Raise the ceiling, don't climb toward it. When a target is nearly hit or a metric has plateaued, question the target itself: name the binding constraint, separate the physics floor from the assumed floor, design the regime change that makes 10x reachable, commit through the valley. Triggers: 'breakout', '10x this', 'raise the ceiling', 'why are we capped', 'think way bigger', 'this metric is a cage'.
Prove that a merged change is actually live and production behavior is measured against the deployed artifact. Use after merge, before claiming deployed/live/validated, for Cloudflare Pages/Workers deploys, cache claims, perf claims, and release closeout.
Diagnose and improve eval harnesses built on @tangle-network/agent-eval or similar trace-first systems. Use when success/failure rates, scorecard deltas, judge outputs, promotion gates, benchmark rows, or improvement campaigns may be contaminated by harness bugs, evaluator drift, routing/auth failures, missing traces, or invalid baselines.
Goal-pursuit loop: measure, diagnose, experiment, verify, compare, and iterate against a measurable target. Triggers: evolve, optimize, make this better, push to target.
Split one messy experiment branch into N clean, independent branches — one logical change each, built from the merge-base, disjoint change-sets, each an isolated reviewable PR. Triggers: 'finalize', 'split this branch', 'atomize this', 'make reviewable PRs', 'decompose this mess'.
Read repo/session state and choose the single next skill: exploit (evolve/polish), explore (pursue/meta-harness/breakout), bootstrap (eval-agent), diagnose (diagnose/eval-harness-diagnose), or step back (reflect). One dispatch, then exit.
Adopt @tangle-network/hub-sdk in any product that needs to talk to the Tangle hub (OAuth connections, tools/search/describe/invoke, capability tokens, policies). Use whenever a product imports @tangle-network/agent-integrations, maintains a local hub-client.ts, or hand-rolls fetch() to /v1/hub/*. Forces kill-and-replace, not additive code.
The THINK phase before you spend compute. Research the solution space (prior art, competitors, the real ceiling), generate a diverse field of candidate mechanisms, rank them by expected value, sequence by information gain, and hand a ranked portfolio to /evolve or /pursue. Turns greedy poke-and-measure into science. Triggers: 'hypothesize', 'what should we try', 'research the space first', 'generate options', 'before we optimize', 'what are the bets'.