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- ▌ Bias And Funding Tracer · npbuilds bundleTrace funding sources, author conflicts of interest, and institutional incentives behind a set of sources. Use when source quality alone is insufficient — when "10 sources agree" might mean "10 sources funded by the same company agree." Especially load-bearing for biotech (industry-funded trials), markets (sell-side analyst incentives), and politically charged topics. Plugged into Phase 3 of Spelunker after source-triangulator completes its sweep.
- ▌ Viticulture · npbuildsExplain how grapes are grown — the vine's annual cycle, canopy and yield management, farming philosophies from conventional to biodynamic, vine age effects, and the history of phylloxera. Use when the user wants to understand what happens in the vineyard before harvest, how farming choices affect wine quality, or what old-vine and biodynamic actually mean.
- ▌ Empires And States · npbuilds bundleAnalyze the rise, expansion, administration, and fall of empires and state systems from Akkad through modern nation-states. Use when examining patterns of imperial governance, legitimacy, collapse dynamics, overstretch, and the recurring structural contradictions that drive state formation and dissolution across all temporal registers.
- ▌ Schools Of Thought · npbuilds bundleAnalyze historiographical schools from Ranke's scientific history through Marxist, Annales, postcolonial, gender, microhistory, and the linguistic turn to digital humanities. Use when examining how different methodological traditions produce different histories from the same past, including non-Western historiographical traditions like Islamic, Chinese dynastic, and indigenous oral frameworks.
- ▌ Sub Saharan Africa · npbuilds bundleAnalyze Sub-Saharan Africa's history from Great Zimbabwe, Mali, and Songhai through the Swahili coast, the Atlantic slave trade, colonial partition, and post-colonial state-building. Use when examining African historical agency before and beyond European contact, trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean connections, and the legacies of colonialism in contemporary Africa.
- ▌ Cultures Societies · npbuilds bundleDesign civilizations, cultures, social structures, and institutions with internal consistency. Reference when building a people's values, governance, customs, religion, economy, or any social system that defines how a group of people organizes itself. Complements the world-bible (which holds axioms) by providing the methodology for culture design.
- ▌ Dialogue · npbuildsDialogue craft — subtext, attribution, distinct character voices, and the art of characters saying one thing while meaning another. Use when dialogue feels wooden, generic, or on-the-nose, or when the user wants to understand how skilled writers make characters sound like themselves.
- ▌ Style Dna · npbuilds bundleThe 14-dimension model of prose style — decompose any author's voice into measurable axes, compare authors, and identify the specific craft levers that make one writer sound different from another. Reference when designing blended voices, analyzing prose style, or understanding why a passage sounds the way it does. Feeds into style-mixer and style-mutator.
- ▌ Problem Decomposition · npbuildsRoute a diagnosed problem to the right decomposition method — root-cause technique selection and the Polya heuristic catalog. Activate at six-eyes Phase 3 (Decompose), after a typology profile exists, when you need to break a statement into atomic, root-tagged parts before reframing or auditing. This director owns the "break it down to its real components" question.
- ▌ Statement Compression · npbuildsRoute an audited problem statement to the right compression format by audience — BLUF, Minto pyramid, SCQA, or Claude-prompt structure — grounded in the Minto reference. Activate at six-eyes Phase 5 (Compress) once a statement has passed audit and needs to be shaped for a specific reader. This director owns the "say it in the form this audience needs" question.
- ▌ Us Coins · npbuilds bundleNavigate US numismatics — Sheldon scale grades, mint marks (P/D/S/CC/O/W), RD/RB/BN copper designations, CAM/DCAM proof contrast, strike designations (FS/FBL/FH), and the canonical US series (Morgan dollars, Lincoln cents, Walking Liberty halves, Indian Head pennies).
- ▌ Time Series · npbuilds bundleTime series analysis and forecasting methods from classical statistics to foundation models. Reference when decomposing temporal patterns, selecting forecasting models, handling seasonality, evaluating forecast accuracy, or deciding between classical and modern approaches. Use when the data has a temporal dimension and the goal is understanding or predicting trends.
