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- ▌ S4ag · human-avatarRouter and starting point for the skills-for-agriculture plugin. Use when the user types /s4ag, asks what this plugin does, asks 'which skill should I use', or describes a farming need without naming a specific skill — and you need to route them to the right s4ag-* skill. Also the right entry when a farm question spans several domains and you're unsure where to start.
- ▌ S4ag Bees · human-avatarBeekeeping decisions — seasonal management, hive inspection, swarm prevention and capture, Varroa and disease management, and natural beekeeping approaches. Use when the user asks about bees, hives, honey, pollination, Varroa, swarms, or 'something is wrong with my hive'.
- ▌ S4ag Pigs · human-avatarPig management decisions — pasture, woodland, and orchard systems; rotational management; breed selection; housing; nutrition; and health basics. Use when the user asks about pigs, raising pigs, pasture pigs, pig rotation, pig health, or integrating pigs into the farm.
- ▌ S4ag Soil · human-avatarEntry point for soil health decisions. Use when the user mentions soil tests, fertility, amendments, cover crops, compaction, soil biology, carbon, drainage, or says anything like 'my soil is', 'what should I add', 'soil test results', 'how do I improve my soil', or 'why are my crops struggling'.
- ▌ S4ag Goats · human-avatarGoat management for dairy, meat, fibre, or land clearing. Use when the user asks about goats, milking, kidding, browse, FAMACHA, fencing for goats, goat breeds, land clearing with goats, or says 'my goat'.
- ▌ S4ag Herbs · human-avatarGrow medicinal and culinary herbs well. Use when the user asks about growing herbs, drying herbs, herb quality, medicinal herb cultivation, perennial herb beds, or says anything like 'how do I grow', 'best soil for herbs', 'harvest herbs', 'dry herbs', or 'herb garden'.
- ▌ S4ag Pests · human-avatarPest and disease management. Use when the user describes a pest, disease, or crop damage problem, or asks how to control something eating or damaging their crops. Also use for: 'what's wrong with my plants', 'holes in leaves', 'wilting', 'yellow leaves', 'white powder', 'black spots', 'insects on my crops', or any request to identify or control a farm pest or disease.
- ▌ S4ag Seeds · human-avatarSeed saving and selection guidance. Use when the user asks about saving seed, isolation distances, seed cleaning, storage, variety preservation, open-pollinated varieties, or says 'can I save seed from this', 'how do I store seeds', or 'which varieties breed true'.
- ▌ S4ag Water · human-avatarWater decisions for farms — irrigation system selection, when and how much to irrigate, drought resilience, drainage problems, water harvesting, and water quality. Use when the user says anything like 'my soil is too wet', 'I need to irrigate', 'we had a dry summer', 'drainage is poor', or 'how do I collect rainwater'.
- ▌ S4ag Carbon · human-avatarCarbon farming decisions: sequestration, building soil carbon, measuring organic matter, voluntary carbon credits. Use when the user asks 'how do I build carbon', 'can I sell carbon credits', 'how do I measure soil carbon', or 'what builds organic matter fastest'.
- ▌ S4ag Grains · human-avatarGrowing grains at small scale — wheat, oats, rye, barley, spelt, buckwheat, corn. Use when the user asks about grain variety selection, seeding, small-scale harvest, grain rotation, or grain storage.
- ▌ S4ag Labour · human-avatarHelp finding, managing, and developing farm workers, wwoofers, apprentices, or volunteers. Use when the user mentions hiring, labour, staff, wwoofers, apprentices, managing people, employment law, or says anything like 'I need help on the farm', 'how do I find workers', or 'what do I owe my employees'.
- ▌ S4ag Market · human-avatarHelp with farmers markets and farm stalls — choosing a market, pricing, display, what to bring, talking to customers, tracking performance, or making more money from a regular pitch.
