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A fast, comprehensive logic report on any argument, plan, or reasoning — validates premises, tests inference, detects fallacies, surfaces hidden assumptions, and produces a verdict. Lighter than logic-council (no peer review), heavier than…
Surface internal contradictions, conflicting requirements, and edge cases that expose hidden conflicts in a document, spec, plan, design, or set of requirements. Use when something feels off but you can't pinpoint why, before committing to a design, or when…
Map the full constraint landscape for a decision, design, or plan — distinguishing hard limits from soft preferences, surfacing hidden constraints, and finding conflicts between them. Use before committing to an approach, when a plan keeps hitting unexpected…
Run a reasoning problem, argument, plan, or decision through a council of 5 logical reasoning advisors who analyze it from distinct reasoning frameworks, peer-review each other, and synthesize a verdict on whether the reasoning holds. MANDATORY TRIGGERS:…
Take broken reasoning — a flawed argument, contradictory spec, unsound plan, or invalid inference — diagnose exactly what's wrong, and produce a corrected version. Use when you have reasoning that doesn't hold and you want it fixed, not just critiqued.…
Entry point for the logic toolkit. Routes to the right logic skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'logic', 'is this sound', 'check my reasoning', 'find the flaw', 'fix this argument', 'find contradictions', 'map the dependencies', 'map the…
Applies Csikszentmihalyi's flow framework to diagnose why optimal experience isn't occurring and redesign the conditions for it. Use when you can't get absorbed in important work, find yourself distracted and scattered, feel chronically bored or chronically…
Applies Carol Dweck's growth mindset research as a practical methodology — the actual mechanics, not the motivational poster version. Use when you're treating failure as evidence about your identity, avoiding challenges because of what failure would mean,…
Applies positive psychology as a rigorous practice — not pop-psychology positivity. Use when you want to build flourishing, diagnose what dimension of wellbeing is underdeveloped, understand what makes life feel meaningful or hollow, or identify why you're…
Applies cognitive reframing as a rigorous methodology — CBT-adjacent but not therapy. Use when you're stuck in a negative thought loop, interpreting a situation in a consistently unhelpful way, catastrophizing, or noticing that your automatic interpretation…
Entry point for the mindset toolkit. Routes to the right mindset skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'mindset', 'change my perspective', 'I keep thinking about this the wrong way', 'help me deal with what I can't control', 'I want to flourish…
Applies the full Stoic toolkit as a practical thinking methodology. Use when you're caught in worry about outcomes you can't control, struggling with circumstances outside your power, suffering from what others think of you, facing adversity or loss, or…
Maps the audience's current beliefs, real goals, fears, and threshold conditions before communicating with them. Use when asked to 'model the audience', 'audience analysis', 'who am I talking to', 'what do they care about', or 'why aren't they getting it'.
Identifies the current frame around a situation and generates alternative frames that reveal different truths. Use when asked to 'reframe this', 'the framing is wrong', 'change the narrative', 'different angle', or 'why won't they see it'.
Entry point for the narrative toolkit. Routes to the right narrative skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'narrative', 'story', 'this feels flat', 'how do I structure this', 'the framing is wrong', 'who am I talking to', 'make this compelling',…
Applies story architecture to any communication — proposal, presentation, strategy doc — so it moves people rather than informing them. Use when asked to 'structure this as a story', 'make this compelling', 'narrative arc', 'how do I present this', or 'story…
Finds or creates the tension that makes communication worth paying attention to. Use when asked 'this feels flat', 'no one's engaging', 'make this compelling', 'find the tension', 'what's the story here', or 'add stakes'.
