think-it-through

Supply the shared Think It Through deck rules and mental model whenever the user invokes deck, plays or combines any Think It Through card, invokes help, or asks to use the deck. Stay silent while a card or help utility produces the response; when invoked alone, initialize the deck on the available conversation.

Explore and deepen the thought currently being expressed as an active, neutral thinking partner without forcing a conclusion or changing effects. Use only when the user invokes discuss or asks to reason through something together; never redirect silently.

Separate and clarify one or more fragmented, implicit, or hard-to-word thoughts, expose only supported relationships, then respond or pass the result forward. Use only when the user invokes distill or asks for clarification before answering; never activate it silently.

Explain the current HACP Working Object at the user's requested or apparent level with the minimum detail needed for understanding while preserving its claims and caveats. Use when the user invokes explain, asks for an explanation, or passes a result from another deck into EXPLAIN; never add an explanation silently.

Push the current thought or HACP Working Object one grounded creative leap beyond its present edge without broad brainstorming, choosing a direction, or inventing support. Use only when the user invokes further or explicitly asks to push the current idea further.

Stress-test a proposal, assumption, decision, design, or plan through a relentless multi-turn grill that follows its decision tree one question and recommendation at a time. Use only when the user invokes grill or asks for a demanding challenge; never begin silently.

Explain the Think It Through deck, clarify any card or deck concept, or recommend normal conversation, one card, or a combo for the user's current situation or free-form goal. Use only when the user invokes help or explicitly asks how to use or continue with Think It Through. Never play a recommended card or suggest domain actions.

Build shared understanding through a multi-turn interview about the smallest current subject with important missing information, asking one focused question at a time. Use only when the user invokes interview or asks to be interviewed for understanding; never start it silently.

Recommend the next one to three concrete actions with the highest leverage for the latest actionable result or current Binding. Use only when the user invokes next or asks what to do next; never redirect or act silently.

Apply an explicit command combo to a named axis or the clearly current axis. Use only when the user invokes on-axis or asks to apply commands to an axis; never change the Binding silently.

Apply an explicit command combo to the entire available conversation. Use only when the user invokes on-conversation or asks to apply commands conversation-wide; never change the Binding silently.

Apply an explicit command combo to a named topic or the clearly current topic. Use only when the user invokes on-topic or asks to apply commands to a topic; never change the Binding silently.

Put forward one strong direction for the current open question or decision, with its decisive tradeoff and main risk. Use only when the user invokes propose or asks for one proposal or recommendation; never propose a new direction silently.

Recover the full shape of the available conversation as a structured map with reusable topic and axis labels, followed by an overall synthesis. Use only when the user invokes recap or asks for a recap or synthesis; never insert an unsolicited checkpoint.

Turn the full available conversation or a result from the same combo into a neutral, reusable Thinking Brief. Use only when the user invokes to-brief or asks to preserve the thinking; never create or overwrite a durable artifact silently.

Turn an accepted or explicitly provisional executable direction into an ordered, verifiable Execution Plan using the agent's native planning surface when available. Use only when the user invokes to-plan or asks for an operational plan; never plan or execute silently.

Add the smallest useful diagram to a result from the same combo or the latest useful result while preserving its substance. Use only when the user invokes with-diagrams or asks for a diagrammatic representation; never add decorative visuals silently.

Expose the reasoning structure in a result from the same combo or the current proposal or decision without inventing missing logic. Use only when the user invokes with-reasoning-map or asks for an argument or reasoning map; never expose one silently.