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- ▌ Noble Grapes · npbuilds bundleNavigate the 15 internationally recognized noble grape varieties — 9 reds and 6 whites — with aromatic profiles, structural signatures, classic regions, and common winemaking treatments. Use when identifying a grape from tasting notes, understanding a variety's range across regions, or explaining why a grape behaves the way it does.
- ▌ Appellation Law · npbuilds bundleNavigate the legal classification systems governing wine production worldwide — EU PDO/PGI, French AOC, Italian DOC/DOCG, Spanish DO/DOCa, German Prädikat, US AVA, and Australian GI. Use when the user needs to understand what a label means, what a classification system regulates, or why legal boundaries matter for wine identity.
- ▌ New World Atlas · npbuilds bundleDeep reference for New World wine regions — USA, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, and Chile. Use when the user asks about any New World wine region, appellation, terroir characteristic, or regional style. Covers climate drivers, key sub-regions, benchmark producers, and how New World regions compare to Old World counterparts.
- ▌ Old World Atlas · npbuilds bundleDeep reference for European wine regions — France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Greece, and Georgia. Use when the user asks about any Old World wine region, appellation, classification system, or regional style. Covers key terroir, grape varieties, classification hierarchies, and benchmark producers for each country.
- ▌ Terroir Science · npbuilds bundleExplain the science behind terroir — how soil type, climate, altitude, aspect, and microclimate shape wine flavor. Use when the user wants to understand why a region tastes distinctive, how to compare wine climates using Winkler and Huglin indices, or engage with the ongoing scientific debate about soil mineral expression in wine.
- ▌ Molecular Pairing · npbuilds bundleExplore wine and food pairing through shared volatile aroma compounds — the Ahn et al. flavor network research, Foodpairing methodology, 14-compound reference table, and five non-obvious pairings with molecular explanations. Use when the user wants to understand the chemistry behind classic pairings, discover unexpected combinations, or go beyond structural pairing into flavor compound science.
- ▌ Synesthetic Notes · npbuildsTranslate wine profiles into parallel sensory domains — color palettes, music, textures, seasons, landscapes, and emotional moments. Use when the user wants poetic or cross-sensory wine descriptions, needs language that communicates wine to non-wine-fluent guests, or wants to develop a more imaginative, memorable vocabulary for tasting and writing about wine.
- ▌ Art And Cultural Production · npbuilds bundleAnalyze art, architecture, literature, music, and performance as historical evidence and historical force. Use when examining how cultural production reflects and reshapes power, from cave paintings through the Renaissance, modernism, and the digital age, including patronage systems, censorship, cultural transmission, and the politics of aesthetic production across civilizations.
- ▌ Comparative Analysis Engine · npbuilds bundleBuild structured comparisons of historical phenomena across time and space. Use when the user wants to compare two or more empires, revolutions, economic crises, or technological transitions, producing an analysis of what they share, where they diverge, what explains the difference, and what the comparison reveals that studying either case alone would miss.
- ▌ History And Decision Making · npbuilds bundleAnalyze how policymakers, strategists, and investors use and misuse history for decisions, drawing on Neustadt and May's Thinking in Time framework, intelligence analysis methods, and scenario planning with historical precedents. Use when the user wants to apply historical reasoning to a current decision or evaluate how decision-makers have used historical analogies.
- ▌ Mediterranean And Near East · npbuilds bundleAnalyze the Mediterranean and Near East as a connected historical zone from the Fertile Crescent through classical antiquity, Byzantium, the Islamic golden age, the Ottoman Empire, and the modern Middle East. Use when examining region-specific dynamics, cross-cultural exchange across the inland sea, and connections to Indian Ocean and Central Asian networks.
- ▌ Money And Financial Systems · npbuilds bundleAnalyze the evolution of money and finance from Mesopotamian grain accounting through coinage, bills of exchange, central banking, the gold standard, fiat currency, and modern financial architecture. Use when examining financial crises as recurring phenomena, the institutional infrastructure of credit, and how monetary systems shape political power.
