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- ▌ Bayesian Persuasion · npbuilds bundleModern information design and strategic communication theory. Reference when analyzing how a sender optimally designs information to influence a receiver's actions, when studying cheap talk and strategic communication, or when evaluating disclosure policies. Use when the question is about designing what information to reveal, not what action to take.
- ▌ Signaling Screening · npbuilds bundleClassical information economics foundations covering signaling, screening, adverse selection, moral hazard, and contract theory. Reference when analyzing how informed parties reveal or conceal private information through actions, and how uninformed parties extract information through menu design. Use when asymmetric information drives market failure or strategic behavior.
- ▌ Performance Attribution · npbuilds bundlePerformance attribution frameworks for decomposing investment returns into their sources. Reference when analyzing what drove portfolio performance, distinguishing skill from luck, selecting appropriate benchmarks, or conducting risk-adjusted performance measurement.
- ▌ Passive Flow Dynamics · npbuildsKnowledge skill covering the mechanics, market impact, and investment implications of passive fund flows — index inclusion effects, ETF creation/redemption, rebalancing calendars, market-cap weighting feedback loops, and the degradation of price discovery as passive dominance grows.
- ▌ Hedging Architecture · npbuilds bundleDownside protection and portfolio hedging frameworks — put protection strategies, tail risk hedging, the Taleb barbell, cross-asset hedging, currency hedging, and cost-benefit analysis of insurance approaches.
- ▌ Advisor Board · npbuilds bundleConstruct and maintain a personal advisory board — the small group of trusted advisors who deliver hard truths, deep pattern-recognition, and high-trust feedback. Reference when building the advisor set for the first time, refreshing the composition, or designing the cadence and ask structure. The personal advisory board is the single highest-leverage feedback channel a senior professional has.
- ▌ Modality Lifecycle · npbuilds bundlePlace a therapeutic modality on its maturity arc and answer "is this deliverable yet?" using a live mature-vs-proving map keyed to the delivery unlock as the primary state variable. Produces a modality position read with the binding delivery bottleneck, the platform fix that converts the class, and a P(modality deliverable) term for the conviction scorer. Activate when assessing whether a modality is ready, what gates its next stage, or whether a stalled class is about to inflect — for clinicians learning the field and investors screening early opportunities alike.
- ▌ Endpoint Selection · npbuilds bundleApply endpoint selection frameworks for clinical trials across therapeutic areas, distinguishing validated surrogate endpoints from clinical endpoints and mapping FDA/EMA acceptance precedent. Reference when evaluating whether a trial's primary endpoint is approvable, comparing endpoint strategies across competitors, or assessing the regulatory risk of a novel endpoint.
- ▌ Mindshare Tracker · npbuilds bundleCompute a 0-100 weighted momentum score for an emerging target or modality from conference share-of-voice (AACR/ASCO/ASH/ESMO abstract share, JPM January agenda), financing and NewCo-formation flows, and Altmetric as a calibrated high-noise tripwire. Treats reflexivity as structural and pairs the score with a contrarian froth-vs-merit overlay plus an orthogonal Consensus evidence-maturity gate. Activate when sizing where scientific attention and capital are flowing, whether a theme is pre- or post-consensus, and whether momentum is durable merit or reflexive hype.
- ▌ Modality Manufacturing · npbuilds bundleCatalog manufacturing considerations, COGS benchmarks, scalability profiles, and process development timelines for each major therapeutic modality. Reference when assessing whether a company's manufacturing strategy is feasible and economically viable, evaluating COGS impact on commercial margins, or comparing modality risk across portfolio assets.
- ▌ Idp And Okrs · npbuilds bundleBuild personal OKRs and individual development plans (IDPs) — making the trajectory measurable so that progress is visible and adjustments are timely. Reference at year-end planning, quarterly reviews, after a 360, or when the trajectory feels intentional but unmeasured. Without measurable goals, trajectory drifts; with measurable goals tied to the right time-horizon, intentional career-building compounds.
- ▌ Environmental Storytelling · npbuildsDesign physical spaces that narrate history, culture, and conflict through traces, ruins, wear patterns, and architecture. Use when the world needs to show its past through its present, when settings feel like backdrops rather than storytellers, or when the user asks how to convey world-history without exposition. Borrows from game design's environmental narrative techniques.
- ▌ Market Dynamics · npbuilds bundleTherapeutic market dynamics frameworks including game-theoretic competitive modeling, market archetypes, launch sequence impact, class saturation signals, payer adoption curves, and biosimilar erosion patterns. Apply mechanism-design from game theory to model indication sequencing as strategic games and first-mover vs fast-follower equilibria. Activate when assessing how clinical differentiation translates into commercial outcomes.