- ▌ S4ag Fencing · human-avatarFencing for rotational grazing, predator exclusion, and land management. Use when the user asks about electric fencing, paddock layout, rotational infrastructure, energisers, predator netting, or says 'I need to fence', 'what wire', 'how many paddocks'.
- ▌ S4ag Finance · human-avatarFarm finance guidance — use when the user asks about enterprise budgets, cash flow, break-even, grants, loans, input costs, profit margins, making a new enterprise pay, or says anything like 'can I afford', 'does this pencil out', 'how do I fund', or 'is this worth it financially'.
- ▌ S4ag Poultry · human-avatarEntry point for poultry decisions. Use when the user mentions chickens, ducks, layers, meat birds, broilers, egg production, pastured poultry, chicken tractor, poultry health, housing, feed, or says anything like 'my hens aren't laying', 'how many birds', 'poultry on pasture', or 'integrate chickens'.
- ▌ S4ag Seasons · human-avatarSeasonal and annual farm planning. Use when the user asks about crop rotation, succession planting, what to do next, planning the year, when to sow or plant, planning a market garden calendar, livestock seasonal tasks, or says 'what should I be doing now', 'how do I plan my year', or 'I need a growing calendar'.
- ▌ S4ag Storage · human-avatarOn-farm storage guidance. Use when the user says 'how do I store', 'root cellar', 'grain bin', 'cold room', 'post-harvest', 'reducing losses', 'keep produce longer', 'storage temperature', or 'produce is spoiling'.
- ▌ S4ag Mycology · human-avatarFungi in farming. Use when the user asks about growing mushrooms, mycelium, fungal networks, mycorrhizae, wood-chip beds, log inoculation, spent substrate, or says anything like 'I want to grow mushrooms', 'how do fungi help soil', or 'mycorrhizal inoculant'.
- ▌ S4ag Orchards · human-avatarEstablish and manage a fruit tree orchard. Use when the user asks about planting fruit trees, rootstock, pruning, orchard nutrition, spray programmes, tree pests or disease, apple, pear, plum, cherry, or any tree fruit.
- ▌ S4ag Community · human-avatarBuild community through the farm — CSAs, food hubs, cooperatives, shared land. Use when the user says 'community supported agriculture', 'food hub', 'cooperative', 'shared land', 'members', 'community', 'collective', or 'food sovereignty'.
- ▌ S4ag Education · human-avatarFarm education planning — use when asked about school visits, workshops, courses, learning farms, online content, or how to share what you know with the public, students, or apprentices.
- ▌ S4ag Livestock · human-avatarLivestock grazing decisions. Use when user mentions cattle, sheep, rotational grazing, stocking rate, paddocks, mob grazing, holistic planned grazing, pasture recovery, overgrazing, integrating animals with crops, or says 'my animals', 'my pasture', 'my herd'.
- ▌ S4ag Syntropic · human-avatarSyntropic agroforestry design and management. Use when someone asks about Ernst Götsch, succession farming, syntropic, placenta species, chopping and dropping, or wants to design a farm that improves without external inputs.
- ▌ S4ag Biodynamic · human-avatarApply biodynamic farming to your land. Use when the user asks about BD preparations, horn manure, horn silica, the biodynamic calendar, root/flower/fruit/leaf days, Steiner farming, farm organism, Demeter certification, or transitioning from organic to biodynamic.
- ▌ S4ag Composting · human-avatarMake good compost and use it well. Use when someone asks about composting methods, worm farms, bokashi, compost tea, how to apply compost, or says 'I want to build my soil biology cheaply'.
- ▌ S4ag Earthworks · human-avatarDesign and build earthworks — swales, berms, ponds, and contour-based water infrastructure. Use when the user mentions swales, berms, ponds, keyline, contours, runoff, water harvesting, access tracks, erosion, or says things like 'water running off', 'how do I build a swale', 'where should I put a pond', or 'keyline design'.
- ▌ S4ag Indigenous · human-avatarEntry point for traditional ecological knowledge and land stewardship. Use when the user asks about indigenous farming, TEK, honorable harvest, Three Sisters, prescribed burning, polyculture traditions, or relational land management.
