube, scrape Facebook, Google Maps leads, Amazon reviews, business intelligence, multi-platform social listening, competitive analysis, lead generation, social monitoring, Apify actors, web crawl, extract contacts. NOT FOR X/Twitter account operations like posting, threads, or bookmarks (those need a dedicated X API client), 4-tier progressive scraping with proxy escalation (use BrightData), or real-Chrome bot bypass and computer use (use Interceptor).

Search and retrieve arXiv academic papers by topic, category, or paper ID — with AlphaXiv-enriched AI-generated overviews. Uses arXiv Atom API across cs.AI/cs.LG/cs.CL/cs.CR/cs.MA/cs.SE/cs.IR. Three workflows: Latest, Search, Paper. USE WHEN arxiv, papers, latest papers, research papers, recent ML papers, paper lookup, summarize paper, latest LLM papers, AI safety papers, cs.AI latest. NOT FOR general research (Research), URL parsing, or annual reports.

Assertion-first AI eval framework aligned to Anthropic's 'Demystifying evals for AI agents' — typed deterministic asserts + a forced-structured LLM judge over an input→assert case schema, pass^k/pass@k, capability vs regression suites, subscription-billed. USE WHEN eval, evaluate, benchmark, regression test, assertion, assert, llm-rubric, judge, pass@k, pass^k, grade output, compare prompts/models, test agent. NOT FOR scientific-method framing (use Science), property/mutation testing of code (use Hardening), or live UI verification (use Interceptor).

Transforms product documentation into sales-ready packages — a story explanation, charcoal gestural sketch art, and talking points — via a narrative-arc pipeline. USE WHEN sales, proposal, pitch deck, value proposition, sales narrative, sales deck, sales package, turn this into a pitch, create a sales story, sales materials, product pitch, transform docs to sales, sales script. NOT FOR Hormozi $100M frameworks, value equation, irresistible offer, or VOC mining, standalone diagrams or illustrations (use Art), or platform social posts.

Interactive voice-narrated tutorial on whatever the current conversation is about — teaches the topic beat by beat with ASCII diagrams in the terminal while speaking the actual lesson content aloud, asking one question per beat and quizzing until the ideas land. USE WHEN teach me, /teach-me, tutorial, teach me this, walk me through this interactively, explain this like a lesson, learn mode, quiz me, help me actually understand what we just did. NOT FOR plain written explanations with no dialogue (just answer directly), authored/published content, or discovery interviews that shape a half-formed idea (use grill-me).

Dual-context skill: Personal TELOS reads and updates goals, beliefs, narratives, strategies, and more with timestamped backups; Project TELOS analyzes .md/.csv directories for dependency chains, bottlenecks, and alignment, generating reports, narrative points, or dashboards. USE WHEN Telos, life goals, projects, dependencies, update TELOS, narrative points, McKinsey report, dashboard, what am I wrong about, life frames, mental models. NOT FOR conversational constitutional review (use Interview).

Operate Cortex, the LifeOS memory system — the typed Knowledge Archive (People, Companies, Ideas, Research with typed related: links) plus recall of prior work sessions, ISAs, and conversations. Search, add, harvest, develop, ingest, distill, graph-navigate, recall. USE WHEN cortex, knowledge, knowledge base, search knowledge, what do we know about, archive, harvest, knowledge status, develop note, add to knowledge, ingest, contradictions, knowledge graph, retrieve, mine conversations, distill, weekly digest, cortex digest, context search, prior work, recall, remember, previous sessions, context recovery, what did we do, find session, search history, resume, pick up where we left off, cold start, yesterday's work, last week, the one about. NOT FOR published-content semantic search across blog/newsletter/X/LinkedIn, or one-shot URL/YouTube ingestion via the Arbol harvester pipeline.

Manage the public daemon profile — a digital representation of what you're working on. DaemonAggregator reads LifeOS sources (TELOS, KNOWLEDGE, PROJECTS, MEMORY/WORK, identity) → daemon-data.json. SecurityFilter strips names/paths/credentials via deterministic patterns (NOT LLM). Workflows: UpdateDaemon, ReadDaemon, PreviewDaemon, DeployDaemon. USE WHEN daemon, update daemon, daemon profile, deploy daemon, preview daemon, read daemon, public profile, digital presence. NOT FOR LifeOS system management.