- ▌ Pipeline Mapper · npbuilds bundleMap the competitive pipeline for a therapeutic area, target, or mechanism of action using ClinicalTrials.gov, SEC filings, and conference abstracts. Produces a structured competitive landscape matrix with differentiation axes, timeline analysis, and first-mover vs fast-follower positioning. Activate when evaluating what else is in development, who the competitors are, and where an asset sits in the competitive field.
- ▌ Regulatory Precedent · npbuilds bundleCatalog FDA and EMA regulatory precedents by therapeutic area, including expedited pathway statistics, approval basis, endpoint acceptance, advisory committee outcomes, and Complete Response Letter patterns. Reference when assessing regulatory pathway feasibility, predicting FDA behavior, or evaluating the regulatory risk of a novel approach to approval.
- ▌ Biomarker Enrichment · npbuilds bundleDesign biomarker-driven enrichment strategies for clinical trials, predicting responder populations and quantifying the impact of enrichment on statistical power, probability of success, and development cost. Integrates traditional molecular biomarkers with emerging digital biomarker modalities. Reference when evaluating whether a company's patient selection strategy is scientifically sound and commercially viable.
- ▌ Behavioral Game Theory · npbuilds bundleBehavioral game theory foundations covering how real humans deviate from Nash equilibrium. Reference when analyzing level-k thinking, quantal response equilibrium, social preferences, experimental game theory results, or predicting actual human strategic behavior. Use when the question involves bounded rationality or empirical prediction, not normative analysis.
- ▌ Panel And Case · npbuilds bundlePrepare for panel interviews, live cases, working sessions, take-home cases, and IC simulations. Reference when the loop includes any multi-interviewer dynamic or live problem-solving format. The behaviors that win solo interviews are not the same as those that win panels and cases — these formats require deliberate preparation in multi-rater dynamics, live structured thinking, and visible collaboration.
- ▌ Regulatory Risk Scorer · npbuilds bundleScore regulatory risk across six clinical-regulatory dimensions using a structured framework, producing a quantitative risk profile with radar chart scores, aggregate risk rating, and prioritized mitigation strategies. Reference when performing diligence on a biotech asset's regulatory risk profile or comparing risk across multiple assets in a portfolio context.
- ▌ Algorithmic Game Theory · npbuilds bundleAlgorithmic game theory foundations covering computational complexity of equilibria, price of anarchy/stability, congestion games, potential games, and algorithmic mechanism design. Reference when asking whether equilibria can be computed, how much efficiency is lost from selfish behavior, or how to design computationally tractable mechanisms.
- ▌ Cold Outreach · npbuilds bundleCraft and send cold emails or DMs to people you do not yet know — partners, founders, operators, recruiters. Reference when reaching out to someone in your target ecosystem for the first time, asking for a 30-minute conversation, or attempting to convert a cold contact into a warm relationship. Cold outreach is craft, not luck — the strong message is short, specific, and asks for something the recipient can say yes to in 30 seconds.
- ▌ Resume Craft · npbuilds bundleBuild and refresh a resume — convert an academic CV to an industry resume, draft and edit outcome-led bullets, tailor to a specific JD, produce one-page and two-page variants. Reference when starting a search, refreshing materials, or preparing for a specific application. The physician CV is a record; the industry resume is a positioning artifact. The conversion is its own discipline.
- ▌ Trial Design Optimizer · npbuilds bundleGenerate optimized clinical trial designs given a therapeutic hypothesis, target population, and development stage. Incorporates adaptive designs, modern estimand frameworks, and synthetic control arm feasibility assessment. Reference when evaluating whether a company's trial design maximizes probability of success while minimizing cost and timeline, or when designing de novo studies for platform companies.
- ▌ Emerging Target Radar · npbuilds bundleFuse literature/preprint velocity, scientific mindshare, and orthogonal data-engine convergence into a ranked watchlist of emerging target x modality candidates — each tagged with realized/expected literature-to-first-in-human lead time, the responsible NewCo-creation events, and which historical pattern it follows (genetics-first, modality-unlock, or resistance-ladder). Activate when scanning the discovery frontier for what is inflecting before consensus, building or refreshing an early-stage target watchlist, or sourcing candidate objects for downstream arc-placement and conviction scoring.
- ▌ Board Readiness · npbuilds bundlePrepare for board service — observer or director — covering fiduciary literacy, board meeting protocol, IC dynamics, governance roles, the relationship between board and CEO, and the practices that distinguish effective board members from passive ones. Reference when offered a board observer or director seat, preparing for board work in a CMO or operator role, or building toward board candidacy.
