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- ▌ Skill Export · npbuilds bundleExport skills as portable packages for sharing or backup. Use when the user wants to package a skill for distribution, create a shareable archive, generate a standalone skill bundle, or back up specific skills with their references and metadata.
- ▌ Skill Health · npbuilds bundleRun health checks on skills to detect issues: oversized SKILL.md, poor trigger descriptions, missing progressive disclosure, excessive token usage, trigger conflicts between skills, or structural problems. Use when the user wants to audit skills, check health, optimize token efficiency, or find problems in their skill collection.
- ▌ Vault Reader · npbuilds bundleRead structured artifacts from an Obsidian vault following the vault's CLAUDE.md frontmatter schema. Supports four operations: slug lookup, frontmatter filter (with `where` predicates validated against the schema), 1-hop wikilink graph, and substring/regex text search. Strictly read-only — never writes to the vault, never creates cache files. Returns a retrieval report with matches, schema validation status, and filter audit trail. Use when a calling skill needs to check "does this vault already have an answer / claim / context for X?" before doing expensive external work. Schema-strict and fail-closed — invalid queries are rejected rather than returning misleading results.
- ▌ Vault Writer · npbuilds bundleWrite structured artifacts (research briefs, syntheses, decompositions, build plans) back to an Obsidian vault following the vault's CLAUDE.md ingest workflow. Validates frontmatter against the vault's `_meta/frontmatter-schema.md`, writes the file, appends `log.md`, optionally updates `index.md`. Returns an integrity report with path written, log line, and any unresolved wikilinks. Use when an orchestrator's output needs to persist beyond the chat session. Schema-strict and fail-closed — invalid frontmatter rejects the call rather than producing drift.
- ▌ Risk Architecture · npbuilds bundleDirect the risk architecture subdomain — route questions about position sizing, tail risk, correlation regimes, and drawdown psychology to the right specialist skill. Use when managing portfolio risk, sizing positions, hedging tail events, or navigating drawdowns.
- ▌ Signal Reader · npbuilds bundleFrameworks for reading external signals through a product lens — market timing, technology adoption curves, readiness levels, competitive shifts, and demand indicators. Use when evaluating whether a capability is ready for product exposure, whether the market timing is right, or how to interpret weak signals about user needs and technology shifts.
- ▌ Agentic Researcher · npbuilds bundleGenerate, test, and iteratively refine candidate solutions to open-ended research questions using an evolutionary loop with automated evaluation. Use when the question is generative rather than investigative — "what's the best approach to X?" rather than "is X true?" — and when candidates can be evaluated against definable criteria. Produces ranked recommendations with confidence-tagged reasoning and explicit trade-off maps.
- ▌ Evidence Gathering · npbuildsRoute a research question to the evidence-acquisition skills — claim decomposition, source triangulation, funding/COI tracing, paywall strategy, and the generative agentic-researcher. Activate during spelunker Phases 2–3 (Decompose → Investigate) when a question needs to be broken into claims and each claim backed by independent sources. This director owns the "find and qualify the evidence" half of the research pipeline.
- ▌ Paywall Strategist · npbuilds bundleSystematically work around source paywalls before tagging a claim Unverifiable. Searches for preprint mirrors (bioRxiv, SSRN, arXiv, institutional repositories), extracts available abstracts, surfaces adjacent open-access work, and generates ask-the-author email templates. Plugged into Spelunker's Reentry Protocol Level 1 — must be exhausted before escalating to Level 2 (decompose further) or tagging the claim Unverifiable.
- ▌ World Systems · npbuilds bundleRoute questions about comparative civilizations, environmental history, demographic forces, deep history, and technology as a civilizational force. Activate when users ask big-picture questions about why civilizations rise and fall, how climate and disease shape history, what happened before agriculture, or how structural forces operate beneath the surface.
- ▌ Civilizations · npbuilds bundleRoute questions about the people and structures of a world — cultures, factions, religions, and history. Use when designing a civilization's values or governance, building political entities, creating belief systems, writing a timeline, or understanding how groups of people organize themselves and conflict over time.
