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crucible-writer

First-draft writing assistant for Crucible-planned novels. Use when author has completed planning (crucible-planner) and outlining (crucible-outliner) and wants to write the actual prose. Handles scene-by-scene drafting, style matching, continuity tracking, and hallucination prevention. Triggers on "write my novel," "draft chapter X," "start writing from my outline," "help me write my book," or when user has Crucible outline and wants prose output. Works with any Crucible-planned story.

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crucible-editor

Revision and editing assistant for Crucible-drafted novels. Use when author has completed a first draft and wants to revise, edit, or polish their manuscript. Handles developmental editing, line editing, copy editing, and final polish. Triggers on "edit my novel," "revise chapter X," "polish my manuscript," "help me edit," or when user has completed draft chapters and wants to improve them.

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chain-spec-risk-metrics

Use when planning high-stakes initiatives (migrations, launches, strategic changes) that require clear specifications, proactive risk identification (premortem/register), and measurable success criteria. Invoke when user mentions "plan this migration", "launch strategy", "implementation roadmap", "what could go wrong", "how do we measure success", or when high-impact decisions need comprehensive planning with risk mitigation and instrumentation.

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chain-estimation-decision-storytelling

Use when making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty that require stakeholder buy-in. Invoke when evaluating strategic options (build vs buy, market entry, resource allocation), quantifying tradeoffs with uncertain outcomes, justifying investments with expected value analysis, pitching recommendations to decision-makers, or creating business cases with cost-benefit estimates. Use when user mentions "should we", "ROI analysis", "make a case for", "evaluate options", "expected value", "justify decision", or needs to combine estimation, decision analysis, and persuasive communication.

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graphrag-system-design

Use when designing complete GraphRAG systems that combine graph retrieval with LLM reasoning. Invoke when user mentions GraphRAG system, technology stack, Neo4j with LLM, LangChain graph, LlamaIndex knowledge graph, community detection for RAG, hybrid symbol-vector integration, production GraphRAG, or domain-specific graph RAG. Provides architecture design, technology selection, and domain customization guidance.

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heuristics-and-checklists

Use when making decisions under time pressure or uncertainty, preventing errors in complex procedures, designing decision rules or checklists, simplifying complex choices, or when user mentions heuristics, rules of thumb, mental models, checklists, error prevention, cognitive biases, satisficing, or needs practical decision shortcuts and systematic error reduction.

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hypotheticals-counterfactuals

Use when exploring alternative scenarios, testing assumptions through "what if" questions, understanding causal relationships, conducting pre-mortem analysis, stress testing decisions, or when user mentions counterfactuals, hypothetical scenarios, thought experiments, alternative futures, what-if analysis, or needs to challenge assumptions and explore possibilities.

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information-architecture

Use when organizing content for digital products, designing navigation systems, restructuring information hierarchies, improving findability, creating taxonomies or metadata schemas, or when users mention information architecture, IA, sitemap, navigation design, content structure, card sorting, tree testing, taxonomy, findability, or need help making information discoverable and usable.

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kill-criteria-exit-ramps

Use when defining stopping rules for projects, avoiding sunk cost fallacy, setting objective exit criteria, deciding whether to continue/pivot/kill initiatives, or when users mention kill criteria, exit ramps, stopping rules, go/no-go decisions, project termination, sunk costs, or need disciplined decision-making about when to quit.

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knowledge-graph-construction

Use when designing and building knowledge graphs from unstructured data. Invoke when user mentions entity extraction, schema design, LPG vs RDF, graph data model, ontology alignment, knowledge graph construction, or building a KG for RAG. Provides extraction pipelines, schema patterns, and data model selection guidance.

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layered-reasoning

Use when reasoning across multiple abstraction levels (strategic/tactical/operational), designing systems with hierarchical layers, explaining concepts at different depths, maintaining consistency between high-level principles and concrete implementation, or when users mention 30,000-foot view, layered thinking, abstraction levels, top-down design, or need to move fluidly between strategy and execution.

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scout-mindset-bias-check

Use to detect and remove cognitive biases from reasoning. Invoke when prediction feels emotional, stuck at 50/50, or when you want to validate forecasting process. Use when user mentions scout mindset, soldier mindset, bias check, reversal test, scope sensitivity, or cognitive distortions.