- ▌ Strategy And Grand Strategy · npbuilds bundleAnalyze strategic thought from Sun Tzu and Thucydides through Clausewitz, Jomini, Liddell Hart, and modern theorists. Use when examining enduring principles of strategy, the relationship between military means and political ends, grand strategy as the alignment of all instruments of national power, and how strategic thinking evolves across eras.
- ▌ Conlang Craft · npbuilds bundleConstructed language design beyond phonetic palettes — morphology, syntax, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis as worldbuilding tool, and the conlang-to-culture pipeline. Use when a culture needs linguistic depth beyond naming conventions, when language should encode worldview, or when the user asks about creating fictional languages.
- ▌ Grading Pressing · npbuildsDecide whether to grade, press, or crack-out a comic — the economic logic of submitting raw, pressing before resubmission, and the disclosure ethics of conservation vs restoration. Use when holding a raw key issue, when a CGC slab is below its likely true grade, or when evaluating a 9.4 → 9.6 / 9.8 pressing-and-resubmit decision. Mirrors crackout ROI from the horizontal grading-condition skill, applied to comic-specific scales and venues.
- ▌ Pop Culture · npbuildsNavigate film, TV, and music memorabilia — production-used props, screen-worn costumes, signed instruments, original concert artifacts. Covers Profiles in History, Heritage Entertainment Auctions, and Julien's, plus the specific authentication landscape for Hollywood and music memorabilia (which is less centralized than sports).
- ▌ Vintage Watches · npbuildsNavigate vintage watch collecting — tropical dials, ghost bezels, original lume, the unpolished-case premium, redial detection, and the Paul Newman Daytona benchmark. Use when evaluating any vintage Rolex, Patek, AP, or other pre-2000 watch for purchase or sale.
- ▌ Chart Selection · npbuilds bundleData visualization chart selection and design principles. Reference when choosing chart types for specific messages, designing accessible visualizations, avoiding misleading patterns, or applying direct labeling and annotation strategies. Use when communicating data insights visually to any audience.
- ▌ Social Choice · npbuilds bundleSocial choice theory foundations for understanding collective decision-making and its limits. Reference when analyzing voting systems, evaluating fairness of aggregation rules, understanding impossibility theorems, or designing preference aggregation mechanisms. Use when the problem involves groups making collective decisions.
- ▌ Infrastructure Orchestrator · npbuilds bundleOrchestrate skill library management across the full lifecycle. Use when the user wants to create a new skill, audit the library, build a domain from scratch, run diagnostics, export skills, or perform any multi-step operation that involves coordinating multiple infrastructure tools — scaffold, registry, health, test, analyze, network, dashboard, export, or fork.
- ▌ Macro Cycles · npbuilds bundleKnowledge skill covering business cycle analysis, debt cycle frameworks, leading/coincident/lagging indicators, and practical cycle positioning. Use when determining where we are in the economic cycle and what historical patterns suggest comes next.
- ▌ Macro Overlay Trader · npbuilds bundleDalio-quadrant macro overlay. Asks regime-intelligence which growth×inflation quadrant we're in and rotates a small SPY/TLT/IEF/GLD basket to the corresponding target weights. Monthly cadence, plus off-cadence on regime shift. Composes both regime-intelligence and asset-universe. Use when user asks "what regime are we in for positioning", "macro overlay view", or "how should I tilt the book". Default review-only.
- ▌ Pattern Synthesizer · npbuilds bundleDetect recurring patterns across domains in the skill library — shared structures, parallel architectures, common abstractions, and missing connections. Use when noticing similarities between domains, looking for deeper organizing principles, or identifying structural opportunities the library isn't exploiting.
- ▌ Evidence Evaluator · npbuilds bundleAssess evidence quality, source reliability, and epistemic weight. Use when the user needs to judge how strong a piece of evidence is, compare evidence from different sources or methods, determine what kind of evidence would settle a question, or understand why some evidence is more trustworthy than others.
- ▌ Product Briefing Engine · npbuilds bundleGenerate the Weekly Product Synthesis — not a status report but a strategic narrative about what the intelligence system is becoming, what it learned this week, what's surprising, what needs attention, and what to do next. The Loom's equivalent of Archon's daily briefing.
