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Use this skill when you need a fast, structured scan for where the real magic is hiding in a repo, workflow, or system.
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| name | detect-magic |
| description | Use this skill when you need a fast, structured scan for where the real magic is hiding in a repo, workflow, or system. |
| user-invocable | true |
Surface hidden AI affordances, agents, automations, and tool hooks before acting.
Detect Magic is interpreted here as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now execution model.
Canonical source: Detect Magic (spell)
Provider target: OpenClaw
Use $detect-magic to scan this repo for hidden AI tooling, agents, MCP servers, and automation hooks before we change anything.
Use this skill for small, careful remote manipulations where dexterity matters more than force.
Use this spell when you need a tireless helper that organizes, tidies, triages, and maintains without requiring your constant attention.
In D&D, Arcana is knowledge of magic, its traditions, symbols, and mechanisms. The real-world version is deep technical literacy: understanding how software architectures work, what protocols do at the wire level, how APIs behave beyond their documentation, and what the actual mechanisms are behind the abstractions everyone else takes on faith.
In D&D, Mirage Arcane goes beyond Hallucinatory Terrain — the illusory terrain actually has substance. You can walk on illusory bridges, feel illusory walls. The real-world version is the deep simulation: digital twins, high-fidelity synthetic environments, test harnesses so realistic that systems under test cannot distinguish them from production. Mirage Arcane is the most dangerous illusion because its power is in being indistinguishable from reality. That same power makes it the most useful for stress testing, training, and scenario planning — but it requires the strongest labeling discipline.
In D&D, Project Image creates an illusory copy of yourself at a distant location — you can see through its eyes, speak through its mouth, and cast spells through it. The real-world version is remote presence: avatars, recorded video stand-ins, bot representations, asynchronous video messages. Project Image is the spell for being in two places at once — attending a meeting via avatar while working on something else, leaving a recorded presence in a channel, or deploying an automated representative that speaks with your voice and authority within defined limits.
Use this skill when the work is a choreography problem: brittle sequencing, async handoffs, or constrained flows that must stay upright end to end. It shines on API dances, dependency ordering, and recovery logic where grace matters more than brute force.