- ▌ Statistical Analysis · npbuilds bundleDirect the statistical analysis subdomain — route inference questions to the right specialist skill, define the learning curriculum, and resolve conflicts between analytical frameworks. Use when the user needs hypothesis testing, causal inference, survival analysis, clinical trial design, or any question requiring rigorous statistical reasoning.
- ▌ Brand Voice · npbuilds bundleBrand voice and tone — how a brand communicates verbally. Covers voice definition, tone modulation across contexts, messaging frameworks, vocabulary systems, and content guidelines. The verbal execution layer that translates positioning into words.
- ▌ Responsive Type · npbuilds bundleResponsive typography — how type behaves across screen sizes, devices, and contexts. Covers fluid type scaling, viewport-based sizing, optical adjustments at different sizes, mobile-first type strategy, and line length management. Use when type needs to work across breakpoints or adapt to different reading contexts.
- ▌ Evolutionary Dynamics · npbuilds bundleDirect the evolutionary dynamics subdomain — route questions about evolutionary game theory, population dynamics, ESS, replicator dynamics, fitness landscapes, and biological or cultural strategy to the right specialist skill. Use when analyzing large populations adapting over time without central design or full rationality.
- ▌ Information Economics · npbuilds bundleDirect the information economics subdomain — route questions about signaling, screening, adverse selection, moral hazard, Bayesian persuasion, information design, cheap talk, and strategic communication to the right specialist skill. Use when asymmetric information drives the strategic interaction.
- ▌ Strategic Foundations · npbuilds bundleDirect the strategic foundations subdomain — route game theory questions to the right specialist skill, define the learning curriculum, and resolve conflicts between analytical frameworks. Use when analyzing strategic interactions, finding equilibria, evaluating cooperation, bargaining, or classifying game structures.
- ▌ Equities · npbuildsEquity investing frameworks — factor investing, sector rotation, geographic allocation, earnings analysis, and market structure. Reference when analyzing stocks, building equity portfolios, evaluating market conditions, or understanding what drives equity returns.
- ▌ Argument Analyst · npbuilds bundleEvaluate an argument for validity, soundness, and fallacies. Use when the user presents an argument (their own or someone else's) and needs a structured diagnosis of its logical quality — whether the conclusion follows from the premises, whether the premises are plausible, and what reasoning errors are present.
- ▌ Vision Architect · npbuilds bundleDesign the intelligence system's future state in experiential terms — not feature lists but what it's like to interact with this intelligence. Produces vision documents that describe capabilities and feelings, not screens and buttons. Use when the user needs to articulate what a product should become, or when a thesis needs a vivid target state.
- ▌ Experience Weaver · npbuilds bundleDesign the experience layer — how surfaced capabilities feel in use. The emotional and aesthetic quality of interacting with intelligence. Creates experience briefs that get handed to design and writing domains for execution. Use when capabilities are being surfaced and need an experience design, not just a function.
- ▌ Pattern Weaver · npbuilds bundleCross-product, cross-domain pattern recognition. What's working across multiple surfaces? What principle connects the successful products? What meta-capability is the system developing? Use when you need to zoom out from individual products and see the portfolio-level patterns.
- ▌ Vinification · npbuildsExplain how wine is made in the cellar — fermentation choices (wild vs cultured yeast, temperature), maceration techniques, malolactic conversion, oak treatment options, pressing, fining, filtration, and sulfur management. Use when the user wants to understand how winemaking decisions shape the flavor, structure, and character of a finished wine.
- ▌ Historical Argument · npbuilds bundleConstruct and evaluate historical arguments: thesis formation, evidence marshaling, interpretive frameworks, counterfactual reasoning, causal analysis, and periodization. Use when building or critiquing a historical claim, analyzing how historians establish causation, or evaluating whether a historical interpretation is well-supported by evidence.
- ▌ Historical Thinking · npbuildsTeach the cognitive toolkit for engaging with historical content: sourcing, contextualization, corroboration, and argumentation per Wineburg; the six concepts of significance, evidence, continuity and change, cause and consequence, perspective, and ethical judgment per Seixas; and the C3 Framework dimensions. Use when the user needs to learn HOW to think historically rather than just absorb WHAT happened.