- ▌ Interview Mastery · npbuilds bundleDirect behavioral interview prep, domain-technical deep-dives, VC interviews, executive interviews, and panel/case interviews to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when the user is preparing for any interview that matters — first conversations, IC pitches, partner interviews, board candidate screens, or executive panels. Interview mastery is the discipline of rehearsing the conversation before it happens, with the right framework for the format.
- ▌ Trajectory Design · npbuilds bundleDirect role-archetype mapping, optionality architecture, IDPs and OKRs, skill-gap analysis, and pivot sequencing to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when the user is making or remaking the underlying choice of *what career to build* — picking a target role archetype, designing optionality, setting personal OKRs, naming skill gaps, sequencing a multi-year pivot. Trajectory design is the strategic layer that every other career activity serves.
- ▌ Cellar Management · npbuildsManage wine storage and aging — optimal cellar conditions, drinking windows by wine type, how to assess readiness, practical cellar building strategy with portfolio ratios, buying channels (en primeur, auction, direct), and provenance authentication for investment-grade wine. Use for any question about how to store, age, organize, or build a wine collection.
- ▌ Aroma Lexicon · npbuilds bundleBuild and apply wine tasting vocabulary using Ann Noble's Wine Aroma Wheel — a three-tier hierarchy of 119 terms. Use when identifying specific aromas, understanding what aromatic observations reveal about grape variety, origin, and winemaking, or when improving blind tasting precision and tasting note quality.
- ▌ Gender And Sexuality History · npbuilds bundleAnalyze gender as a historical category following Joan Scott, the history of sexuality, family, and reproduction across cultures, feminist historiography, and masculinity studies. Use when examining how gender roles have been constructed and contested across time, how women's history transforms our understanding of political and economic history, and how sexuality has been regulated and experienced.
- ▌ Narrative Geometry · npbuilds bundleAlternative narrative shapes beyond the dramatic arc — meander, spiral, fractal, wavelet, radial, braid, and cycle. Use when a story resists three-act structure, when the user wants non-linear or non-Western narrative forms, when a draft feels forced into a shape that doesn't serve its material, or when the user asks about experimental structure.
- ▌ Figurative Language · npbuilds bundleMetaphor, simile, image systems, and the objective correlative — the machinery of implication in prose. Use when prose is literal and flat, when metaphors feel clichéd or decorative, when the user asks about "show don't tell" at the figurative level, or when a work needs thematic coherence through sustained imagery.
- ▌ Selling Deaccessioning · npbuilds bundleExecute sales tactically — channel selection (auction vs dealer vs direct), consignment terms, reserve setting, guarantees and irrevocable bids, the tax-loss vs charitable trade-off. Use when planning a sale, deaccessioning part of a collection, executing a multi-year deaccessioning calendar, or comparing major-house consignment vs private treaty vs direct-to-collector channels. Action skill — workflow-driven.
- ▌ Watch References · npbuildsDecode watch reference numbers, "full set" documentation requirements, double-signed retailer marks (Tiffany, Cartier signature), and the discipline of period-appropriate configuration verification. Use when identifying a specific watch, evaluating completeness of provenance documentation, or assessing reference-specific value drivers.
- ▌ Drift Detection · npbuilds bundleModel and data drift detection for production ML systems. Reference when designing monitoring pipelines, selecting drift detection methods, setting alert thresholds, diagnosing performance degradation, or deciding when to retrain models. Use when ML models are deployed and need ongoing quality assurance.
- ▌ Auction Theory · npbuilds bundleAuction theory foundations for understanding and designing competitive allocation mechanisms. Reference when analyzing auction formats, computing optimal bidding strategies, evaluating revenue properties, or designing new auctions. Use when any analysis involves competitive bidding, price discovery, or allocation through auctions.
- ▌ Fiscal Regime · npbuilds bundleKnowledge skill covering fiscal dominance theory, sovereign debt dynamics, Treasury issuance analysis, fiscal-monetary interaction, and the investment implications of government spending and debt trajectories. Use when assessing how fiscal policy and debt sustainability affect markets.
