| name | mass-suggestion |
| description | Mass Suggestion plants the same idea in many minds simultaneously. The real-world version is broadcast persuasion: campaign announcements, company-wide emails, product launch copy, or public statements designed to move a large group in a specific direction. The scale amplifies both impact and risk. |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| author | Wizards of the Ghosts |
| license | CC0-1.0 |
| compatibility | Hermes Agent skills system |
| metadata | {"hermes":{"tags":["spell","shipping-now","metaphorical","influence-and-behavior","influence","behavior","attention","engagement"]}} |
Mass Suggestion
Craft a message that nudges an entire audience toward a single action.
What This Skill Does
Mass Suggestion plants the same idea in many minds simultaneously. The real-world version is broadcast persuasion: campaign announcements, company-wide emails, product launch copy, or public statements designed to move a large group in a specific direction. The scale amplifies both impact and risk.
In this grimoire, Mass Suggestion is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile.
Canonical reference input: Mass Suggestion (spell).
When To Use
- You need to draft a company announcement, campaign message, or broadcast communication that drives a specific collective action.
- The audience is large enough that individual persuasion is impractical — you need one message that works at scale.
Prerequisites
- No extra runtime dependencies beyond Hermes Agent and the normal toolset for this session.
Procedure
- Restate the target, the success condition, and any no-touch boundaries before taking action.
- Define the single action you want the audience to take.
- Identify the audience segments and what motivates each one.
- Draft the message to work for the broadest segment while not alienating others.
- Apply the manipulation audit at amplified scrutiny: at scale, even mild dark patterns cause real harm.
- Return the message with deployment guidance and a note on which audience segments it may not reach.
- Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.
Deliverables
- The broadcast message, optimized for the target audience and action.
- Segment analysis: which groups will respond and which will not.
- An amplified manipulation audit: risks that emerge specifically because of scale.
Pitfalls / Guardrails
- Keep the metaphor anchored to a real mechanism instead of drifting into lore.
- Scaled influence requires scaled scrutiny. A nudge that is harmless one-on-one can become coercive when broadcast to thousands.
- Refuse propaganda patterns: emotional manipulation without factual basis, manufactured consensus, or suppression of dissent.
Verification
- Check that the result includes every deliverable promised above.
- Check that confirmed facts, assumptions, and inferences are visibly separated.
- Check that the metaphor still maps cleanly to a real operational mechanism.
Example Invocation
/mass-suggestion draft a broadcast message that moves this audience toward this action, with extra scrutiny for scale-amplified manipulation