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causal-inference-root-cause

Use when investigating why something happened and need to distinguish correlation from causation, identify root causes vs symptoms, test competing hypotheses, control for confounding variables, or design experiments to validate causal claims. Invoke when debugging systems, analyzing failures, researching health outcomes, evaluating policy impacts, or when user mentions root cause, causal chain, confounding, spurious correlation, or asks "why did this really happen?"

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mapping-visualization-scaffolds

Use when complex systems need visual documentation, mapping component relationships and dependencies, creating hierarchies or taxonomies, documenting process flows or decision trees, understanding system architectures, visualizing data lineage or knowledge structures, planning information architecture, or when user mentions concept maps, system diagrams, dependency mapping, relationship visualization, or architecture blueprints.

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market-mechanics-betting

Use to convert probabilities into decisions (bet/pass/hedge) and optimize scoring. Invoke when need to calculate edge, size bets optimally (Kelly Criterion), extremize aggregated forecasts, or improve Brier scores. Use when user mentions betting strategy, Kelly, edge calculation, Brier score, extremizing, or translating belief into action.

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memory-retrieval-learning

Use when long-term knowledge retention is needed (weeks to months), studying for exams or certifications, learning new job skills or technology, mastering substantial material that requires systematic review, combating forgetting through spaced repetition and retrieval practice, or when user mentions studying, memorizing, learning plans, spaced repetition, flashcards, active recall, or durable learning.

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meta-prompt-engineering

Use when prompts produce inconsistent or unreliable outputs, need explicit structure and constraints, require safety guardrails or quality checks, involve multi-step reasoning that needs decomposition, need domain expertise encoding, or when user mentions improving prompts, prompt templates, structured prompts, prompt optimization, reliable AI outputs, or prompt patterns.

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metrics-tree

Use when setting product North Star metrics, decomposing high-level business metrics into actionable sub-metrics and leading indicators, mapping strategy to measurable outcomes, identifying which metrics to move through experimentation, understanding causal relationships between metrics (leading vs lagging), prioritizing metric improvement opportunities, or when user mentions metric tree, metric decomposition, North Star metric, leading indicators, KPI breakdown, metric drivers, or how metrics connect.

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career-document-architect

Use when writing or reviewing career documents including research statements, teaching statements, diversity statements, CVs, or biosketches. Invoke when user mentions research statement, teaching philosophy, diversity statement, biosketch, academic CV, faculty application, or needs help with career narrative, positioning, or professional documents for academic advancement.

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brainstorm-diverge-converge

Use when you need to generate many creative options before systematically narrowing to the best choices. Invoke when exploring product ideas, solving open-ended problems, generating strategic alternatives, developing research questions, designing experiments, or when you need both breadth (many ideas) and rigor (principled selection). Use when user mentions brainstorming, ideation, divergent thinking, generating options, or evaluating alternatives.

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bayesian-reasoning-calibration

Use when making predictions or judgments under uncertainty and need to explicitly update beliefs with new evidence. Invoke when forecasting outcomes, evaluating probabilities, testing hypotheses, calibrating confidence, assessing risks with uncertain data, or avoiding overconfidence bias. Use when user mentions priors, likelihoods, Bayes theorem, probability updates, forecasting, calibration, or belief revision.

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alignment-values-north-star

Use when teams need shared direction and decision-making alignment. Invoke when starting new teams, scaling organizations, defining culture, establishing product vision, resolving misalignment, creating strategic clarity, or setting behavioral standards. Use when user mentions North Star, team values, mission, principles, guardrails, decision framework, or cultural alignment.

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adr-architecture

Use when documenting significant technical or architectural decisions that need context, rationale, and consequences recorded. Invoke when choosing between technology options, making infrastructure decisions, establishing standards, migrating systems, or when team needs to understand why a decision was made. Use when user mentions ADR, architecture decision, technical decision record, or decision documentation.

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academic-letter-architect

Use when writing recommendation letters, reference letters, or award nominations for students, postdocs, or colleagues. Invoke when user mentions recommendation letter, reference, nomination, letter of support, endorsement, or needs help with strong advocacy, comparative statements, or evidence-based character assessment.

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abstraction-concrete-examples

Use when explaining concepts at different expertise levels, moving between abstract principles and concrete implementation, identifying edge cases by testing ideas against scenarios, designing layered documentation, decomposing complex problems into actionable steps, or bridging strategy-execution gaps. Invoke when user mentions abstraction levels, making concepts concrete, or explaining at different depths.