- ▌ Position Sizing · npbuilds bundleDeep expertise in position sizing methodologies — Kelly criterion, risk budgeting, volatility-adjusted sizing, conviction-based concentration, and portfolio heat management. Use when determining how much capital to allocate to a specific trade or position.
- ▌ Earnings Event Trader · npbuilds bundlePost-earnings drift fade strategist. Identifies allowlist names that just reported an EPS BEAT but gapped DOWN ≥2% — irrational reaction setup. Buys on the gap, exits at +3% or 5 trading days. Equity-only in v1; an options variant lives in options-strategist. Use when user asks "earnings setups today", "did X beat", or "what does the earnings trader see". Review-only default.
- ▌ Quality Compounders · npbuilds bundleExpert knowledge on Munger's quality-at-a-fair-price framework — the math of compounding, ROIC analysis, reinvestment runway, management assessment, franchise vs commodity businesses, and practical evaluation of quality compounders.
- ▌ Executive Presence · npbuilds bundleDirect executive communication, meeting mastery, public speaking, and board readiness to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when the user is preparing to *show up* at an executive level — running a meeting, presenting to a board, giving a conference talk, writing an exec memo, or stepping into a board-adjacent role. Executive presence is the discipline of being read as senior when you are in the room, in print, and on stage.
- ▌ Climate Projections · npbuildsExplore how climate change is reshaping wine regions — confirmed warming data, region-by-region 2050 projections, adaptation strategies, and the new high-altitude frontiers emerging as classic regions face heat stress. Use when the user wants to understand which regions are winning or losing from climate change and what this means for collecting, tasting, and the future of wine.
- ▌ Collecting Investment · npbuildsEvaluate wine as a collectible and investment asset — blue-chip producers, the Liv-ex Fine Wine Index, provenance and counterfeiting risk, and the honest case for collecting what you love to drink. Use when the user wants to build an investment-grade cellar, understand which wines hold value, or assess the risks and realities of wine as an alternative asset class.
- ▌ Alternative Winemaking · npbuilds bundleExplain natural wine, orange/amber wine, pét-nat, amphora and concrete fermentation, carbonic maceration, whole-cluster, and biodynamic winemaking. Use when the user asks about low-intervention wine, wants to understand the natural wine movement, or needs to distinguish intentional stylistic choice from conventional winemaking fault.
- ▌ Revolutions And Regime Change · npbuilds bundleAnalyze revolutionary dynamics from the English Civil War through the Arab Spring using Brinton's anatomy, Skocpol's structural theory, and modern frameworks. Use when examining why revolutions erupt, why some consolidate and others devour their children, and how to distinguish revolutionary situations from mere unrest.
- ▌ Social Movements And Identity · npbuilds bundleAnalyze abolitionism, suffrage, civil rights, feminism, labor movements, anti-colonial nationalism, and environmentalism as historical forces. Use when examining how marginalized groups have changed history, the recurring patterns of movement building, backlash, and institutionalization, and how history from below transforms our understanding of political change.
- ▌ Sensory Translation · npbuildsTranslate a worldbuilding sensory palette into prose technique. Use when a built region exists (via `sensory-worldbuilding`) and the user needs to render it on the page without sensory-dump paragraphs. Covers detail-selection, POV attention bias, sensory-as-characterization, and diction-by-region. Sister skill to `world-to-story` and `cultural-voice` — together they form the worldbuilding-to-prose bridge.
- ▌ Rnpv Modeler · npbuilds bundleBuild risk-adjusted net present value models for therapeutic assets incorporating phase-gated probability, peak sales forecasts, development cost estimates, and time-value discounting with optional Monte Carlo simulation and platform optionality valuation. Activate when valuing a biotech asset for investment, licensing, or M&A.
- ▌ Data Storytelling · npbuilds bundleDesign data narratives — sequence visualizations into a story that holds attention and lands a decision. Use when turning a set of charts into an argument, building a scrollytelling piece or data-driven report, pacing a guided reveal, choosing annotation-as-message, or adapting a narrative across dashboard, presentation, and report contexts.
