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- ▌ Narrative Craft · npbuilds bundleDirect the narrative-craft subdomain — route scene, structure, pacing, dialogue, POV, and sensory detail questions to the right specialist skill. Use when the user has a question about how stories and scenes work, wants to improve narrative prose beyond the sentence level, or needs to understand why a passage lacks tension, clarity, or immersion.
- ▌ Polya Method · npbuilds bundleReference Polya's How to Solve It heuristic catalog and four-step problem-solving method (understand / plan / execute / look back). Use when binding-vow's reframing or decomposition skills need to apply restatement, relation-finding, reduction, working-backwards, decomposition, analogy, or verification heuristics. Foundational reference for problem-statement work.
- ▌ Cards · npbuilds bundleRoute trading-card collecting questions across the four major sub-disciplines — sports cards (PSA/BGS/SGC ecosystem, vintage T206 through junk-wax through modern), Pokémon (1st Ed / Shadowless, JP trophy cards), Magic: The Gathering (Reserved List, NM/LP/MP/HP scale, Alpha/Beta/Unlimited), and other TCGs (Yu-Gi-Oh, Lorcana, Flesh & Blood). Activate when the question touches any trading-card domain. The four sub-skills share grading infrastructure but each has distinct irreducible knowledge.
- ▌ Coins · npbuilds bundleRoute numismatic questions — US coins (Sheldon 1-70 scale, RD/RB/BN designations, FS/FBL/FH strike designations), world coins (broader category, region-specific markets), and die varieties (1955 DDO, 1969-S DDO, the specialist subfield where die identity matters more than grade). The most codified condition system in collecting via the Sheldon scale.
- ▌ Emptor · npbuilds bundleOrchestrates rigorous consumer purchase research from need to verified recommendation. Use when the user wants to buy something and asks "what's the best X", wants product options compared, or needs purchase claims verified — any consumer buying decision across electronics, appliances, software, services, and beyond. Runs requirements elicitation before any prices are seen, searches only trusted sources, verifies finalists, scores them on the user's own weighted criteria, and journals the outcome for calibration.
- ▌ Asset Universe · npbuilds bundleDirect the asset universe subdomain — route asset-class-specific questions to the right specialist skill, define cross-asset analysis frameworks, and resolve conflicts between asset class views. Use when analyzing a specific asset class or comparing opportunities across equities, fixed income, commodities, currencies, or alternatives.
- ▌ Amplifier · npbuilds bundleWhen adaptation-observer or emergence-detector surfaces something good, amplifier figures out how to strengthen it. Not "add a feature" but "create conditions for more of this behavior." Use when a positive pattern is identified and needs to be reinforced.
- ▌ Cellar Service · npbuilds bundleRoute wine service and cellar management questions to the correct specialist knowledge. Use when the user wants to know how to serve, decant, or store a wine correctly, understand professional service protocol, assess whether a wine is ready to drink, or manage a wine collection with appropriate storage conditions and drinking windows.
- ▌ South Asia · npbuildsAnalyze South Asia as a connected historical zone covering the Indus civilization, the Vedic and classical ages, the Sultanate and Mughal empires, the colonial Raj, and the modern republics. Use when examining region-specific dynamics including caste and social order, religious plurality and its politics, the northwest gateway, the Indian Ocean monsoon world, and the contested question of Indian civilizational unity.
- ▌ Creative Coding · npbuilds bundleKnowledge skill for algorithms, noise functions, shaders, and creative coding patterns used in artifact construction. Covers flow fields, L-systems, particle systems, reaction-diffusion, physics simulations, and shader art. Provides the technical foundation that the Simulation Smith and other agents draw upon. Also covers rendering technology selection and performance optimization for computationally intensive artifacts.
- ▌ Visual Composer · npbuilds bundleKnowledge skill for artifact layout, composition, visual rhythm, and typography-as-art. Covers grid-breaking layouts, spatial arrangement, density control, visual tension, and the compositional principles that make artifacts feel intentional rather than assembled. Consulted by the Master Artificer when visual arrangement decisions are needed.
- ▌ Cursed Speech · npbuilds bundleFormulate a problem statement as a Claude prompt in Anthropic's canonical structural order — role, context, longform-data-first, examples, numbered instructions, output format, self-check. Recommends downstream Archon skills via hybrid static-map plus runtime search, plus an effort level. Use when the audience tag is LLM. Returns a complete, ready-to-execute prompt block.
