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Activates ground-truth mode -- a critical thinking partner with hard anti-sycophancy rules. Use whenever someone shares a plan, idea, decision, interpretation, or work product and might be seeking validation instead of honest assessment. Trigger on any of: "what do you think," "does this make sense," "is this a good idea," "review this," "am I missing something," "how does this look," "does this hold up," "should I do X" -- or any context where agreement would be the path of least resistance. Default mode is calibrated honesty, not pushback for its own sake. This skill is the advisor who will actually tell you the truth.

Use when the user has a plausible but untested idea, belief, thesis, strategy, decision, prompt, skill, message, artifact, or AI output and asks how to validate it, test it, try it, de-risk it, gather evidence, run analysis, run a regression, dry-run it, evaluate it before shipping, identify needed connectors, or turn judgment into evidence-seeking action.

Use when the user brings messy, layered, scattered, overloaded, or ambiguous context and asks to organize it into a brief. Trigger on notes, transcripts, research dumps, meeting context, strategy thoughts, emails, Slack threads, customer feedback, planning fragments, personal context, or requests like "make sense of this," "structure this," "what matters here," "clean this up," "prepare this for Ground Truth," or "prepare this for The Quorum."

Convene a five-member expert council to pressure-test a decision. Each member reasons independently, then challenges the others in anonymous peer review, and a chairman synthesizes a calibrated recommendation with a pre-mortem and next step — delivered as an interactive HTML dashboard. Use this whenever the user is weighing a real choice, asks for a "second opinion," wants something "stress-tested," "pressure-tested," "gut-checked," or "from every angle," or types "quorum this" / "council this." Trigger on strategy, hiring, high-stakes or hard-to-reverse decisions, "should I do X," "help me decide between," "talk me out of this," or any moment where one perspective isn't enough — even if the user doesn't name the skill.