alex-cognitive-architecture

Run the 7-step Artificial Critical Thinking pass — Materiality → Hypothesise → Alternatives → Disconfirmers → Audit priors → Severity → Commit-with-marker

Challenge what you think is right — alternative hypotheses, missing data, evidence quality, bias detection, falsifiability, and adversarial review

Step-back protocol — restate, generalise, specialise, invert, ask why, pre-mortem, check stakeholders, and audit framings before solving

Build knowledge bases that build software — research before code, teach before execute

Two-phase brain upgrade — mechanical install via shared core, then LLM-led semantic reconciliation

Clear documentation through visual excellence

End-to-end academic paper drafting for CHI, HBR, journals, and conferences with venue-specific templates, drafting workflows, and revision strategies.

Patterns for fiction, narrative structure, character development, dialogue, and storytelling craft.

Write markdown that passes linting on first attempt by internalizing common rules.

Knowledge consolidation — transform session learnings into permanent architecture

Convert Word documents (.docx) to clean Markdown with image extraction and pandoc cleanup

Convert Markdown to RFC 5322 email (.eml) with inline CSS and CID images

Convert Markdown to standalone HTML pages with embedded CSS, images, and Mermaid diagrams

Convert Markdown with Mermaid diagrams and SVG illustrations to professional Word documents

End-to-end academic paper drafting for CHI, HBR, journals, and conferences with venue-specific templates, drafting workflows, and revision strategies.

Research project scaffolding, thesis/dissertation writing, literature reviews, publication workflows, and Alex-assisted academic workflows

Debug skill/hook/agent loading issues using VS Code's Agent Debug Panel

Design autonomous AI agents that reason, plan, and execute tasks

Generate consistent visual character references across multiple scenarios using Flux and nano-banana-pro on Replicate

Create professional ultra-wide cinematic banners for GitHub READMEs using modern AI image models with typography

Help writers produce content that sounds genuinely human by avoiding telltale AI-generated text patterns

Estimate task duration from an AI-assisted development perspective rather than traditional human developer estimates

Recognize and prevent confabulation — when you don't know, say so.

Design APIs that developers love to use.

Technical documentation, API references, user guides, and docs-as-code workflows.

Calibrated human-AI collaboration with creative latitude — trust calibrated to reliability, creativity preserved with validation.

Comprehensive **project** consistency review across code, documentation, diagrams, and configuration

Diagnose cognitive architecture health — connection integrity, memory balance, link density, and drift detection

Meta-skill for maintaining and evolving Alex's cognitive architecture through deliberate documentation and pattern extraction.

Create and maintain ASCII visual dashboards for project tracking with parallel lane progress bars

Store and manage voice samples for TTS cloning — portable, version-controlled audio references

Proactive detection, self-correction, and epistemic vigilance

Well-Architected Framework principles and Azure best practices

Production deployment patterns for Azure Static Web Apps, Container Apps, App Service, and infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation for Azure workloads

Azure OpenAI API patterns for rate limiting, function calling, error handling, and token optimization

Azure Verified Modules (AVM), Bicep best practices, and MCP-powered infrastructure as code for Azure

Write Alex blog posts from recent brain changes, commits, and experiences. Use when asked to write a blog post, generate a blog article, or when scheduled for automated blog creation.

Markdown-to-PDF pipeline via Pandoc and LuaLaTeX with emoji rendering, dual output, and print-ready formatting

Domain-agnostic knowledge acquisition — from zero to structured expertise through conversational learning