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Ensures all real options are visible before choosing — countering the false dichotomy that limits consideration to the first two options that came to mind. Triggers: 'what are all the options', 'false dichotomy check', 'expand the option set', 'what else…
Imagines the decision has been made and failed — then diagnoses why. Breaks the commitment bias that prevents honest risk assessment after a direction is chosen. Triggers: 'pre-mortem', 'imagine this failed', 'what could go wrong', 'assume this doesn't work',…
Categorises a decision by reversibility and applies the appropriate level of process rigour. Triggers: 'is this reversible', 'how much should I think about this', 'one-way door', 'two-way door', 'decision type', 'how committed is this'.
Entry point for the decision toolkit. Routes to the right decision skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'decision', 'help me decide', 'should I', 'which option', 'what are my choices', 'what could go wrong', 'is this reversible', or want decision…
Uses constraints productively — maps hard limits, soft preferences, and how the tightest constraints define the solution space. Triggers: 'what are the design constraints', 'map the constraints', 'what are we working within', 'what's fixed',…
Structures the feedback loop between making and learning — prototyping, testing, and convergence toward fit. Triggers: 'prototype and test', 'iterate on the design', 'how do we test this', 'get feedback on the design', 'what should we prototype', 'design…
Applies the design principle of removing rather than adding — finding the form that does exactly what is needed, nothing more. Triggers: 'simplify this', 'remove what's unnecessary', 'it's too complicated', 'what can we cut', 'reduce the design', 'it's…
Entry point for the design thinking toolkit. Routes to the right design skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'design', 'user needs', 'what do people actually want', 'design constraints', 'prototype and iterate', 'simplify this', 'remove what's…
Distinguishes real needs from stated wants — uses jobs-to-be-done and latent need mapping to find what actually matters. Triggers: 'what do users actually need', 'jobs to be done', 'understand the user', 'find the real need', 'stated want versus actual need',…
Applies carrying capacity thinking to any system with limits — maps the ceiling, overshoot risk, and what happens when it is crossed. Use when asked about 'capacity limits', 'how much can this system handle', 'are we overloaded', 'growth ceiling', 'when do we…
Maps dependency webs and the cascading effects of removing or changing a node in the web. Use when asked 'who depends on whom', 'what cascades if we change X', 'downstream effects', 'what holds this together', 'ripple effects', or 'what breaks if we remove…
Identifies the entities with disproportionate structural importance — whose removal would collapse the system. Use when asked 'who is critical here', 'what holds this together', 'single points of failure', 'what if we lose X', 'irreplaceable actors', or…
Entry point for the ecology thinking toolkit. Routes to the right ecology skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'ecology', 'carrying capacity', 'keystone', 'interdependence', 'succession', 'what holds this system together', 'who depends on whom',…
Applies ecological succession to understand how systems evolve through stages — pioneer, consolidation, climax, and disturbance. Use when asked 'what stage are we at', 'where are we in the cycle', 'what comes next', 'the old model isn't working anymore',…
Diagnoses collective action failures, public goods problems, and why individually rational behaviour produces collective irrationality. Triggers: 'collective action problem', 'tragedy of the commons', 'free rider', 'everyone is acting in their own interest…
Identifies costs and benefits not borne by the decision-maker — and how to internalise them. Triggers: 'externality', 'who else is affected', 'costs falling on others', 'side effects', 'spillover', 'the market isn't accounting for this', 'negative…
Maps who benefits, who pays, and what behaviours the incentive structure actually produces. Triggers: 'what's the incentive here', 'why do people keep doing this', 'incentives are misaligned', 'who benefits from this', 'why isn't this working despite the…
Applies marginal thinking: the relevant decision is the next unit, not the average or the sunk cost. Triggers: 'should we do more of this', 'should we expand', 'should we cut', 'marginal cost', 'sunk cost', 'we've already invested so much', 'average cost',…
Maps the true cost of a choice by making explicit what is foregone. Triggers: 'opportunity cost', 'what am I giving up', 'what else could I do with this', 'hidden cost', 'what's the real cost of this', 'what are we not doing by doing this', any decision where…
Entry point for the economics toolkit. Routes to the right economics skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'economics', 'what's the incentive here', 'what am I giving up', 'who pays for this', 'should we do more or less of this', 'why won't people…
Maps what genuinely drives different people — beyond stated reasons and job descriptions. Use when incentives seem misaligned or individual behaviour is hard to predict. TRIGGERS: 'what motivates them', 'motivation map', 'why are they behaving like this',…
Diagnoses why people are resisting — finding what's underneath the pushback. Resistance is information, not obstruction; it always has a source. TRIGGERS: 'why are they resisting', 'diagnose the pushback', 'they won't get on board', 'people aren't buying in',…
Entry point for the emotional intelligence toolkit. Routes to the right emotional skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'emotional', 'why are they behaving like this', 'what motivates them', 'why the resistance', 'what do they really want', 'trust…
Maps what each stakeholder actually cares about underneath their stated position — because addressing the stated position while missing the real stake accomplishes nothing. TRIGGERS: 'what do they actually want', 'underlying stakes', 'what's really at stake',…
Maps what is building and eroding trust in a relationship or situation — trust degrades silently until it fails loudly. TRIGGERS: 'trust audit', 'why don't they trust us', 'relationship health check', 'what's eroding trust', 'build trust with'.