- ▌ S4ag Succession · human-avatarFarm succession and land access guidance. Use when someone says 'passing the farm on', 'who takes over', 'getting into farming', 'access land', 'family farm transition', 'lease my farm', 'new entrant', or 'what happens when I retire'.
- ▌ S4ag Vegetables · human-avatarVegetable growing decisions — variety selection, spacing, succession, problem diagnosis, and intensive production. Use when the user says anything like 'what should I grow', 'my crop is failing', 'how do I plan my beds', 'succession planting', 'no-dig', or 'market garden'.
- ▌ S4ag Agritourism · human-avatarDevelop agritourism income on a working farm. Use when the user asks about farm stays, farm events, visitor experiences, farm education income, agritourism pricing, planning permission for tourism, or says things like 'open my farm to visitors', 'farm Airbnb', or 'diversify my income'.
- ▌ S4ag Aquaculture · human-avatarSet up, stock, or manage a fish pond, tank, crayfish system, or aquaponics unit. Use when the user says anything like 'fish pond', 'trout tank', 'aquaponics', 'crayfish', 'water quality fish', 'fish production', or 'integrate fish with plants'.
- ▌ S4ag Microgreens · human-avatarMicrogreens guidance for household growers and small market producers. Use when the user asks about starting microgreens, choosing varieties, setting up trays, fixing mould or germination problems, or selling microgreens at market.
- ▌ S4ag Polytunnels · human-avatarGet the most from a polytunnel — crop planning, rotation, ventilation, humidity, pest control, soil management under cover, and maximising season extension. Use when the user asks about polytunnels, tunnel crops, greenhouse growing, or indoor soil management.
- ▌ S4ag Propagation · human-avatarPropagate plants vegetatively for farm use or sale. Use when the user asks about cuttings, grafting, division, layering, rooting, propagation media, mist units, rootstock, or says 'how do I multiply this plant', 'how do I root this', or 'I want to propagate'.
- ▌ S4ag Agroforestry · human-avatarHelp designing trees into farming systems — silvopasture, food forests, alley cropping, windbreaks, riparian buffers. Use when the user asks about integrating trees with crops or livestock, designing a food forest, or planting trees for shelter or income.
- ▌ S4ag Biodiversity · human-avatarFarm biodiversity guidance — habitat creation, hedgerows, wildflower strips, wildlife corridors, woodland, and monitoring. Use when the farmer asks about pollinators, wildlife, hedgerows, habitat, beneficial insects, biodiversity, or 'what can I do for nature on my farm'.
- ▌ S4ag Land Reading · human-avatarRead and assess a piece of land. Use when the user says things like 'looking at a new property', 'how do I read this land', 'what does this land tell me', 'assessing a farm', 'reading the landscape', 'what can I grow here', or 'understanding my land'.
- ▌ S4ag Permaculture · human-avatarPermaculture design for farms, gardens, and land decisions. Use when the user mentions zones, guilds, swales, food forests, companion planting design, sector analysis, or says 'permaculture design', 'how do I lay out my land', 'design my garden', or 'integrate trees'.
- ▌ S4ag Regenerative · human-avatarCentral skill for regenerative agriculture — philosophy, practice, and transition from conventional. Use when the user mentions regenerative ag, regen farming, soil health, carbon farming, biodiversity, holistic management, transitioning from conventional, stopping chemicals, going organic, or asks 'is my farm regenerative', 'how do I farm regeneratively', 'how do I start', or wants to understand the financial and practical journey of changing how they farm.
- ▌ S4ag Small Fruits · human-avatarHelp with berries, brambles, currants, canes, and vines. Use when the user asks about blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, currants, grapes, or any small fruit establishment, pruning, disease, or harvest.