Execute any of 240+ specialized prompt patterns natively across Extraction, Summarization, Analysis, Creation, Improvement, Security, Rating. Common: extract_wisdom, create_threat_model, analyze_claims, improve_writing, review_code, mermaid, youtube_summary. CLI used only for YouTube transcript (-y) and URL fallback (-u). Two workflows: ExecutePattern, UpdatePatterns. USE WHEN fabric, fabric pattern, run fabric, update patterns, threat model, analyze claims, improve writing, review code, mermaid, STRIDE, sigma rules. NOT FOR multi-agent investigation (Research) or content-adaptive extraction (ExtractWisdom).

Evolutionary ideation engine — loop-controlled multi-cycle idea generation through phases of dreaming, cross-domain stealing, recombination, fitness testing, selection, and Lamarckian meta-learning, producing ranked novel solution candidates with provenance. USE WHEN ideate, id8, novel ideas, evolve ideas, dream up solutions, innovate, breakthrough ideas, idea evolution, multi-cycle creativity, need genuinely new approaches. NOT FOR quick single-pass brainstorming (use BeCreative).

Read, create, and edit tldraw .tldr canvas files deterministically — sketch hand-drawn-register diagrams (boxes, arrows, sticky notes, frames, text) directly into a canvas file the user opens in any tldraw surface, and read a rough canvas back as structured data to organize it. USE WHEN tldraw, .tldr file, whiteboard, canvas, sketch a diagram, hand-drawn diagram, draw this on a canvas, put this on the whiteboard, structure my canvas, organize my whiteboard, read my canvas, cluster my sticky notes. NOT FOR polished static images, infographics, or mermaid diagrams (use Art), web UI design (use Webdesign), programmatic video (use Remotion).

macOS system performance diagnostics — see how the machine is running and what's slowing it down: CPU/GPU/memory/energy hogs, thermal throttling, memory and swap pressure, disk usage, Spotlight indexing, launchd/startup load, via a deterministic read-only CLI with known-process interpretation (kernel_task, WindowServer, mds_stores). USE WHEN mac slow, system slow, what's slowing down my mac, computer is slow, what's eating CPU, CPU usage, GPU usage, what's using the GPU, memory pressure, RAM usage, swap, runaway process, fans loud, mac running hot, thermal throttling, system health, check my mac, how's my system running, top processes, energy hogs, activity monitor, startup items, launch agents load, system taxed. NOT FOR network/wifi diagnostics, website or deployed-app health monitoring, or security scanning.

Multi-agent collaborative debate producing visible round-by-round transcripts with real intellectual friction — members are topic-briefed custom agents, run as a 3-round DEBATE or a 1-round QUICK check, to find the best path. USE WHEN council, debate, multiple perspectives, weigh options, deliberate, get different views, what would experts say, pros and cons. NOT FOR pure adversarial attack (use RedTeam).

Intakes external content, classifies chunks against LifeOS taxonomy, commits with provenance. Sources: .md/.txt, stdin, LifeOS dirs, CLAUDE.md/Cursor/OpenAI Custom Instructions, Obsidian/Notion/Apple Notes exports. MigrateScan classifies → routing table. MigrateApprove with --approve-all/--approve-target/--review/--dry-run. Confidence ≥70% auto, 40-70% confirm, <40% walk-through. USE WHEN /migrate, migrate content, import from other LifeOS, bring in old notes, import Cursor rules, import CLAUDE.md, bulk import, Obsidian/Notion/Apple Notes import. NOT FOR single-file edits, conversational interviews, identity edits.

Evolutionary explanation-discovery engine for hard-to-vary causal theories of unknown phenomena. USE WHEN develop a new theory, explain a mystery, solve an explanatory gap, discover a mechanism, consciousness, origin, or scientific breakthrough. Also use for multi-cycle creative exploration. NOT FOR a single-pass divergent brainstorm (use BeCreative) or delivery validation alone (use Evals).

Adversarial analysis deploying parallel expert agents to stress-test ideas, strategies, and plans — decomposes into atomic claims, attacks them, then steelmans and counter-argues, producing severity-ranked findings with remediation. USE WHEN red team, attack idea, counterarguments, critique, stress test, devil's advocate, find weaknesses, break this, poke holes, strongest objection. NOT FOR collaborative debate to find best path (use Council).

