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- ▌ S4h Design User Needs · human-avatarDistinguishes real needs from stated wants — uses jobs-to-be-done and latent need mapping to find what actually matters. Triggers: 'what do users actually need', 'jobs to be done', 'understand the user', 'find the real need', 'stated want versus actual need', 'user research', 'what problem are we solving'.
- ▌ S4h Ethics Bias Check · human-avatarEvaluate an algorithm, model, ranking system, recommendation engine, or automated decision process for discriminatory patterns and unfair outcomes. Use before deploying any system that makes decisions about people or ranks/filters/scores people. TRIGGERS: 'bias check', 'check this algorithm for bias', 'is this fair', 'fairness audit', any ML model, ranking function, scoring system, content recommendation, or automated decision that differentiates between people.
- ▌ S4h Ethics Data Audit · human-avatarAudit a data collection, retention, or sharing decision against ethical standards. Use when the user is making decisions about what data to collect, how long to keep it, who can access it, or who it's shared with. TRIGGERS: 'audit this data decision', 'is this data practice ok', 'data ethics check', any change to data models, privacy controls, analytics instrumentation, data sharing agreements, or retention policies. Goes beyond legal compliance — evaluates whether the practice is ethical, not just lawful.
- ▌ S4h Network Contagion · human-avatarModels how things spread through networks — ideas, behaviors, viruses, product adoption, financial contagion, cascading failures. Use when asked 'why did this go viral', 'why isn't this spreading', 'how do we accelerate adoption', 'what's the tipping point', 'could this cascade', or when modeling any spread or diffusion process through a connected system.
- ▌ S4h Network Weak Ties · human-avatarMaps bridging connections across structural holes — the counterintuitive power of loose connections. Use when asked 'where are the silos', 'why are we missing information', 'how do I find opportunities', 'who are the connectors', 'why are teams not collaborating', 'what bridges are missing', or when the question involves information flow, cross-functional collaboration, or network position as a competitive advantage.
- ▌ S4h Strategy Alliance · human-avatarMaps parties, identifies natural allies and swing parties, and assesses alliance stability for coalition-building in competitive contexts. Triggers: 'build alliances', 'coalition building', 'who are my allies', 'manage stakeholders', 'political coalition', 'alliance strategy', 'who do I need on my side', 'get people on board', 'organizational politics'.
- ▌ S4h Writing Technical · human-avatarWrites and audits technical documentation, API docs, user guides, and specifications for completeness, sequence, precision, and audience calibration. Use when documentation is confusing, assumes too much knowledge, or leaves gaps a user can't bridge. Triggers: 'technical writing', 'API documentation', 'write documentation', 'user guide', 'technical docs', 'the documentation is confusing', 'write a spec', 'docs are missing steps'.
- ▌ S4h Design Constraints · human-avatarUses constraints productively — maps hard limits, soft preferences, and how the tightest constraints define the solution space. Triggers: 'what are the design constraints', 'map the constraints', 'what are we working within', 'what's fixed', 'constraint-driven design', 'what does the solution space look like', 'working within limits'.
- ▌ S4h Ecology Succession · human-avatarApplies ecological succession to understand how systems evolve through stages — pioneer, consolidation, climax, and disturbance. Use when asked 'what stage are we at', 'where are we in the cycle', 'what comes next', 'the old model isn't working anymore', 'we're in transition', or 'what does disruption mean for us'.
- ▌ S4h Ethics Impact Scan · human-avatarRun a quick ethical impact assessment on a proposed feature, change, or decision before it ships. Use when the user is about to build or ship something and wants to surface who benefits, who's harmed, and at what scale — before commitments are made. TRIGGERS: 'ethics scan', 'impact check', 'who does this affect', 'is this safe to ship', any new feature proposal where stakeholder impact is unclear. Lightweight — takes minutes, not hours.
- ▌ S4h Network Centrality · human-avatarIdentifies which nodes in a network have the most influence, reach, or control. Use when asked 'who are the key players', 'who should we target', 'where is the bottleneck', 'who connects everyone', 'who would we lose most if they left', or when mapping influence in an organisation, market, or social network.