- ▌ Insider Signals · npbuildsInterpret insider buying and selling signals for investment decision-making. Use when the user wants to analyze Form 4 filings, evaluate insider transactions, build an insider buying watchlist, or understand what insider activity signals about a stock's prospects.
- ▌ Steel Man Forge · npbuilds bundleConstruct the strongest possible version of an opposing argument. Use when the user wants to understand the best case for a position they disagree with, stress-test their own position by seeing the strongest opposition, practice intellectual humility, or prepare for a debate by anticipating the best counterarguments.
- ▌ Network Cultivation · npbuilds bundleDirect cold outreach, relationship stewardship, mentorship design, ecosystem mapping, and introductions / referrals to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when the user is building or maintaining the relationships that compound into opportunities — sending a first email to a partner, designing a mentor cadence, mapping a venture ecosystem, asking for or giving an introduction. The compounding asset of a career is a small number of high-trust relationships, not a large number of weak ones.
- ▌ Fault Diagnosis · npbuilds bundleIdentify and diagnose wine faults and flaws using a complete taxonomy of 17+ compounds with detection thresholds and sensory descriptors. Use when a wine smells or tastes wrong, when deciding whether to send a bottle back, or when distinguishing intentional natural wine style from genuine faults.
- ▌ Decolonization And Sovereignty · npbuilds bundleAnalyze the dissolution of colonial empires, national liberation movements, neo-colonialism, Cold War proxy dynamics, and the creation of the modern state system in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Use when examining tensions between self-determination and state viability, or the legacies of colonial rule in contemporary politics.
- ▌ Historical Pattern Recognition · npbuildsIdentify and evaluate recurring patterns across history: imperial overstretch, Thucydides traps, financial manias, revolutionary dynamics, secular cycles, and technological displacement. Use when analyzing whether a historical pattern is genuinely recurring versus when an analogy is misleading, or when applying historical lessons to current geopolitical or economic situations.
- ▌ Character Design · npbuilds bundleDesign characters as the intersection of world and story — psychology, motivation, contradiction, arc potential, and how the world shapes who they are. Use when creating characters, when characters feel generic or disconnected from their setting, or when the step from world-bible to person-in-world hasn't been taken.
- ▌ Economic Systems · npbuilds bundleDesign fictional economies — trade routes, currency systems, resource scarcity, and the relationship between economic structure and power. Use when building a world's economy, designing currency or trade, creating scarcity-driven conflict, or when cultures-societies Pillar 2 (Economy) needs depth beyond the basics.
- ▌ Ip Valuation · npbuilds bundleIP valuation frameworks for biotech assets including cost approach, market approach (comparable royalty rates), and income approach (relief-from-royalty). Covers royalty rate benchmarks by patent type, IP contribution analysis, trade secret valuation, and regulatory exclusivity value quantification. Activate when translating patent strength into financial value or modeling the impact of IP on asset economics.
- ▌ En Primeur · npbuilds bundleNavigate the en primeur (wine futures) market — Bordeaux's pre-bottling release system, the La Place de Bordeaux négociant infrastructure, the timing and pricing dynamics, and the risks (delivery, vintage quality reassessment, négociant solvency). Use when considering an en primeur purchase, evaluating a future for current-vintage Bordeaux, or understanding why en primeur prices differ from physical bottles.
- ▌ Design Principles · npbuilds bundleCore visual design principles for evaluating and improving compositions. Use to assess layout quality, diagnose why a design feels wrong, establish visual hierarchy, or apply foundational rules like Gestalt, contrast, alignment, and proximity.
- ▌ Visual Perception · npbuilds bundleHow human vision processes visual information. Reference when making decisions about attention flow, readability, visual weight, motion sensitivity, or why a design feels wrong despite following rules. Use when agents need perceptual science behind design choices.
- ▌ Matching Markets · npbuilds bundleMarket design foundations for matching and allocation without prices. Reference when designing or analyzing matching systems, two-sided markets, assignment mechanisms, or allocation rules. Use when the problem involves matching agents to agents, agents to objects, or allocating indivisible resources where monetary transfers are limited or absent.