- ▌ S4ag Wildcrafting · human-avatarHarvest wild plants from your land sustainably. Use when the user mentions wildcrafting, foraging, wild edibles, hedgerow harvest, managing farm edges for wild plants, or integrating foraged produce into a farm income or diet.
- ▌ S4ag Certification · human-avatarNavigate organic, biodynamic, or regenerative certification — deciding whether to pursue it, what it costs, what the process requires, and whether a lower-cost alternative achieves the same market goal.
- ▌ S4ag Transitioning · human-avatarGuides farmers through the transition from conventional to regenerative or organic systems. Use when the user says they want to 'go regenerative', 'transition to organic', 'stop using chemicals', 'change my farming system', 'how do I start', or asks about the financial or practical challenges of changing how they farm.
- ▌ S4ag Direct Marketing · human-avatarHelp selling farm produce directly — box schemes, CSA design, farm shop setup, online sales, restaurant accounts, pricing, customer acquisition, and moving off wholesale.
- ▌ S4ag Climate Adaptation · human-avatarHelp with climate vulnerability on the farm: drought planning, flood risk, heat stress, shifting frost dates, variety selection, and building biological resilience against extreme weather.
- ▌ S4ag Controlled Environment · human-avatarDesign, set up, or optimise a CEA system — hydroponics, aquaponics, or vertical farming. Use when the user mentions DWC, NFT, ebb-and-flow, grow lights, nutrient solution, aquaponics, or says 'controlled environment', 'indoor growing', 'vertical farm'.
- ▌ S4ag Korean Natural Farming · human-avatarMake and apply KNF inputs — IMO, FPJ, OHN, LAB, WCA — to cut input costs and build biological fertility from what's already on your land. Use when the user asks about korean natural farming, indigenous microorganisms, fermented plant juice, or making their own fertiliser.
- ▌ S4h Emotional Resistance Diagnosis · human-avatarDiagnoses why people are resisting — finding what's underneath the pushback. Resistance is information, not obstruction; it always has a source. TRIGGERS: 'why are they resisting', 'diagnose the pushback', 'they won't get on board', 'people aren't buying in', 'resistance diagnosis'.
- ▌ S4h Probability Scenario Weighting · human-avatarAssigns explicit probabilities to distinct scenarios before making a decision. Use when asked to 'assign probabilities', 'scenario weighting', 'how likely is each outcome', 'quantify the uncertainty', or 'probability distribution'.
- ▌ S4h Sensory Structured Observation · human-avatarApplies disciplined observation to a situation — suspending interpretation to see what's actually there before deciding what it means. Triggers: 'observe this carefully', 'structured observation', 'what do you actually see', 'suspend interpretation', 'look more carefully'.
- ▌ S4h Communication Audience Modeling · human-avatarMaps what the audience currently believes, actually cares about, and fears before communicating — because communication fails at the receiver, not the sender. Triggers: 'model the audience', 'audience analysis', 'who am I talking to', 'what do they care about', 'why aren't they getting it'.
- ▌ S4h Communication Objection Mapping · human-avatarMaps likely objections before delivering a proposal — objections that are anticipated feel addressed; objections that land as surprises derail. Triggers: 'anticipate objections', 'what will they push back on', 'steelman the opposition', 'prepare for resistance', 'objection mapping'.
- ▌ S4h Creativity Assumption Excavator · human-avatarSurface and challenge the hidden assumptions in any problem, plan, or framing. Use when the user feels stuck despite trying multiple approaches, a problem seems intractable, a plan keeps failing for unclear reasons, something 'obvious' keeps producing unexpected results, or before using any other creative thinking tool when the problem itself might be wrongly framed. This is the prerequisite skill — run it when the ground itself might be wrong.
- ▌ S4h Decision Reversibility Analysis · human-avatarCategorises a decision by reversibility and applies the appropriate level of process rigour. Triggers: 'is this reversible', 'how much should I think about this', 'one-way door', 'two-way door', 'decision type', 'how committed is this'.