The scientific method as a universal problem-solving algorithm — goal-first, plural falsifiable hypotheses, designed experiments, and honest measurement, scaling from TDD to feature validation to MVP launch. USE WHEN think about, figure out, experiment, iterate, optimize, hypothesis, science, full cycle, quick diagnosis, structured investigation, how do we test, analyze results. NOT FOR multi-angle lens passes (use IterativeDepth).

Improve LifeOS from what the best practitioners are shipping around AI harnesses — Anthropic first (changelogs, docs, releases), then trusted creators, trending repos, and the system's own reflections — extracting concrete techniques and filtering them against verified current state so nothing already-done or rejected is re-recommended. USE WHEN upgrade, system upgrade, check Anthropic, new Claude features, algorithm upgrade, LifeOS upgrade, mine reflections.

Detects AI-generated writing four ways — a heuristic audit against a catalog of known AI patterns, deterministic statistical signals (n-gram entropy, burstiness, repetition, stylometry — features never verdicts), an empirical Pangram score calibrated against known-human baselines, and a keyless scan for watermark and steganography signatures (invisible characters, homoglyphs, bidi, odd whitespace) in the bytes. USE WHEN detect AI writing, is this AI, AI detection, AI detector, did an AI write this, does this sound like AI, AI writing score, pangram, scan for AI tells, flag AI patterns, AI-isms, statistical AI signals, burstiness, text entropy, is this watermarked, detect watermark, steganography, zero-width chars, hidden characters, invisible unicode, compare drafts for AI-ness. NOT FOR rewriting prose to strip AI patterns (use a voice/authoring skill), plagiarism detection, detecting AI-generated images/video/code, or judging whether writing is any good.

Autonomous optimization loop — hill-climb any target. Code with metrics, or skills/prompts/agents with LLM-as-judge. USE WHEN optimize, hill climb, improve metric, reduce latency, optimize skill, optimize prompt, eval mode.

Creates programmatic video with React via Remotion — compositions, sequences, and motion graphics animated with useCurrentFrame() and rendered to MP4. USE WHEN video, animation, motion graphics, video rendering, React video, render video, animate content, make a short, create animations, video overlay, explainer video, animated explainer, content to video, programmatic video. NOT FOR static images, diagrams, or illustrations (use Art), tight-cut filler removal from raw talking-head recordings (that is video editing, not motion graphics), or audio-only podcast cleaning (use AudioEditor).

Multi-agent web research with mandatory URL verification, confidence-tagged output, and four depth modes (quick to deep investigation). USE WHEN research, do research, quick research, extensive research, deep investigation, find information, investigate, extract alpha, analyze content, retrieve content, AI trends, enhance content, extract knowledge, web scraping, YouTube extraction, map landscape, competitive analysis, find it, find this, find this product, identify this, what is this, what's that thing, track down, locate, help me find, I can't find X online, can't find it online, source this — never substitute raw WebSearch/WebFetch for a multi-source find/identify/investigate request. NOT FOR people/company/entity deep background, academic papers (use ArXiv), JSON entity extraction, or content-adaptive wisdom extraction (use ExtractWisdom).

Curated aphorism collection with CRUD — content-based matching, themed search, thinker research, DB maintenance. Quotes organized by author/theme/context/usage to prevent repetition. Four workflows: FindAphorism, AddAphorism, ResearchThinker, SearchAphorisms. Themes: Stoicism, Wisdom, Truth-seeking, Excellence, Resilience, Curiosity. USE WHEN aphorism, quote, find a quote, research thinker, add aphorism, quote for newsletter, what did X say about, quote bank. NOT FOR creative writing or social posts.

Three-layer bias analysis on any URL, file, or text — auto-fetches the content and any cited study, then audits data-level biases, source conflicts of interest, and journalism-added distortions, separating what the data supports from what's editorialized. USE WHEN bias analysis, analyze bias, bias check, check this study, who funded this, is this source biased, fact-check article, methodological flaws, source credibility, what's wrong with this claim. NOT FOR psychological author analysis, research synthesis (use Research), entity due diligence.

Generates production-ready TypeScript CLIs via a 3-tier template system (manual arg parsing, Commander.js, oclif), each shipping full implementation, docs, package.json, strict config, JSON output, and exit-code compliance. USE WHEN create CLI, build CLI, command-line tool, wrap API, add command, upgrade tier, TypeScript CLI. NOT FOR LifeOS skill scaffolding (use CreateSkill).