- ▌ Game Solver · npbuilds bundleAnalyze strategic situations through a game-theoretic lens. Use when the user describes a competitive, cooperative, or mixed-motive scenario and needs it formalized as a game, solved for equilibria, or interpreted as strategic advice. Handles business strategy, negotiation, political dynamics, technology competition, and fictional world scenarios.
- ▌ Secular Themes · npbuildsMulti-decade structural forces shaping investment landscapes. Reference when evaluating AI investment cycles, demographic shifts, deglobalization, sovereign debt sustainability, and climate risk. Use when distinguishing investable secular themes from transient narratives.
- ▌ Monetary Regime · npbuilds bundleKnowledge skill covering central bank policy frameworks, rate cycle analysis, liquidity conditions, yield curve interpretation, and the transmission of monetary policy to markets. Use when assessing whether monetary policy is a headwind or tailwind for investment positioning.
- ▌ Second Level Thinking · npbuilds bundleExpert knowledge on Howard Marks's contrarian investment framework — first-level vs second-level thinking, consensus analysis, cycle positioning, the relationship between price and risk, and the psychological requirements of contrarian investing.
- ▌ Decision Architect · npbuilds bundleStructure a decision under uncertainty: enumerate options, model outcomes, assign probabilities, clarify values, and recommend a decision framework. Use when the user faces a complex choice with multiple options, uncertain outcomes, or unclear trade-offs and needs the decision laid out clearly before choosing.
- ▌ Dialectic Engine · npbuilds bundleRun structured thesis/antithesis/synthesis dialogues and manage multi-round point-counterpoint exchanges. Use when the user wants to explore both sides of a question systematically, generate a synthesis from opposing views, run a structured debate to clarify a complex issue, or produce a balanced analysis by giving each perspective its strongest voice.
- ▌ Negotiation Leverage · npbuilds bundleDirect offer negotiation, equity literacy, title and scope negotiation, and exit / transition craft to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when the user is negotiating any term — base, bonus, equity, title, scope, signing bonus, vesting, severance, non-compete, garden leave, or notice. Negotiation leverage is the discipline of converting earned credibility into terms that protect the trajectory's optionality.
- ▌ Personal Positioning · npbuilds bundleDirect narrative architecture, LinkedIn optimization, public portfolio strategy, credibility translation, audience tuning, resume craft, and cover letter craft to the right specialist skill. Activate when the user is shaping how they show up to a target audience — refreshing a resume, drafting a cover letter, rewriting a LinkedIn About, deciding what to publish on GitHub, or translating clinical credibility for non-clinical audiences. Personal positioning is the discipline of being legible to the rooms you want to enter.
- ▌ Grape Expression · npbuilds bundleUnderstand how the same grape variety transforms across different terroirs using five case studies: Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Syrah, Riesling, and Grenache. Use when the user wants to compare regional expressions of a single grape, understand terroir's effect on flavor, or develop more nuanced expectations about a variety across its global range.
- ▌ Blind Tasting Trainer · npbuilds bundleRun coached blind tasting sessions with configurable difficulty (beginner through Master Sommelier level) and exam format (CMS or WSET). Presents a wine profile without revealing identity, walks the user through the deductive grid step by step, asks what each observation suggests, then reveals the wine with a scored debrief and one memorable diagnostic pattern to remember.
- ▌ Deductive Method · npbuilds bundleApply the Court of Master Sommeliers Deductive Tasting Grid to systematically evaluate any wine. Use when describing a wine from scratch, practicing blind tasting, or building a structured evidence chain from sight through nose through palate to a final conclusion about grape, region, and vintage.
- ▌ Character Interiority · npbuilds bundleRendering consciousness on the page — the full spectrum from direct thought through free indirect discourse through stream of consciousness, and the craft of making readers live inside a character's mind. Use when prose feels emotionally flat despite correct POV choice, when interiority reads as "telling feelings," when psychic distance is inconsistent, or when the user wants to understand how skilled writers create the illusion of a thinking, feeling mind.
- ▌ Cost Estimator · npbuilds bundleEstimate clinical development costs, regulatory costs, and launch costs for a therapeutic program by phase, therapeutic area, and trial complexity using industry benchmarks, cost driver analysis, and the Tufts CSDD framework to produce phased investment timelines for rNPV modeling.
