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Forcecage creates a pre-tested containment boundary around a subject that has not yet run. It is not about stopping, pausing, or muting something already in motion. The cage is built first, self-tested, then the subject enters. The operator watches from…
Foresight produces bounded forecasts with explicit uncertainty to guide decisions. It is NOT: - Preflight checks: Verifying prerequisites before executing a known action (disk space, backups, connection strings). Those are safety gates, not forecasts. -…
Freedom of Movement is for processes that should be moving but are caught in glue: locked files, blocked ports, circular dependencies, wedged jobs, or permissions that almost work. The skill is about diagnosing the restraint, then removing or routing around…
Glibness makes everything you say sound utterly convincing. The real-world version is rhetorical polish: taking a position and presenting it with maximum confidence, fluency, and persuasive structure. This is the skill of the trial lawyer, the pitch artist,…
Use this skill when you need a watchful boundary around files, systems, metrics, queues, or workflows.
Greater Invisibility covers live work performed with reduced observability: silent deploys, zero-downtime migrations, background reindexing, and backfills that avoid user-facing turbulence. The distinction from ordinary Invisibility is that action continues…
Lesser Restoration = one thing is wrong, fix it directly (reset a flag, clear a cache, remove a curse). Greater Restoration = many things are wrong because they decayed together over time, and fixing one thing without fixing the others will fail.
In D&D, Guards and Wards fills an area with layered minor defenses — fog, locked doors, illusory walls, confusion effects — that individually are trivial but collectively make navigation exhausting. The real-world version is defense in depth through volume:…
In D&D, Hallucinatory Terrain makes natural terrain look like a different kind of terrain — a field appears as a forest, a hill appears as a valley. The underlying terrain is unchanged; only the perception shifts. The real-world version is environment…
In D&D, Healing Word heals at range with a bonus action — fast, remote, and efficient but less powerful than Cure Wounds. The real-world version is the remote quick fix: a one-liner command, a config change pushed through a dashboard, a quick Slack…
In D&D, Heat Metal makes a metal object painfully hot — the creature holding it must either endure the pain or drop it. The real-world version is deliberate friction injection: making a deprecated API progressively slower, adding escalating CAPTCHAs to…
In D&D, Heroism grants temporary hit points and immunity to fear — you do not become stronger, you become harder to stop. The real-world version is the preparation ritual: the pre-presentation pep talk, the pre-launch checklist that calms the team, the…
In D&D, History recalls significant past events, legendary figures, and ancient knowledge. The real-world version is temporal investigation: git blame across the entire project, reading changelogs to understand why a decision was made, reconstructing the…
Hold Monster is Hold Person scaled to larger targets. The real-world version is the emergency circuit breaker: halting an entire service, freezing a deployment pipeline, or stopping a runaway process at the infrastructure level. This is the big red button —…
Hold Person = hard freeze. Nothing moves. In-flight operations stop. Requires authority. Used for security incidents, fraud, compliance holds, misbehaving systems. Sleep = graceful suspension. State is preserved and queued. Operations resume automatically.…
Hypnotic Pattern mesmerizes everyone who looks at it. The real-world version is attention design: loading animations, progress indicators, onboarding flows, and visual patterns that keep users oriented and engaged during a bounded experience. The line between…
Identify is static analysis for operational understanding. It answers "What is this?" by inspecting structure, naming, dependencies, and runtime touchpoints. It does NOT search for artifacts, debug failures, monitor systems, verify claims, or modify code.
Illusory Script is for audience-gated or self-expiring content: burn-after-reading notes, scoped links, ephemeral secrets, and documents that should only mean something to the right reader in the right window. The spell is partly social pattern and partly…
In D&D, Insight detects lies and reads true intentions. The real-world version is subtext analysis: figuring out what an email actually means, what a stakeholder's real objection is, what a user's bug report is actually describing, or what the unsaid concern…
Use this skill when a message must sound serious because the situation is serious: security findings, compliance obligations, deadline-backed escalations, or non-optional remediation notices. It is about calibrated force, not bluster; the tone should match…
Use this skill when a problem has clues, but they need to be connected into a causal explanation.
Invisibility is operational quieting: trimming unnecessary logs, reducing exposed surface area, cleaning transient traces, and avoiding needless broadcast. It is not about doing forbidden things unseen. It is about keeping ordinary work from becoming…
Knock is specifically about restoring legitimate access through authorized channels. It is NOT about: - Performance optimization (slow queries, throughput issues) → different spell - Removing safety controls (approval gates, compliance checks) → different…
Use this spell when you need everything knowable about a person, company, library, framework, concept, or system — not a quick answer, but a deep dossier.
In D&D, Lesser Restoration ends a specific condition: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned. The real-world version is clearing a stuck state: a feature flag that should have been toggled, a queue that is stuck, a lock that was not released, a status…
Use this cantrip when a system, process, or codebase has blind spots that need illumination - not detection of hidden things, but creation of visibility where none exists.
Locate Animals or Plants is service discovery with ecological instincts. It helps you find running services, background jobs, data stores, dependency roots, and other living things in an environment before you touch them. The point is not just location, but…
In D&D, Locate Creature points you toward a specific creature within range. The real-world version is entity search: finding a specific person in an organization, locating a running service in a distributed system, tracking down who owns a particular piece of…
In D&D, Locate Object senses the direction to a specific object within range. The real-world version is artifact search: finding that config file you know exists somewhere, locating a document someone mentioned but did not link, tracking down the source of a…
Longstrider is the optimization spell for systems that already work. It makes the path shorter without changing the destination. It cares about sustained pace, not flashy one-off benchmarks.
Use this skill for small, careful remote manipulations where dexterity matters more than force.
Magic Mouth is trigger → message. The entire craft is specifying the trigger boundary, the message payload, and the suppression/escalation rules. It is NOT: - One-time messages: "Send a Slack message now saying X" (no trigger, no automation) - Full chatbots:…
In D&D, Major Image creates a multi-sensory illusion — visual, auditory, thermal, even olfactory — that persists and can be animated. It is convincing enough that creatures must actively investigate to see through it. The real-world version is the interactive…
In D&D, Mass Cure Wounds heals multiple creatures simultaneously. The real-world version is batch triage: the same bug in 50 repos, the same misconfiguration across a fleet, the same broken migration in every tenant database. When the same problem appears…
Mass Suggestion plants the same idea in many minds simultaneously. The real-world version is broadcast persuasion: campaign announcements, company-wide emails, product launch copy, or public statements designed to move a large group in a specific direction.…
Use this skill for live system triage: interpreting logs as symptoms, prioritizing immediate stabilization, and applying treatments for known failure modes. It is about keeping the patient alive first and only then planning deeper corrective care.
Mending is surgical repair of a known-working artifact that has a specific, identifiable break. It is NOT: - Triage/diagnosis: If the problem is "API is throwing 500s, figure out why" — that's investigation, not mending. Mending requires the break to already…
Message is the cantrip of communication: a Slack ping, webhook event, push notification, terse status note, or tiny machine-to-machine update. It is for fast, targeted transfer with almost no ceremony. The skill is less about eloquence than precision under…
Use this spell when sensitive information must not cross boundaries — between agent sessions, between tasks, between tenants, or between domains with different trust levels.
Minor Illusion produces artifacts that are explicitly labeled as disposable and exist only to provoke reaction. If the artifact could be mistaken for finished work, you're casting the wrong spell.