epistemic-protocols

Work-unit triage for GitHub issues. Groups raw issues, fuses each group with the AGENTS.md northstar in session, and composes /distill to hand off each routed work unit.

Review markdown or HTML artifacts before fixation (publish/commit/deposit/merge) via /inquire × /sublate × /gap × /contextualize through a channel-first browser preview loop. Markdown renders via marked; HTML serves directly through a Shadow DOM. Each round mode is `apply + scan` (apply queued comments now + scan to surface findings into the next round's sidepanel) or `apply` (apply only). User-invoked via /comment-review.

Scoped empirical validation utility. Decomposes a target↔surrogate equivalence claim into verifiable facets, bounds a user-synchronized test space, captures evidence inside it, and carries the uncovered complement forward. Use when an inference-uncertain proposition (does it behave / perform / transfer / hold value) needs evidence in a smaller stand-in space, and you want the claim scoped to the conditions actually tested rather than asserted absolutely.

Convergence-paced code/PR review-resolve loop via /review-loop. Drives a pluggable review source (codex | code-review), passing it the design intent already captured for the changed surface (relevant project rules + adjacent design comments + decisions constituted at the loop's own gates, with a mission-anchored severity steer) so intentional documented choices are pre-filtered upstream, verifies each finding against the codebase (/inquire) and work-flow (/contextualize), auto-applies Mechanical fixes (Extension) and gates Judgment fixes by shared disposition (Constitution), risk-screens applies (substrate risk → harness permission; epistemic risk → direct Constitution), then re-reviews until the source verdict converges to approve — recurring signals escalate to constituted design decisions rather than suppression, keeping the reviewer independent. At exit, converged or free, a decision constituted at its gates is offered for durable record on the home its reach implies (for a PR scope, the issues the PR clo

Deficit Recognition Probe — surface multiple deficit hypotheses for the user's current situation and route by user-constituted recognition (fit review, not protocol scoring).

Distill a session-tethered working context into a self-contained portable handoff a fresh zero-memory agent can execute from. Closes deictic, grounding, relevance, provenance, and compression gaps, then emits a prose channel plus a schema-versioned TaskStateBlock. Type: (ContextTethered, AI, DISTILL, WorkingContext) → PortableHandoff. Alias: Diylisis(διύλισις).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "audit plugin encapsulation", "check self-containment semantics", "find contributor-knowledge assumptions", or invokes /encapsulation. Reviews LLM-facing prose in this project's plugin SKILL.md files and plugin description metadata for Plugin Encapsulation compliance: prose that assumes contributor documentation knowledge or rephrases banned references to bypass deterministic checks. Project-local contributor tooling.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "verify protocols", "check consistency before commit", "validate definitions", "run pre-commit checks", "verify soundness", or wants to ensure epistemic protocol quality. Invoke explicitly with /verify for pre-commit validation.

Use when the user asks to "check white bear", "audit prohibitions", "find negative framing", or invokes /white-bear. Read-only audit: unnecessary competing-target mentions in LLM-facing prose.

Use when the user asks to "check zero-shot", "audit few-shot anchoring", "find example anchoring", or invokes /zero-shot. Read-only audit of LLM-facing prose: principle over anchoring examples.

Validate structural mapping between abstract and concrete domains. Constructs domain correspondences and presents concrete instantiations when mapping uncertainty is detected, producing validated mapping. Also recognizes self-grounding (an abstraction validated against its own instances) and derives a split-vs-trim partition reading that routes wrong-fusion recovery. Type: (MappingUncertain, AI, GROUND, R) → ValidatedMapping. Alias: Analogia(ἀναλογία).

Divergent-discard instantiation before direction commitment. When direction candidates cannot be recognized from descriptions alone, materialize 2-4 placeholder probes that diverge on user-settled axes, present the per-axis contrast, and constitute the direction decision on recognition rather than simulation — probes are discarded, never evidence. Type: (DirectionUnrecognizable, Hybrid, PREVIEW, DirectionProspect) → DirectionalContrast. Alias: Proplasma(πρόπλασμα).

Compile execution guardrails before autonomous execution. Infers a boundary map from context, partitions risks by velocity, compiles slow/threshold risks into verifiable predicates, and emits coarse goal entries for a downstream completion-predicate enforcer; fast risks are declared out of scope for harness-level gating. Stateless: compile-time only, no execution-time state. Type: (ExecutionBlind, User, EVALUATE, ExecutionContext) → SituatedExecution. Alias: Prosoche(προσοχή).

