# Adaptic

> Master skill composing the 5-step synoptic cycle for panoramic synthesis across multiple domains. Orchestrates meditate, expand-awareness, observe, awareness, integrate-gestalt, and express-insight into a coherent process that produces unified understanding rather than sequential compromise. Use when a problem genuinely spans 3+ domains and the interactions between domains matter more than depth in any one, when sequential analysis feels like compromise rather than integration, or before major architectural decisions affecting multiple stakeholders.

- Skill: `pjt222/adaptic-10` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add pjt222/adaptic-10`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/pjt222/adaptic-10/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Integrations & APIs
- License: MIT
- Author: pjt222 (https://skillmd.com/u/pjt222)
- Updated: 2026-09-21
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/pjt222/adaptic-10

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# Adaptic

5-step synoptic cycle → panoramic synthesis across domains. Sequential = compromise ("little of each"). Synoptic = integration → unified understanding holds all domains at once → emergent whole.

## Use When

- Problem spans 3+ domains, *interactions* > depth in any one
- Polymath sequential tried → synthesis feels like compromise
- Existing approaches = "little of each" not unified vision
- Before major architectural decisions, multi-stakeholder
- Domain experts disagree → resolution lives *between*

## Use NOT When

- Single-domain → use domain agent direct
- Well-understood trade-offs → polymath sequential enough
- Self-care/wellness → tending team
- Speed > depth → full cycle needs sustained attention

## In

- **Required**: Problem requiring multi-domain synthesis
- **Optional**: Explicit domain list (default: auto-detect)
- **Optional**: Depth — `light`, `standard`, `deep` (default: `standard`)
- **Optional**: Expression form — `narrative`, `diagram`, `table`, `recommendation` (default: `auto`)

## Config

```yaml
settings:
  depth: standard          # light (skip meditate), standard, deep (extended perceive)
  domains: auto            # auto-detect or explicit list
  expression_form: auto    # narrative, diagram, table, recommendation
```

## Do

### Step 1: Clear — Empty Workspace

Run `meditate` → clear prior ctx, assumptions, single-domain bias.

1. Full meditate proc: prepare, anchor, observe distractions, close
2. Domain bias = tendency to frame via recently-active domain
3. Clear premature solutions arrived pre-full-picture
4. `depth: light` → brief ctx-clearing pause

**→** Workspace empty. No domain priority. No solution pre-selected. Neutral receptive → hold multiple perspectives.

**If err:** Domain keeps asserting → name bias: "I frame this as primarily [domain]." Naming loosens. Clearing fails → genuinely single-domain → reconsider.

### Step 2: Open — Panoramic Mode

Run `expand-awareness` → narrow → wide-field perception.

1. Inventory all domains → no pre-filter/rank
2. Per domain: core concerns, constraints, values — no eval
3. Soften focus: hold all simultaneously vs cycling
4. Resist "start solving" → opening field only
5. Domains in inputs → starting set, open to more

**→** Panoramic field open. All domains simultaneous. Full landscape sensed. Spacious not overwhelming.

**If err:** List incomplete → "What missing would change picture?" Simultaneous → sequential scan → slow down. >7 domains → cluster related.

### Step 3: Perceive — Cross-Domain Patterns

While maintaining panoramic, run `observe` + `awareness` → notice patterns, tensions, resonances *across* domains.

1. Hold Step 2 field open → no narrow
2. `observe` → what present: patterns across domains? tensions? resonances?
3. `awareness` → what *not* seen: ignored domains? blind spots? surface assumptions?
4. Record cross-domain no interpret:
   - **Tensions**: domains pull opposite
   - **Resonances**: domains reinforce/echo
   - **Gaps**: no domain addresses, whole reveals
   - **Surprises**: domain unexpected contribution
5. `depth: deep` → cycle multiple times → subtler patterns

Critical: perceive across all simultaneously, not each in turn. Sequential loses cross-domain patterns = entire point.

**→** Rich cross-domain obs — tensions, resonances, gaps, surprises. Span boundaries not live within. Noticed something invisible from any single domain.

**If err:** All within single ("in domain A, I notice X") → field collapsed → Step 2. No cross-domain → problem not synoptic → genuinely decomposable. Overwhelming → prioritize tensions (integration happens there).

### Step 4: Integrate — Emergent Whole

Run `integrate-gestalt` → synthesize cross-domain obs → unified understanding.

1. Map Step 3 tensions → don't resolve prematurely → hold as creative constraints
2. Find figure: unified understanding when all held together? Not compromise/avg → new pattern includes+transcends individual
3. Test whole: honors each domain's core concerns? Resolves tensions or papers over?
4. Name insight one clear statement → unstatable simply = incomplete
5. Verify emergent: reachable sequentially? Yes → synoptic added no value → sequential suffices

**→** Single integrated understanding holding all simultaneously. Feels like discovery not construction — emerged from whole. Each domain honored, tensions resolved not compromised.

**If err:** "Little of each" not unified → gestalt not formed → Step 3, find avoided tensions — integration happens *through* tension. No gestalt → decompose: 2-3 strongest-tension domains first, then expand.

### Step 5: Express — Communicate

Run `express-insight` → communicate synthesis.

1. Assess audience: what domains familiar? framing makes accessible?
2. Expression form (or input):
   - **Narrative**: audience needs parts→whole journey
   - **Diagram**: structural relationships
   - **Table**: systematic comparison
   - **Recommendation**: actionable decision
3. Express w/ transparency: which domains contributed, where tensions resolved, emergent insight beyond any single
4. Invite challenge: which aspects strongest, which most speculative

**→** Clear expression accessible to audience. Shows work → audience sees domain contributions → whole. Form matches audience needs.

**If err:** Feels like list not integrated → insight lost → Step 4 one-statement summary, build outward from center. Wrong framing → "Who needs this and what decision does it inform?"

## Check

- [ ] Step 1 (Clear) ran → ctx + domain bias released
- [ ] Step 2 (Open) produced panoramic 3+ domains
- [ ] Step 3 (Perceive) cross-domain patterns (not within-domain)
- [ ] Step 4 (Integrate) single emergent transcends individual
- [ ] Step 5 (Express) form appropriate to audience
- [ ] Output unreachable by sequential single-domain
- [ ] Each domain's core concerns honored
- [ ] Tensions resolved through integration, not compromise

## Traps

- **Sequential masquerading as simultaneous**: Cycling domains + stapling results ≠ synoptic. Test: cross-domain *interactions* produced new, or just concatenation?
- **Premature integration**: Jump synthesis pre-panoramic field open. Steps 2+3 build foundation → rushing = shallow.
- **Compromise instead of emergence**: Avg ("50% security, 50% usability") = compromise. True integration finds frame where both *fully* met, or honestly names irreducible trade-off.
- **Overuse single-domain**: Not every problem panoramic. Single domain → synoptic adds overhead no value. "Use NOT When" exists.
- **Losing insight in expression**: Step 4 gestalt → Step 5 fragments back to domain list. Keep integrated insight center; domain details supporting evidence.
- **Domain inflation**: Artificially expand count → justify synoptic. 3 genuinely relevant > 7 where 4 peripheral.

## →

- `meditate` — Step 1; clears ctx + neutral state
- `expand-awareness` — Step 2; narrow → panoramic
- `observe` — Step 3; what present across field
- `awareness` — Step 3; what not seen, blind spots
- `integrate-gestalt` — Step 4; emergent whole from cross-domain
- `express-insight` — Step 5; communicate integrated understanding