- ▌ S4h Game Theory · human-avatarRoutes to the right game-theory skill for your strategic situation. Triggers: 'game theory', 'strategic interaction', 'what will they do', 'payoff analysis', 'how do I think about this strategically', 'incentive design', 'cooperation problem', 'bidding strategy', any situation where the best choice depends on what others choose.
- ▌ S4h Information · human-avatarEntry point for the information theory toolkit. Routes to the right information skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'information', 'signal vs noise', 'what matters here', 'too much data', 'what can be cut', 'redundancy', 'uncertainty', 'surprise', 'how much information does this actually contain', or want information-theoretic thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Linguistics · human-avatarEntry point for the linguistics toolkit. Routes to the right linguistics skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'linguistics', 'how is this framed', 'what does this word really mean', 'what is implied here', 'what does this word carry', 'how has this term changed', or want language analysis applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Logic Check · human-avatarA fast, comprehensive logic report on any argument, plan, or reasoning — validates premises, tests inference, detects fallacies, surfaces hidden assumptions, and produces a verdict. Lighter than logic-council (no peer review), heavier than logic-argument-validation (covers the whole reasoning, not just one argument). Triggers: 'logic check', 'quick logic review', 'check my reasoning', 'is this sound', 'full logic check', any request for a complete logical assessment.
- ▌ S4h Logic Fixer · human-avatarTake broken reasoning — a flawed argument, contradictory spec, unsound plan, or invalid inference — diagnose exactly what's wrong, and produce a corrected version. Use when you have reasoning that doesn't hold and you want it fixed, not just critiqued. TRIGGERS: 'fix this reasoning', 'repair this argument', 'this logic is broken, fix it', 'make this argument sound', 'my reasoning is circular, help', any situation where broken reasoning needs to be made valid rather than just flagged. Pairs with logic-argument-validation (which diagnoses) and logic-council (which pressure-tests) — this skill fixes.
- ▌ S4h Probability · human-avatarEntry point for the probability toolkit. Routes to the right probabilistic thinking skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'probability', 'how likely', 'am I overconfident', 'quantify this', 'what's the base rate', 'expected value', 'scenario weighting', or want probabilistic reasoning applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Writing Pov · human-avatarAudits point-of-view for violations, consistency, and fit. Use when narration feels inconsistent, when there is unwanted head-hopping, or when the chosen POV isn't serving the story. Triggers: 'POV problems', 'head-hopping', 'point of view', 'the narration feels inconsistent', 'POV violations', 'narrative perspective', 'sometimes we know things the character shouldn't'.
- ▌ S4h Epistemology · human-avatarEntry point for the epistemology toolkit. Routes to the right skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'what do I actually know here', 'is this knowable', 'how certain should I be', 'what would justify believing this', 'what kind of claim is this', 'am I confusing assumption with knowledge', 'what are the limits of what we can establish', or want philosophical rigor applied to questions of knowledge without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Ethics Check · human-avatarA fast, comprehensive ethics report on any decision, action, or situation — runs all five ethical frameworks in a single pass. Lighter than ethics-council (no peer review, no HTML report), heavier than ethics-impact-scan. Triggers: 'ethics check', 'quick ethics review', 'full ethics report', 'check this ethically', 'run an ethics check', any request for a complete ethical assessment without full council process.
- ▌ S4h Mindset Flow · human-avatarApplies Csikszentmihalyi's flow framework to diagnose why optimal experience isn't occurring and redesign the conditions for it. Use when you can't get absorbed in important work, find yourself distracted and scattered, feel chronically bored or chronically anxious in your work, want to design conditions for deep work, or used to experience flow and have lost it. Triggers: 'flow', 'deep work', 'I can't focus', 'I'm always distracted', 'I want to get absorbed in my work', 'I feel bored at work', 'I used to experience flow and I don't anymore', 'optimal experience', 'getting in the zone'.
- ▌ S4h Writing Copy · human-avatarWrites and audits marketing copy, landing pages, ad copy, email copy, and product descriptions using the attention-desire-action framework. Use when copy isn't converting, describes features instead of benefits, or fails to earn the reader's next step. Triggers: 'copywriting', 'ad copy', 'landing page', 'email copy', 'marketing copy', 'write copy', 'the copy isn't converting', 'product description', 'headline isn't working'.
