Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.
Use when an effective enemy commander has political vulnerabilities exploitable through disinformation. Plants rumors of rebellion or disloyalty to trigger the commander's replacement by a less competent successor.
Use when seeking to replace a capable enemy commander with an inferior one through disinformation. Based on Qin's strategy at Changping to replace Lian Po (廉颇) with Zhao Kuo (赵括) by exploiting the enemy ruler's impatience with defensive tactics.
Use when sowing discord between enemy commanders and their trusted advisors or conducting disinformation campaigns. Deploys substantial resources to spread defection rumors, stages differential envoy treatment, and exploits resulting trust breakdowns to degrade enemy decision-making.
Use when advising rulers without direct confrontation. Presents options rather than demands (开陈其端令人主自择), times proposals for private audiences, and allows superiors to feel ownership of decisions.
Use when a powerful minister faces suspicion from a ruler or when navigating dangerous court politics. Deploys four survival strategies — hostage-sending, deliberate self-pollution (自汙), graceful punishment acceptance, and honor-declining — to reduce perceived threat level.
Use when building secret alliances against a central authority while maintaining deniability. Covers verbal-only communication, shared grievance framing, self-interest appeals, and network expansion through confirmed allies.
Use when deciding whether to honor agreements made under duress or coercion. Applies Duke Huan of Qi's model: fulfilling coerced promises to build long-term diplomatic credibility rather than seeking short-term revenge (愈一小快耳).
Use when responding to political crises, natural disasters, or rebellions. Covers earthquake interpretation, historical pattern recognition, rebellion prevention through free expression (防民之口甚於防水), regency protocols, and power restoration.
Use when negotiating survival after military defeat. Based on Goujian of Yue's approach at Kuaiji: offering humble submission, deploying skilled negotiators like Zhong, bribing corruptible enemy officials (Tai Zai Pi), and leveraging credible threats of mutual destruction to force acceptance.
Use when a new ruler inherits a troubled state and must restore stability. Covers personnel reform (任忠贤), correcting predecessor's wrongs (正先帝之过), economic relief (发仓廪/轻赋), legal simplification (约法/省刑), and moral governance.