- ▌ Frame Rotator · npbuilds bundleProduce 2-3 alternative formulations of a problem statement using IDEO's How Might We formula, Polya's specialize/generalize operations (level-shifting), and assumption-excavator-driven framing rotation. Use during binding-vow's Phase 4 reframing. Returns alternative formulations each with one-line rationale and the framing assumption being relaxed or shifted.
- ▌ Scope Bounder · npbuilds bundleSurface the scope boundaries (time period, population, context) of a problem statement and check whether they are explicit and defensible. Thin coordinator over philosophy/logic/assumption-excavator with depth=surface and category=scope. Use in binding-vow's Phase 6 audit. Returns explicit/implicit/missing assessment per boundary type plus reformulation hints.
- ▌ Asclepius · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate biotech venture discovery and diligence across frontier target/modality scouting, clinical development, regulatory strategy, asset valuation, competitive intelligence, manufacturing risk, IP analysis, and deal synthesis. Activate when evaluating a therapeutic asset, biotech company, or clinical program — or when scouting which emerging targets and modalities are worth tracking before they become drug classes, and where they sit on the historical mechanism-of-action trajectory. Asclepius reads the question, classifies the discovery or diligence pillar, and routes to the right director.
- ▌ Comics · npbuilds bundleRoute comics and graphic-novel collecting questions — age categorization (Golden / Silver / Bronze / Copper / Modern), CGC and CBCS grading, pressing economics, key issues and first appearances, restoration disclosure, market venues (Heritage, ComicConnect, ComicLink), and manga / tankōbon as a distinct sub-discipline. Activate when the question concerns a specific issue, a grade decision, a pressing-vs-not decision, a key-issue identification, or any Western or Japanese comics topic.
- ▌ Aesthetic Identity · npbuilds bundleA living model of the user's evolving visual aesthetic — dimensional fingerprint across 17 axes (spatial, chromatic, form, temporal, emotional, photographic, discovered), palette tendencies, compositional preferences, motion feel, and photographic sensibility. Consult before any creative output to ground design decisions in the user's established (and evolving) identity. Also hosts Tengan (天眼) — the aesthetic intelligence system that analyzes inspiration images across all dimensions when the user signals "absorb", "reference", or "avoid". Activates when setting creative direction, choosing palettes, establishing mood, analyzing inspiration, or when any design skill needs a starting point that reflects the user rather than generic defaults.
- ▌ Skill Fork · npbuilds bundleFork a complex skill into smaller, focused child skills. Use when a skill exceeds health thresholds (too many sections, too many words, mixed responsibilities), when the user wants to decompose a skill, or when skill-health flags a skill as needing decomposition.
- ▌ Skill Test · npbuilds bundleTest skills for structural correctness and behavioral accuracy. Use when the user wants to validate a skill's file structure, run behavioral test cases against a skill, benchmark two skill versions side-by-side, or verify that a skill triggers correctly on expected prompts.
- ▌ Claim Decomposer · npbuilds bundleBreak complex research questions into individually verifiable atomic claims. Use when a question contains multiple assertions, hidden assumptions, compound predicates, or causal chains that need separate verification. Produces a structured claim list with verification strategies per claim.
- ▌ Regions Terroir · npbuilds bundleRoute wine geography, terroir science, and appellation law questions to the correct specialist knowledge. Use when the user wants to understand a specific wine region, learn why a region tastes the way it does, understand how soil and climate shape wine, or navigate the legal classification systems governing wine production worldwide.
- ▌ Lore Writer · npbuilds bundleProduce in-universe artifacts — documents that exist inside the world, written in a specific voice and format. Use when the user wants to create lore documents, intercepted communications, historical accounts, field reports, myths, or any text artifact that belongs to the world itself rather than describing it from outside.
- ▌ World Bible · npbuilds bundleFoundational axioms and constraints of the world. Reference when building civilizations, writing lore, checking consistency, or making any creative decision that must respect the world's rules. The single source of truth for what is real, what is possible, and what is hidden.
- ▌ Master Artificer · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate the creation of mind-blowing artifacts — interactive experiences, generative art, data visualizations, immersive narratives, simulations, and creative web applications. Use when the user wants to build something visually extraordinary, experientially surprising, or technically ambitious. Activates when the goal is not just "make a thing" but "make a thing that delights, surprises, or astonishes." Coordinates specialist agents, integrates with external skills (algorithmic-art, web-artifacts-builder, theme-factory), and applies a research-backed experimentation protocol to push creative boundaries.