Hardens LifeOS tests via property/mutation testing. USE WHEN harden, hardening, property test, property based testing, PBT, fast-check, mutation test, mutation testing, Stryker, CRAP score, CRAP analysis, DRY scan, jscpd, acceptance test mutation, strengthen tests, sharpen ISCs, find bugs example tests miss, universal quantified claim, shrink counterexample, what bugs am I missing, test the tests, test of the test. NOT FOR writing new feature tests (use bun test directly), grading agent output quality (use Evals), UI verification with real Chrome (use Interceptor), finding security vulnerabilities, or building new functionality.

Evidence-grounded context refresh: reads constitutional files, TELOS, and CURRENT_STATE/IDEAL_STATE dimension files via TelosFreshness, pulls observed data (Oura sleep/HRV, Conduit app-time, work registry, git, expenses via StateEvidence), and drives a peer conversation that opens with claim-vs-evidence contradictions, drafts corrections for ratification, and closes with a ComputeGap-grounded ideal-state review. Routes to ContextCheckin; Phase0Setup on fresh install. USE WHEN /interview, resume interview, context check-in, telos check-in, what's stale, stale data, freshness check, update current state, update my current state, state sync, statusline says interview due, interview due, review TELOS, update ideal state, quarterly context refresh, fresh LifeOS install, configure DA name. NOT FOR single edits (Telos), bulk intake (Migrate), identity-only.

Meta-prompting standard library for generating, optimizing, and composing prompts programmatically via Standards, Handlebars Templates, and Tools; output is always a prompt to use elsewhere, not final content. USE WHEN meta-prompting, template generation, prompt optimization, prompt engineering, write a prompt, create system prompt, Handlebars template, eval prompt, judge prompt. NOT FOR generating final content (use the appropriate domain skill).

Analyze and update 68 US economic and social indicators from five government APIs (FRED, EIA, Treasury, BLS, Census) across 10 categories: GDP, Inflation, Employment, Housing, Consumer Finance, Markets, Trade, Government/Fiscal, Demographics, Health. Two workflows: UpdateData, GetCurrentState (10y/5y/2y/1y trend analysis). USE WHEN GDP, inflation, unemployment, economic metrics, gas prices, how is the economy, refresh data, FRED, US metrics, economic trends. NOT FOR pathogen surveillance.

Design and integrate web interfaces via three paths: DirectDesign (write design inline with Anthropic frontend-design philosophy — the default workhorse), native /design + /design-sync Claude Code commands (preferred for code integration and design-system sync), or ClaudeDesign (drive claude.ai/design through Interceptor — experimental visual-review fallback). USE WHEN web design, UI design, create prototype, design system, design sync, redesign site, mockup, landing page, dashboard design, design-to-code, frontend design, polish UI, design audit, brutalist/editorial/retro UI. NOT FOR illustrations/logos (use Art) or video (use Remotion).

Divergent ideation and corpus expansion via Verbalized Sampling plus extended thinking — single-shot generates several internally diverse candidates and surfaces the strongest, or expands a seed corpus into a diverse dataset for evals and test sets. USE WHEN be creative, brainstorm, divergent ideas, creative solutions, maximum creativity, tree of thoughts, radically different, name this, creative angle, expand this corpus, synthetic data, generate diverse examples, create test set. NOT FOR multi-cycle evolutionary ideation with Lamarckian meta-learning (use Ideate).

4-tier progressive web scraping that auto-escalates WebFetch to curl to Interceptor to Bright Data proxy for bot detection and CAPTCHAs, with single-URL and multi-page crawl modes, output as markdown. USE WHEN Bright Data, scrape URL, web scraping, bot detection, crawl site, CAPTCHA, can't access, site blocking, extract page content, scrape whole site, spider domain, convert URL to markdown, getting blocked. NOT FOR simple public content (use WebFetch directly), social platform scraping with named actors (use Apify), or real-Chrome bot bypass with logged-in sessions and zero CDP fingerprint (use Interceptor).