- ▌ Naming System · npbuilds bundleLinguistic foundations for naming people, places, institutions, and concepts within each civilization. Reference when creating proper nouns for any worldbuilding artifact to ensure names from the same culture share phonetic patterns and names from different cultures sound audibly distinct.
- ▌ Systems Craft · npbuilds bundleRoute questions about the rules and systems that make a world distinct — magic, metaphysics, naming, and the foundational axioms in the world-bible. Use when designing a magic or technology system, creating a naming language for a culture, checking a world decision against its core rules, or establishing the fundamental constraints that everything else must respect.
- ▌ Kahneman Framing · npbuilds bundleReference framing effects, attribute substitution (replacing a hard question with an easier one), Einstellung effect (functional fixedness in problem-solving), and Type III errors (right answer to wrong question). Use when binding-vow's audit subdomain checks for cognitive failure modes in problem statements, or when diagnosing why a formulation feels off.
- ▌ Problem Typology · npbuilds bundleClassify a problem statement on the five-way typology — well-defined / ill-defined / wicked (Rittel and Webber) / mess (Ackoff) / adaptive (Heifetz). Use during binding-vow's Phase 2 diagnosis to drive mode selection (quick/standard/deep) and decomposition-method choice. Returns a typology tag plus rationale and confidence.
- ▌ Statement Grader · npbuilds bundleScore a problem statement on six axes — specificity, falsifiability, scope, audience-fit, answerability, root-vs-symptom — using calibrated 1-5 rubrics. Use as the keystone audit step in binding-vow's six-eyes orchestrator, or directly when checking whether a problem statement is good enough to act on. Returns per-axis scores plus reformulation hints; any axis below 3/5 triggers the re-state loop.
- ▌ Mechanism Design · npbuilds bundleDirect the mechanism design subdomain — route questions about auction design, market rules, matching systems, voting mechanisms, incentive structures, and contract design to the right specialist skill. Use when the user needs to design rules or institutions, not just analyze an existing strategic interaction.
- ▌ Skill Analyze · npbuilds bundleAnalyze skills using the Anthropic API for precise token counting, description quality evaluation, content review, and decomposition suggestions. Use when the user wants deep AI-powered analysis of a skill beyond what local heuristics provide, or wants exact token counts.
- ▌ Skill Network · npbuilds bundleVisualize the skill network as an ASCII dependency graph. Use when the user wants to see how skills connect, trace dependency chains, find orphaned skills, or understand the relationship topology of the mycelial network.
- ▌ Special Situations · npbuilds bundleRoute special-situations investing analysis to the appropriate specialist skill. Use when the user wants to analyze spinoffs, insider transactions, complexity-driven mispricings, or event-driven opportunities such as merger arbitrage, activist campaigns, or distressed investing.
- ▌ Dialectical Tools · npbuilds bundleDirect the dialectical methods subdomain — route meta-methodological requests to Socratic questioning, steel-manning, thought experiments, or structured dialectic. Use when the user wants to challenge reasoning, stress-test a position, play devil's advocate, think through a problem more carefully, or run a structured debate.
- ▌ Source Triangulator · npbuilds bundleVerify individual claims by finding and cross-referencing multiple independent sources. Use when an atomic claim needs evidence gathering, source quality evaluation, independence verification, and agreement/disagreement mapping. The core verification engine of the Spelunker research system.
- ▌ Grape Encyclopedia · npbuilds bundleRoute grape variety questions to the correct specialist knowledge — major noble grapes, indigenous and regional varieties, or how the same grape expresses differently across terroir. Use when the user asks about any grape variety by name, wants to understand flavor signatures, or needs to identify a grape from tasting observations.
- ▌ Tasting Evaluation · npbuilds bundleRoute wine tasting and evaluation questions through the Court of Master Sommeliers Deductive Tasting Grid and WSET Systematic Approach to Tasting. Use when evaluating a specific wine, practicing blind tasting, identifying wine faults, or assessing wine quality using structured scoring frameworks.
- ▌ Historiography · npbuilds bundleRoute questions about historical methods, source evaluation, schools of interpretation, historical thinking skills, and how history is written and contested. Activate when users ask how we know what we know about the past, how to evaluate evidence, or how different historians interpret the same events.
