Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.
Use when neutralizing a capable enemy advisor or creating distrust between a rival ruler and their counselor. Deploys distraction tactics, manufactured suspicion, and defection incentives. Based on Qin's handling of You Yu and the Rong king.
Use when cultivating personal virtue through ritual and music practice (礼乐修身). Integrates 致乐以治心 (music for the heart) with 致礼以治躬 (ritual for conduct) in a daily morning-to-evening practice schedule.
Use when managing succession planning or resolving heir disputes. Covers legitimate succession order (父死子继, 兄死弟及), virtuous deviation protocols including the ritual of three refusals (三让), warning signs of succession crisis, and best practices from Song Xuan Gong's example.
Use when evaluating territorial concessions or appeasement strategies against aggressive neighbors. Applies the 抱薪救火 (carrying firewood to extinguish fire) framework to expose why each concession emboldens further demands and weakens negotiating position.
Use when planning irrigation canals, flood control, or water resource management for agriculture. Applies Yu's principle of channeling over blocking (疏导优于堵塞) and includes the Zheng Guo Canal case study.
Use when facing a coalition of rival states or planning to disrupt enemy alliances (合从). Allocates resources for bribing key officials (豪臣), sowing discord to prevent unified action, then executing military conquest. Proposed by Wei Liao to Qin Shi Huang.
Use when studying Modu's (冒顿) method for conditioning absolute military obedience. Uses progressive whistling arrow (鸣镝) drills with escalating targets to build instant, unconditional compliance among mounted archers.
Use when establishing the fundamental pitch standard (黄钟) or deriving all twelve pitch pipes. Calculates the 9-cun base unit from powers of 3 and links musical tuning to weights, measures, and seasonal timing.
Use when interpreting Zhou Yi (I Ching) hexagram readings or analyzing divination results. Covers hexagram transformation (本卦 to 之卦), line text analysis, fulfillment location and timing determination, and clan affiliation prediction, as demonstrated in Chen Li Gong's divination.