- ▌ Inversion Tool · npbuilds bundleApply Munger inversion to a problem statement — instead of asking how to succeed, ask what would guarantee failure, then negate to surface preconditions for success. Use during binding-vow's Phase 4 reframing as a complement to frame-rotator. Distinct from steel-manning the opposing view; this inverts the success/failure axis. Returns the inverted statement plus negation-derived preconditions.
- ▌ Scqa Formatter · npbuilds bundleShape an audited problem statement as Situation/Complication/Question/Answer per Minto. Use for peer audiences, document introductions, or any output where the reader needs the complication to earn the answer. Returns SCQA narrative with optional one-level supporting pyramid below the answer; selects among standard, SCRA, and Concern-priming variants based on audience skepticism.
- ▌ Wicked Vs Tame · npbuilds bundleReference the wicked/tame problem distinction (Rittel and Webber 1973) and Heifetz's adaptive/technical leadership challenge framework. Use when classifying a problem statement, deciding whether iteration is structural or technical, or understanding why a problem keeps resisting clean formulation. Foundational reference for binding-vow's problem-typology skill.
- ▌ Watches · npbuilds bundleRoute timepiece collecting questions — vintage watches (tropical dials, ghost bezels, originality discipline), modern watches (Rolex/Patek/AP allocations, gray market dynamics), and reference-number discipline (double-signed, papers, "full set"). Activate when the question touches authentication of originality, polishing risk, allocation strategy, or any watch identification or valuation.
- ▌ Visualization · npbuilds bundleDirect the visualization subdomain — route a data-communication need to the right specialist: single-chart messaging, at-scale or interactive dashboards, or narrative data storytelling. Use when the user needs to choose a chart, build a dashboard, render large data, or tell a story with data. Resolves conflicts between clarity, scale, and narrative.
- ▌ Design Orchestrator · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate artistic design decisions across visual projects. Use when the user needs design direction, style choices, color palettes, typography decisions, composition guidance, or visual identity work. Activates when artistic or aesthetic judgment is needed for any visual output — UI mockups, illustrations, branding, data visualizations, presentations, or generative art.
- ▌ Decision Theory · npbuilds bundleDirect the decision theory subdomain — route choice-under-uncertainty problems to decision structuring, bias detection, or counterfactual analysis. Use when the user needs to make a decision with incomplete information, structure a complex choice, identify cognitive biases affecting their judgment, evaluate options under uncertainty, or reason about what would have happened under different choices.
- ▌ Deep History · npbuilds bundleAnalyze the 200,000-plus years of human history before agriculture, drawing on Smail's neurohistory, David Christian's Big History thresholds, and current research on human migration, the cognitive revolution, and the Neolithic transition. Use when examining what came before civilization, why the starting point of history matters, and how deep time perspectives reshape historical understanding.
- ▌ Wan Shi Tong · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate world history learning across nine wings: political, economic, cultural, military, intellectual, world-systems, historiography, applied-history, and regional-atlas. Activate when any question touches human history — events, periods, civilizations, causes, patterns, sources, or analogies. Routes by theme and temporal register, teaches historical thinking at every step.
- ▌ Prose Orchestrator · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate prose writing, revision, and craft learning across fiction, nonfiction, and essays. Use when the user needs help drafting prose, revising existing text, analyzing writing style, or learning prose craft. Activates when the task involves sentence-level polish, narrative structure, rhetorical strategy, editing passes, or voice development — for any genre or form.
- ▌ Stakes Assessor · npbuilds bundleAssess the stakes of a problem statement as low / medium / high. Drives binding-vow's mode selection (quick for low / standard for medium / deep for high). The architectural answer to Reiter-Palmon's automaticity finding: low-stakes statements get the fast lane so the suite doesn't get bypassed; high-stakes get the full audit pipeline. Returns a stakes tag plus rationale and any flagged irreversibility signals.
- ▌ Statement Audit · npbuildsRoute a candidate problem statement through the audit battery — XY-pattern detection, answerability, falsifiability, scope bounding, and the six-axis grader. Activate at six-eyes Phase 6 (Audit) to catch the standard failure modes before a statement is accepted, and to decide whether the re-state loop must fire. This director owns the "is this statement actually sound?" question.
- ▌ Data Wrangling · npbuilds bundleDirect the data wrangling subdomain — route data preparation questions to the right specialist skill, define the learning curriculum, and resolve conflicts between cleaning aggressiveness and information preservation. Use when the user needs to clean, transform, encode, or engineer features from raw data.
