Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.
Use when deciding the fate of a defeated general who returns after losing their forces. Convenes advisors, weighs strict versus lenient views, and defers to higher authority rather than unilateral execution.
Use when mobilizing troops, establishing military authority, or enforcing battlefield discipline. Covers the ritualized oath procedure with 黄钺 and 白旄 symbols, troop assembly, consequence announcements, and campaign execution.
Use when organizing or restructuring military forces into a command hierarchy. Covers the three-army system (三军) with Central, Upper, and Lower armies, staff positions (御戎, 右), communication protocols, and scaling decisions for two-army or three-column (三行) configurations.
Use when implementing transformative reforms against cultural or traditionalist opposition. Covers three phases: strategic assessment of vulnerabilities, building support through advisor endorsement and opponent engagement, and decisive implementation by leading by example with the principle that sages adapted to circumstances.
Use when facing a powerful enemy dependent on long supply lines. Based on Deng Duwei's advice during the Seven States Rebellion, employs fortified defense, allied distraction, and mobile forces to cut supply routes and starve the enemy into defeat.
Use when selecting officials based on capability rather than favoritism or nepotism. Follows Qi Xi's impartial model: recommending personal enemies for their competence and relatives for their merit, with transparent evaluation criteria covering skills, character, and past performance.
Use when evaluating music or dance for moral and political significance. Applies Ji Zha's (延陵季子) framework to assess emotional balance (乐而不淫, 哀而不愁), moral qualities, and governance predictions from artistic expression.
Use when deploying music as a governance tool (乐治) to influence social behavior or diagnose political health. Maps the six emotional responses to sound qualities and the five tones (宫商角徵羽) to organs and virtues.
Use when negotiating for survival under threat of execution or hostage situations. Restructures hostage transactions by demonstrating a living captive's leverage value, sequencing agreements to protect all parties, and buying time for allied intervention.
Use when establishing governance over newly conquered or acquired territory. Based on Zhou Gong's advice to Kang Shu for ruling former Shang lands: seek local wisdom, study prior regime failures, practice benevolent rule, establish legal frameworks, and appoint virtuous officials.