Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.
Use when resolving disputed succession with multiple claimants or absent heirs. Provides priority ordering (太子, eldest legitimate son, talented son, brother), a resolution process with ministerial council, external power assessment, and rival neutralization protocols.
Use when determining proper succession order or preventing political instability from improper succession. Applies Fan Zhongshan's counsel to King Xuan: eldest-first principle, chain of consequences from violation, and the teaching effect on subjects.
Use when managing a leadership succession or transferring power between rulers. Covers designation, mourning period (三年丧), abdication gesture, popular validation by regional leaders (诸侯), and formal assumption of authority.
Use when designing a multi-step succession sequence to transfer leadership to a designated heir. Models King Shoumeng of Wu's brother-to-brother chain (寿梦→诸樊→余祭→余眜→季札) with safeguards for refusal.
Use when experiencing talent attrition or when followers perceive hypocrisy between stated values and leader behavior. Diagnoses the root cause through direct inquiry, then requires a visible personal sacrifice to demonstrate that talent is valued above personal pleasures or possessions.
Use when probing enemy leadership's judgment quality and decision-making state. Based on Zhong's grain-request test against Wu: make a resource request, observe whether wise counsel is heeded or ignored, and interpret the response to assess arrogance and internal divisions for attack timing.
Use when calculating pentatonic scale pipe lengths or tuning traditional Chinese instruments. Applies the three-division method (三分损益法) to derive 宫商角徵羽 from base unit 81 using alternating 2/3 and 4/3 ratios.
Use when securing a binding commitment before a long campaign where rivals may slander you in your absence. Based on Gan Mao's (甘茂) method — citing the tale of Zeng Shen's mother (曾参之母) to illustrate how repeated false accusations erode even deep trust, then extracting a formal pledge.
Use when weakening powerful feudal lords without military confrontation. Implements the Tui'en (推恩) decree to divide territories among all heirs, progressively fragmenting large fiefs into minor holdings across generations.
Use when performing or analyzing ancient Chinese turtle shell divination (龟卜). Covers shell preparation, prohibited days (子亥戌), ritual prayer recitation, heat application for crack patterns, and interpretation of crack positions (首仰足开/肣).