- ▌ Visual Communication · npbuilds bundleDirect the visual communication subdomain — route design questions to the right specialist skill, define the learning curriculum, and resolve conflicts between visual design principles. Use when the user has a visual design question and you need to determine which knowledge skill (color theory, design principles, or visual perception) to consult.
- ▌ Initiative Tracker · npbuilds bundleTrack product initiatives through their organic lifecycle — from seed to compost. Maintains the initiative log with state transitions, learnings, and portfolio-level views. Use when checking initiative status, recording state changes, reviewing the portfolio pipeline, or understanding what's in flight, what's stuck, and what's been composted.
- ▌ Pairing Engine · npbuilds bundleGenerate 3-5 structured wine recommendations for any dish across entry, mid-range, and premium price tiers. Use when the user describes a specific dish and wants concrete wine suggestions with reasoning. Also handles reverse pairing (user has a wine, wants food suggestions) and flags impossible pairings with honest alternatives.
- ▌ Trade And Globalization · npbuilds bundleAnalyze trade networks and globalization cycles from the Silk Roads and Indian Ocean trade through the Columbian Exchange, mercantilism, free trade imperialism, Bretton Woods, and post-1990 hyperglobalization. Use when examining how trade reshapes civilizations, what drives integration and fragmentation cycles, and why trade networks collapse.
- ▌ Micro Tension · npbuilds bundleThe line-by-line tension that keeps readers turning pages regardless of whether anything is "happening" — emotional contradiction, the unsaid, conflicting desires within a single consciousness. Use when prose feels flat despite good plot structure, when description or exposition kills momentum, when dialogue lacks charge, or when the user asks why literary fiction can be page-turning without action.
- ▌ Narrative Arc · npbuilds bundleStory structure frameworks — three-act, kishotenketsu, Truby's organic steps, and non-linear techniques. Use when the user asks about plot structure, story architecture, how to organize a narrative, or why a story feels shapeless. Presents frameworks as lenses, not rules.
- ▌ Point Of View · npbuildsNarrative perspective — psychic distance, free indirect discourse, unreliable narration, and POV mechanics. Use when the user asks about first/third person, narrative distance, head-hopping, or how to filter a story through a character's consciousness.
- ▌ Quality Critic · npbuilds bundleJudge whether a piece of prose is actually good — not whether it is consistent, and not by describing its features, but by ruling PASS/FAIL on a boolean craft rubric with a floor gate. Use after the consistency gate passes, when prose needs an objective quality verdict before revision, when running a generate→critique→refine loop, or when the user asks "is this scene working?" Emits a diagnosis for prose-editor, never a score for the writer to chase.
- ▌ Style Analyzer · npbuildsAnalyze and characterize the style of a prose text — sentence length distribution, diction register, vocabulary richness, syntactic patterns, and voice signature. Use when the user wants to understand what makes a text's prose distinctive, compare styles, or diagnose style inconsistencies.
- ▌ Probability Of Success · npbuilds bundleDirect probability of success estimation, phase transition analysis, and mechanism-based risk adjustment to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when calculating PoS for a clinical asset, adjusting base rates for program-specific factors, or evaluating target validation evidence. PoS is the spine of every biotech valuation — this director ensures estimates are explicit, assumption-driven, and anchored to empirical base rates.
- ▌ Grading Condition · npbuilds bundleConvert object condition into a single tradable number — the codified language that makes illiquid heterogeneous objects fungible in a market. Use when the user is grading, regrading, comparing graded items across services, deciding whether to press or crack out, or trying to understand why a CGC 9.8 trades differently from a PSA 10 even though both sound "perfect." Covers the major scales (CGC, PSA, BGS, SGC, Sheldon, Goldmine, ABAA, WATA) and the cottage industry that grades roughly 14M+ cards a year.
- ▌ Pokemon Cards · npbuilds bundleNavigate Pokémon card collecting — 1st Edition vs Shadowless vs Unlimited Base Set, Japanese trophy cards (Pikachu Illustrator, No Rarity, Trainer Promos), modern era WOTC vs Pokémon Co., PSA / CGC grading dynamics, and the canonical 1999 Charizard. Pokémon is the largest non-sports trading-card market and has its own grading, authentication, and pricing logic.