- ▌ S4h Probability Base Rate Anchoring · human-avatarAnchors estimates in historical base rates before adjusting for specific factors. Use when asked 'what's the base rate', 'am I being too optimistic', 'outside view', 'reference class', 'how often does this actually happen', or 'historical frequency'.
- ▌ S4h Investigation Counter Hypothesis · human-avatarGenerates the best alternative explanations for the same observations. Use when you have a claim or explanation and want to know whether something else could explain the evidence just as well — 'could there be another explanation', 'what else could cause this', 'am I sure this isn't something else', 'steel-man the alternative', 'what would a skeptic say', 'rival hypotheses'.
- ▌ S4h Creativity Plus Minus Interesting · human-avatarApply Edward de Bono's Plus/Minus/Interesting (PMI) tool for balanced evaluation of any idea, proposal, plan, or decision. Use when the user wants to evaluate something fairly, is tempted to immediately accept or reject an idea, needs to think through pros and cons more carefully, or wants to avoid snap judgments. Plus/Minus/Interesting is the antidote to confirmation bias in evaluation.
- ▌ S4h Investigation Claim Decomposition · human-avatarBreaks a complex claim into its smallest independently verifiable parts, classifies each sub-claim, and identifies which parts carry the most logical load. Use when a claim feels too big to verify as a unit — 'what exactly is this claiming', 'break this down', 'what are the hidden assumptions in this statement', 'this seems like multiple claims at once', 'what would I need to verify to believe this'.
- ▌ S4h Probability Confidence Calibration · human-avatarTests whether stated confidence levels match available evidence — catching overconfidence and underconfidence. Use when asked to 'calibrate my confidence', 'am I overconfident', 'confidence check', 'how sure should I be', or 'is this as certain as it seems'.
- ▌ S4h Probability Expected Value Calculation · human-avatarCalculates expected value to compare options under uncertainty. Use when asked about 'expected value', 'is this risk worth taking', 'EV calculation', 'compare these options', 'worth the risk', or 'asymmetric risk'.
- ▌ S4h Psychology Cognitive Biases · human-avatarDiagnose which cognitive biases are actively distorting thinking in a specific situation. Not a laundry list — a targeted diagnostic. Triggers: 'what biases are at play', 'are we thinking clearly', 'what am I missing', 'bias check', 'cognitive bias', 'am I being objective', 'are we rationalizing', 'what's distorting this decision'.
- ▌ S4h Systems Emergence Detection · human-avatarIdentifies system-level properties that exist nowhere in any individual component. Use when asked about 'emergent behavior', 'components are fine but the system isn't', 'why does the whole behave like this', or 'what creates this property'.
- ▌ S4h Writing Inconsistency Audit · human-avatarRuns four systematic passes to identify timeline errors, character logic violations, world-rule breaks, and physical continuity errors. Use when a manuscript has contradictions, continuity problems, or logic violations. Triggers: 'there are contradictions', 'continuity errors', 'inconsistency check', 'the character shouldn't know that', 'timeline doesn't add up', 'continuity audit', 'inconsistencies in the manuscript'.
- ▌ S4h Analogy Perspective Shifting · human-avatarApproaches a problem from completely different fields to break the assumption blindness that comes from domain expertise. Triggers: 'fresh eyes', 'outside perspective', 'what would a [different expert] say', 'beginner's mind', 'approach from another field'.
- ▌ S4h Emotional Motivation Mapping · human-avatarMaps what genuinely drives different people — beyond stated reasons and job descriptions. Use when incentives seem misaligned or individual behaviour is hard to predict. TRIGGERS: 'what motivates them', 'motivation map', 'why are they behaving like this', 'what drives this person', 'understand the incentives'.