Produces an honest, rigorous calibration of what you know vs. believe vs. assume vs. hope across a domain. Assigns explicit epistemic statuses to claims and flags when high-confidence claims rest on lower-confidence foundations. Draws from the rationalist…
Analyzes what would actually justify believing a claim. Maps the justification structure (foundationalist, coherentist, reliabilist) and identifies the weakest link in the chain. Use when you say 'what would it actually take to know this', 'is this belief…
Maps what kind of knowing is actually in play for a claim or question. Distinguishes a priori from a posteriori knowledge; propositional (knowing that) from procedural (knowing how) from acquaintance (knowing of); and knowledge sourced from perception,…
Identifies what can't be known and why, then clarifies what can be established within those limits and reframes the question into its answerable part. Distinguishes fundamental limits (Gödel, underdetermination, observer effects), practical limits (evidence…
Entry point for the epistemology toolkit. Routes to the right skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'what do I actually know here', 'is this knowable', 'how certain should I be', 'what would justify believing this', 'what kind of claim is this', 'am…
Evaluate an algorithm, model, ranking system, recommendation engine, or automated decision process for discriminatory patterns and unfair outcomes. Use before deploying any system that makes decisions about people or ranks/filters/scores people. TRIGGERS:…
A fast, comprehensive ethics report on any decision, action, or situation — runs all five ethical frameworks in a single pass. Lighter than ethics-council (no peer review, no HTML report), heavier than ethics-impact-scan. Triggers: 'ethics check', 'quick…
Review a UX flow, data practice, or communication pattern to verify that user consent is genuine — informed, voluntary, and meaningful. Use during design or implementation of checkout flows, onboarding, notification settings, permissions requests, terms of…
Run any decision, feature, policy, or action through a council of 5 ethical framework advisors who independently analyze it from different moral foundations, peer-review each other's reasoning, and synthesize a final verdict. MANDATORY TRIGGERS: 'ethics…
Rapid multi-framework ethical assessment when something has already gone wrong — a data breach, a harmful outcome, a discriminatory incident, a policy failure, or any situation requiring an urgent ethical response. Use when the user is dealing with an active…
Audit a data collection, retention, or sharing decision against ethical standards. Use when the user is making decisions about what data to collect, how long to keep it, who can access it, or who it's shared with. TRIGGERS: 'audit this data decision', 'is…
Applies Jaron Lanier's Circle of Empathy framework to determine which entities deserve moral consideration and rights. Use when questions arise about AI personhood, machine rights, robot citizenship, algorithmic agency, animal rights, or any decision about…
Run a quick ethical impact assessment on a proposed feature, change, or decision before it ships. Use when the user is about to build or ship something and wants to surface who benefits, who's harmed, and at what scale — before commitments are made. TRIGGERS:…
Entry point for the ethics toolkit. Routes to the right ethical analysis skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'ethics', 'is this ethical', 'sanity check this', 'who does this affect', 'is this fair', 'something feels wrong', or want ethical…
Evaluate a third-party vendor, supplier, partner, or integration against ethical standards before signing a contract or shipping their code or service. Use when considering a new supplier, SaaS tool, data provider, API integration, outsourcing arrangement, or…