Multi-perspective framing — a pure lens-formation tool. When the right framework is absent, places analytical lenses before the user, then for each selected lens declares the substrate it needs (an abstract persona/capability) with advisory binding hints and a channel need, and hands lens↔substrate pairs off — without executing, isolating, arranging, or synthesizing. A single lens returns directly; multiple lenses where at least one needs a specialized substrate become a substrate-correspondence handoff that nudges /conduct for the isolation + arrangement + reconciliation + synthesis apparatus, which the isolated substrate runs. frame never synthesizes a multi-perspective result in its own context and never realizes isolation — convergence is claimable only by a substrate that ran the lenses in genuine isolation. Factual lookup or verification routes to fact-finding delegation; contested design, value, interpretation, or scope judgment routes to lens-conditioned inquiry. Type: (FrameworkAbsent, AI, DESIGN, In

Conduct the method of a session's epistemic work before object-level cognition begins. When a work prospect needs multiple cognitive moves whose order, independence, reconciliation, termination, and routing are non-trivial, design a conduct topology over the protocol graph and hand off a method plan with in-session checkpoints; single-move work relays to that one protocol instead of conducting. Type: (MethodUnderdetermined, Hybrid, CONDUCT, WorkProspect × ProtocolGraph) → ConductedMethod. Alias: Hyphegesis(ὑφήγησις).

Vet working context by dialectical antithesis before action. Type: (ContextSuspect, User, VET, WorkingContext) → VettedContext. Alias: Elenchus(ἔλεγχος).

Gap surfacing before decisions. Raises procedural, consideration, assumption, and alternative gaps as questions when gaps go unnoticed, producing an audited decision. Type: (GapUnnoticed, AI, SURFACE, Decision) → AuditedDecision. Alias: Syneidesis(συνείδησις).

Detect application-context mismatch after execution. Verifies applicability when correct output may not fit the actual context, registering each mismatch through a fail-closed deficit-fit certificate before adaptation, producing contextualized execution. The transformative revalidation loop is non-monotone — adapting the result mutates the evaluation target and can breed emergent mismatches; re-scan is mandatory. This is the non-monotone/transformative side of the contextualize ↔ distill boundary (distill is the monotone/read-only-of-source side). Type: (ApplicationDecontextualized, AI, CONTEXTUALIZE, Result) → ContextualizedExecution. Alias: Epharmoge(ἐφαρμογή).

Calibrate and crystallize in-process abstraction through dialectical triangulation. Proposes calibrated candidate abstractions with personalized grounding examples and shapes them via user widen/narrow/fuse/reorient moves when an instance set has converged toward an unnamed essence, producing crystallized abstraction. Type: (AbstractionInProcess, AI, INDUCE, A) → CrystallizedAbstraction. Alias: Periagoge(περιαγωγή).

Resolve via Extended-Mind reverse induction. Reverse-traces decision coordinates from externalized substrate (codebase, rules, past sessions, user environment) and surfaces them through cycle-emergent dimension projections, each gated by a fail-closed deficit-fit certificate before its coordinates are surfaced for answer; user answers explicate the coordinates until intent crystallizes. The read-only re-projection loop is monotone — accepted coordinates are immutable. Type: (AbstractAporia, Hybrid, REVERSE-INDUCE-CYCLE, IntentSeed × ExternalizedSubstrate) → ResolvedEndpoint. Directional dual to Periagoge. Alias: Euporia(εὐπορία).

Delimit a large body of work into right-sized execution units before its method is conducted. Searches for the cut-set over an external work-breakdown structure such that each unit fits one execution span, every cut falls at a natural joint, and coverage is complete with no work orphaned — then emits a WorkUnitMap that references the WBS without owning it, ready to flow into /conduct. Type: (GranularityUnderdetermined, Hybrid, DELIMIT, ExternalWBS × ExecutionHorizon × ContextLifecycle) → WorkUnitMap. Alias: Diairesis(διαίρεσις).

Elevate a vague recall whose right resolution unit is not any single session but a connected-session chain, a topic cluster, or an already-sedimented concept. AI traverses the deposit graph by reconstructing cross-partition connections at read-time from stored anchors and shared keywords/metadata, recognizes the higher unit the deposits already imply, and presents it as a narrative for user recognition — without fusing a new whole or writing anything. Type: (RecallGranularityInsufficient, AI, ELEVATE, ScatteredDeposits × DepositGraph) → HigherGranularityUnit. Alias: Anagoge(ἀναγωγή).

Resolve vague recall into recognized context through AI-guided contextual scan and user-validated recognition.

Verify understanding after AI work through intent-scented entry points. Type: (ResultUngrasped, User, VERIFY, Result) → VerifiedUnderstanding. Alias: Katalepsis(κατάληψις).