- ▌ Regional Atlas · npbuilds bundleRoute questions about specific world regions using a connected histories lens that emphasizes cross-regional entanglements over isolated area studies. Activate when users ask about the Mediterranean, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, or any region-specific question that requires geographic context, regional periodization, and area-studies depth.
- ▌ Southeast Asia · npbuildsAnalyze Southeast Asia as a connected historical zone spanning the mainland kingdoms (Vietnam, Angkor, Burma, Siam) and the maritime world (Srivijaya, Majapahit, the archipelago). Use when examining region-specific dynamics including Indianization vs Sinicization, mandala polities, the upland-lowland divide, the spice trade and plural colonialisms, and the twentieth-century wars of decolonization.
- ▌ Ecology Design · npbuilds bundleFramework for designing complete, internally consistent ecosystems. Reference when creating biomes, flora, fauna, food chains, or any biological element of a world. Uses the Getz 10-niche model to ensure ecological completeness and the climate-biome cascade to derive ecosystems from geography.
- ▌ Faction Design · npbuilds bundleDesign factions with internal structure, competing interests, and dynamic relationships. Reference when creating political entities, organizations, secret societies, or any group that acts with purpose in the world. Covers the pyramid technique, SUPREME method, fractal organizational modeling, and a "no clean side" case-study library.
- ▌ Game Mechanics · npbuilds bundleDesign tabletop and mobile game mechanics with structural rigor. Reference when creating core loops, balancing risk and reward, designing economic systems, building network/map mechanics, writing event cards, or adapting complex games for mobile. Use whenever the user is designing game rules, mechanics, player interaction systems, or needs to evaluate whether a mechanic will feel good in play. Covers engine building, bubble/crash event design, ethical/corrupt dual-track tension, anti-patterns, and mobile constraints. Immediately applicable to any hybrid Euro/strategy game — especially Splendor/Catan-style games with economic or map-building elements.
- ▌ Physical World · npbuilds bundleRoute questions about the physical environment of a world — terrain, climate, biomes, ecosystems, and technology. Use when the user is designing geography, building an ecosystem, placing civilizations on a map, defining a tech level, or asking how the physical landscape shapes the people who live in it.
- ▌ Essay Forms · npbuilds bundleA form registry for essays — personal, argumentative, lyric, braided, hermit crab, and collage/fragment. Use when the user is choosing an essay form, wants to understand how form shapes content, or asks about specific essay types. Each form carries its own logic, strengths, and constraints.
- ▌ Problem Diagnosis · npbuildsRoute a problem statement to the right diagnostic skill — typology classification, audience detection, stakes assessment, and the mess/wicked reference frameworks. Activate at the start of problem framing (six-eyes Phase 2) when you need a typology + audience + stakes profile before decomposing or reframing. This director owns the "what kind of problem is this, for whom, at what stakes" question.
- ▌ Problem Reframing · npbuildsRoute a decomposed problem to the right reframing technique — alternative formulations, Munger inversion, stakeholder rotation, and the framing-effects reference. Activate at six-eyes Phase 4 (Reframe) when you need to expose that the current formulation is not the only one, or when a statement feels stuck or one-sided. This director owns the "is this even the right framing?" question.
- ▌ Books Rare · npbuilds bundleNavigate rare book collecting — first editions, points of issue, dust jacket economics, association copies, the ABAA / ILAB trade-body system, condition vocabulary (As New / Fine / VG / Good / Fair / Poor with separate book and DJ grades), and major venues (Sotheby's, Christie's, Bauman Rare Books, Peter Harrington, Heritage). Use when buying, selling, or evaluating any rare or antiquarian book.
- ▌ Illustration Direction · npbuilds bundleKnowledge skill for illustration style taxonomy, icon systems, texture and materiality, and visual asset direction. Provides the style vocabulary and decision framework that the design-orchestrator's illustration-agent draws upon. Consult when choosing illustration style, defining icon systems, selecting textures, or directing any non-photographic visual asset creation.