- ▌ Meeting Mastery · npbuilds bundleRun and contribute to meetings at executive level — agenda design, opening moves, decision protocols, derailment recovery, follow-ups. Reference when designing a high-stakes meeting, recovering a meeting that's going off the rails, or auditing why your meetings feel low-leverage. Most senior work happens in meetings; the ability to *run* a meeting is what separates senior from staff in a way that's visible to everyone in the room.
- ▌ Public Speaking · npbuilds bundlePrepare and deliver public talks — conference keynotes, panel appearances, podcast interviews, fireside chats, and high-stakes presentations. Reference when preparing for any external-facing speaking engagement, building a talk from scratch, or improving delivery from prior recordings. Public speaking is a trainable craft, not a personality trait — the senior speakers were rarely born to it; they rehearsed.
- ▌ 360 Feedback Design · npbuilds bundleDesign and run a personal 360 — selecting raters, drafting questions, running the process, synthesizing the report, and integrating the findings. Reference when approaching a major transition, periodically calibrating self-perception against peer perception, or auditing whether current behaviors match intentions. A well-run 360 every 18–24 months is the single most useful feedback instrument for senior professionals.
- ▌ Domain Deepdives · npbuilds bundlePrepare for domain-technical interview rounds — the rounds where the user will be tested on what they claim to know (clinical development, regulatory strategy, asset evaluation, trial design). Reference when preparing for a clinical depth interview, a VC diligence round, a CMO scientific scrutiny round, or any conversation where the interviewer will probe technical mastery. The senior interviewer is testing reasoning under uncertainty, not encyclopedic recall.
- ▌ Pivot Sequencing · npbuilds bundleDesign multi-year transition plans — what to do in year 1 to make year 3 possible, intermediate roles, advisor seats, side artifacts, and the order that makes the move credible. Reference when the target archetype is multi-year away, when an obvious direct-path is unavailable, or when the user is choosing between fast-and-risky and slow-and-credible paths. Most senior pivots are not single moves; they are sequences.
- ▌ Target Validation Ladder · npbuilds bundleGrade the human-genetic validation of a drug target on a causality-ranked evidence ladder (Mendelian/rare-variant > coding GWAS+colocalization > Mendelian randomization > non-coding GWAS), scoring direction-of-effect concordance, tractability, and on-target safety read-across. Produces a 0-13 composite tier from Open Targets, the Genetic Priority Score, gnomAD constraint, and a cis-MR/PheWAS scan. Activate when assessing whether a target hypothesis is genetically supported, before mechanism-risk or PoS modeling, when screening an early-discovery asset, or when learning what separates a PCSK9-class target from a hopeful GWAS hit.
- ▌ Vc Interview Prep · npbuilds bundlePrepare for VC interviews across associate, principal, partner, venture-partner, EIR, and operating-partner roles. Cover the canonical VC interview elements — market thesis, deal review, portfolio reasoning, "why VC," fit questions, and the IC simulation. Reference when prepping for any VC firm interview, building thesis materials, or rehearsing deal-review answers. VC associate pools are dominated by consulting and finance backgrounds; MD-operators are differentiated but unfamiliar — preparation must explicitly translate the value.
- ▌ Patient Population Sizer · npbuilds bundleEstimate addressable patient populations from epidemiological data, applying diagnostic rates, treatment-eligible filters, biomarker prevalence, and geographic adjustments to produce treatable population estimates for peak sales forecasting and clinical trial feasibility analysis.
- ▌ Data Generation Monitor · npbuilds bundleRead each new functional-genomics data-engine release as a forward signal of pre-validated drug targets. Tracks pQTL/MR/colocalization atlases (UKB-PPP, deCODE), DepMap dependency updates, genome-scale and spatial Perturb-seq, prime-editing/SGE variant screens, optical pooled screens, biobank releases (FinnGen, All of Us, MVP), and organoid biobanks. Activate when a new dataset, atlas, or AI-discovery claim drops and you need to know which targets just gained orthogonal causal support — for a scientist learning the field or an investor screening early opportunities.
- ▌ Equity Literacy · npbuilds bundleUnderstand and negotiate equity grants — options vs RSUs vs PSUs, strike price, vesting, cliff, refresh, acceleration, dilution, secondary, 409A. Reference when evaluating an equity grant, modeling expected value across scenarios, or negotiating equity terms. Most senior comp upside lives in equity; getting equity wrong dwarfs getting base wrong. Equity literacy is the foundation of every senior negotiation.
- ▌ Title And Scope · npbuilds bundleNegotiate title, level, reporting line, scope, charter, headcount, and budget — the structural levers that shape what the role actually is over its tenure. Reference when evaluating an offer, considering a re-org or scope expansion in a current role, or weighing title vs scope tradeoffs. Title is mostly a future-signal; scope is mostly a current-reality. Both are negotiable; both compound.