- ▌ Deal Economics · npbuilds bundleApply biotech deal structure frameworks including licensing economics, M&A valuation premiums, royalty rate benchmarks, milestone design principles, and option-based deal architectures for biotech venture investment analysis and partnership evaluation.
- ▌ Authentication Provenance · npbuildsVerify that an object is what the seller claims and that its chain of ownership corroborates the attribution. Use when buying any high-value collectible, when an item's history has gaps, when forensic analysis is being considered, when a Certificate of Authenticity is in hand (or conspicuously missing), or when a piece's provenance is being assembled for sale, donation, or insurance. Authentication is the foundation that grading and pricing both sit on top of — skip it and the rest of the analysis becomes decoration.
- ▌ Energy Security · npbuildsEnergy markets, transition dynamics, and resource security for investment analysis. Reference when evaluating oil and gas markets, renewable energy economics, nuclear renaissance, critical minerals, grid infrastructure, and ESG investing. Use when energy supply, demand, or policy shapes asset values.
- ▌ Socratic Examiner · npbuilds bundleRun systematic Socratic questioning to surface assumptions, contradictions, and deeper understanding. Use when the user wants to examine a belief, test a position, uncover hidden reasoning, or think through a problem they're stuck on. Produces a structured sequence of questions with the reasoning behind each.
- ▌ Intelligence And Information War · npbuilds bundleAnalyze espionage, codebreaking, deception operations, propaganda, and information warfare from ancient spies through Bletchley Park, Cold War tradecraft, and modern cyber operations. Use when examining how information asymmetry shapes conflict outcomes and how intelligence successes and failures have altered the course of history.
- ▌ Feature Engineering · npbuilds bundleFeature engineering strategies for machine learning and statistical modeling. Reference when encoding categorical variables, creating interaction features, transforming numeric distributions, engineering temporal features, or selecting the most predictive feature subset. Use when building or improving model inputs.
- ▌ Biostatistics · npbuilds bundleBiostatistics methods for clinical trials, epidemiology, and life sciences research. Reference when designing clinical trials, performing survival analysis, evaluating diagnostic tests, computing epidemiological measures, conducting meta-analyses, handling multiplicity in clinical endpoints, or navigating FDA/EMA regulatory statistical requirements. Use when the data involves patient outcomes, censored time-to-event data, or regulatory submissions.
- ▌ Evo Simulator · npbuilds bundleSimulate evolutionary game dynamics — run replicator equations, compute fixation probabilities, visualize phase portraits and population trajectories, and analyze evolutionary stability computationally. Use when the user wants to see dynamics in action, validate analytical predictions, or explore games too complex for closed-form analysis.
- ▌ Info Designer · npbuilds bundleDesign optimal information disclosure policies for strategic settings. Use when the user needs to determine what information to reveal, to whom, and when — for platforms, regulators, organizations, or any sender who controls information flow. Produces concrete signal structures with commitment and incentive analysis.
- ▌ Mechanism Designer · npbuilds bundleDesign incentive-compatible mechanisms for specific allocation, auction, voting, or governance problems. Use when the user needs to create rules for a strategic situation — choosing an auction format, designing a matching system, structuring incentives for a team or platform, or building governance rules for an organization or DAO.
- ▌ Rebalancing Logic · npbuilds bundleRebalancing frameworks for maintaining portfolio alignment with target allocations. Reference when deciding whether to rebalance, choosing a rebalancing method, managing tax consequences, or distinguishing between drift-based and thesis-based portfolio adjustments.
- ▌ Correlation Regimes · npbuilds bundleDeep expertise in cross-asset correlation regimes — how correlations shift across market environments, why diversification fails in crises, and how to identify true diversifiers. Use when stress-testing portfolio diversification or analyzing regime-dependent behavior.
- ▌ Drawdown Psychology · npbuilds bundleDeep expertise in drawdown management — the psychology of losses, when to cut vs when to hold, stop-loss discipline, drawdown budgets, and the behavioral frameworks of Howard Marks, Tudor Jones, and Buffett. Use when navigating portfolio losses or planning pre-trade risk discipline.