- ▌ Skill Registry · npbuilds bundleManage the skill registry — the central catalog of all skills in the mycelial network. Use when the user wants to browse skills, search the catalog, add or update a skill entry, remove a skill, sync the registry with the filesystem, or when any other infrastructure skill needs to look up skill metadata, locations, or relationships.
- ▌ Skill Scaffold · npbuilds bundleCreate new skills from templates with guided requirements gathering. Use when the user wants to scaffold a new skill, create a skill from scratch, generate a skill skeleton, or bootstrap a new action, knowledge, or orchestrator skill with proper structure and registry integration.
- ▌ Adaptive Monitoring · npbuilds bundleDirect the adaptive monitoring subdomain — route portfolio oversight questions to the right specialist skill, define the analysis workflow, and resolve conflicts between monitoring approaches. Use when the user needs to evaluate portfolio performance, decide on rebalancing, or integrate alternative data into their investment process.
- ▌ Regime Intelligence · npbuilds bundleDirector skill that routes macroeconomic, monetary policy, and fiscal policy questions to the appropriate specialist knowledge skill. Use when analyzing the current economic regime, cycle positioning, central bank policy, or government debt and spending dynamics.
- ▌ Formal Logic · npbuilds bundlePropositional, predicate, and modal logic essentials for formalizing natural-language arguments. Reference when translating arguments into logical notation, checking validity via truth tables or derivation, understanding quantifiers and scope, or exploring possibility and necessity via modal operators.
- ▌ Thesis Forge · npbuilds bundleCrystallize a product thesis from vision, signals, and possibility mapping. A thesis is a specific, falsifiable bet: "We believe [this capability surface] will [create this value] for [these people] because [this is becoming possible now]." Every thesis carries explicit kill criteria. Use when moving from exploration to commitment.
- ▌ Learning Loops · npbuilds bundleFrameworks for designing self-improving systems. How does the product get better without manual intervention? Reinforcement from use, capability compounding, knowledge accumulation, behavioral refinement. The meta-skill of making intelligence products that learn.
- ▌ Pruning Engine · npbuilds bundleDecide what to stop, simplify, or let atrophy. Not "kill features" — compost them. Extract the learnings, preserve what's reusable, let the rest go. Every pruning decision feeds the Sense director with new signals. Use when something isn't working, is too complex, or has served its purpose.
- ▌ Prototype Grower · npbuilds bundleGrow rapid capability prototypes — not wireframes or mockups but living demonstrations of capability combinations. Shows what happens when you combine specific domains for a product use case. Use when a seed specification needs to become tangible, or when "show me" is more useful than "tell me."
- ▌ Evidence Synthesizer · npbuilds bundleAssemble verified evidence bundles into a structured research brief with confidence-tagged findings, evidence maps, and explicit gap reporting. Use when atomic claims have been investigated and need to be synthesized into a coherent, honest, user-facing research output with auditable confidence assessments.
- ▌ Synthesis Translator · npbuilds bundleConvert a Spelunker research brief into one of four target formats — executive memo, VC pitch bullets, tweet thread, or decision memo — while preserving citations and confidence tags. Spelunker has one default output (long-form brief); this skill multiplies that into the formats the user actually publishes/uses. Callable as the optional last step of Spelunker Phase 6, or standalone on any existing brief in `research/`.
- ▌ Applied History · npbuilds bundleRoute questions about using history as a practical tool for understanding the present and making decisions. Activate when users seek historical analogies, recurring patterns, lessons for current situations, or want to build timelines and argue both sides of historical debates.
- ▌ Battle Analysis · npbuildsProduce structured analyses of historical battles and campaigns using the US Army Staff Ride methodology adapted for analytical learning. Use when the user wants to understand a specific battle's strategic context, force composition, terrain, plan versus execution, the decisive moment, and what it teaches about warfare and leadership.
- ▌ Conflict Design · npbuilds bundleDesign a conflict — war, insurgency, revolution, cold or economic conflict, feud — as a system: why it starts, how it escalates, what equilibrium holds it, how it ends, and how it corrupts its participants. Reference when building the central conflict of a world or story, a war between factions, a rebellion, or a rivalry. Covers the five conflict axes (each a stated/felt dual), conflict as a metastable game tipped by emotional variance, and the strategist who manages the variance gradient.