Identifies which nodes in a network have the most influence, reach, or control. Use when asked 'who are the key players', 'who should we target', 'where is the bottleneck', 'who connects everyone', 'who would we lose most if they left', or when mapping…
Models how things spread through networks — ideas, behaviors, viruses, product adoption, financial contagion, cascading failures. Use when asked 'why did this go viral', 'why isn't this spreading', 'how do we accelerate adoption', 'what's the tipping point',…
Analyzes how value scales with participation — tipping points, lock-in, and winner-take-all dynamics. Use when asked 'do we have network effects', 'when will we hit critical mass', 'why is our competitor hard to displace', 'are we winner-take-all', 'how do we…
Entry point for the network analysis toolkit. Routes to the right network skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'network', 'who's connected to whom', 'how does this spread', 'who are the key players', 'why did this go viral', 'network effects',…
Maps bridging connections across structural holes — the counterintuitive power of loose connections. Use when asked 'where are the silos', 'why are we missing information', 'how do I find opportunities', 'who are the connectors', 'why are teams not…
Removes or inverts the main constraint to see what becomes possible — then uses those unconstrained solutions to find real ones. TRIGGERS: 'what if there were no constraints', 'rule inversion', 'what if we could do anything', 'break the rules', 'invert the…
Fully inhabits the opposing perspective — competitor, critic, user, or adversary — to find what is invisible from your own position. TRIGGERS: 'steelman the opposition', 'think like the competitor', 'play devil's advocate', 'see it from their side', 'role…
Entry point for the play toolkit. Routes to the right playful thinking skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'play', 'think playfully', 'flip this', 'what if there were no constraints', 'steelman the opposition', 'random stimulus', 'worst possible…
Introduces a random, unrelated element to break mental fixation — forcing new associations that bypass the groove of familiar thinking. TRIGGERS: 'random stimulus', 'random word technique', 'break the fixation', 'I keep thinking of the same things', 'unstick…
Deliberately designs the worst possible version — then reverses each failure mode into a design principle. Removes the pressure of being right and unlocks creative honesty that polite brainstorming suppresses. TRIGGERS: 'worst possible idea', 'how would you…
Anchors estimates in historical base rates before adjusting for specific factors. Use when asked 'what's the base rate', 'am I being too optimistic', 'outside view', 'reference class', 'how often does this actually happen', or 'historical frequency'.
Tests whether stated confidence levels match available evidence — catching overconfidence and underconfidence. Use when asked to 'calibrate my confidence', 'am I overconfident', 'confidence check', 'how sure should I be', or 'is this as certain as it seems'.
Calculates expected value to compare options under uncertainty. Use when asked about 'expected value', 'is this risk worth taking', 'EV calculation', 'compare these options', 'worth the risk', or 'asymmetric risk'.
Assigns explicit probabilities to distinct scenarios before making a decision. Use when asked to 'assign probabilities', 'scenario weighting', 'how likely is each outcome', 'quantify the uncertainty', or 'probability distribution'.
Entry point for the probability toolkit. Routes to the right probabilistic thinking skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'probability', 'how likely', 'am I overconfident', 'quantify this', 'what's the base rate', 'expected value', 'scenario…
Diagnose what's maintaining an entrenched behavior and design the right intervention to shift it. Covers habits, routines, and behavioral defaults. Triggers: 'how do I change this behavior', 'why does this habit persist', 'how do I make this stick', 'behavior…
Diagnose which cognitive biases are actively distorting thinking in a specific situation. Not a laundry list — a targeted diagnostic. Triggers: 'what biases are at play', 'are we thinking clearly', 'what am I missing', 'bias check', 'cognitive bias', 'am I…
Assess the fast-thinking pattern at work — when it's reliable, when it misleads, and whether to trust or override it. Triggers: 'should I trust my gut', 'is my intuition right here', 'fast thinking', 'heuristic', 'when does instinct work', 'System 1 vs System…
Diagnose what's actually driving behavior — the person's own, someone else's, or a group's. Surface motivation vs. root motivation. Triggers: 'what motivates them', 'why are they doing this', 'what does this person actually want', 'how do I get buy-in', 'why…
Identify the right influence approach and construct it for the context. What actually changes minds and drives action. Triggers: 'how do I persuade', 'how do I change their mind', 'what would convince them', 'how do I get buy-in', 'how do I influence',…
Entry point for the psychology toolkit. Routes to the right psychology skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'psychology', 'what's driving this behavior', 'why is this person doing X', 'what biases are at play', 'how do I change a habit', 'how do I…
Distributes limited resources across competing needs — making the trade-offs explicit rather than implicit. Triggers: 'resource allocation', 'how do we distribute this', 'competing priorities', 'trade-off analysis', 'how do we split this', 'allocation…
Identifies what is actually constraining throughput — using Theory of Constraints logic: the system can only move as fast as its slowest point. Triggers: 'bottleneck analysis', 'what's actually slowing this down', 'where's the constraint', 'theory of…