- ▌ Magic System Design · npbuilds bundleFramework for designing systematic magic, metaphysical, or speculative technology systems. Reference when creating the fantasy element of a world — defining its source, cost, limits, access, and interaction with physics. Covers the hard/soft spectrum, Sanderson's laws as design constraints, cost structure patterns, a 20-system case-study library, and an evidenced failure-mode catalog.
- ▌ Falsifiability Checker · npbuilds bundleTest whether a problem statement (treated as a claim) is falsifiable in Popperian terms: what observation would prove it wrong? Thin coordinator over philosophy/philosophy-of-science/demarcation-judge that translates problem-statement framing into the claim-shaped input demarcation-judge expects. Use in binding-vow's Phase 6 audit, especially for statements containing implicit predictions or causal claims.
- ▌ Root Vs Symptom Tagger · npbuilds bundlePick the right root-cause method (5 Whys / Fishbone / dependency mapping / Current Reality Tree) for a problem statement based on typology and stakes, and tag each atomic claim as root or symptom. Use during binding-vow's Phase 3 decomposition. Delegates dependency mapping to research/claim-decomposer. Returns method recommendation plus per-claim root-vs-symptom tags.
- ▌ Old Masters · npbuildsNavigate the Old Masters market — paintings predating 1800 (broadly), attribution hierarchy discipline, dendrochronology and panel-painting science, multi-century provenance research, and the disciplines unique to this category (cradling, lining history, varnish layering, multiple-hand workshop production). Use when buying, selling, or attributing any painting from before ~1800.
- ▌ Photography · npbuilds bundleNavigate fine-art photography collecting — edition sizes, the vintage vs lifetime vs estate print distinction, signature placement conventions (signed-mat vs verso), processes (silver gelatin, platinum, chromogenic, archival pigment), and the major venues (Phillips Photographs, Christie's Photographs, Sotheby's Photographs, Heritage, Swann). Use when buying, selling, or evaluating any fine-art photograph.
- ▌ Tcg Other · npbuilds bundleNavigate non-Pokémon, non-MTG trading card games — Yu-Gi-Oh (tournament prize cards, 1st Edition vs Unlimited, ghost rares), Lorcana (Disney/Ravensburger, modern entry), Flesh & Blood, Star Wars TCG, and smaller TCGs. Each TCG has its own scarcity dynamics, grading dynamics, and collector communities. Use when the question is about a non-Pokémon, non-MTG TCG.
- ▌ Luxury Handbags · npbuilds bundleNavigate luxury handbag collecting — Hermès Birkin and Kelly authentication via blind stamps, leather grammar (Togo, Epsom, Box, Chèvre, exotic), hardware (PHW palladium vs GHW gold), resale venues (Privé Porter, Madison Avenue Couture, Sotheby's Luxury, Christie's Handbags). Use when authenticating, valuing, or sourcing any Hermès trophy bag or other luxury handbag.
- ▌ Wine Collecting · npbuilds bundleRoute wine-collecting questions — en primeur futures, cellar strategy and storage, provenance and ullage assessment, and wine as an asset class (Liv-ex indices, blue-chip producers, illiquidity premium). This is the **collector** view of wine; the **tasting and sensory** view of wine lives in Bacchus. Both suites stay self-contained — this director mirrors Bacchus's wine-market structure rather than cross-linking, by the user's design choice.
- ▌ Decision Journal · npbuildsPersists purchase research and learns from outcomes: appends research runs to data/decision-journal.jsonl, purchases and 30-day check-ins to data/purchases.jsonl, maintains data/consumer-preferences.json, and mirrors briefs into the user's Obsidian vault via vault-writer when reachable. Use at the start of an emptor run (recall priors), at its end (persist the brief), and when /purchase-log or /purchase-review fire. Closes the calibration loop by resolving brief confidence against real satisfaction.
- ▌ Product Verifier · npbuildsVerifies a shortlisted product's hard facts before it can be recommended: marketing claims against independent test data, current availability and discontinuation status, recall and reliability history, and merchant trustworthiness for purchase links. Use during emptor's verify phase on each finalist, or standalone when the user asks "is this product's claim actually true?" or "is this store legit?".