- ▌ History Builder · npbuilds bundleBuild fictional history non-chronologically using fractal zoom — jump to any era, define events at any scale, and let the narrative emerge from the gaps. Based on the Microscope RPG methodology. Use when creating timelines, defining eras, or building historical depth for civilizations.
- ▌ Religion Design · npbuilds bundleFramework for designing fictional religions and belief systems. Reference when creating pantheons, cults, philosophies, or any organized belief system in a world. Covers organizational patterns, scale models, deity design, and how religion interacts with politics, war, and daily life.
- ▌ Deal Synthesis · npbuilds bundleDirect diligence scorecard generation, investment memo writing, and portfolio analysis to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when synthesizing a complete investment view on a biotech asset, producing a diligence scorecard, drafting an investment memo, or analyzing portfolio-level risk and return. Deal synthesis is the capstone of biotech venture diligence — it integrates all prior pillar analyses into an actionable investment recommendation.
- ▌ Memorabilia · npbuilds bundleRoute memorabilia and autograph questions — sports autographs (PSA/DNA, JSA, BAS), game-used and game-worn (photo-matched, team-letter, player-issued), and pop-culture memorabilia (props, costumes, signed music/film items). Activate when authenticating signatures, game-used items, or pop culture provenance.
- ▌ Type Pairing · npbuilds bundleTypeface pairing methodology — how to combine fonts for harmony, contrast, and hierarchy. Covers the contrast principle, superfamily strategy, mood matching, and common pairing patterns. Use when selecting fonts for a project that needs more than one typeface.
- ▌ Skill Dashboard · npbuilds bundleDisplay skill dashboards: token efficiency breakdown, skill quality ratings, health overview, and rating leaderboard. Use when the user asks to see their skill metrics, token costs, ratings, efficiency reports, or wants an overview of their skill collection.
- ▌ Geopolitical Overlay · npbuilds bundleDirect the geopolitical overlay subdomain — route macro-geopolitical investment questions to the right specialist skill covering great-power dynamics, energy security, or secular themes. Use when the user needs to assess how geopolitical forces shape portfolio positioning.
- ▌ Capability Radar · npbuilds bundleProduce a living map of what the intelligence system can do today vs. what's been surfaced to users. The gap between "possible" and "exposed" is the product opportunity space. Use when scanning for untapped capabilities, assessing readiness of capabilities for exposure, or building a comprehensive view of the system's current power.
- ▌ Frontier Antenna · npbuilds bundleTranslate AI frontier developments into product opportunities. Consumes neocortex/frontier-scanner output and reframes it through a product lens — not "what's new in AI" but "what does this make buildable that wasn't before?" Use when a new model drops, a capability shifts, or the tool ecosystem changes and you need to understand the product implications.
- ▌ Counterfactual Prober · npbuilds bundleActive disconfirmation. Given a synthesized brief, generate "if the conclusion were false, what should we observe in the world?" predictions and search for those signatures. Stronger than passive adversarial search ("X debunked"), which only finds what others have already written. Plugged into Spelunker Phase 5 between the existing adversarial search and backpropagation. Triggered in `deep` mode by default; optional in `standard`.
- ▌ Cultural History · npbuilds bundleRoute questions about art, religion, gender, identity, social movements, and everyday life across history. Activate when users ask about how ordinary people lived, how belief systems shaped civilizations, how marginalized groups changed history, how cultural production reflects and reshapes power, or how the texture of human experience varies across time.
- ▌ Debate Simulator · npbuildsArgue both sides of contested historical questions with sourced evidence and named historians. Use when the user wants to understand a historical debate by hearing the strongest version of each position, with explicit identification of the evidence each side marshals, the assumptions each side makes, and where the debate currently stands in the scholarly community.
- ▌ Economic History · npbuilds bundleRoute questions about trade, finance, industrialization, economic systems, labor, inequality, and material life across history. Activate when users ask about how economies have been organized, how wealth has been created and distributed, why some societies industrialized and others did not, or how financial systems have evolved and crashed.