- ▌ S4h Communication · human-avatarEntry point for the communication toolkit. Routes to the right communication skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'communication', 'how do I say this', 'will this land', 'which channel', 'what will they push back on', 'does this make sense', or want communication help without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Investigation · human-avatarEntry point for the investigation toolkit. Routes to the right investigation skill based on what you're trying to establish. Use when you say 'investigate', 'verify this', 'check this claim', 'where does this come from', 'is this true', 'trace the source', 'stress-test this belief', 'what's the evidence', 'could something else explain this', or want to know whether something you've heard is actually true.
- ▌ S4h Logic Council · human-avatarRun a reasoning problem, argument, plan, or decision through a council of 5 logical reasoning advisors who analyze it from distinct reasoning frameworks, peer-review each other, and synthesize a verdict on whether the reasoning holds. MANDATORY TRIGGERS: 'logic council this', 'run the logic council', 'pressure-test this reasoning', 'is my thinking sound'. STRONG TRIGGERS: any complex argument where the conclusion matters, a plan with non-obvious dependencies, reasoning you've invested in and want stress-tested. Use ethics-council for moral questions, llm-council for general decisions — this council is specifically for testing the soundness of reasoning itself.
- ▌ S4h Mindset Stoic · human-avatarApplies the full Stoic toolkit as a practical thinking methodology. Use when you're caught in worry about outcomes you can't control, struggling with circumstances outside your power, suffering from what others think of you, facing adversity or loss, or wanting to develop equanimity. Triggers: 'stoic', 'what's in my control', 'I keep worrying about outcomes', 'help me accept this', 'I can't stop thinking about what might go wrong', 'someone else controls the outcome', 'dealing with adversity'.
- ▌ S4h Ethics Council · human-avatarRun any decision, feature, policy, or action through a council of 5 ethical framework advisors who independently analyze it from different moral foundations, peer-review each other's reasoning, and synthesize a final verdict. MANDATORY TRIGGERS: 'ethics council this', 'run the ethics council', 'ethical pressure-test', 'is this ethical', 'sanity check the ethics'. STRONG TRIGGERS: any decision with clear stakeholder harm potential, trade-offs between competing values, questions about fairness or rights, situations where someone's interests are being weighed against others. Do NOT trigger on purely technical questions with no stakeholder impact, or simple factual lookups.
- ▌ S4h Mindset Growth · human-avatarApplies Carol Dweck's growth mindset research as a practical methodology — the actual mechanics, not the motivational poster version. Use when you're treating failure as evidence about your identity, avoiding challenges because of what failure would mean, comparing yourself to others in a way that deflates rather than inspires, or struggling to persist in areas where you're not naturally good. Triggers: 'growth mindset', 'I hate not being good at things', 'failure feels personal', 'I avoid things I might fail at', 'I feel stupid when I struggle', 'fixed mindset', 'talent vs. effort'.
- ▌ S4h Writing Report · human-avatarWrites and audits business reports, briefing documents, and information reports for answer-first structure, precision, hierarchy, and navigability. Use when a report buries its findings, is written for the writer rather than the reader, or lacks clear structure. Triggers: 'write a report', 'report writing', 'business report', 'briefing document', 'information report', 'research summary', 'the report isn't clear', 'buries the findings'.
- ▌ S4h Evolution Niche · human-avatarApplies competitive exclusion and niche theory to understand differentiation, coexistence, and competitive strategy. Triggers: 'what niche are we in', 'how do we differentiate', 'why can these two strategies coexist', 'competitive exclusion', 'who will win this market', 'niche overlap', 'are we too similar to our competitors', 'resource partitioning'.
- ▌ S4h Mindset Reframe · human-avatarApplies cognitive reframing as a rigorous methodology — CBT-adjacent but not therapy. Use when you're stuck in a negative thought loop, interpreting a situation in a consistently unhelpful way, catastrophizing, or noticing that your automatic interpretation of events generates disproportionate distress. Triggers: 'reframe', 'negative thought loop', 'I keep catastrophizing', 'I can't stop thinking about it the worst way', 'cognitive distortion', 'I keep assuming the worst', 'stuck in my head about this', 'help me think about this differently'.