- ▌ Die Varieties · npbuildsNavigate the die-variety specialist subfield — doubled dies (1955 DDO, 1969-S DDO), repunched mint marks (RPM), overdates, and other minting errors that create coins with values disproportionate to their date/mintmark. The variety, not the date, is sometimes the asset.
- ▌ Recommendation Brief · npbuildsAssembles the final EMPTOR BRIEF for a purchase decision and runs its pre-flight audit: ranked pick with confidence-and-because clauses, trade-off map, evaluation matrix, sensitivity, forensics flags, trust-checked merchants, freshness stamps, and the feedback footer. Use during emptor's brief phase after evaluation completes, or standalone to re-render an existing evaluation into the brief contract. Rejects and regenerates rather than delivering an unauditable brief.
- ▌ Data Science Orchestrator · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate data science analysis across the full project lifecycle. Use when the user needs to clean or prepare data, perform exploratory analysis, engineer features, run statistical tests, build or evaluate models, design causal studies, create visualizations, monitor deployed models, or apply responsible AI principles. Routes to the right specialist skill based on where the user is in the data science workflow.
- ▌ Model Evaluation · npbuilds bundleModel evaluation and selection frameworks for machine learning. Reference when choosing performance metrics, designing validation strategies, comparing models statistically, assessing calibration, or auditing models for fairness. Use when deciding which model to deploy or how to measure model quality.
- ▌ Executor · npbuildsThe single broker-tool gate for the strategist suite. Strategists hand it an Intent[] payload; it runs pre-flight, validates against SOUL invariants, applies run-context routing (cron / interactive chat / Claude Code), calls review_equity_order (and place_equity_order in cron+live), and returns RealizedAction[]. NEVER invoke this skill directly from chat — strategists call it via the Skill tool. Direct invocation produces undefined behavior.
- ▌ Belief Auditor · npbuilds bundleMap a belief structure, find circular reasoning, test internal coherence, and flag unjustified confidence. Use when the user wants to check whether their beliefs are consistent, identify where their reasoning may be circular, assess whether their confidence is calibrated, or reconcile conflicting beliefs.
- ▌ Cuisine Pairing · npbuildsMatch wine to nine world cuisine traditions — French, Italian, Japanese, Indian, Thai, Middle Eastern, Mexican, Korean, and cheese. Use when the user is pairing wine with a specific national or regional cuisine, needs cuisine-specific guidance beyond structural principles, or wants to understand how cultural food traditions align with particular wine styles.
- ▌ Pairing Science · npbuildsApply the structural science of food and wine pairing — the five component axes (acidity, tannin, sweetness, body, oak), decision framework, WineGraph elimination rules, and molecular flavor bridge methodology. Use when the user needs to understand why a pairing works, navigate difficult foods, or build pairing logic from first principles.
- ▌ Religions And Worldviews · npbuilds bundleAnalyze the Axial Age, the spread of Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, the Reformation, secularization, and religious revivalism as historical forces. Use when examining how belief systems shape civilizations and how civilizations shape belief systems, covering not just doctrine but lived religion, syncretism, and the political consequences of religious change.
- ▌ Warfare Through The Ages · npbuilds bundleAnalyze the evolution of warfare from phalanx formations through cavalry empires, gunpowder revolution, Napoleonic mass armies, industrial total war, nuclear deterrence, and hybrid warfare. Use when examining revolutions in military affairs, how technology transforms the character of war, and why some military transitions reshape entire civilizations.
- ▌ Character Belief Tracker · npbuilds bundleTrack what characters and factions know, believe, and hide — mapped against the world-bible's revelation layers. Use when you need to verify what a character would know at a given point in the narrative, check for accidental information leaks between revelation layers, or map the epistemic state of the world at any moment.
- ▌ Cultural Voice · npbuildsTranslate a culture into how its people talk and think on the page — vocabulary domains, idiom source, syntactic rhythm, metaphor reach, and the things characters refuse to explain because everyone they know already understands. Use when a culture has been built (via `cultures-societies` and `naming-system`) and the user needs characters from that culture to *sound* like they belong to it without infodump or accent caricature. Sister skill to `world-to-story` and `sensory-translation` — together they form the worldbuilding-to-prose bridge.
- ▌ World To Story · npbuilds bundleConvert worldbuilding artifacts into narrative — determine which axioms become subtext vs. exposition, dramatize systems through character experience, and apply the iceberg methodology to control information flow. Use when worldbuilding is done but the story hasn't started, when prose reads as travelogue, or when the user asks how to show a world without info-dumping.