- ▌ Review Forensics · npbuilds bundleScores the authenticity of a product's review corpus using a five-signal ensemble (velocity, verified-purchase ratio, rating distribution, account patterns, cross-product repetition). Use when evaluating whether crowd reviews for a specific product can be trusted as evidence — typically during emptor's verify phase, or standalone when the user asks "are these reviews fake?". Returns a per-product authenticity verdict, never a guess: signals that cannot be checked are reported as unchecked.
- ▌ Computational Strategy · npbuilds bundleDirect the computational strategy subdomain — route questions about algorithmic game theory, computational complexity of equilibria, behavioral game theory, bounded rationality, learning in games, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and AI-era game theory to the right specialist skill. Use when computational limits, bounded rationality, or AI agents are central.
- ▌ Dca Investor · npbuilds bundleDollar-cost-averages a fixed weekly tranche of notional into a broad-ETF basket. Equity-only, cash-account safe. No conviction calls, no market timing, no exits — just a metronome. Use when the user asks "DCA into X", "set up automated buying", "schedule weekly investments", or "what does the DCA strategist say". Default mode is review-only; live mode requires explicit promotion.
- ▌ Swing Trader · npbuilds bundleRSI(14) mean reversion on a small allowlist of liquid large caps. Buys oversold (RSI<30), exits at RSI>70 or after 10 days. Conviction-scaled sizing. Daily cadence; many ticks no-op. Use when the user asks "swing trade ideas", "is X oversold", or "what does the swing trader say". Default review-only.
- ▌ Dilemma Analyzer · npbuilds bundleApply multiple ethical frameworks to a situation and surface where they converge and diverge. Use when the user faces a moral dilemma, needs to evaluate whether an action is ethical, wants to compare the ethics of different options, or needs to understand why reasonable people disagree about a moral question.
- ▌ Values Excavator · npbuilds bundleSurface implicit values, competing goods, and hidden moral assumptions in a proposal, decision, policy, or argument. Use when the user needs to understand what values are driving a decision (their own or someone else's), identify competing goods that create tension, reveal whose interests a proposal serves, or make the moral logic of a position explicit.
- ▌ Philosophy Orchestrator · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate philosophical analysis across logic, ethics, epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of science, political philosophy, and dialectical methods. Use when the user needs to evaluate arguments, analyze ethical dilemmas, assess evidence quality, structure decisions under uncertainty, challenge reasoning, or apply critical thinking frameworks.
- ▌ Paradigm Designer · npbuilds bundleCatalog, analyze, and create new interaction paradigms for AI products. Covers generative UI, ambient intelligence, agent-to-agent interfaces, conversational surfaces, adaptive experiences, and paradigms that haven't been named yet. Use when deciding HOW intelligence should meet humans — not what it does, but what form the interaction takes.
- ▌ Adaptation Observer · npbuilds bundleWatch how the product-in-use differs from the product-as-designed. Where are users doing unexpected things? Where is the system developing behaviors beyond its initial seed? Where is it degrading? The first step in evolution is observation.
- ▌ Wine Futures · npbuildsExplore the future of wine — climate change impacts on classic regions, rising regions to watch, natural wine market dynamics, and global consumption trend shifts. Use when the user wants to understand how warming is reshaping wine geography, which emerging regions represent the best value opportunity, or how generational and cultural shifts are transforming the wine market.
- ▌ Americas And Oceania · npbuilds bundleAnalyze the Americas and Oceania from pre-Columbian civilizations through European colonization, nation-building, and the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. Use when examining Inca, Aztec, Maya, and Mississippian civilizations, the Columbian Exchange, settler colonialism, independence movements, and Polynesian navigation and Pacific Island societies.
- ▌ Intellectual History · npbuilds bundleRoute questions about the history of ideas, scientific revolutions, political thought, and knowledge systems. Activate when users ask how ideas emerged, spread, and transformed societies, from the Axial Age through the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the digital age, or when examining how knowledge is produced and contested.
- ▌ Labor And Inequality · npbuilds bundleAnalyze how societies organize work and distribute its rewards across history: slavery, serfdom, wage labor, the labor movement, welfare states, and the long arc of inequality. Use when examining Piketty's r greater than g thesis, the Great Compression, the Great Divergence, and recurring patterns in how economic growth interacts with social stratification.