- ▌ S4h Epistemology Knowledge Types · human-avatarMaps what kind of knowing is actually in play for a claim or question. Distinguishes a priori from a posteriori knowledge; propositional (knowing that) from procedural (knowing how) from acquaintance (knowing of); and knowledge sourced from perception, inference, testimony, intuition, or memory. Use when you say 'what kind of claim is this', 'is this something we can reason our way to or do we need evidence', 'they're treating this as obvious but I don't think it is', 'is this really an empirical question', or when you need to assess what standards of justification apply before testing whether a claim is true.
- ▌ S4h Game Theory Mechanism Design · human-avatarDesigns rules and incentive systems that produce desired outcomes even when players are self-interested. Triggers: 'mechanism design', 'incentive design', 'design a system that makes people do X', 'reverse game theory', 'incentivize honest behavior', 'design rules', 'how do I get people to reveal their true preferences', 'how do I align incentives', 'the current system produces the wrong behavior'.
- ▌ S4h Historical Lesson Extraction · human-avatarExtracts the transferable principle from a specific historical case — separating the contingent surface details from the underlying rule that applies across contexts. TRIGGERS: 'what's the lesson', 'extract the lesson', 'what should we learn from this', 'generalise from this case', 'apply this to our situation'.
- ▌ S4h Investigation Evidence Audit · human-avatarEvaluates the quality, strength, and completeness of evidence for a claim. Covers evidence type hierarchy, sample quality, methodological soundness, conflicts of interest, and what's notably absent. Use when you want to know how good the evidence is — 'is this evidence strong', 'evaluate the research', 'how solid is this', 'is this just one study', 'what kind of evidence supports this', 'what's missing from the evidence'.
- ▌ S4h Resource Allocation Analysis · human-avatarDistributes limited resources across competing needs — making the trade-offs explicit rather than implicit. Triggers: 'resource allocation', 'how do we distribute this', 'competing priorities', 'trade-off analysis', 'how do we split this', 'allocation decision'.
- ▌ S4h Resource Bottleneck Analysis · human-avatarIdentifies what is actually constraining throughput — using Theory of Constraints logic: the system can only move as fast as its slowest point. Triggers: 'bottleneck analysis', 'what's actually slowing this down', 'where's the constraint', 'theory of constraints', 'find the bottleneck', 'why are we moving slowly'.
- ▌ S4h Writing Audience Calibration · human-avatarCalibrates writing for a specific reader by profiling their knowledge, concerns, and relationship to the topic — then rewriting for that reader without changing the substance. Use when content is too technical, too basic, or framed for the wrong audience. Triggers: 'write for a specific audience', 'audience calibration', 'this needs to work for non-technical readers', 'the audience isn't the right fit', 'calibrate this for', 'it's too technical / not technical enough', 'recalibrate this for'.
- ▌ S4h Aesthetic Simplicity Analysis · human-avatarFinds the simpler version while preserving what matters — not arbitrary reduction, but finding the core and discarding what is not it. TRIGGERS: 'find the simple version', 'simplify this', 'what's the essence', 'less but better', 'strip it back', 'what could we remove'.
- ▌ S4h Constraint Workaround Mapping · human-avatarFinds paths around a fixed constraint without removing it — routing around a hard limit to reach the same goal. Triggers: 'work around this', 'given this constraint', 'path around the blocker', 'how do we do this anyway', 'constrained solution'.
- ▌ S4h Creativity Other Perspectives · human-avatarApply Edward de Bono's OPS (Other People's Shoes) tool to genuinely think from other perspectives. Use when the user needs to understand how others will respond to a decision, wants to anticipate objections, is designing something for other people, is in a conflict or negotiation, or needs to check whether they've considered the people affected by a situation. OPS is structured empathy — not sentiment, but reasoning.
- ▌ S4h Epistemology Epistemic Status · human-avatarProduces an honest, rigorous calibration of what you know vs. believe vs. assume vs. hope across a domain. Assigns explicit epistemic statuses to claims and flags when high-confidence claims rest on lower-confidence foundations. Draws from the rationalist tradition of explicit epistemic labeling. Use when you say 'how certain should I be', 'what do we actually know here', 'I want an honest read of our assumptions', 'separate what we know from what we're guessing', 'give me an epistemic audit', 'I want to stop conflating confident with correct', or when producing analysis where the confidence level matters as much as the content.