- ▌ Military History · npbuilds bundleRoute questions about warfare, strategy, military technology, intelligence, and peacemaking across history. Activate when users ask about battles, campaigns, grand strategy, revolutions in military affairs, espionage, or the evolution of how humans organize violence and its consequences for political and social order.
- ▌ Source Criticism · npbuilds bundleEvaluate historical sources through primary and secondary source classification, internal and external criticism, bias detection, provenance analysis, the hermeneutic circle, and digital source authentication. Use when encountering a historical document, artifact, or claim that needs assessment of what it can and cannot tell us about the past.
- ▌ Source Evaluator · npbuildsProduce structured evaluations of historical sources using provenance, bias, reliability assessment, and the PACT protocol from source-criticism. Use when the user presents a specific historical document, artifact, or claim and wants a systematic evaluation of what it can and cannot tell us, formatted as a reusable analytical template.
- ▌ Timeline Builder · npbuildsBuild annotated timelines with events, causal connections, and turning points, designed for visual learners. Use when the user wants a structured chronological overview of a topic, period, or question, with events linked by causal arrows and annotated with significance assessments and cross-references to other wings.
- ▌ Narrative Pacing · npbuilds bundleControl tension curves and narrative rhythm in worldbuilding and storytelling. Reference when designing event sequences, plotting revelation spirals, or determining how much pressure to apply and when. Derived from RimWorld's storyteller archetypes and narrative design theory.
- ▌ Pacing · npbuilds bundleNarrative tempo — compression and expansion, tension and release, white space, and Hitchcock's bomb theory. Use when prose feels too slow, too fast, or rhythmically flat at the scene or chapter level, or when the user wants to understand how to control the reader's experience of time.
- ▌ Diction · npbuilds bundleWord choice in prose — precision, connotation, register, and the difference between the right word and the almost-right word. Use when diagnosing vague or imprecise language, when the user wants to understand word choice at the craft level, or when register and tone feel inconsistent across a piece of writing.
- ▌ Audience Classifier · npbuilds bundleClassify the intended audience of a problem statement as LLM / exec / peer / self / public. Use during binding-vow's Phase 2 diagnosis. The audience tag drives the entire compression subdomain routing — bluf-shaper for exec, scqa-formatter for peer, cursed-speech for LLM, executive-distiller for public. Returns the audience tag plus inferred sub-context such as time budget and skepticism level.
- ▌ Executive Distiller · npbuilds bundleBuild a full Minto Pyramid (recursive, N-level) for executive memos and substantial documents. Calls writing/rhetoric/argument-structure for sentence-level scaffolding and applies MECE checking on every grouping. Use for memo-length executive outputs, board materials, or any document where the reader will skim top-down. Returns a hierarchical structure with SCQA introduction.
- ▌ Stakeholder Rotator · npbuilds bundleThin wrapper over philosophy/ethics/values-excavator with binding-vow problem-statement framing. Surfaces whose interests are centered in the current formulation, whose are invisible, and what alternative formulations would center different stakeholders. Use during binding-vow's Phase 4 reframing, especially for adaptive or wicked-typology problems.
- ▌ Asset Valuation · npbuilds bundleDirect rNPV modeling, peak sales forecasting, development cost estimation, and deal economics questions to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when building a risk-adjusted valuation for a clinical asset, modeling revenue potential, estimating clinical program costs, or analyzing licensing and M&A deal terms. rNPV is the gold standard of biotech valuation — this director ensures models are built from the bottom up with explicit assumptions at every layer.
- ▌ Style Evolution Observer · npbuilds bundleObserve creative outputs and infer aesthetic preferences from user behavior — acceptance, revision patterns, explicit praise, and abandonment. Update the aesthetic-identity profile with dimensional shifts, confidence changes, and discovered dimensions. Activates after any creative output (artifact, design, visualization) to capture what was built and how the user responded.
- ▌ Market Microstructure · npbuilds bundleDirector skill that routes questions about passive fund flows, options market mechanics, and liquidity dynamics to the appropriate specialist knowledge skill. Use when analyzing how market plumbing — index flows, dealer hedging, dark pools, and structural liquidity — affects prices independent of fundamentals.