- ▌ Nexus Event Analyzer · npbuilds bundleAnalyze events that span all wings simultaneously, such as the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, decolonization, and World War II. Use when the user asks about a major historical event that cannot be understood through a single thematic lens, producing a multi-wing synthesis showing how political, economic, cultural, military, and intellectual threads interweave.
- ▌ Extrapolation Engine · npbuildsSystematically trace cascading consequences from a single change or axiom. Reference when propagating the implications of a world rule, testing whether an axiom has been fully developed, or finding second and third-order effects that make a world feel deeply thought through.
- ▌ Worldbuilding Critic · npbuilds bundleJudge whether an invented system — a magic system, an economy, a society, a technology — is actually SOUND, not merely internally consistent. Use after the consistency audit passes, when a world-bible needs a quality verdict, when designing or stress-testing a fantasy/SF system, or when the user asks "does this magic system / faction structure hold up?" Emits a diagnosis of the offending axioms and un-propagated consequences, never a score.
- ▌ Modality Trajectory · npbuilds bundleDirect historical MOA-arc placement, modality-lifecycle assessment, human-genetics target validation, and discovery-stage conviction scoring to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when the question is "where will this go?" — given an emerging target×modality, place it on the trajectory past mechanism classes followed, find its nearest validated analog, grade how validated the target is, and produce an early conviction score. This director is the analog engine: it turns a frontier candidate into a placed, graded, scored thesis that hands off to PoS/rNPV once a clinical asset exists.
- ▌ Regulatory Strategy · npbuilds bundleDirect FDA/EMA pathway analysis, designation eligibility assessment, regulatory precedent research, and regulatory risk scoring to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when evaluating a regulatory strategy for a therapeutic asset, assessing eligibility for expedited programs, or scoring regulatory risk for diligence purposes. Regulatory strategy can accelerate or derail a clinical program — this director ensures pathway choices are grounded in precedent.
- ▌ Insurance Risk · npbuilds bundleInsure and underwrite the handling chain for high-value collectibles via scheduled personal property riders, fine arts policies, and transit cover. Use when scheduling new acquisitions, reviewing existing coverage, evaluating freeport storage, comparing agreed-value vs replacement-cost policies, or after an appraisal update. Covers the major specialty carriers (Chubb Masterpiece, AIG Private Client, PURE, Berkley One, Distinguished, Lloyd's syndicates) and the loss-prevention engineering that real fine arts policies underwrite.
- ▌ Contemporary · npbuildsNavigate contemporary art collecting — primary-market gallery relationships, waiting lists, allocation dynamics, the flipping ethics that govern primary-to-secondary transitions, and the blue-chip versus emerging artist tiers. Use when buying primary from a gallery, evaluating a contemporary work for collection, or understanding why a piece you wanted "wasn't available."
- ▌ Sealed Toys Lego · npbuildsNavigate sealed toys and LEGO collecting — MISB (Mint In Sealed Box), box preservation as ~30-40% of value, BrickEconomy as the pricing reference, the UCS Millennium Falcon (10179) as canonical, and the broader vintage sealed toy market (Star Wars Kenner, Transformers G1, GI Joe). Use when evaluating sealed boxed toys for purchase or sale.
- ▌ Stamps Philately · npbuildsNavigate philatelic collecting — MNH (Mint Never Hinged) vs MH (Mint Hinged) vs Used, Scott / Stanley Gibbons / Michel / Yvert catalog references, expertization (PF / PSE), errors and varieties (inverted Jenny, color shifts), and the trophy world rarities. Use when buying, selling, or evaluating any stamp collection above hobby tier.
- ▌ Type Fundamentals · npbuilds bundleTypography foundations — typeface anatomy, classification systems, and legibility principles. Covers x-height, stroke contrast, serifs vs sans-serifs, monospaced vs proportional, optical sizing, and the core properties that determine how a typeface feels and performs.
- ▌ Currencies · npbuildsCurrency analysis frameworks — FX valuation, dollar dynamics, carry trades, and how currencies affect multi-asset portfolios. Reference when analyzing foreign exchange, hedging currency exposure, evaluating the dollar's impact on global markets, or building FX-aware portfolios.