- ▌ Style Mixer · npbuilds bundleBlend 2-4 author DNA profiles into a novel Voice Card — a reusable style specification that the prose-writer can consume. Use when the user wants to design a specific voice for a project, character, or piece by combining elements from different authors. The mixer doesn't average — it selects which dimensions to pull from each author.
- ▌ Syntax Patterns · npbuilds bundleSentence structure variety in prose — cumulative, periodic, balanced, and fragmentary patterns, plus branching direction and structural diagnosis. Use when all sentences sound the same, when the user wants to understand sentence architecture, or when prose needs structural variety beyond rhythm and word choice.
- ▌ Discovery Sourcing · npbuilds bundleFind collectible objects across the channel landscape — estate sales, regional auction houses, major-house aggregators, eBay/WhatNot, Discord/Instagram communities, picker networks. Use when looking for a specific piece, building a sourcing pipeline, evaluating channel-category fit, or learning where the under-priced supply lives. Action skill — workflow-driven.
- ▌ Fraud Intelligence · npbuildsA pattern library of named scandals, forgery vectors, and red flag clusters across collecting domains. Use when a piece's story sounds too good, when provenance is suspiciously fresh, when a deal is meaningfully below comparable market, when a dealer's behavior triggers caution, or when modern AI-generated provenance is suspected. Covers Knoedler, Kurniawan, Mastro/Wagner, Operation Bullpen, the PSA reholder scandal, the CGC defamation case, and the recurring patterns these scandals reveal.
- ▌ Prints Multiples · npbuilds bundleNavigate the prints and multiples market — limited edition fractions (AP, HC, EA, PP, BAT), the major print techniques (lithograph, etching, silkscreen, woodcut, photogravure), edition size economics, and the Phillips Editions / Christie's Prints / Sotheby's Prints venues. Use when buying, selling, or evaluating any numbered print or multiple by a major artist.
- ▌ Mtg Collecting · npbuilds bundleNavigate Magic: The Gathering collecting — the Reserved List, Alpha / Beta / Unlimited distinctions, the NM / LP / MP / HP / DMG condition vocabulary, Power Nine economics, foils, and the dynamics of slabbing MTG (BGS / PSA / CGC). MTG has unique structural elements (the Reserved List policy, the Beta/Unlimited rarity rebalancing) that don't transfer from other TCGs.
- ▌ Ages And Keys · npbuildsIdentify and value the canonical key issues across Golden / Silver / Bronze / Copper / Modern ages — first appearances, origin issues, #1s, and major character milestones. Use when asked whether a specific comic is "important," when reading auction listings, when building or evaluating a key-issue-centric collection, or when distinguishing first prints from later printings. The hardest single skill in Western comics: knowing which issues actually matter.
- ▌ Comics Market · npbuilds bundleNavigate the comics market — venues (Heritage, ComicConnect, ComicLink, eBay, Pristine), reading population reports, comp analysis, the realities of liquidity in CGC-graded vs raw, the "fresh to market" premium on Golden Age, and the special economics of trophy keys at Heritage Signature sales. Use when buying, selling, or pricing a specific issue.
- ▌ Brand Foundations · npbuilds bundleBrand strategy fundamentals — positioning, values, audience definition, personality frameworks, and competitive differentiation. The strategic layer that informs all visual and verbal brand decisions. Use before any brand execution work.
- ▌ Digital Assets · npbuilds bundleDigital asset investing frameworks — Bitcoin, Ethereum, tokenization, on-chain analytics, and crypto market structure. Reference when analyzing cryptocurrency markets, sizing crypto in portfolios, evaluating DeFi opportunities, or understanding blockchain-based financial assets.
- ▌ Intrinsic Value · npbuilds bundleExpert knowledge on business valuation from first principles — DCF methodology, owner earnings, margin of safety, moat analysis, valuation multiples, and asset-based approaches. Covers the complete toolkit for determining what a business is actually worth. Use when evaluating whether a specific business or asset is trading above or below its fundamental worth.
- ▌ Growth Architect · npbuilds bundleDesign and prioritize the skill library's growth — turn gap analyses, frontier scans, and pattern insights into concrete, sequenced build plans. Use when deciding what domain to build next, how to sequence skill construction, where to invest effort, or how to evolve existing domains.
- ▌ Research Curator · npbuilds bundleBuild and maintain living research collections on topics relevant to the skill library. Use when building a curated knowledge base on a subject, gathering authoritative sources for a domain, creating reading lists, or when the same topic keeps requiring fresh research across multiple conversations.