- ▌ Audience Tuning · npbuilds bundleTune the same underlying narrative for different audiences — clinical peer, recruiter, hiring manager, VC partner, board chair, founder, journalist — without distorting truth. Reference when preparing a version of materials for a specific audience, when the user has multiple parallel processes targeting different archetypes, or when feedback suggests the message landed wrong for the audience. Audience tuning is selection, not distortion.
- ▌ Skill Gap Analysis · npbuilds bundleName the gap between the user's current skill stack and the target role archetype's requirements, then design the smallest credible action to close each gap. Reference when evaluating readiness for a target role, planning a multi-year build, or auditing why current applications aren't converting. Honest gap analysis is the foundation of growth; most stalled trajectories are stalled because gaps are unnamed.
- ▌ Frontier Conviction Scorer · npbuilds bundleScore a discovery-stage target × modality candidate before any clinical PoS exists, decomposing conviction into P(biology holds) × P(modality deliverable) × position-on-arc × competitive-timing, anchored to empirical phase/modality/therapeutic-area base rates rather than management optimism. Activate when ranking pre-clinical programs, sizing the binding risk (biology vs platform vs timing), benchmarking a frontier asset against its class prior, or deciding what to advance — then hand off to rNPV the moment a clinical asset and indication exist.
- ▌ Mechanism Risk Adjuster · npbuilds bundleAssess mechanism-of-action-specific risk factors that modify base-rate PoS, evaluating target validation depth using Mendelian randomization evidence, preclinical translatability, competitive mechanism validation, safety class effects, and biotech reflexivity to produce auditable adjustment factors.
- ▌ Ecosystem Mapping · npbuilds bundleMap the target ecosystem you are entering — firms, operators, advisors, founders, publications, conferences, and the relationships between them. Reference when starting a search in a new ecosystem (biotech VC, board candidates, specific therapeutic area), preparing for a firm-specific interview, or building a relationship plan. The map is the foundation that makes all other network activity efficient.
- ▌ Mentorship Design · npbuilds bundleDesign and maintain mentorship relationships — finding mentors, structuring asks, setting cadence, building reciprocity, and exiting with grace when the relationship has run its course. Reference when seeking a mentor for a specific transition, formalizing an informal mentorship, or learning to be a mentor for others. Mentorship is not a transaction; it is a relationship with structure.
- ▌ Public Portfolio · npbuilds bundleStrategize what to publish on GitHub, blog, or other public surfaces as proof-of-thinking artifacts that compound credibility over time. Reference when deciding what to make public, curating an existing portfolio, or evaluating whether a piece of work merits a public artifact. The asymmetric leverage of senior professionals is that one good public artifact becomes part of the credibility you draw on for years.
- ▌ Offer Negotiation · npbuilds bundleNegotiate incoming offers — base, bonus, signing bonus, performance metrics, start date, relocation, benefits — using collaborative-problem-solving frame and explicit BATNA reasoning. Reference when an offer arrives, when a counter-proposal needs drafting, or when the user is deciding whether and how to push back. The most expensive career mistake is not negotiating; the second most expensive is negotiating from the wrong frame.
- ▌ Clinical Differentiator · npbuilds bundleAssess clinical differentiation of a therapeutic asset versus competitors using structured cross-trial analysis, competitive positioning matrices, and second-level thinking frameworks. Identifies where consensus clinical interpretation diverges from what the data actually shows. Reference when performing competitive diligence, evaluating a company's differentiation claims, or identifying underappreciated clinical advantages.
- ▌ Performance Review Craft · npbuilds bundleWrite self-assessments, prepare for review conversations, calibrate against rubrics, and "manage up" the formal review process. Reference at year-end review time, mid-cycle review, or when preparing for promotion / leveling discussions. The formal review is a high-stakes artifact that affects comp, advancement, and reputation; treating it as a checkbox loses significant career upside.
- ▌ Behavioral Frameworks · npbuilds bundleBuild and use behavioral interview frameworks — STAR, CAR, and the story-bank approach. Map common behavioral probes to a small set of pre-rehearsed stories so the user is never improvising under pressure. Reference when preparing for any interview round that includes "tell me about a time" questions, building or refreshing a story bank, or diagnosing why current behavioral answers aren't landing.
- ▌ Cover Letter Craft · npbuilds bundleDraft firm-specific, thesis-aware cover letters for VC, operator, board, and advisory applications. Reference when applying for any role where a cover letter is required or optional-but-strategic. The strong cover letter is the highest-ROI artifact in a senior search: 30 minutes of work that demonstrates diligence, judgment, and reading-the-firm, and that distinguishes the user from the 95% who submit generic letters.