- ▌ Briefing Engine · npbuilds bundleSynthesize intelligence from all Neocortex skills into strategic briefings for the user. Use when the user wants the big picture on library strategy, needs a status update on what's changed, wants to understand where things stand and what comes next, or asks to be briefed on the state of the brain.
- ▌ Possibility Mapper · npbuilds bundleMap the full space of possible products from current and emerging capabilities — before filtering to what should be built. Combines capability radar output with frontier signals to explore what COULD exist. Use when you want to see the landscape of options, find non-obvious product ideas, or ensure you're not anchoring on the first idea.
- ▌ Exposure Strategist · npbuilds bundleDecide which capabilities to surface, when, to whom, and in what sequence. Not everything the system can do should be visible. Sequencing exposure builds trust, reveals complexity gradually, and prevents overwhelm. Use when a capability is ready and needs an exposure plan.
- ▌ Narrative Keeper · npbuilds bundleMaintain the living product narrative — the evolving story of what this intelligence system is, where it came from, where it's going, and what it believes. Use when updating the product story after significant events, recording major decisions with reasoning, reflecting on how product thinking has evolved, or when someone asks "what's the story of this product suite?"
- ▌ Environmental History · npbuilds bundleAnalyze climate as a historical actor, ecological imperialism, disease as a force in history, and the Anthropocene. Use when examining how environmental forces shape human history through the Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age, epidemic disease, deforestation, and the ongoing debate between environmental determinism and human agency.
- ▌ Scene Craft · npbuildsScene construction — the scene as a unit of change, entering late and leaving early, turning points, and the Five Commandments at scene level. Use when a scene feels flat, purposeless, or bloated, or when the user wants to understand how to build effective scenes.
- ▌ Prose Editor · npbuilds bundleRevise existing prose using the professional editing-pass hierarchy — structural, then line, then copy. Use when the user has a draft that needs improvement, wants a specific editing pass, or asks to "make this better." Diagnoses before treating.
- ▌ Argument Structure · npbuildsHow to build and arrange arguments — Toulmin's warrant, Rogerian empathy, classical structure, and the volta/turn in essays. Use when the user needs to organize a persuasive piece, handle counterarguments, or understand why an argument isn't landing structurally.
- ▌ Rhetorical Appeals · npbuilds bundleThe classical modes of persuasion — ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos. Use when the user is writing to persuade and needs to understand which appeal to deploy, when credibility matters more than emotion, or how to create genuine urgency without manipulation.
- ▌ Rhetorical Devices · npbuildsThe workhorse rhetorical devices for prose — anaphora, tricolon, antithesis, chiasmus, and the rhythm-and-pace devices that make prose memorable. Use when the user wants to deploy specific devices for emphasis, rhythm, or persuasion. Not an encyclopedia — only the devices working prose writers actually use.
- ▌ Prose Rhythm · npbuilds bundleThe music of prose — sentence length variation, cadence, stress patterns, and the physical sound of written language. Use when diagnosing why prose feels flat or monotonous, when teaching the craft of sentence rhythm, or when the user wants to understand how sentence length and sound create emotional effects.
- ▌ Clinical Development · npbuilds bundleDirect clinical trial design, endpoint selection, biomarker enrichment, and patient population sizing questions to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when evaluating a clinical program's design choices, adaptive strategies, synthetic control arms, or enrollment feasibility. The clinical data package is the product in biotech — this director ensures every design question gets rigorous, quantitative analysis.
- ▌ World Coins · npbuildsNavigate world coin collecting — British (sovereigns, crowns, pennies), European (German thalers, French écus, Italian states), Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), ancient coins (Greek, Roman, Byzantine), and the specific authentication and grading challenges of non-US numismatics. Use when buying or evaluating any non-US coin or ancient.
- ▌ Source Trust Atlas · npbuilds bundleMaps consumer review sources to trust tiers and routes product categories to the sources worth searching. Use when planning where to research a purchase, deciding how much weight a review source deserves, or checking whether a review is too stale to trust. Called by emptor during the source-plan phase; also useful standalone when the user asks "which review sites can I trust for X?".
- ▌ Responsible AI · npbuilds bundleResponsible AI governance, fairness metrics, and bias mitigation for ML systems. Reference when auditing models for fairness, selecting appropriate fairness criteria, implementing bias mitigation strategies, creating model cards, or ensuring compliance with AI governance frameworks like the EU AI Act or NIST AI RMF. Use when any model affects human decisions.