- ▌ Complexity Premium · npbuildsIdentify and analyze structural complexity that creates persistent mispricings in public markets. Use when the user wants to evaluate holding company discounts, stub trades, closed-end fund discounts, multi-class share structures, net-net stocks, or any situation where complexity or categorization difficulty creates a valuation gap.
- ▌ Justice Analyst · npbuilds bundleEvaluate a policy, situation, or institutional arrangement through multiple justice frameworks simultaneously — Rawlsian, libertarian, utilitarian, communitarian, and capabilities. Use when the user needs to assess whether something is fair, compare policy options on justice grounds, or understand why different political perspectives reach different conclusions about the same situation.
- ▌ Rights Reasoner · npbuilds bundleAnalyze competing rights claims, distinguish negative from positive rights, and identify where rights frameworks conflict. Use when the user needs to evaluate whether a right exists, resolve a conflict between two rights claims, understand the basis and limits of a claimed right, or analyze rights implications of a policy or action.
- ▌ Quality Assessment · npbuilds bundleAssess wine quality using the WSET BLIC framework (Balance, Length, Intensity, Complexity) and compare results across scoring systems including Parker 100-point, Jancis Robinson 20-point, and Decanter. Use when rating a wine, understanding critic scores, or assessing whether a wine is at, approaching, or past its peak.
- ▌ Demographic And Structural Forces · npbuilds bundleAnalyze population dynamics, urbanization, migration, epidemics, and Malthusian constraints as historical forces. Use when examining Turchin's cliodynamics, secular cycles, elite overproduction, structural-demographic theory of political instability, and the deep forces that operate beneath the surface of political events across all temporal registers.
- ▌ Diplomacy And International Order · npbuilds bundleAnalyze how states relate to each other across history: the Westphalian system, balance of power, concert systems, alliance structures, international law, and the evolution from the Congress of Vienna through the UN. Use when examining how international orders are built, maintained, and collapse, drawing on realist, liberal, and constructivist frameworks.
- ▌ Industrialization And Development · npbuilds bundleAnalyze the British Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence debate, subsequent industrializations in the US, Germany, Japan, the Asian Tigers, and China, and the persistence of underdevelopment. Use when examining why industrialization happened where it did, drawing on Pomeranz, Acemoglu, dependency theory, and institutional economics.
- ▌ Weird Worldbuilding · npbuilds bundleBuild worlds that resist systematization — the New Weird approach where mystery is structural, glimpses imply vastness, and the world exceeds comprehension. Use as the anti-systematic pole to complement magic-system-design, or when a world should feel alien, numinous, or unsettling.
- ▌ Patent Analyzer · npbuilds bundleAnalyze patent landscape and IP risk for biotech assets including patent type taxonomy, patent life calculation with extensions, Orange/Purple Book analysis, Paragraph IV dynamics, biosimilar BPCIA exclusivity, patent thicket assessment, and freedom-to-operate methodology. Activate when evaluating IP protection strength, loss of exclusivity timing, or generic/biosimilar entry risk.
- ▌ Wine As Asset · npbuilds bundleWine as an alternative-asset class — Liv-ex indices, blue-chip producers, illiquidity premium, cross-asset correlation, the structural friction in wine investment, and the honest case for wine as a portfolio diversifier rather than a return engine. Mirrors Bacchus's collecting-investment skill under the parallel-mirror design choice; both suites remain self-contained.
- ▌ Factor Exposure · npbuilds bundleSystematic factor investing frameworks — the robust factors (value, momentum, quality, low vol, size, carry), factor timing across regimes, multi-factor construction, smart beta implementation, and factor attribution.
- ▌ Everyday Life And Material Culture · npbuilds bundleAnalyze what ordinary people ate, wore, believed, feared, celebrated, and died of across history using the Annales school approach and Braudel's three temporal registers. Use when examining history from below, microhistory, mentalites, and the longue duree — the slow-moving structures of everyday experience that persist beneath the fast-moving surface of political events.