Scaffolding that helps a writer build a story they already want to tell — fills in structure, hidden wound, theme, and prose from the writer's own material across seven narrative layers, deriving the spine from their notes as proposals they ratify. Bans generic AI patterns; scales short story to multi-book series. USE WHEN write story, fiction, novel, chapter, story bible, character arc, plot outline, creative writing, worldbuilding, draft story, help me write my story, develop my novel, layer my story, build out my book, I have notes for a story. NOT FOR narrative summaries of real content.

AI audio editing pipeline: Whisper word-level transcription → Claude segment classification (KEEP/CUT_FILLER/CUT_FALSE_START/CUT_STUTTER/CUT_DEAD_AIR) → ffmpeg with 40ms qsin crossfades and room-tone fill → optional Cleanvoice cloud polish; plus GateScan/GateRepair for noise-gate ticking artifacts. Modes: --preview, --aggressive, --polish. Workflow: Clean. USE WHEN clean audio, edit audio, remove filler words, clean podcast, remove ums, cut dead air, polish audio, trim recording, cut stutters, ticking audio, clicking audio, audio clicks, gate artifacts, popping audio. NOT FOR video composition (use Remotion).

Mandatory orchestrator for all LifeOS skill work — creating, editing, adding a workflow or tool, renaming, validating, or canonicalizing any skill. Handrolling skill files is forbidden; owns the full lifecycle: scaffold, validate, canonicalize, test, improve. USE WHEN create skill, new skill, make a skill, build a skill, set up a skill, private skill, make a X skill, add a workflow, add a tool, edit/change/update/rename a skill, skill frontmatter, validate skill, check skill, canonicalize, scaffold skill, test skill, improve skill, optimize description, skill not triggering, overtriggering. NOT FOR TypeScript CLI generation (use CreateCLI).

Real Chrome/Brave + macOS Computer Use from inside the browser — zero CDP fingerprint, real sessions; mandatory for visual deploy verification. Drive clickwork yourself. USE WHEN verify deploy, confirm UI, screenshot verification, computer use, macos automation, debug web, troubleshoot, visual check, motion/animation bug, jank, transition stutter, scrub a flow, console logs/errors, runtime/JS/react errors, mismatch warning, network traffic/log, HAR/pcapng export, hydration/blank-page debug, flash then blank/page broken, why is this not working/what's happening on the page, authenticated page, bot detection bypass, reproduce bug, drive native app, about to ask the operator to click/navigate/fill a form/log in/approve OAuth, OAuth consent flow, complete a web login, do this in your browser. NOT FOR residential-proxy crawling (BrightData) or social actor scraping (Apify).

Defensive threat modeling and risk management for your own estate — map where sensitive data lives across your asset graph, run compromise scenarios (what a hacked asset exposes, its blast radius, how you'd respond), and maintain a persistent risk register with likelihood×impact scoring, owners, mitigations, and review cadence via a deterministic CLI. All real data stays in your private USER tree; this skill is code only. USE WHEN threat model, threat modeling, risk register, risk assessment, what if X got hacked, compromise scenario, blast radius, sensitive data map, where is our sensitive data, data classification, risk review, add a risk, accept a risk, security risk posture. NOT FOR active pentesting or exploitation (use an offensive-security skill), world-scale futures stress-testing of ideas (use WorldThreatModel), or executing incident response (use your incident-response runbooks — this skill plans them).

Content-adaptive wisdom extraction that reads content first, detects which wisdom domains are present, and builds custom sections around them, with five depth levels and mandatory contrarian takes; pulls YouTube via fabric and articles via WebFetch. USE WHEN extract wisdom, analyze video, analyze podcast, extract insights, key takeaways, summarize interview, distill content. NOT FOR static Fabric extract_wisdom pattern (use Fabric).

Discover WHICH new skills you should create, from your own work history plus your satisfaction/frustration signals. Read-only and proposal-only: it surfaces recurring pain that no existing skill, loop, or workflow covers, then hands you a ranked shortlist to build with CreateSkill. It never creates or edits a skill itself. Frustration is a first-class signal (a topic can look 'covered' while you keep hitting the same wall inside it), so it reads low ratings and recurrence markers, not just session topics. USE WHEN should I create a skill, what skills do I need, suggest skills, skill gap, based on my recent work, am I missing a skill, what should I build. NOT FOR creating/validating/testing/optimizing an individual skill (use CreateSkill) — this only decides WHAT to build, not how.