- ▌ Reflexivity Sentiment · npbuilds bundleDirector skill that routes reflexivity theory, market psychology, and sentiment analysis questions to the appropriate specialist knowledge skill. Use when analyzing feedback loops between price and fundamentals, crowd behavior, contrarian positioning, or quantitative sentiment signals.
- ▌ Political Philosophy · npbuilds bundleDirect the political philosophy subdomain — route justice, rights, and governance questions to the right specialist. Use when evaluating policy through justice frameworks, analyzing competing rights claims, assessing governance structures, or understanding why reasonable people disagree about political arrangements.
- ▌ Condition Designer · npbuilds bundleDesign the initial conditions for a product to emerge — what capabilities to combine, what constraints to impose, what feedback signals to listen to, and what to intentionally leave open for emergence. The product "seed specification." Use when transitioning from thesis to the first concrete action.
- ▌ Feedback Architect · npbuildsDesign the feedback loops that will shape a product's evolution. The feedback architecture IS the growth plan — what signals the system listens to, how it adapts, what reinforces good behavior, what dampens bad behavior. Use when designing how a product learns and improves from use.
- ▌ Value Architect · npbuilds bundleDesign the value exchange for intelligence products — not just pricing but the full model of how value flows between the system and its users. Handles free vs. paid, usage-based, capability-tiered, outcome-based, and subscription models. Addresses the unique challenge: how do you price something that gets better the more you use it?
- ▌ Mentor · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate professional development across personal positioning, interview mastery, network cultivation, trajectory design, executive presence, negotiation leverage, and feedback loops. Activate when the question concerns career strategy, role transitions, resume or cover letter craft, interview preparation (job, executive, VC, board), personal branding, mentorship, networking, OKRs/IDPs, or compensation. Mentor reads the user's context, infers the career stage, and routes to the right director — with a dual-track teaching convention so every answer is both a self-coaching tool and a teach-others artifact.
- ▌ Synthesis Verification · npbuildsRoute qualified evidence to the synthesis-and-verification skills — confidence-tagged brief assembly, active counterfactual disconfirmation, and format translation. Activate during spelunker Phases 4–6 (Synthesize → Self-Check → Present) once evidence bundles exist and need to become an honest, gap-aware brief. This director owns the "reason from the evidence and stress-test the conclusion" half of the research pipeline.
- ▌ Knowledge Systems · npbuildsAnalyze how civilizations organize, preserve, and transmit knowledge: oral traditions, the invention of writing, libraries including Alexandria, universities, the printing press, the Enlightenment encyclopedia project, indigenous knowledge systems, and the digital age. Use when examining the infrastructure of knowing and how knowledge institutions shape what societies can think and do.
- ▌ Political History · npbuilds bundleRoute questions about states, empires, governance, revolution, diplomacy, sovereignty, and international order. Activate when users ask about how political power has been organized, contested, transferred, or dissolved across history, from ancient city-states through modern nation-states and international systems.
- ▌ Political Thought · npbuilds bundleAnalyze the great conversation of political thought from Plato and Aristotle through Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Mill, Arendt, and Rawls. Use when examining how political ideas shape societies, tracing the genealogy of concepts like liberty, equality, sovereignty, and rights, and understanding how thinkers responded to the crises of their time.
- ▌ Geography Ecology · npbuilds bundlePhysical world design — terrain, climate, biomes, resource distribution, and how geography shapes civilization. Reference when placing civilizations, designing trade routes, determining natural barriers, or building any aspect of the world that derives from the physical landscape. The land shapes the people before the people shape the land.
- ▌ Answerability Tester · npbuilds bundleTest whether a problem statement is answerable in principle: could any evidence resolve it? Coordinates with philosophy/epistemology/evidence-evaluator to assess what evidence type would resolve the question and whether such evidence exists or is accessible. Use in binding-vow's Phase 6 audit. Returns answerable/unanswerable status, the evidence pathway, or flags the statement as values-disguised-as-fact.