- ▌ S4h Evolution Variation Selection · human-avatarApplies the variation-selection-retention triad to understand how populations and strategies adapt over time. Triggers: 'how does this evolve', 'what gets selected for', 'why do some strategies persist and others die out', 'population dynamics', 'selection pressure', 'what survives in this environment', 'who wins over time'.
- ▌ S4h Game Theory Prisoners Dilemma · human-avatarAnalyses cooperation problems where individual rationality produces collective irrationality. Triggers: 'cooperation problem', 'prisoner's dilemma', 'everyone defects even though cooperation is better', 'race to the bottom', 'should I cooperate or defect', 'why won't anyone cooperate', 'collective action failure', 'why do we all end up worse off'.
- ▌ S4h Historical Precedent Analysis · human-avatarFinds and applies genuinely similar historical situations to inform a current decision — distinguishing true precedents from superficial analogies. TRIGGERS: 'historical precedent', 'has this happened before', 'what does history say', 'find a precedent', 'what did others do in this situation'.
- ▌ S4h Identity Values Clarification · human-avatarSurfaces and tests actual operative values — distinguishing what is stated from what decisions actually reveal. Triggers: 'values clarification', 'what do we actually stand for', 'is this consistent with our values', 'values alignment check', 'test the values', 'what do our decisions reveal'.
- ▌ S4h Writing Character Development · human-avatarEngineers psychologically compelling characters by mapping want vs. need, wound, defence mechanism, and defining contradiction. Use when a character feels flat, underdeveloped, or unconvincing. Triggers: 'my character feels flat', 'character development', 'make this character feel real', 'this character isn't working', 'character work', 'how do I develop this character'.
- ▌ S4h Communication Medium Selection · human-avatarMatches the message to the right channel and format — the same content in the wrong medium loses most of its effect. Triggers: 'which channel', 'email vs meeting', 'should this be async or sync', 'medium fit', 'how should I deliver this'.
- ▌ S4h Historical Cycle Detection · human-avatarIdentifies what recurring cycle the current situation is an instance of — and where in that cycle you currently are. TRIGGERS: 'what cycle is this', 'where are we in the cycle', 'is this a bubble', 'what comes next', 'have we been here before'.
- ▌ S4h Identity Character Testing · human-avatarAsks what a person or organisation of genuine integrity would do — grounding decisions in character rather than calculation. Triggers: 'character test', 'what would a person of integrity do', 'what does this say about us', 'gut check', 'would I be proud of this', 'are we being who we want to be'.
- ▌ S4h Identity Mission Alignment · human-avatarTests whether a proposed decision is genuinely aligned with stated mission — or is rationalising a departure from it. Triggers: 'mission alignment', 'is this on mission', 'are we drifting', 'mission check', 'does this serve our purpose', 'on brand'.
- ▌ S4h Investigation Source Trace · human-avatarTraces a claim back to its origin: who first made it, what evidence it rested on, and how it has been distorted in transmission. Use when you've heard something and want to know where it actually came from — 'where does this claim come from', 'who first said this', 'I've heard that X is true', 'trace the source', 'is this just a rumor', 'how did this become conventional wisdom'.
- ▌ S4h Linguistics Semantic Drift · human-avatarTracks how meanings shift over time or across groups — concept creep, definition drift, and what it costs when words change. Use when you say 'this word doesn't mean what it used to', 'people are using this term differently now', 'this definition has been captured', 'concept creep', 'the word has been weaponised', 'we need to define our terms', or when a key term is contested or means different things to different audiences.
- ▌ S4h Psychology Behavior Change · human-avatarDiagnose what's maintaining an entrenched behavior and design the right intervention to shift it. Covers habits, routines, and behavioral defaults. Triggers: 'how do I change this behavior', 'why does this habit persist', 'how do I make this stick', 'behavior change', 'breaking a habit', 'building a habit', 'why can't I stop doing X', 'how do I get people to consistently do Y', 'implementation intentions', 'habit loop'.