- ▌ S4h Network Effects · human-avatarAnalyzes how value scales with participation — tipping points, lock-in, and winner-take-all dynamics. Use when asked 'do we have network effects', 'when will we hit critical mass', 'why is our competitor hard to displace', 'are we winner-take-all', 'how do we defend our position', 'what's our moat', or when analyzing platforms, marketplaces, or any product where more users make the product better.
- ▌ S4h Analogy · human-avatarEntry point for the analogy toolkit. Routes to the right analogy skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'analogy', 'is this like that', 'find a comparison', 'import a solution from elsewhere', 'fresh eyes on this', 'where does this metaphor break', or want analogical reasoning applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Ecology · human-avatarEntry point for the ecology thinking toolkit. Routes to the right ecology skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'ecology', 'carrying capacity', 'keystone', 'interdependence', 'succession', 'what holds this system together', 'who depends on whom', 'what happens if we remove X', or want ecological thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Mindset · human-avatarEntry point for the mindset toolkit. Routes to the right mindset skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'mindset', 'change my perspective', 'I keep thinking about this the wrong way', 'help me deal with what I can't control', 'I want to flourish more', 'I keep treating failure personally', 'I'm stuck in a negative thought loop', 'I can't focus', 'I want to get into flow', or any request for a philosophical or psychological orientation shift.
- ▌ S4h Network · human-avatarEntry point for the network analysis toolkit. Routes to the right network skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'network', 'who's connected to whom', 'how does this spread', 'who are the key players', 'why did this go viral', 'network effects', 'tipping point', 'weak ties', 'bridges between groups', or want network thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Sensory · human-avatarEntry point for the sensory observation toolkit. Routes to the right observational skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'sensory', 'what are we missing', 'look more carefully', 'separate signal from noise', 'too much information', 'what actually matters here', 'observe this carefully', or want observational precision applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Systems · human-avatarEntry point for the systems thinking toolkit. Routes to the right systems skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'systems', 'feedback loops', 'how does this system work', 'where should we intervene', 'unexpected behavior', 'what archetype is this', 'find the leverage', or want systems thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Writing · human-avatarRoutes to the right writing skill for any fiction, non-fiction, or professional writing challenge. Use when you say 'my character feels flat', 'the story isn't working', 'this scene falls flat', 'the dialogue sounds wrong', 'the prose is clunky', 'the argument isn't landing', 'write a report', 'executive summary', 'the tone keeps shifting', 'line editing', 'my world feels thin', 'POV problems', 'inconsistency check', 'write copy', 'technical documentation', 'audience calibration', 'rhetorical analysis', or any time you have a writing problem but aren't sure which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Decision · human-avatarEntry point for the decision toolkit. Routes to the right decision skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'decision', 'help me decide', 'should I', 'which option', 'what are my choices', 'what could go wrong', 'is this reversible', or want decision help without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Identity · human-avatarEntry point for the identity toolkit. Routes to the right identity skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'identity', 'who are we', 'values check', 'is this on mission', 'what do we actually stand for', 'gut check', 'are we drifting', or want identity/values reasoning applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Resource · human-avatarEntry point for the resource toolkit. Routes to the right resource skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'resource', 'capacity', 'bottleneck', 'allocation', 'where should we focus', 'where are we wasting', 'highest leverage', 'what's slowing us down', or want resource reasoning applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Strategy · human-avatarRoutes to the right strategy skill for any adversarial or competitive reasoning situation. Triggers: 'how do I beat X', 'competitive strategy', 'outmaneuver', 'I'm up against', 'position myself', 'what's my play here', any situation involving competitive pressure, adversarial dynamics, negotiation, or resource-constrained contest.
