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Consult The Atlas by xyrasinclair — Agent Skill

Name: Consult The Atlas
Author: XyraSinclair

Consult The Atlas

Before planning or brainstorming in a territory the catalog already maps, retrieve the lists and maps the situation belongs to and run them as instruments: stand on the axis, label every member present / ruled-out / unlabeled, walk the edges for consequences the plan did not state, and take the pre-written probes. Use at the start of a hard plan, a negotiation, a raise, a pricing or survival call, or whenever a brainstorm sounds like the model's default. The failure it prevents: sampling the mode when a bounded denominator for the situation already exists on disk.

XyraSinclair Updated Sep 17, 2026

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consult-the-atlas

The catalog is a generator until something opens it at the moment of use. This move opens it. Organon: P10 map + P11 gap-find + P18 filter + P37 residue-seed; the audit half composes prove-the-coverage-denominator. Phase: SENSE -> ORIENT -> JUDGE.

Procedure

State the situation in your own words, then ask the atlas.
```
ideonomy consult "raising a seed round with four months of cash" --k 3
ideonomy consult --file plan.md --kind map --k 2
```
Every hit prints its of sentence. Reject a hit whose type the situation does not belong to; retrieval is lexical and a wrong-vocabulary miss is invisible unless you read of. Two rephrasings before concluding the territory is unmapped.
Stand on the axis. For each map, place the situation at one stop of the seriation and read its neighbors: those are what to expect next and what you are about to cross. An axis is an authored itinerary, not a scale.
Label the denominator.
```
ideonomy consult --file plan.md --frame audit --k 2
```
Every member gets exactly one label — present (where in the plan), ruled-out (why), unlabeled (what would decide it). A plan that "covers everything" and cannot fill this frame has not been checked.
Walk the edges from every present member. An edge label is a conditional claim about what the move recruits or forecloses. Write down each consequence the plan did not already state; those are the findings.
Take the probes. Each map's next_question is a small discriminating experiment already designed. Run one, or say why none applies.
Route what resisted. Members left unlabeled and edges you could not evaluate go to the residue ledger; the next fleet's brief reads them (ideonomy consult --from-residue <topic> shows what last session left open and which maps it lands in). A situation no list matches is a territory for practice-deep-ideonomy, not a shrug.

The gate

For at least one chosen map, every member is labeled and the count of unlabeled members is stated (zero, or PARTIAL with the number), and at least one edge consequence the plan did not state is written down. A consult that produces neither a labeled denominator nor a new consequence produced nothing; say so and route to practice-deep-ideonomy or triangulate-without-oracle.

Example

Situation: a founder planning a raise with four months of runway. The consult returns runway-illusions, walkaway-manufactures, and dilution-carriers. On the runway axis the plan sits at the stop where watchers reprice the founder's burn. The audit marks eleven carriers ruled-out, five present, one unlabeled (a re-vest whose trigger the plan does not specify). The edge from the insider bridge to the outside lead's terms yields the consequence the plan missed: the bridge, once named, tells the lead the outsiders did not come. The probe taken is the meter-in-weeks arithmetic on the bridge itself.

---name: consult-the-atlasdescription: Before planning or brainstorming in a territory the catalog already maps, retrieve the lists and maps the situation belongs to and run them as instruments: stand on the axis, label every member present / ruled-out / unlabeled, walk the edges for consequences the plan did not state, and take the pre-written probes. Use at the start of a hard plan, a negotiation, a raise, a pricing or survival call, or whenever a brainstorm sounds like the model's default. The failure it prevents: sampling the mode when a bounded denominator for the situation already exists on disk.---# consult-the-atlasThe catalog is a generator until something opens it at the moment of use.This move opens it. Organon: P10 map + P11 gap-find + P18 filter + P37residue-seed; the audit half composes `prove-the-coverage-denominator`.Phase: SENSE -> ORIENT -> JUDGE.## Procedure1. **State the situation in your own words, then ask the atlas.** ```bash ideonomy consult "raising a seed round with four months of cash" --k 3 ideonomy consult --file plan.md --kind map --k 2 ``` Every hit prints its `of` sentence. Reject a hit whose type the situation does not belong to; retrieval is lexical and a wrong-vocabulary miss is invisible unless you read `of`. Two rephrasings before concluding the territory is unmapped.2. **Stand on the axis.** For each map, place the situation at one stop of the seriation and read its neighbors: those are what to expect next and what you are about to cross. An axis is an authored itinerary, not a scale.3. **Label the denominator.** ```bash ideonomy consult --file plan.md --frame audit --k 2 ``` Every member gets exactly one label — present (where in the plan), ruled-out (why), unlabeled (what would decide it). A plan that "covers everything" and cannot fill this frame has not been checked.4. **Walk the edges from every present member.** An edge label is a conditional claim about what the move recruits or forecloses. Write down each consequence the plan did not already state; those are the findings.5. **Take the probes.** Each map's `next_question` is a small discriminating experiment already designed. Run one, or say why none applies.6. **Route what resisted.** Members left unlabeled and edges you could not evaluate go to the residue ledger; the next fleet's brief reads them (`ideonomy consult --from-residue <topic>` shows what last session left open and which maps it lands in). A situation no list matches is a territory for `practice-deep-ideonomy`, not a shrug.**The gate**For at least one chosen map, every member is labeled and the count ofunlabeled members is stated (zero, or PARTIAL with the number), and at leastone edge consequence the plan did not state is written down. A consult thatproduces neither a labeled denominator nor a new consequence produced nothing;say so and route to `practice-deep-ideonomy` or `triangulate-without-oracle`.## ExampleSituation: a founder planning a raise with four months of runway. The consultreturns `runway-illusions`, `walkaway-manufactures`, and `dilution-carriers`.On the runway axis the plan sits at the stop where watchers reprice thefounder's burn. The audit marks eleven carriers ruled-out, five present, oneunlabeled (a re-vest whose trigger the plan does not specify). The edge fromthe insider bridge to the outside lead's terms yields the consequence the planmissed: the bridge, once named, tells the lead the outsiders did not come. Theprobe taken is the meter-in-weeks arithmetic on the bridge itself.

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