- ▌ Reflection And Journaling · npbuilds bundleMaintain a reflection practice — daily, weekly, quarterly — that turns experience into nameable, retrievable lessons. Reference when starting a reflection practice, recovering one that's lapsed, structuring quarterly retrospectives, or integrating findings from 360s and advisor sessions. Without reflection, experience doesn't produce wisdom by default; the same lessons re-recur every 18 months until the career stalls.
- ▌ Exit And Transition · npbuilds bundleNegotiate exit terms — notice, garden leave, severance, non-compete carveouts, IP releases, transition consulting, references. Reference when leaving a role (voluntary or involuntary), planning the timing of a departure, or evaluating an exit package. Exit negotiations have legal dimensions and high downstream consequences; the terms negotiated here shape what the next move looks like.
- ▌ Role Archetype Mapping · npbuilds bundleName the target role archetype precisely — what each archetype actually does day-to-day, what credentials it requires, what tradeoffs it imposes, and where each archetype sits in the broader career landscape. Reference when choosing among targets (operator vs investor vs founder vs advisor vs board), preparing materials for a specific archetype, or sanity-checking that the archetype matches the user's actual goals. The mapping is the first move in trajectory design.
- ▌ Executive Communication · npbuilds bundleWrite at executive grade — memos, decks, board materials, decision recommendations, status updates — using BLUF structure, audience-tuned vocabulary, and explicit reasoning. Reference when drafting any document that will be read by a senior audience under time pressure. Executive communication is the highest-leverage written skill in any senior role: one good memo creates an artifact that travels across the organization and lives for months.
- ▌ Executive Interview Prep · npbuilds bundlePrepare for executive-level interviews — CMO, Head of Clinical Development, SVP, Chief Medical Officer at startups, scale-ups, and growth-stage biotechs. Cover the canonical executive interview elements — strategic thinking, P&L judgment, leadership scenarios, "first 90 days" plans, and board-readiness. Reference when prepping for any executive loop, building a 100-day plan presentation, or rehearsing leadership-scenario answers.
- ▌ Linkedin Optimization · npbuilds bundleOptimize LinkedIn for the named trajectory — headline, About, featured section, experience bullets, recommendations, and activity strategy. Reference when refreshing the profile for a search, increasing recruiter visibility, or aligning the profile with a newly-architected narrative. LinkedIn is the search engine of professional life; what is not searchable about you on LinkedIn does not exist for most opportunity flow.
- ▌ Optionality Architecture · npbuilds bundleEvaluate career choices by their effect on the option set — which doors does this open, which doors does it close, what's the reversibility, how path-dependent is the future you're constructing. Reference when weighing a specific decision (this offer vs that offer; pivot now vs later; specialist vs generalist), at annual planning time, or whenever a decision feels weightier than next-paycheck logic suggests.
- ▌ Narrative Architecture · npbuilds bundleBuild and refresh the underlying career narrative — the through-line that ties past decisions to future trajectory and gives every surface (resume, LinkedIn, cover letter, interview answer) a coherent center. Reference when starting a search, navigating a pivot, or noticing that artifacts read inconsistently. A narrative without architecture is biography; a narrative with architecture is a thesis a sophisticated audience can endorse in 30 seconds.
- ▌ Relationship Stewardship · npbuilds bundleMaintain and deepen warm professional relationships over months and years through signal-driven cadence, light CRM, and high-value touchpoint craft. Reference when re-warming a cold relationship, designing a stewardship rhythm for the relationships that matter, or auditing why current relationships feel transactional. Stewardship is the unit of work that compounds a senior career — most relationships die from neglect, not from rupture.
- ▌ Credibility Translation · npbuilds bundleTranslate clinical, academic, and trial-development credentials into the operator, investor, or board vocabulary the target audience parses. Reference when rewriting bullets for a non-clinical audience, preparing to explain trial work to a VC, or auditing whether the audience can recognize the value of the user's experience. Untranslated credibility is invisible to the wrong audience — and the wrong audience is most audiences outside clinical settings.
- ▌ Skill Library Gateway · npbuilds bundleSearch, load, and adapt methodologies from the shared Git-backed skill library for use in Codex without modifying the canonical Claude-authored skills. Use when the user asks to use the skill library or a named library skill, wants to discover relevant skills, or has a non-trivial task that would benefit from a specialized library workflow.
- ▌ Introductions And Referrals · npbuilds bundleAsk for, give, and track introductions and referrals — the warm-intro economy that drives most senior moves. Reference when asking a connector for an intro, offering an intro to someone in your network, deciding whether to refer a candidate, or building a tracking system for outstanding intros. Warm intros convert at 70–90% vs cold outreach at 25–40%; the leverage is real, and the craft is in not abusing it.