- ▌ S4h Temporal · human-avatarEntry point for the temporal thinking toolkit. Routes to the right temporal skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'temporal', 'timing', 'when', 'long term', 'what happens in 5 years', 'what cycle is this', 'should we wait', 'possible futures', or want time-horizon thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Aesthetic · human-avatarEntry point for the aesthetic toolkit. Routes to the right aesthetic skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'aesthetic', 'check the design', 'does this feel right', 'is this elegant', 'is this too complex', 'what pattern is this', 'find the simpler version', or want an aesthetic lens applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Cognition · human-avatarEntry point for the cognition toolkit. Routes to the right cognition skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'cognition', 'how am I thinking about this', 'why can't I focus', 'what mental model is driving this', 'am I thinking clearly', 'this is too complex to hold in my head', 'what do I actually know here', or want applied cognitive science without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Economics · human-avatarEntry point for the economics toolkit. Routes to the right economics skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'economics', 'what's the incentive here', 'what am I giving up', 'who pays for this', 'should we do more or less of this', 'why won't people cooperate', 'externality', 'opportunity cost', 'marginal', or want economic reasoning applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Emotional · human-avatarEntry point for the emotional intelligence toolkit. Routes to the right emotional skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'emotional', 'why are they behaving like this', 'what motivates them', 'why the resistance', 'what do they really want', 'trust issues', or want emotional/interpersonal reasoning applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Evolution · human-avatarEntry point for the evolution thinking toolkit. Routes to the right evolution skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'evolution', 'natural selection', 'how does this population change over time', 'why does this strategy persist', 'what niche am I competing in', 'fitness landscape', 'arms race', 'coevolution', or want evolutionary thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Narrative · human-avatarEntry point for the narrative toolkit. Routes to the right narrative skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'narrative', 'story', 'this feels flat', 'how do I structure this', 'the framing is wrong', 'who am I talking to', 'make this compelling', 'find the tension', or want narrative/storytelling help without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Constraint · human-avatarEntry point for the constraint toolkit. Routes to the right constraint skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'constraint', 'given this limit', 'we can't do X', 'is this really fixed', 'use the limitation', 'minimum viable', 'how do we do this anyway', or want constraint thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Creativity · human-avatarEntry point for the creativity toolkit. Routes to the right creative thinking technique based on your situation. Use when you say 'creativity', 'think creatively', 'I need fresh ideas', 'help me think differently', 'I'm stuck', or want creative help without knowing which specific tool applies. For comprehensive multi-method sessions, this runs them in sequence.
- ▌ S4h Historical · human-avatarEntry point for the historical reasoning toolkit. Routes to the right historical skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'historical', 'has this happened before', 'what does history say', 'what cycle is this', 'what usually goes wrong', 'what's the lesson', or want historical reasoning applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Psychology · human-avatarEntry point for the psychology toolkit. Routes to the right psychology skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'psychology', 'what's driving this behavior', 'why is this person doing X', 'what biases are at play', 'how do I change a habit', 'how do I persuade', 'should I trust my gut', 'what motivates them', or want cognitive/behavioral analysis without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h · human-avatarMaster orchestration skill. Takes any situation in plain English, identifies the underlying goal, designs a multi-skill reasoning workflow, and executes it sequentially — feeding each skill's output into the next. Use when you say 'help me think through this', 'I need to figure out what to do', 'where do I start', or any time you want structured thinking applied end-to-end rather than routed to a single tool.
- ▌ S4h Play · human-avatarEntry point for the play toolkit. Routes to the right playful thinking skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'play', 'think playfully', 'flip this', 'what if there were no constraints', 'steelman the opposition', 'random stimulus', 'worst possible idea', or want unconventional thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Logic · human-avatarEntry point for the logic toolkit. Routes to the right logic skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'logic', 'is this sound', 'check my reasoning', 'find the flaw', 'fix this argument', 'find contradictions', 'map the dependencies', 'map the constraints', or want logical analysis applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Design · human-avatarEntry point for the design thinking toolkit. Routes to the right design skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'design', 'user needs', 'what do people actually want', 'design constraints', 'prototype and iterate', 'simplify this', 'remove what's unnecessary', or want design thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Ethics · human-avatarEntry point for the ethics toolkit. Routes to the right ethical analysis skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'ethics', 'is this ethical', 'sanity check this', 'who does this affect', 'is this fair', 'something feels wrong', or want ethical reasoning applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
- ▌ S4h Social · human-avatarEntry point for the social dynamics toolkit. Routes to the right social skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'social', 'people', 'politics', 'who decides', 'group dynamics', 'who do I need to get on board', 'follow the incentives', 'who has power', or want social/organizational reasoning applied without knowing which specific tool fits.