- ▌ Game Theory Orchestrator · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate game-theoretic analysis across strategic problems. Use when the user needs to analyze strategic interactions, find equilibria, design mechanisms or incentives, model evolutionary dynamics, evaluate information structures, or apply formal game theory to real-world scenarios in business, technology, politics, biology, or fiction.
- ▌ Commodities · npbuildsCommodity investing frameworks — supply/demand analysis, energy markets, metals, agriculture, and futures market structure. Reference when analyzing commodity markets, evaluating inflation hedges, understanding roll yield, or positioning within the commodity complex.
- ▌ Frontier Scanner · npbuilds bundleScan the AI frontier for emerging capabilities, model developments, tool patterns, and paradigm shifts. Use when tracking what's new in AI, understanding capability jumps, evaluating whether a new development changes what's possible, or providing context for skill library planning.
- ▌ Scenario Planner · npbuilds bundleModel multiple plausible futures for the AI landscape and stress-test library strategy against them. Use when exploring what-if scenarios, preparing for capability shifts, evaluating whether a build plan is robust across different futures, or thinking about how AI developments could change what the library needs.
- ▌ Stakeholder Mapper · npbuilds bundleIdentify all parties affected by a decision, their moral claims, power dynamics, and vulnerability. Use when the user needs to understand who is affected by a proposal, whose interests are visible vs. invisible, what power asymmetries exist, or who has standing to make moral claims about a decision.
- ▌ Wine Economics · npbuilds bundleUnderstand how wine is priced and traded — production cost anatomy, the Parker Effect, the Bordeaux en primeur system, distribution channels (three-tier, négociant, DTC, auction), and the current landscape of wine critics and their market influence. Use when the user wants to understand wine pricing, critic scores, or how to buy wine intelligently across different channels.
- ▌ Special Methods · npbuilds bundleExplain the production of sparkling, fortified, and sweet wines — méthode traditionnelle, Charmat, pét-nat, Port, Sherry, Madeira, botrytis, and ice wine. Use when the user asks how Champagne, Prosecco, Port, or Sauternes is made, or needs to understand what distinguishes one sparkling or fortified style from another.
- ▌ Scientific Revolutions · npbuilds bundleAnalyze Kuhn's paradigm shifts as historical narrative: the Copernican revolution, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, and the genomic revolution. Use when examining how scientific knowledge actually changes through punctuated upheavals rather than smooth accumulation, and how scientific revolutions reshape worldviews and societies.
- ▌ Technology Progression · npbuilds bundleDesign technology trees, innovation pathways, and the relationship between technology and society. Reference when defining what tools exist, what's possible to build, how innovation happens, and how technology interacts with the fantasy system.
- ▌ Hybrid Forms · npbuildsExperimental and genre-crossing narrative forms — autofiction, fragmented narrative, metafiction, genre-bending, epistolary, and collage. Use when a story resists conventional categories, when the user asks about experimental fiction, or when the boundary between fiction and nonfiction, between genres, or between prose and other media is the subject.
- ▌ Style Mutator · npbuildsTransform existing prose by pushing it along specific style-DNA axes. Use when the user has a passage and wants to see what happens when it's warped toward a different author, dimension, or Voice Card. The mutator is experimental and discovery-oriented — less controlled than the mixer, more surprising. Works on any source prose: user drafts, prose-writer output, or passages for study.
- ▌ Frontier Intelligence · npbuilds bundleDirect frontier signal-scanning, mindshare quantification, data-generation monitoring, and emerging-target radar to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when the question is "what is emerging?" — which targets and modalities are accreting attention and data before they are drug classes, how fast, and which are worth tracking. This director owns the front of the funnel: it reads the second derivative of the literature, capital, and data-engine signals and emits a ranked watchlist of candidates for the analog engine to place on the historical arc.
- ▌ Buying Mechanics · npbuilds bundleExecute acquisitions tactically — auction protocol, max-bid setting, bid increments, the snipe-vs-jump-bid distinction, allocations at retail boutiques, phone-bidding etiquette. Use when about to bid on an auction lot, evaluating a private-treaty negotiation, deciding between live / phone / online / sniper bidding, or trying to acquire a waitlisted retail item (Rolex Daytona, Patek 5711, Birkin). Action skill — workflow-driven.