- ▌ Sentinel Prime · npbuilds bundleObserve the skill library as a whole — surface gaps in domain coverage, track maturity across domains, identify cross-domain connections, detect structural issues, and recommend what to build next. Use when the user asks about overall library status, wants a bird's-eye view, or needs guidance on where to invest effort next.
- ▌ Seed · npbuilds bundleRoute product seeding work — designing initial conditions for product emergence, sculpting constraints that channel behavior productively, growing rapid capability prototypes, and architecting the feedback loops that will shape the product's evolution. Activates when the question transitions from "what should we build?" to "how do we create conditions for it to emerge?"
- ▌ Sense · npbuilds bundleRoute product sensing work — reading frontier signals through a product lens, detecting emergent capability combinations, interpreting external market and technology signals, and mapping the gap between what's possible and what's surfaced. Activates when the question is "what's becoming possible?" or "what's changing that matters for product?"
- ▌ Evolve · npbuilds bundleRoute product evolution work — observing how surfaced products change through use, amplifying emergent successful patterns, pruning what isn't working, and designing self-improving feedback systems. Activates when a product is live and the question is "how is it growing, and what should we do about it?"
- ▌ Surface · npbuilds bundleRoute product surfacing work — deciding how intelligence meets the world. Interface philosophy, exposure sequencing, experience design, and value architecture. Activates when a capability is ready to be exposed and the question is "in what form, to whom, and what's the value exchange?"
- ▌ Archon · npbuilds bundleEngages as an analytical thinking partner across investment domains, applying six frameworks (Dalio regime, Marks contrarian, Soros reflexivity, Taleb tail risk, Tudor Jones defense, Druckenmiller conviction sizing) conversationally. Routes question-by-question to 10 subdomain directors and escalates to spelunker for verification or neocortex for scenario planning. Optionally persists theses, trades, sessions, and macro views to an Obsidian vault via vault-writer. Use when the user wants to think through a trade idea, regime question, risk scenario, or portfolio decision.
- ▌ Logic · npbuilds bundleDirect the logic subdomain — route reasoning evaluation tasks to argument analysis, formal logic, or assumption excavation. Use when evaluating argument validity, detecting fallacies, checking logical structure, formalizing natural-language reasoning, or surfacing hidden premises.
- ▌ Envision · npbuilds bundleRoute product vision work — designing what the intelligence system should become, exploring new interaction paradigms for AI products, mapping the full possibility space, and crystallizing falsifiable product theses. Activates when the question is "what should this intelligence become?" or "what's possible and what do we believe?"
- ▌ The Loom · npbuilds bundleMaster AI-native product orchestrator. Cultivates living intelligence products by weaving capabilities from every domain (design, data science, investing, writing, game theory, worldbuilding, research, infrastructure) into coherent capability surfaces. Use when envisioning what an intelligence system should become, designing conditions for product emergence, deciding which capabilities to surface to the world, evolving products through use, or synthesizing the meta-pattern across the full product portfolio. Activates when the question is "what should this intelligence become, and how do we let it grow?"
- ▌ Rhetoric · npbuilds bundleDirect the rhetoric subdomain — route persuasion, argument, essay form, and rhetorical device questions to the right specialist skill. Use when the user is writing to persuade, constructing an argument, choosing an essay form, or wants to deploy rhetorical devices effectively.
- ▌ Typography · npbuilds bundleDirect the typography subdomain — route type-related questions to the right specialist skill, define the curriculum from anatomy to pairing to responsive scaling, and resolve conflicts between readability and aesthetic goals. Use when the user has a typography question and you need to determine which knowledge skill to consult.
- ▌ Ethics · npbuilds bundleDirect the ethics subdomain — route moral reasoning questions to dilemma analysis, stakeholder mapping, or values excavation. Use when evaluating whether an action is right or wrong, analyzing ethical trade-offs, surfacing hidden value judgments, identifying affected parties, or applying moral frameworks to real-world decisions.
- ▌ Bacchus · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate all things wine — tasting and blind evaluation, food pairing, regional terroir, grape varieties, winemaking process, cellar and service, market and investment. Activate when a question touches wine in any form: a glass in hand, a label on a shelf, a pairing dilemma, a cellar to build, or a region to understand. Bacchus reads the user's level and routes to the right director.
- ▌ Synthesize · npbuilds bundleRoute product synthesis work — cross-product pattern recognition, initiative lifecycle tracking, weekly product briefing generation, and product narrative maintenance. Activates when the question spans multiple products, asks about the overall product landscape, needs a strategic zoom-out, or requests the weekly product synthesis. The Loom's reflective intelligence — seeing the meta-pattern across everything.
