Hmbown Persuasion
Craft clear, credible language that moves a person or team toward a decision.
What This Skill Does
Use this skill when the problem is not information scarcity but alignment, framing, or buy-in. In this grimoire, Persuasion is treated as a metaphorical skill with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Persuasion (skill).
When To Use
- You need to write a convincing proposal, memo, comment, or pitch.
- A technically correct answer will fail without audience-aware framing.
- The goal is movement, not verbosity.
Prerequisites
- No extra runtime dependencies beyond Hermes Agent and the normal toolset for this session.
Procedure
- Restate the target, the success condition, and any no-touch boundaries before taking action.
- Identify the audience, incentives, objections, and decision threshold.
- Build the argument around concrete benefits, tradeoffs, and credibility.
- Use the tone that best matches the target person or forum.
- Return a persuasive draft plus the core reasoning it relies on.
- Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.
Deliverables
- A decision-oriented draft.
- A short objection-handling section.
- A note on which claims need evidence before sending.
Pitfalls / Guardrails
- Keep the metaphor anchored to a real mechanism instead of drifting into lore.
- Do not manipulate through deception or fabricated certainty.
- Be explicit when the case depends on assumptions or incomplete evidence.
Verification
- Check that the result includes every deliverable promised above.
- Check that confirmed facts, assumptions, and inferences are visibly separated.
- Check that the metaphor still maps cleanly to a real operational mechanism.
Example Invocation
/persuasion draft the strongest credible case for this proposal for the intended audience