Define epistemic boundaries per decision. Dispatches the boundary kind up-front (direction/priority, scope, type/concept, ownership, or emergent) through a fail-closed deficit-fit certificate, then classifies each boundary by a uniform settlement disposition — user-supplies, AI-proposes, AI-autonomous, or dismiss — into a BoundaryMap. The captured kind sets WHAT is bounded; the disposition sets HOW it is settled downstream (ownership is the degenerate kind where the two coincide). Type: (BoundaryUndefined, AI, DEFINE, TaskScope) → DefinedBoundary. Alias: Horismos(ὁρισμός).

Infer context insufficiency before execution. Surfaces uncertainties through information-gain prioritized inquiry when AI infers areas of context insufficiency, producing informed execution. Type: (ContextInsufficient, AI, INQUIRE, Prospect) → InformedExecution. Alias: Aitesis(αἴτησις).

Quick protocol recommendation from recent sessions, or quest-based learning through scenario, trial, and quiz.

Protocol handbook — instant reference for when to use each epistemic protocol.

Retrospective protocol contract violation detector. Scan past sessions for /ground (Sₐ confabulation) and /induce (stereotype misconflation) contract violations and surface structured violation records for user-constituted review. Use this skill whenever the user asks to 'audit my misuse', 'check protocol misuse', 'scan past invocations', 'misuse history', wants retrospective audit of past /ground or /induce calls, or suspects silent contract violations in prior sessions.

Generate Growth Map (epistemic profile + insights integration) from session patterns and workflow data.

Delegate factual research to a Codex CLI session that uses Codex's builtin `goal` command and invokes Aitesis (`$inquire`) for Tavily-based external verification. User-invoked via /goal-research.

Project guide direction line via three-horizon fusion. Invoke with /realign.

Project profile recalibration via session calibration drift audit. Scan session calibration moves for Constitution overapplication, Extension misapplication, and existing profile drift, present per-cluster evidence for user-constituted verdict, then write an updated user-global or project-local project-profile rule file via Circular Return — and, when a direction has settled, inscribe a citable clause into the Settled Directions registry adjacent to the project Northstar. Use this skill whenever the user wants to 'recalibrate project profile', 'audit calibration drift', 'reinduce Cognitive Partnership Move defaults', 'steer project profile', or invokes /steer. Periagoge family — extends /induce with a writable rule inscription step for ProjectProfile and the Settled Directions registry.

Reference-grounded prompt-artifact formation. Reads a target reference document (vendor prompt guide, Codex Goals spec), surfaces the user's under-determined contract coordinates, and projects a ready-to-use prompt artifact — an initial prompt for a follow-up session or tool, or a standing custom-skill recipe. Use when the user asks to 'forge a prompt', 'turn this guide into a usable prompt', 'make a Higgsfield prompt', 'draft a /goal from this', or has latent intent that must be grounded in an external reference before a tool can run it.

Release for this repo — CalVer tag + narrative prepend.

Discover the structural costs hidden in your strengths through behavioral dimension analysis, strength-shadow extraction, and attitude recommendations.

A symbolic slide image for a document passage, consistent with the artifact's companion images. Use when the user wants a diagram or visual symbol for a section. Composes /forge + Codex.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "formal review", "formal lens review", "review this PR with the formal triple", or invokes /formal-review. A fixed-lens multi-perspective PR review specialized for this repository's formally-structured protocol changes: it pins a Category Theory / Type Theory / Operational Semantics lens panel plus a gap scan over only the files changed in a PR, analyzes each lens in isolation, adversarially cross-verifies the findings, and posts the survivors as a single consolidated PR comment. Self-contained project specialization of the frame-driven /lens-review (epistemic-cooperative): it composes /frame for lens framing and /gap for the gap audit, but pins the panel here rather than letting /frame derive it. Project-local contributor tooling.

A frame-driven multi-perspective PR review that posts findings as a single consolidated PR comment. /frame derives the review perspectives that fit the diff — for a formally-structured change, often morphism, type, or evaluation-order lenses — plus a gap scan, over only the files changed in a PR. Each lens analyzes in isolation (independence-before-contamination), then the findings are adversarially cross-verified before surviving ones are posted as a single consolidated comment. Composes prothesis:frame for lens framing and syneidesis:gap for the gap audit; the isolated-then-adversarial substrate is described in the skill, not routed to /conduct. The lens panel is not fixed at definition time — a project that needs a fixed panel specializes this skill in a project skill. User-invoked via /lens-review. Sibling of /review-loop (applies fixes to convergence) and /comment-review (markdown artifacts).

Discover your philosophical tradition through behavioral dimension analysis and philosopher matching.