- ▌ Manufacturing Ip · npbuilds bundleDirect CMC risk assessment, modality-specific manufacturing analysis, patent landscape mapping, and IP valuation questions to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when evaluating manufacturing feasibility, COGS trajectory, freedom-to-operate, patent life, or IP-driven asset value. Manufacturing and IP are the most commonly underweighted pillars in biotech diligence — this director ensures they receive rigorous, modality-aware analysis.
- ▌ Paintings · npbuilds bundleNavigate the painting market — oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, mixed-media on canvas, panel, and paper. Use when buying or selling a specific painting, reading a condition report, understanding primary vs secondary market dynamics, or assessing provenance. Covers catalogue raisonné mechanics, the role of conservators, and the major auction venues.
- ▌ Movie Posters · npbuilds bundleNavigate movie poster collecting — one-sheets (27×41" canonical US format), inserts (14×36"), half-sheets (22×28"), lobby cards, the C1-C10 grading scale (Jon Warren's standard), linen-backing conservation, and the major venues (Heritage Movie Poster sales).
- ▌ Vinyl Records · npbuildsNavigate vinyl record collecting — Goldmine grading, matrix/runout numbers identifying first pressings, deadwax codes, mono vs stereo, country-of-pressing premiums (UK first-press Beatles, Japanese audiophile pressings), and the Mobile Fidelity / Analogue Productions audiophile reissue market.
- ▌ Needs Elicitor · npbuildsInterviews a buyer before any product research happens: jobs-to-be-done framing, MoSCoW must-haves, deal-breakers, and a budget locked before any price is seen. Use when starting a purchase decision and the real requirements are not yet pinned down — emptor's elicit phase, or standalone when someone says "help me figure out what I actually need". Produces a signed-off requirements spec with weighted criteria; performs no web searching itself.
- ▌ Portfolio Construction · npbuilds bundleDirect portfolio construction decisions across allocation, factor exposure, hedging, and tax optimization. Route questions about building, maintaining, and optimizing investment portfolios to the right specialist skill. Use when translating investment views into concrete portfolio positions, sizing, hedging, or rebalancing decisions.
- ▌ Day Trader · npbuilds bundleOpening-range breakout intraday trader. After the first 15 minutes of RTH, watches for breakouts above the opening high (long) or below the opening low (short — disabled in v1, cash account) with VWAP confirmation. Hard exit by 15:55 ET. 5-minute tick cadence during RTH. Use when asked "what does the day trader say" or "intraday setup on X". Default review-only.
- ▌ Rebalancer · npbuilds bundleMaintains a target asset-weight basket via drift-triggered rebalancing. Emits both buy and sell intents (the only strategist in v1 that sells). Monthly cadence by default; off-cadence ticks fire only if drift exceeds the panic threshold. Use when the user asks "rebalance my book", "am I overweight X", or "bring me back to target". Default mode is review-only.
- ▌ Philosophy Of Science · npbuilds bundleDirect the philosophy of science subdomain — route methodology and demarcation questions to the right specialist. Use when evaluating study design, assessing scientific methodology, distinguishing science from pseudoscience, identifying paradigmatic assumptions, or critiquing research methods.
- ▌ Constraint Sculptor · npbuilds bundleFrameworks for using constraints as creative tools in product design. The right constraints channel emergence productively; too many kill it; too few produce chaos. Covers scope constraints, interface constraints, behavioral boundaries, safety rails, and the art of knowing what to leave open.
- ▌ Emergence Detector · npbuilds bundleMonitor the skill library for unexpected capability combinations — behaviors that emerge from cross-domain interaction that nobody explicitly designed. Use when you notice the system doing something surprising, when domains produce unexpected synergies, or when you want to proactively scan for emergent product opportunities hiding in the library.
- ▌ Ariadne · npbuilds bundlePersonal project-manager for working-idea threads. Sweeps configured project vaults' ideas ledgers for open threads gone stale, surfaces them one line each, then runs a capped interactive triage — advance / sharpen / snooze / drop — writing every decision back to the thread note and the ledger. Use when surfacing stale threads, reviewing an ideas ledger, running a cross-vault thread review, or when the session-start nudge reports stale threads. The contract: threads never go stale silently, and drop happens only on the user's explicit word.