Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.
Use when defending against accusations of disloyalty or treason. Employs a rhetorical framework of family service records, historical precedents of wrongful execution (Bigan, Wu Zixu), and principle-based appeals to preserve reputation.
Use when designing a tiered reward system for contributions or ranking officials by merit. Classifies service into four tiers: moral guidance (封邑 grants), administrative execution (卿位 titles), military labor, and routine service, allocating rewards systematically from highest to lowest.
Use when persuading rulers, executives, or powerful figures who hold your fate. Applies Han Fei's 说难 framework to diagnose hidden motivations, avoid dangerous pitfalls (revealing secrets, pointing out faults), and build trust before speaking boldly.
Use when presenting criticism indirectly to powerful audiences. Creates fictional characters (like Zixu 子虚, Wuyou 乌有先生) representing competing viewpoints, then resolves through an authoritative voice delivering moral instruction.
Use when advising a powerful figure to change course or retire gracefully. Systematically presents cautionary and positive historical examples to illustrate the wisdom of timely withdrawal before success reverses.
Use when persuading officials or leaders by aligning your proposal with their self-interest. Demonstrated by Kuai Tong and Li Yiji, this technique researches the target's fears, frames problems objectively, and presents solutions that benefit the listener.
Use when persuading a resistant authority figure to take difficult but necessary action. Employs a gradual empathetic approach: build rapport through shared humanity, introduce topics indirectly, present arguments through historical examples, appeal to long-term interests, and let conclusions be self-evident.
Use when building popular support or consolidating political power through economic generosity. Implements asymmetric resource distribution — collecting with small measures, distributing with large — to cultivate mass loyalty and clan influence over time.
Use when stabilizing commodity prices, preventing merchant manipulation, or implementing the 平准 system. Covers government buy-low/sell-high intervention, 均输 distribution, and salt-iron monopoly policies.
Use when evaluating governance quality, assessing leadership effectiveness, or auditing a ruler's conduct. Provides positive and negative indicators covering talent retention, crisis response, wealth distribution, and popular sentiment to diagnose state health.