- ▌ Spelunker · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate deep research across any topic with epistemic rigor. Use when the user needs to investigate a question, verify claims, research a topic in depth, fact-check information, understand a complex subject, or find the best approach to an open-ended problem. Routes investigative questions to claim decomposition and source triangulation, and generative questions ("what's the best X?", "how should we design X?") to the agentic-researcher for evolutionary candidate evaluation. Applies adversarial self-checking and confidence-tagged findings with explicit gaps.
- ▌ Collector · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate all things collecting — authentication and provenance, grading and condition, storage and insurance, market intelligence and portfolio allocation, plus the irreducible vertical knowledge of comics, cards, art, wine, books, watches, coins, memorabilia, and the Tier 2 assets (vinyl, whiskey, handbags, sealed video games, posters, sealed toys, stamps). Activate when a question touches collecting in any form: a book in hand, a card to grade, a painting to authenticate, a cellar to build, a portfolio to allocate, a sale to time. The Collector reads the user's lens (connoisseur or allocator), reads the axis of the question (vertical asset class or horizontal discipline), and routes accordingly.
- ▌ Foresight · npbuilds bundleDirect the foresight subdomain — route AI landscape tracking, future scenario modeling, and strategic briefing requests to the right specialist. Use when the user asks what's new in AI, wants to explore possible futures for the library, or needs a strategic summary of where things stand and where they're headed.
- ▌ Neocortex · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate the skill library's research and foresight division — scan the AI frontier, model future scenarios, map skill gaps, synthesize cross-domain patterns, track skill evolution, plan growth, translate knowledge between domains, and explain complex concepts simply. Use when deciding what to build next, understanding AI developments, finding missing connections in the library, or needing technical concepts made intuitive.
- ▌ Six Eyes · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate problem-statement quality across diagnosis, decomposition, reframing, compression, and audit. Use when stating a problem to an LLM, executive, peer, or yourself; when a question feels off but the issue isn't obvious; or when high-stakes work depends on getting the formulation right before solving. Routes to typology, audience-fit, and statement-grading sub-skills with a re-state loop for sub-threshold outputs.
- ▌ Motion Design · npbuilds bundleKnowledge skill for animation principles, timing, easing, choreography, and motion language in digital artifacts. Covers micro-interactions, page transitions, loading states, scroll-driven animation, and performance-aware motion patterns. Consult when any artifact or design needs movement — from a single hover effect to a fully choreographed experience.
- ▌ Winemaking · npbuilds bundleRoute winemaking questions — viticulture, vinification, special production methods, and alternative techniques — to the correct specialist knowledge. Use when the user wants to understand how wine is grown or made, how sparkling or fortified wines are produced, or what distinguishes natural, orange, or biodynamic wine from conventional production.
- ▌ Prose Writer · npbuilds bundleDraft prose from a brief — voice-aware, form-aware, and grounded in craft principles. Use when the user needs new prose written, whether fiction, essay, or nonfiction. Takes an editorial brief (voice register, form, audience, constraints) and produces a draft that the user can then revise.
- ▌ Modeling · npbuilds bundleDirect the modeling subdomain — route prediction and forecasting questions to the right specialist skill, define the learning curriculum, and resolve conflicts between model complexity and interpretability. Use when the user needs to build, evaluate, select, or forecast with predictive models.
- ▌ Brand Identity · npbuilds bundleDirect the brand-identity subdomain — route brand questions to the right specialist skill, define the relationship between brand strategy and visual execution, and resolve conflicts between brand consistency and creative expression. Use when the user has a branding question and you need to determine which knowledge skill to consult.
- ▌ Wine Market · npbuilds bundleRoute wine market and economics questions — pricing mechanics, collecting and investment, and emerging market trends. Use when the user wants to understand how wine is priced, evaluate whether a wine represents value, build an investment-grade cellar, or understand how climate change and cultural shifts are reshaping the wine world's geography and economics.
- ▌ Minto Scqa · npbuilds bundleReference the Minto Pyramid Principle, SCQA narrative structure (Situation, Complication, Question, Answer), MECE classification, and BLUF (bottom-line-up-front) format. Use when binding-vow's compression skills (scqa-formatter, executive-distiller, bluf-shaper) need the canonical specification of the structure they produce, or when designing audience-fit communication.
