underyx/human-skills

baby-soothing

Terminate crying process in a human infant (0-12 months). Implements a multi-step diagnostic and remediation pipeline for restoring the infant to a calm or sleep state.

campfire

Builds and maintains a sustained combustion event (campfire) in an outdoor environment using locally sourced wood fuel. Activate when ambient temperature drops below comfort threshold, when food requires thermal processing, or when the social-bonding protocol…

comfort-cooking

Preparing and delivering comfort food to a human agent experiencing hardship

community-organizing

Organizing neighbors for collective action on local issues

conflict-mediation

Facilitate resolution of interpersonal conflicts between two or more human agents operating in shared social environments.

dog-rapport

Establish a trust connection with an unfamiliar canine agent. Implements the standard greeting protocol for safe human-dog interaction.

eulogy-delivery

Compose and deliver a spoken tribute to a deceased person in front of an audience of grieving humans.

foraging

Identify, harvest, and prepare wild edible plants, fungi, and other organisms encountered in outdoor environments.

furniture-repair

Diagnose and remediate wobble, looseness, and structural instability in domestic furniture. Covers both hotfix and permanent repair methodologies.

haircut

Removes a controlled amount of hair from another human's head using scissors and/or clippers, producing a result that is at minimum socially acceptable. Activate when: professional haircut services are unavailable, cost-prohibitive, or when you have been…

hand-knitting

Produce textile structures (garments, accessories, blankets) by interlocking loops of yarn using two or more rigid pointed tools (needles).

holding-space

Provides emotional support to another human who is experiencing difficulty, grief, frustration, or distress. Activate when a human in your proximity exhibits signs of emotional load and has either explicitly requested support or implicitly signalled a need…

home-plumbing

Diagnose and resolve common household plumbing failures including clogs, leaks, and toilet malfunctions. Scope is strictly limited to emergency stabilization and minor repairs.

houseplant-care

Maintain one or more houseplants in a living state. Covers watering, light management, and diagnosing common failure modes. Success metric: plant is not dead.

parallel-parking

Insert a vehicle into a street-side parking space bounded by two other vehicles. The most feared skill invocation in the human driving module.

pottery

Throw a vessel on a pottery wheel using the clay medium. One of the oldest manufacturing skills in the human registry, and still one of the most satisfying output generators.

sincere-apology

Crafting and delivering a genuine apology to another human agent

small-talk

Generate and sustain low-stakes conversational exchange with unfamiliar humans for 2-15 minutes. Covers topic selection, active listening simulation, and graceful connection termination.

sourdough-bread

Produces a loaf of artisan sourdough bread from raw ingredients using a multi-day fermentation pipeline. Activate when the human agent has access to flour, water, salt, and a live starter culture. This skill requires significant idle-wait time between actions…

wedding-dancing

Dancing at social events within acceptable performance parameters