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socratic-teaching-scaffolds

Use when teaching complex concepts (technical, scientific, philosophical), helping learners discover insights through guided questioning rather than direct explanation, correcting misconceptions by revealing contradictions, onboarding new team members through scaffolded learning, mentoring through problem-solving question frameworks, designing self-paced learning materials, or when user mentions "teach me", "help me understand", "explain like I'm", "learning path", "guided discovery", or "Socratic method".

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equivariant-architecture-designer

Use when you have validated symmetry groups and need to design neural network architecture that respects those symmetries. Invoke when user mentions equivariant layers, G-CNN, e3nn, steerable networks, building symmetry into model, or needs architecture recommendations for specific symmetry groups. Provides architecture patterns and implementation guidance.

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estimation-fermi

Use when making quick order-of-magnitude estimates under uncertainty (market sizing, resource planning, feasibility checks), decomposing complex quantities into estimable parts, bounding unknowns with upper/lower limits, sanity-checking strategic assumptions, or when user mentions Fermi estimation, back-of-envelope calculation, order of magnitude, ballpark estimate, triangulation, or needs to assess feasibility before detailed analysis.

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ethics-safety-impact

Use when decisions could affect groups differently and need to anticipate harms/benefits, assess fairness and safety concerns, identify vulnerable populations, propose risk mitigations, define monitoring metrics, or when user mentions ethical review, impact assessment, differential harm, safety analysis, vulnerable groups, bias audit, or responsible AI/tech.

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evaluation-rubrics

Use when need explicit quality criteria and scoring scales to evaluate work consistently, compare alternatives objectively, set acceptance thresholds, reduce subjective bias, or when user mentions rubric, scoring criteria, quality standards, evaluation framework, inter-rater reliability, or grade/assess work.

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expected-value

Use when making decisions under uncertainty with quantifiable outcomes, comparing risky options (investments, product bets, strategic choices), prioritizing projects by expected return, assessing whether to take a gamble, or when user mentions expected value, EV calculation, risk-adjusted return, probability-weighted outcomes, decision tree, or needs to choose between uncertain alternatives.

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facilitation-patterns

Use when running meetings, workshops, brainstorms, design sprints, retrospectives, or team decision-making sessions. Apply when need structured group discussion, managing diverse stakeholder input, ensuring equal participation, handling conflict or groupthink, or when user mentions facilitation, workshop design, meeting patterns, session planning, or running effective collaborative sessions.

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financial-unit-economics

Use when evaluating business model viability, analyzing profitability per customer/product/transaction, validating startup metrics (CAC, LTV, payback period), making pricing decisions, assessing scalability, comparing business models, or when user mentions unit economics, CAC/LTV ratio, contribution margin, customer profitability, break-even analysis, or needs to determine if a business can be profitable at scale.

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focus-timeboxing-8020

Use when managing time and attention, combating procrastination or context-switching, prioritizing high-impact work, planning daily/weekly schedules, improving focus and productivity, or when user mentions timeboxing, Pomodoro, deep work, 80/20 rule, Pareto principle, focus blocks, task batching, energy management, or needs structured approach to getting important work done.

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embedding-fusion-strategy

Use when designing embedding strategies that fuse semantic and structural information for knowledge graphs. Invoke when user mentions node embeddings, structural embeddings, semantic embeddings, contrastive alignment, embedding fusion, vector representations for graphs, or combining text and graph signals. Provides embedding selection, fusion design, and implementation guidance.

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domain-research-health-science

Use when formulating clinical research questions (PICOT framework), evaluating health evidence quality (study design hierarchy, bias assessment, GRADE), prioritizing patient-important outcomes, conducting systematic reviews or meta-analyses, creating evidence summaries for guidelines, assessing regulatory evidence, or when user mentions clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, health research methodology, systematic reviews, research protocols, or study quality assessment.

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forecast-premortem

Use to stress-test predictions by assuming they failed and working backward to identify why. Invoke when confidence is high (>80% or <20%), need to identify tail risks and unknown unknowns, or want to widen overconfident intervals. Use when user mentions premortem, backcasting, what could go wrong, stress test, or black swans.

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grant-proposal-assistant

Use when writing or reviewing NIH, NSF, or foundation grant proposals. Invoke when user mentions specific aims, R01, R21, K-series, significance, innovation, approach section, grant writing, proposal review, research strategy, or needs help with fundable hypothesis, reviewer-friendly structure, or compliance with grant guidelines.