Structured multi-angle exploration running 2-8 sequential passes over the same problem, each through a different scientific lens, to surface hidden requirements and edge cases invisible from one angle; each pass yields new ISC criteria. USE WHEN iterative depth, explore deeper, multi-angle analysis, surface hidden requirements, blind spot check, what am I missing. NOT FOR scope/zoom analysis (use ApertureOscillation).

Physics-based reasoning framework (Musk methodology) that deconstructs a problem to irreducible fundamental truths, classifies every element as hard constraint, soft constraint, or assumption, then reconstructs the optimal solution from fundamentals alone. USE WHEN first principles, fundamental truths, challenge assumptions, real constraint, rebuild from scratch, start over, physics first, question everything, reasoning by analogy. NOT FOR structural feedback loops (use SystemsThinking).

Structural analysis of complex systems — Iceberg model, Causal Loop feedback diagrams, archetype matching, Meadows leverage points, and concept maps — grounded in the premise that behavior is generated by structure. USE WHEN systems thinking, causal loop, feedback loops, archetypes, leverage points, iceberg model, fix the system, why does this keep happening, recurring problem, second-order effects. NOT FOR incident causal chains (use RootCauseAnalysis).

Persistent world-model harness that stress-tests ideas, strategies, and investments against 11 time horizons from 6 months to 50 years, each a deep analysis of geopolitics, tech, economics, society, and security, in Fast/Standard/Deep tiers. USE WHEN threat model, world model, test idea, future analysis, time horizon, stress test against future, long-term risk. NOT FOR single-shot idea attack (use RedTeam).

Generic civic intelligence aggregator for any US city — daily local digest of construction permits, crime, new businesses, public officials, legislation, elections, arrests, and local news, keyed off principal's Hometown. Writes JSON consumed by Pulse LOCAL tab. Crime delegates to a dedicated crime-stats skill. Workflows: DailyBrief, Construction, Crime, Business, Officials, Legislation, Elections, Arrests, News. USE WHEN local news, hometown news, council meeting, building permits, mayor, ballot measures, ordinance, recent arrests, civic intel, local digest. NOT FOR national news or arbitrary-city crime.

Structured incident investigation using Five Whys, Fishbone, blameless Postmortem, Fault Tree, Kepner-Tregoe, and FMEA — traces failures to systemic root causes rather than blaming humans. USE WHEN root cause, RCA, 5 whys, fishbone, postmortem, incident analysis, fault tree, why does this keep failing, blameless, recurring bug. NOT FOR systemic loops (use SystemsThinking).

Query curated cybersecurity market and company intelligence. USE WHEN security market data OR cybersecurity funding OR cyber M&A OR security-company/investor research OR market maps OR deal activity OR Return on Security OR The Signal. NOT FOR vulnerability research, security news, or investment advice.

3-pass scope oscillation that holds a question constant while shifting zoom — narrow/tactical, wide/strategic, then synthesis — to surface design tensions, scope recommendations, and coherence assessments invisible at any single zoom level. USE WHEN aperture oscillation, oscillate scope, zoom in and out, tactical vs strategic, scope framing, design tension, system coherence check, local vs global design, wrong scope, scope negotiation. NOT FOR lens rotation across angles (use IterativeDepth).

Ethical people-finding and identity verification via parallel research agents across people-search sites, social media, public records, and reverse phone/email/image/username lookups, with confidence-scored results requiring 3+ matching identifiers. USE WHEN find person, locate person, reconnect, lost contact, old friend, reverse phone lookup, who owns this email, reverse image search, find by username, verify identity, people search, public-data background check, who is this caller. NOT FOR structured due-diligence or company/entity intelligence investigations, or general web research synthesis (use Research).

Audits any AI instruction set for over-prompting using the core test — would a smarter model make this rule unnecessary? Applies Five Questions to every rule (Claude already does this? Contradiction? Redundant? One-off fix? Vague?) then classifies as CUT/RESOLVE/MERGE/EVALUATE/SHARPEN/MOVE/KEEP. Workflows: Audit (full system, token savings), QuickCheck (single file). Principle: less scaffolding = better output. USE WHEN BPE, bitter pill, audit setup, over-prompting, trim instructions, dead weight, simplify setup, clean up CLAUDE.md. NOT FOR attacking logical flaws in ideas (use RedTeam).