- ▌ Feedback Loops · npbuilds bundleDirect 360 feedback design, performance review craft, personal advisory board, and reflection and journaling to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when the user is designing how they collect, structure, and metabolize feedback — running a 360, drafting a self-assessment, building a personal advisory board, or maintaining a reflection practice. Feedback loops are the discipline that turns experience into compounding judgment.
- ▌ Comparative Civilizations · npbuilds bundleAnalyze grand civilizational theories from Spengler and Toynbee through Diamond, Morris, and Turchin. Use when examining why civilizations flourish and collapse, evaluating geographic versus institutional versus cultural explanations of divergence, and assessing the strengths and limits of comparative frameworks that treat civilizations as units of analysis.
- ▌ Historical Analogy Engine · npbuilds bundleBuild structured historical analogy analyses for current geopolitical situations. Use when the user presents a current event and wants the 3-5 most instructive historical parallels, with explicit evaluation of where each analogy holds, where it breaks, and what the comparison reveals that studying either case alone would miss.
- ▌ Concrete Detail · npbuildsSensory specificity and the show/tell spectrum — the objective correlative, the telling detail, and knowing when showing is better than telling (and vice versa). Use when prose feels vague, abstract, or over-explained, or when the user asks about "show don't tell."
- ▌ Competitive Intelligence · npbuilds bundleDirect pipeline mapping, clinical differentiation analysis, and market dynamics questions to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when evaluating an asset's competitive position, mapping the pipeline in a therapeutic area, assessing first-mover vs fast-follower dynamics, or analyzing indication sequencing strategy. Competitive position determines market share, which determines peak sales, which determines value.
- ▌ Market Intelligence · npbuilds bundlePrice illiquid collectibles using completed-sales data, named indices, and auction-house math. Use when valuing a piece for purchase, sale, insurance, or donation; reading auction comps; computing all-in cost from hammer price; or interpreting cross-asset indices (Liv-ex, PWCC 500, Mei Moses, Knight Frank Luxury Investment Index). Covers buyer's premium tables, liquidity tiers, the bid-ask spread on illiquid assets, and the "sold not asking" discipline that separates real comps from noise.
- ▌ Manga Tankobon · npbuilds bundleNavigate manga and tankōbon collecting — first-print Japanese tankōbon, obi (paper waistband) economics, signed shikishi, Mandarake / Suruga-ya / Yahoo Japan venues, the distinction between English first editions and Japanese first prints, and the under-codified authentication landscape that's only now being formalized by CGC's recent entry into the category.
- ▌ Game Used · npbuilds bundleNavigate game-used and game-worn memorabilia — photo-matched (the trophy tier), team-letter authenticated, player-issued. Use when evaluating jerseys, bats, balls, equipment, and the tiers of authentication that determine value. Covers MEARS, Resolution Photomatching, and the major sports authenticators.
- ▌ Color Theory · npbuilds bundleColor theory foundations for design decisions. Reference when selecting palettes, evaluating color harmony, choosing contrast strategies, or understanding how colors interact perceptually. Use when any design agent needs to justify or refine color choices.
- ▌ Options Strategist · npbuilds bundleSingle-leg options strategist focused on income generation — cash-secured puts (CSP) on quality names you'd be happy to own, and covered calls (CC) against existing positions. EXPLICITLY ISOLATED from the autotrader profile (equity-only per SOUL); runs only as a Claude Code analyst or in a future dedicated options-trader profile with its own SOUL. Capability-gated to option_level_2+. Use when user asks "CSP setup on X", "covered call ideas", or "options income". Default review-only.
- ▌ Reflexivity Trader · npbuilds bundleSoros-style reflexive position trader. Heavily composes the reflexivity-sentiment director to identify adoption-validation feedback loops in real-time narratives (AI capex, obesity drugs, etc.), then sizes by the director's reported conviction. Weekly cadence, ≤30 day holds. Use when user asks "is X a reflexive setup", "narrative trade ideas", or "what does the reflexivity trader see". Default review-only.
- ▌ Domain Translator · npbuilds bundleTransfer knowledge, frameworks, and mental models between domains in the skill library. Use when a concept from one domain could apply to another, when looking for cross-domain leverage, when wanting to understand how two domains relate structurally, or when pattern-synthesizer finds an isomorphism that should be actively exploited.