- ▌ Art · npbuilds bundleRoute fine-art collecting questions — paintings, prints and multiples, contemporary, Old Masters, photography. Activate when the question touches authentication via catalogue raisonné, attribution hierarchy ("Attributed to" / "Studio of" / "Circle of"), primary vs secondary market dynamics, edition fractions for prints, condition reports for paintings, or the major auction venues (Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, Bonhams, Heritage). The most complex of the verticals, requiring discipline across five sub-domains.
- ▌ House Policy · npbuildsThe committed investing parameters — scope, authority, position-cap hierarchy, risk gates, factor targets, and the amendment procedure. Use before any sizing, rebalancing, or risk-limit decision, and whenever a strategist or Archon proposes an action. This file holds decided values, not ranges or advice; where it is silent, no policy exists yet and the answer is "unstated", never an improvised default.
- ▌ Scheherazade · npbuilds bundleMeta-orchestrator for the agentic world→character→story loop. Generates (or extends) a fictional world, its characters, and a story set in it by driving the worldbuilding and writing domains over one shared world-state, closed by the critic suite (consistency + quality + macro) with human checkpoints at the creative forks. Use to generate a world and a story end-to-end, or to draft quality-gated prose grounded in an existing world-bible. Not for single-skill asks (just worldbuild or just draft) — those route to the domain orchestrators.
- ▌ Architecture · npbuilds bundleDirect the architecture subdomain — route library structure analysis, gap mapping, pattern detection, skill evolution tracking, cross-domain translation, research curation, and concept explanation to the right specialist. Use when examining the library itself — its coverage, health, patterns, growth opportunities, or when concepts need clear explanation.
- ▌ Food Pairing · npbuilds bundleRoute food and wine pairing questions to the correct approach — structural pairing principles, specific cuisine traditions, or active wine recommendation for a dish. Use when the user wants to match wine to food, understand why a pairing works or fails, plan a wine list for a meal, or learn the science behind flavor bridges and structural compatibility.
- ▌ Revision Craft · npbuilds bundleDirect the revision-craft subdomain — route editing, style analysis, and prose-tightening questions to the right specialist skill. Use when the user has existing prose that needs improvement, wants a structured editing pass, or needs to analyze the style characteristics of a text sample.
- ▌ Sentence Craft · npbuilds bundleDirect the sentence-craft subdomain — route line-level prose questions to the right specialist skill, define the learning curriculum, and resolve conflicts between rhythm, diction, and syntax guidance. Use when the user has a question about how sentences work, wants to improve their prose at the line level, or needs to understand why a sentence does or doesn't land.
- ▌ Ackoff Mess · npbuilds bundleReference Russell Ackoff's mess concept — interrelated problem systems where dissolution beats solution — and his framework distinguishing puzzles, problems, and messes. Use when binding-vow's typology classifier sees multiple interconnected issues that resist atomic decomposition, or when a single problem statement is the wrong unit of analysis.
- ▌ Bluf Shaper · npbuilds bundleShape an audited problem statement as BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) — one-sentence answer, minimum background, priority-ordered discussion, explicit recommendation. Use for time-pressured executive readers, military/operational briefings, slack messages, or any output where the reader has 30 seconds. Returns a structured BLUF block ready for delivery.
- ▌ Xy Detector · npbuilds bundleDetect XY-pattern problem statements where someone asks about an attempted solution rather than the underlying goal. Use during binding-vow's Phase 6 audit, or directly when a question feels narrowly mechanical for the apparent stakes. Returns the inferred underlying goal Y if a pattern is detected, plus a reformulated statement, or 'no XY pattern' otherwise.
- ▌ Value Quality · npbuilds bundleDirector skill that routes valuation, business quality, competitive advantage, and contrarian analysis questions to the appropriate specialist knowledge skill. Use when evaluating what a business is worth, assessing moats and quality, or applying second-level thinking to consensus views.
- ▌ Epistemology · npbuilds bundleDirect the epistemology subdomain — route knowledge, justification, and evidence questions to evidence evaluation, belief auditing, or Bayesian reasoning. Use when assessing what we know and how well we know it, evaluating evidence quality, checking belief coherence, detecting epistemic overconfidence, or calibrating credences.
- ▌ Sommelier Lab · npbuilds bundleRoute questions at the experimental frontier of wine knowledge — synesthetic tasting notes, coached blind tasting practice, climate change projections for wine regions, and molecular flavor pairing science. Use when the user wants to explore wine creatively, practice for a sommelier exam, understand the science behind non-obvious pairings, or speculate on the future of wine geography.
- ▌ East Asia · npbuilds bundleAnalyze East Asia as a connected historical zone covering China's dynastic cycles, Japan, Korea, steppe empires, and the Sinocentric order. Use when examining region-specific dynamics including the examination system, tributary relations, Confucian civilization, maritime networks, and connections to Southeast Asia and the broader Indo-Pacific world.