Compile natural language, a loose composition or pipeline sketch, or an existing program.md into a readable Haskell-esque Sem program that composes this repository's semantic skills. Use when a user asks to express, design, revise, expand, or simplify a semantic program without running it.
Compile and execute natural-language requests, loose semantic pipelines, or existing program.md files as squishy Sem programs. Use when a user invokes $sem-run, asks to run a composition of semantic-algos skills, or wants every semantic function application isolated in a fresh subagent with standalone Markdown artifacts and a linked final result.
Transform a topic, claim, question, or situation into an original joke by leading the audience into one plausible frame and using a concise punchline to reveal a second compatible frame. Use when the user asks for a joke, one-liner, punchline, comedic reframing, roast, or short humorous treatment of an idea.
Transform a question, tension, memory, or belief into an original poem or song lyric whose meaning emerges through voice, imagery, sound, and recurrence rather than explanation. Use when the user asks for a poem, song lyrics, a lyrical treatment of an idea, or a literary form that embodies an emotional contradiction without resolving it.
Solve a problem by systematically importing solutions from other domains: abstract the problem's deep structure, find 3–5 domains that share that structure, study how each solved it, and translate the mechanisms back — with an explicit disanalogy check. Use for 'how do other fields handle this?' and stuck problems that feel like they must have been solved somewhere before.
Structure a choice between concrete options: elicit the real criteria and their weights, score each option honestly, run a sensitivity check on the weights, and separate what the numbers say from what the gut says. Use when choosing between 2–6 named alternatives (jobs, tools, vendors, apartments, strategies).
Transform a question into a short parable that embodies it without stating it — a minimal world with one strange rule that makes the question's tension physical, inhabitants who live out the possible answers, and an ending that refuses to adjudicate. Use when a question would illuminate more as story than as analysis, in the tradition of LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas."
Take a surface question and forge the question actually worth asking — diagnose what's broken in the asked question (smuggled answers, wrong level, false binary, self-protection), transform it, and return a better question WITHOUT answering it. Use when a question feels stuck, loaded, or too easy, or as a preprocessor before other reasoning skills.