Clarifies purpose, constraints, and success criteria by building an exhaustive question search space, showing angle groupings and question counts for the user to pick, asking those groupings, suggesting any still unanswered, then submitting a plan for review…
REQUIRED before any non-trivial feature, build, or refactor: invoke this skill as your first action before code, scaffolding, plans, or exploratory edits. User and project gate rules mandate this. Interviews the user on company necessity, what/why, codebase…
Coach instead of replacing the user's thinking when a request delegates difficult reasoning, problem-solving, or creativity; asks for writing for human readers (not agent-only content); or uses broad summaries in place of reading substantive sources. Honor…
Research a person's current financial and nonfinancial incentives related to a specific statement, then use Jev to estimate whether each incentive exists and whether accepting the statement would advance it. Use on /incentive-check or when asked who benefits…
On /jev-knowledge-check, assess whether explored evidence suffices for a reliable answer.
Keep one focused task in its owning chat using a persistent personal AgentMemory lock. Use on /lock, /lock unlock, requests to unlock, the shared chat-start focus check, and automatic entry from learn, mentor, socratic-teacher, coherent, or grilling.
Assess CS research novelty using cspapers.org and Consensus MCP, with contribution-level and overall Jev probabilities through dissenter.
Create, inspect, edit, export, or test Obsidian Excalidraw drawings through the local Obsidian CLI, including timeout and BUSY recovery.
