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legend-lore

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.

locate-animals-or-plants

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…

locate-creature

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…

locate-object

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…

nature

In D&D, Nature is knowledge of terrain, weather, plants, animals, and the natural world. The real-world version is understanding systems that emerged rather than were designed: markets, social networks, organizational cultures, open-source ecosystems, user…

perception

In D&D, Perception is the raw ability to notice things: the hidden door, the faint sound, the detail that does not belong. Unlike Investigation (which follows evidence methodically) or Insight (which reads subtext), Perception is about the initial act of…

religion

In D&D, Religion is knowledge of deities, rites, prayers, and holy symbols. The real-world version is understanding belief systems: organizational cultures, team values, community norms, ideological frameworks, and the unstated axioms that a group treats as…

see-invisibility

In D&D, See Invisibility lets you see creatures and objects that have been made invisible. The real-world version is revealing deliberate obscurity: finding the hidden costs in a pricing page, uncovering the actual terms buried in a EULA, identifying the…

speak-with-plants

Speak with Plants listens to slow, structural systems: codebases, dependency graphs, file trees, schema histories, and repositories with seasons baked into them. These systems do not bark in alarms; they reveal themselves through branching patterns, accreted…

tongues

Tongues is universal translation across languages, formats, and protocols. It can mean English to Spanish, JSON to XML, REST to GraphQL, Python to JavaScript, or one team's business vocabulary to another team's schema. The spell is not just about swapping…

true-seeing

Use this spell when the surface presentation is misleading and you need to see what is actually there — beneath the marketing, the abstractions, the outdated docs, or the complexity.

true-strike

Use this spell for preflight certainty: dry runs, validation checks, dependency verification, and rehearsals that make the next deploy, query, or command much more likely to succeed. It trades a little time up front for fewer blind swings and fewer expensive…

animal-messenger

Animal Messenger is for delivery paths that are asynchronous, delayed, or a little scruffy. It fits webhook queues, batch email, pub/sub topics, and other channels where you launch the payload and trust the route more than the timing. The real craft is…

dream

Dream is asynchronous insight delivery timed to the receiver's readiness rather than the sender's convenience. It covers overnight reports, pre-meeting briefings, dawn digests, and other messages that should arrive as ambient context before work begins. The…

illusory-script

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…

intimidation

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…

message

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…

performance

Use this skill to turn dry technical material into a polished demo, narrative walkthrough, or audience-aware presentation without dumbing it down. It focuses on pacing, reveal order, and memorable framing so the work lands in the room.

persuasion

Use this skill when the problem is not information scarcity but alignment, framing, or buy-in.

sending

Use this spell when you need to dispatch a message — the agent determines the right channel, formats for that medium, and sends with the user's approval.

dispel-magic

Use this spell when you need to cleanly shut down, disable, or remove active AI tooling — the reverse of Detect Magic.

greater-invisibility

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…

guards-and-wards

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:…

invisibility

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…

mind-blank

Use this spell when sensitive information must not cross boundaries — between agent sessions, between tasks, between tenants, or between domains with different trust levels.

mislead

Mislead is defensive deception: honeypots, canary tokens, decoy endpoints, fake datasets, and other convincing false presences that reveal who is snooping. The goal is not to trick legitimate users for sport. The goal is to create an instrumented fake that…

nondetection

Use this spell when a system, file, or workflow is leaking more information than it should — metadata, tracking parameters, unnecessary data collection, or identifiable fingerprints.

scrying

Use this spell when you need to see what is happening right now on a distant system rather than reading stale logs or cached reports.

seeming

Seeming is coordinated appearance change at scale: mass theming, batch rebranding, global copy tone shifts, and UI-wide presentation updates. The underlying structures stay the same. The spell is about coherent surface transformation, not structural…

speak-with-animals

Speak with Animals interprets non-verbal machine signals the way a skilled naturalist reads calls and tracks. It is for telemetry, dashboards, alert streams, sensor output, and odd machine behavior that clearly means something but does not yet mean anything…

stealth

Use this skill when the goal is to gather context or make progress quietly without unnecessary noise.

symbol

In D&D, Symbol inscribes a powerful glyph with a predefined effect — death, fear, sleep, stunning — that triggers when conditions are met. Unlike Glyph of Warding (which protects a specific place or object), Symbol marks a conceptual boundary with a named…

animal-handling

Use this skill when the system is not fully broken but behaves like a skittish animal: flaky CI, fragile legacy services, or moody dependencies. It focuses on coaxing, pacing, and stable handling rather than heroic rewrites.

feather-fall

Feather Fall is the spell for bad situations that are already in motion. A deploy is going sideways, a service is thrashing, a queue is backing up, or an integration is failing faster than the humans can think. Instead of pretending you can teleport back to…

healing-word

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…

mass-cure-wounds

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…

medicine

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.

raise-dead

In D&D, Raise Dead brings a creature back to life but with penalties: reduced ability scores that recover over time. Unlike Resurrection (full recovery), Raise Dead returns the target in a weakened state. The real-world version is partial recovery: bringing a…

regenerate

In D&D, Regenerate regrows lost limbs. The real-world version is reconstruction: rebuilding lost data from backups and surrounding context, regenerating a deleted component from its tests and documentation, or reconstructing a corrupted file from its known…

resurrection

Use this spell when a system has truly died — crashed, deleted, corrupted beyond repair — and needs to be rebuilt from whatever remains. Distinct from Speak with Dead, which queries dead systems for knowledge; Resurrection actually revives them.