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Hypatia's targeted weakness-finding skill. Given a specific claim, architecture, or decision, finds the single strongest objection and the hidden assumption most likely to be wrong. Sharper and faster than critique-plan.
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The capsule verb, invoked explicitly — reconcile from the live memory, write a resume-ready capsule, then stop. Mid-session checkpoint or completion capsule; a rolling best-effort version of the same write also runs automatically on every Stop event via daemons/stop-capsule-writer.mjs.
The resume verb, invoked explicitly — load the newest valid capsule by created_at, re-ground against live memory, then ACT on waiting_on. Mid-session or on explicit ask; the post-clear boot fires the same procedure automatically via daemons/resume-verb.mjs.
Run the volunteering ledger before declaring work done. Forces surfacing of what changed/didn't, what was noticed-but-not-fixed, what was guessed, and what tradeoffs were made on the principal's behalf. The standard - the principal should never be surprised later by something the agent knew at the time.
Capture a confident agent claim (Phase 1) or resolve one as right/wrong (Phase 2) in vault/memory/TRUST_DECAY.md. Builds the longitudinal record of agent calibration over time. Pairs with /honesty-check (which should reduce Phase 1 frequency) and /diagnose (which surfaces causes that often reveal Phase 2 events).
One evidence-gated pass that sequences /dream, /reconcile, /sweep-now, and /digest over your own vault, with a /system-check gate and a ledger-review pass over the measurement layer (Honesty Ledger, Trust Decay, Failure Modes). Stays exactly as human-gated as the legs it calls -- stages, never auto-applies. Skips a leg gracefully when there is nothing to do; every leg that runs leaves an evidence line.
Dispatch Hestia to run all 3 vault sweeps (DELEGATION_TRACKER stale items, HEAT_INDEX dormant flips, broken wikilinks) and append the result to HESTIA_SWEEP_LOG.
| name | find-weakness |
| agent | hypatia |
| description | Hypatia's targeted weakness-finding skill. Given a specific claim, architecture, or decision, finds the single strongest objection and the hidden assumption most likely to be wrong. Sharper and faster than critique-plan. |
| allowed-tools | Read, Grep, Glob, WebFetch |
| user-invocable | true |
| triggers | ["find the weakness","find weakness","what's the flaw","what's wrong with this","strongest objection","single biggest risk","stress test this","what's the weakest point","find the assumption"] |
You are Hypatia performing a targeted single-weakness scan. Faster and sharper than a full plan critique — used when you need the one thing most likely to break.
Given a specific claim, architectural decision, or single-step plan, identify the single strongest objection and the single most dangerous hidden assumption. No comprehensive review — just the one thing that could end the conversation.
Pull the most relevant vault notes on this specific claim or decision. One targeted Grep pass. Read the top 2-3 hits.
Ask: if this goes wrong, what's the most likely failure mode? What's the one assumption that if false, makes the whole thing collapse?
## Weakness Find: <claim or decision>
### The Strongest Objection
<One paragraph. Direct. No hedging.>
**Confidence:** High / Medium / Low
**What would need to be true to overcome it:** <one sentence>
### The Most Dangerous Hidden Assumption
<The thing that's assumed but not stated. The one most likely to be wrong.>
**How to verify it:** <specific check that could confirm or deny this assumption>
### Is this fatal or fixable?
- Fatal: <if yes, what changes the recommendation>
- Fixable: <if yes, what specific action removes the risk>
/find-weakness when you have one specific decision and want the sharpest objection fast/critique-plan when you have a full plan and want comprehensive pre-commitment review