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External-lookup skill with canonical Convention callout
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| name | compliant-callout |
| description | External-lookup skill with canonical Convention callout |
| triggers | ["research a person"] |
| mutating | true |
A skill that researches people via Perplexity but properly delegates to the brain-first convention.
Convention: see conventions/brain-first.md for the lookup chain (search → query → get_page → external).
Use Perplexity to find recent news about the person; cross-reference web_search for primary sources.
Proactive "make the most of gbrain" coaching. Runs `gbrain advisor` on a cadence and pings the user with the top high-leverage actions for their brain: version drift, pending migrations, stalled jobs, low embed coverage, setup smells, and uninstalled brain skills. Read-only; always asks before fixing.
When/what to retrieve — open the brain page for a salient entity before answering from memory.
Validate and auto-repair YAML frontmatter on brain pages. Catches malformed pages before they enter the brain (missing closing
Deduplicate and synthesize raw concept stubs into a tiered intellectual map (T1 Canon to T4 Riff), tracing idea evolution across sources over time. Transforms thousands of raw concept pages into a curated intellectual fingerprint.
Trace one idea's evolution through the brain: first mention, best articulation, related concepts, reversals, contradictions, abandoned branches, and the current live version. Use for single-idea conceptual lineage, not broad concept-map synthesis or structured entity metrics.
Route to Mars (introspective thought partner / demo showman voice persona). Used when the operator wants depth, meaning, or impressive social demos rather than logistics. Mars handles SOLO mode (philosophy, presence, patterns) and DEMO mode (tool-driven showmanship) automatically.