- ▌ Tax Estate Legal · npbuildsNavigate the US tax, estate, and legal regime for collectibles — including the 28% maximum long-term capital gains rate on collectibles (IRC §1(h)(4)), Form 8283 qualified-appraisal rules for charitable contributions, IRC §1014 step-up in basis at death, CITES/Lacey Act trade restrictions, AML reporting thresholds, and the death of §1031 exchanges for collectibles post-TCJA. Use when planning a sale, donation, estate transfer, charitable gift, international shipment of regulated materials, or large cash transaction.
- ▌ Vetting Services · npbuilds bundleVet the appraisers, graders, dealers, and auction houses themselves. Use when selecting an appraiser for tax / insurance / estate purposes, deciding which grading service to send a raw item to, evaluating a dealer's credentials, reading auction-house lot descriptions for what is *not* said, or interpreting attribution language. Covers USPAP compliance, the AAA/ASA/ISA appraiser credentials, CINOA/ADAA dealer associations, and the attribution hierarchy that catalog language uses to encode warranty exposure.
- ▌ Sports Cards · npbuilds bundleNavigate sports card collecting — baseball, basketball, football, hockey — across vintage (T206, 1933 Goudey, 1952 Topps), the "junk wax" caution (1987–1994), and the modern era. Covers PSA / BGS / SGC grading dynamics, centering as the silent killer of modern grades, population reports, and the Heritage / PWCC / Goldin / Fanatics Collect venue landscape.
- ▌ Video Games Sealed · npbuilds bundleNavigate sealed retro video game collecting — WATA / VGA / CGC grading services, the seal rating system (C through A++), Heritage Auctions venue dominance, the 2020-2021 record sales (Super Mario 64 at $1.56M), and the post-2022 market correction. Use when evaluating sealed retro games or considering grading.
- ▌ Whiskey Collecting · npbuildsNavigate whiskey collecting — Macallan (the Rolex of Scotch), Pappy Van Winkle, Japanese whisky (Yamazaki, Karuizawa), the Rare Whisky 101 indices, the major auction venues (Sotheby's, Bonhams Whisky, Whisky Auctioneer), and the cask-investment fraud red flags.
- ▌ Visual Identity · npbuilds bundleVisual identity systems — logo design principles, brand color systems, imagery direction, iconography, and how to build a cohesive visual language from brand strategy. The visual execution layer that translates positioning into what people see.
- ▌ Alternatives · npbuilds bundleAlternative investment frameworks — private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds, and managed futures. Reference when evaluating illiquid investments, sizing alternative allocations, understanding the illiquidity premium, or accessing non-traditional return streams.
- ▌ Fixed Income · npbuilds bundleFixed income investing frameworks — yield curve analysis, credit evaluation, duration management, and bond market structure. Reference when analyzing bonds, managing interest rate risk, evaluating credit, or understanding what the bond market signals about the economy.
- ▌ Tail Risk · npbuilds bundleDeep expertise in tail risk management using Nassim Taleb's framework — fat tails, antifragility, barbell strategy, convexity, and via negativa. Use when evaluating portfolio fragility, structuring tail hedges, or building antifragile positions.
- ▌ Clarity Engine · npbuilds bundleTranslate complex technical or AI concepts into intuitive, visual explanations. Use when a concept needs simplifying, when technical jargon is blocking understanding, when the user asks "what does this mean?", or when any other skill's output needs to be made accessible. Designed for visual learners who think in pictures and analogies.
- ▌ Assumption Excavator · npbuilds bundleSurface hidden premises, unstated warrants, implicit framing, and background assumptions in any argument, proposal, or text. Use when the user suspects something is being taken for granted, when an argument "feels off" but the problem isn't obvious, or when preparing to evaluate a complex position.
- ▌ Interface Philosopher · npbuilds bundleDeep thinking about how intelligence should meet humans. When is language the right interface? When visual? When ambient? When should the system be proactive vs. responsive? When invisible? The epistemology of AI interfaces — not UX patterns but the philosophical foundation for how intelligence presents itself.