- ▌ S4h Systems Archetype Matching · human-avatarApplies the 8 classic system archetypes (Senge) to diagnose recurring system behavior. Use when asked 'this keeps repeating', 'the fix made it worse', 'we've solved this before', 'identify the pattern', or 'system archetype'.
- ▌ S4h Writing Scene Construction · human-avatarDiagnoses and repairs individual scenes using the want/obstacle/outcome framework. Every scene must change the story's state. Use when a scene feels flat, static, or purposeless. Triggers: 'this scene isn't working', 'scene construction', 'scene feels flat', 'scene review', 'fix this scene', 'the scene doesn't do anything', 'should I cut this scene'.
- ▌ S4h Aesthetic Pattern Detection · human-avatarIdentifies the underlying formal pattern at work — because most successful designs, arguments, and solutions share deep structural patterns, and naming the pattern unlocks the playbook. TRIGGERS: 'what pattern is this', 'pattern recognition', 'why does this work', 'identify the form', 'what structure is at play', 'what archetype is this'.
- ▌ S4h Communication Clarity Audit · human-avatarAudits a communication for places where the message will be lost, misread, or misunderstood — before it's sent. Triggers: 'clarity audit', 'will this be understood', 'check my message', 'edit for clarity', 'where will this be misread'.
- ▌ S4h Constraint Hardness Testing · human-avatarTests whether a stated constraint is real — distinguishing genuine limits from assumptions, habits, or politics dressed as facts. Triggers: 'is this really a constraint', 'challenge the assumption', 'who says we can't', 'is this actually fixed', 'test the constraint'.
- ▌ S4h Creativity Consider Factors · human-avatarApply Edward de Bono's CAF (Consider All Factors) tool to map every relevant factor before making a decision or taking action. Use when the user is about to decide something important, wants to make sure they haven't missed anything, is planning an action and needs to think through consequences, or has been surprised by things they didn't anticipate. CAF is the pre-flight checklist for consequential decisions.
- ▌ S4h Creativity Lateral Thinking · human-avatarApply Edward de Bono's lateral thinking to escape dominant patterns and generate genuinely new directions. Use when the user is stuck on a problem, wants alternatives to their current approach, says 'I keep thinking about this the same way', wants to think outside the box, or needs fresh angles on any challenge — creative, strategic, technical, or personal.
- ▌ S4h Decision Criteria Weighting · human-avatarRuns a weighted multi-criteria analysis — making explicit what matters, how much, and how each option performs against it. Triggers: 'weighted decision matrix', 'multi-criteria analysis', 'help me choose between', 'compare these options', 'decision matrix'.
- ▌ S4h Decision Premortem Analysis · human-avatarImagines the decision has been made and failed — then diagnoses why. Breaks the commitment bias that prevents honest risk assessment after a direction is chosen. Triggers: 'pre-mortem', 'imagine this failed', 'what could go wrong', 'assume this doesn't work', 'failure mode analysis'.
- ▌ S4h Economics Incentive Mapping · human-avatarMaps who benefits, who pays, and what behaviours the incentive structure actually produces. Triggers: 'what's the incentive here', 'why do people keep doing this', 'incentives are misaligned', 'who benefits from this', 'why isn't this working despite the policy', 'what does the structure reward', 'people say one thing but do another', any situation where behaviour diverges from stated intent.
- ▌ S4h Evolution Fitness Landscape · human-avatarMaps the solution space as peaks and valleys to understand local optima, adaptive valleys, and path dependence. Triggers: 'are we stuck', 'local maximum', 'fitness landscape', 'why can't we get to the next level', 'path dependence', 'trapped by success', 'incremental improvement is not working', 'we need a discontinuous leap', 'adjacent possible'.