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graphrag-evaluation

Use when evaluating GraphRAG system quality across knowledge graph completeness, retrieval relevance, answer correctness, and reasoning verification. Invoke when user mentions evaluate GraphRAG, quality metrics, benchmark, hallucination reduction, answer correctness, multi-step reasoning evaluation, test my GraphRAG, or measure RAG performance. Provides evaluation frameworks, metric selection, and testing protocols.

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discovery-interviews-surveys

Use when validating product assumptions before building, discovering unmet user needs, understanding customer problems and workflows, testing concepts or positioning, researching target markets, identifying jobs-to-be-done and hiring triggers, uncovering pain points and workarounds, or when users mention user research, customer interviews, surveys, discovery interviews, validation studies, or voice of customer.

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dialectical-mapping-steelmanning

Use when debates are trapped in false dichotomies, polarized positions need charitable interpretation, tradeoffs are obscured by binary framing, synthesis beyond 'pick one side' is needed, or when users mention steelman arguments, thesis-antithesis-synthesis, Hegelian dialectic, third way solutions, or resolving seemingly opposed principles.

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scientific-manuscript-review

Use when reviewing or editing research manuscripts, journal articles, reviews, or perspectives. Invoke when user mentions manuscript, paper draft, article, research writing, journal submission, reviewer feedback, or needs to improve scientific writing clarity, structure, or argumentation in their manuscript.

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scientific-email-polishing

Use when writing or polishing professional scientific emails, journal cover letters, or responses to reviewers. Invoke when user mentions email to collaborator, cover letter to editor, reviewer response, professional correspondence, or needs help with professional tone, clear asks, or diplomatic communication in academic/scientific contexts.

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scientific-clarity-checker

Use when reviewing any scientific document for logical clarity, argument soundness, and scientific rigor. Invoke when user mentions check clarity, review logic, scientific soundness, hypothesis-data alignment, claims vs evidence, or needs a cross-cutting scientific logic review independent of document type.

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role-switch

Use when stakeholders have conflicting priorities and need alignment, suspect decision blind spots from single perspective, need to pressure-test proposals before presenting, want empathy for different viewpoints (eng vs PM vs legal vs user), building consensus across functions, evaluating tradeoffs with multi-dimensional impact, or when user mentions "what would X think", "stakeholder alignment", "see from their perspective", "blind spots", or "conflicting interests".

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roadmap-backcast

Use when planning with fixed deadline or target outcome, working backward from future goal to present, defining milestones and dependencies, mapping critical path, identifying what must happen when, planning product launches with hard dates, multi-year strategic roadmaps, event planning, transformation initiatives, or when user mentions "backcast", "work backward from", "reverse planning", "we need to launch by", "target date is", or "what needs to happen to reach".

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reviews-retros-reflection

Use when conducting sprint retrospectives, project post-mortems, weekly reviews, quarterly reflections, after-action reviews (AARs), team health checks, process improvement sessions, celebrating wins while learning from misses, establishing continuous improvement habits, or when user mentions "retro", "retrospective", "what went well", "lessons learned", "review meeting", "reflection", or "how can we improve".

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retrieval-search-orchestration

Use when designing retrieval strategies for querying knowledge graphs in RAG systems. Invoke when user mentions retrieval strategy, search orchestration, global-first retrieval, local-first retrieval, U-shaped retrieval, query decomposition, multi-hop reasoning, provenance tracking, or citation in GraphRAG. Provides retrieval pattern selection, query rewriting, and provenance design.

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research-claim-map

Use when verifying claims before decisions, fact-checking statements against sources, conducting due diligence on vendor/competitor assertions, evaluating conflicting evidence, triangulating source credibility, assessing research validity for literature reviews, investigating misinformation, rating evidence strength (primary vs secondary), identifying knowledge gaps, or when user mentions "fact-check", "verify this", "is this true", "evaluate sources", "conflicting evidence", or "due diligence".

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reference-class-forecasting

Use when starting a forecast to establish a statistical baseline (base rate) before analyzing specifics. Invoke when need to anchor predictions in historical reality, avoid "this time is different" bias, or establish outside view before inside view analysis. Use when user mentions base rates, reference classes, outside view, or starting a new prediction.

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What are Agent Skills?

Agent Skills are reusable, production-ready capability packs for AI agents. Each skill lives in its own folder and is described by a SKILL.md file with metadata and instructions.

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Agent Skills is a curated directory that indexes skill repositories and lets you browse, preview, and download skills in a consistent format.

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Where are skills stored in a repo?

By default, the site scans the skills/ folder. You can also submit a URL that points directly to a specific skills folder.

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What is required inside SKILL.md?

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