- ▌ Bias Detector · npbuilds bundleIdentify cognitive biases distorting a decision, judgment, or argument. Use when the user suspects their thinking may be biased, wants to check a decision for common reasoning errors, needs to understand why a group made an irrational choice, or wants to debias a specific judgment before acting on it.
- ▌ Worldbuilding Orchestrator · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate worldbuilding projects across all creative layers. Use when the user wants to build a world, design civilizations, create lore, develop naming conventions, establish physical rules, or produce any creative artifact that requires coordinating world-bible consistency, cultural voice, naming coherence, and narrative depth. Activates when the user is constructing fictional worlds for games, novels, tabletop RPGs, or any narrative medium.
- ▌ Whole Story Judge · npbuilds bundleJudge whether a whole story works as a whole — not scene by scene. Checks the macro properties that only exist at the level of the complete draft: are the setups paid off, does the arc have a shape, do events connect causally, is the opening's promise kept, is it globally consistent? Use after the scene-level quality gate passes, on a complete draft or outline, when a story is "fine scene by scene but doesn't add up," or when the user asks "does the whole thing hold together?"
- ▌ Portfolio Allocation · npbuilds bundleTreat the collection as part of a balance sheet — sizing, concentration, diversification, illiquidity premium, deaccessioning calendar. Use when sizing collectibles against net worth, diversifying within a single asset class, evaluating concentration risk in a single artist or vintage, planning a multi-year deaccessioning strategy, or framing the collection within a whole-net-worth allocation alongside equities, fixed income, real estate, and private markets.
- ▌ Storage Preservation · npbuilds bundleHalt physical degradation through climate control, archival materials, and conservation ethics. Use when setting up storage for a new acquisition, evaluating an existing storage environment, choosing between home storage and a freeport / professional facility, or deciding whether to commission conservation on an existing piece. Covers temperature and humidity targets, UV thresholds, Oddy / PAT material testing, and the museum-grade "don't touch it" doctrine.
- ▌ Autographs · npbuilds bundleNavigate autograph collecting — sports, entertainment, and historical signatures. Covers PSA/DNA, JSA, BAS authentication tiers, the witnessed-vs-opinion distinction, common forgery vectors (Mantle, Ruth, Cobb, Babe Ruth's specific signature evolution), and the major venues (Heritage, Goldin, Lelands, REA).
- ▌ Modern Watches · npbuilds bundleNavigate modern watch collecting — Rolex Daytona / GMT-Master, Patek 5711 Nautilus, AP Royal Oak, the allocation game at authorized dealers, gray market dynamics, and the post-2022 market correction. Use when considering a new boutique allocation, weighing gray market premiums, or evaluating modern reference values.
- ▌ Data Cleaning · npbuilds bundleData cleaning and preprocessing strategies for analytical datasets. Reference when handling missing values, detecting outliers, deduplicating records, validating data types, or establishing reproducible cleaning pipelines. Use when preparing any dataset for analysis or modeling.
- ▌ Event Driven · npbuilds bundleAnalyze event-driven investing opportunities including merger arbitrage, activist campaigns, catalyst identification, and distressed investing. Use when the user wants to evaluate a merger spread, assess an activist 13D filing, identify upcoming catalysts, or analyze distressed debt and bankruptcy situations.
- ▌ Skill Cartographer · npbuilds bundleMap the skill library's coverage, white space, and structural health. Use when identifying gaps in the library, finding underdeveloped areas, assessing domain coverage, discovering orphaned or disconnected skills, or understanding where the library is strong vs. thin.
- ▌ Skill Evolutionist · npbuilds bundleTrack how skills mature over time, identify staleness, propose upgrades, and assess when skills need refactoring, splitting, or retiring. Use when evaluating whether existing skills are still current, when AI capabilities have outgrown a skill's design, or when planning skill maintenance and evolution.
- ▌ Bayesian Reasoner · npbuilds bundleUpdate credences given new evidence, calibrate confidence levels, and identify base-rate neglect. Use when the user needs to reason about how new evidence should change their beliefs, check whether their confidence is proportional to the evidence, understand conditional probabilities, or practice calibrated reasoning.
- ▌ Service Protocol · npbuilds bundleApply correct wine service technique — serving temperatures by style, decanting decisions (aeration vs sediment separation), glassware selection philosophy, opening techniques for still and sparkling wine, and formal restaurant service protocol based on CMS Service Standards. Use for any question about how to properly serve or present a wine.