Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.
Use when launching a surprise night assault on a complacent enemy camp. Covers undetected approach, encirclement, panic exploitation, pursuit of fleeing leadership, and capture of subordinate targets and livestock.
Use when evaluating leadership character or matching candidates to positions of authority. Applies Gao Yao's nine complementary virtues (九德) framework to assess balance, consistency, and suitability for household, state, or imperial governance roles.
Use when evaluating official performance or deciding promotions and demotions. Implements a three-year cycle assessment over nine years, using documented achievements to determine advancement (陟) or removal (绌).
Use when filling government positions or matching candidates to ministerial roles. Guides collective consultation with the Four Peaks (四岳), merit evaluation, and role-to-skill mapping across nine ministerial functions.
Use when vetting subordinates or appointees for trustworthiness. Applies Guan Zhong's humanity test (非人情) to identify dangerous individuals who violate natural bonds — parental, family, and self-preservation — to gain power.
Use when persuading a reluctant subordinate or official to accept a dangerous assignment. Based on 12-year-old Gan Luo's (甘罗) method — comparing the target's status to predecessors who refused similar orders, then implying fatal consequences without direct threat.
Use when deciding whether to exit after achieving major success to avoid becoming a threat. Based on Fan Li's departure from Yue: recognize danger signals ('when birds are gone, the bow is hidden'), assess your superior's character, resign formally, and leave completely with portable wealth.
Use when restoring a dismissed official to power or leveraging rival factions for political rehabilitation. Creates urgency by approaching rival powers with the dismissed leader's value, then returns to the original state with evidence of the rival's recruitment attempt to force restoration.
Use when entrusted with dangerous levels of military or political power by a suspicious ruler. Based on Wang Jian's (王翦) strategy — repeatedly requesting personal land, houses, and gardens to signal you seek wealth, not power, thereby reducing the ruler's fear of betrayal.
Use when abolishing the posthumous title system (谥法) to prevent subjects from judging rulers. Establishes sequential numbering from 始皇帝 onward as an alternative naming convention. Abolished by Qin Shi Huang in 221 BCE.