Research skills

Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.

s4h-epistemology-epistemic-status

Produces an honest, rigorous calibration of what you know vs. believe vs. assume vs. hope across a domain. Assigns explicit epistemic statuses to claims and flags when high-confidence claims rest on lower-confidence foundations. Draws from the rationalist tradition of explicit epistemic labeling. Use when you say 'how certain should I be', 'what do we actually know here', 'I want an honest read of our assumptions', 'separate what we know from what we're guessing', 'give me an epistemic audit', 'I want to stop conflating confident with correct', or when producing analysis where the confidence level matters as much as the content.

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s4h-epistemology-limits

Identifies what can't be known and why, then clarifies what can be established within those limits and reframes the question into its answerable part. Distinguishes fundamental limits (Gödel, underdetermination, observer effects), practical limits (evidence is unavailable, destroyed, or counterfactual), and conceptual limits (the question is malformed). Use when you say 'can this even be known', 'we keep investigating and it doesn't settle', 'is this question actually answerable', 'I need to know X but X might be unknowable', 'we have a hard epistemological limit here', or when investigation has been thorough but the question remains open.

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s4h-evolution

Entry point for the evolution thinking toolkit. Routes to the right evolution skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'evolution', 'natural selection', 'how does this population change over time', 'why does this strategy persist', 'what niche am I competing in', 'fitness landscape', 'arms race', 'coevolution', or want evolutionary thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.

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s4h-evolution-variation-selection

Applies the variation-selection-retention triad to understand how populations and strategies adapt over time. Triggers: 'how does this evolve', 'what gets selected for', 'why do some strategies persist and others die out', 'population dynamics', 'selection pressure', 'what survives in this environment', 'who wins over time'.

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s4h-historical

Entry point for the historical reasoning toolkit. Routes to the right historical skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'historical', 'has this happened before', 'what does history say', 'what cycle is this', 'what usually goes wrong', 'what's the lesson', or want historical reasoning applied without knowing which specific tool fits.

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s4h-historical-cycle-detection

Identifies what recurring cycle the current situation is an instance of — and where in that cycle you currently are. TRIGGERS: 'what cycle is this', 'where are we in the cycle', 'is this a bubble', 'what comes next', 'have we been here before'.

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s4h-historical-failure-analysis

Extracts recurring failure modes from similar past situations — most failures have happened before in recognisable patterns. TRIGGERS: 'what usually goes wrong', 'failure pattern analysis', 'how do these typically fail', 'what went wrong last time', 'avoid past mistakes'.

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s4h-historical-lesson-extraction

Extracts the transferable principle from a specific historical case — separating the contingent surface details from the underlying rule that applies across contexts. TRIGGERS: 'what's the lesson', 'extract the lesson', 'what should we learn from this', 'generalise from this case', 'apply this to our situation'.

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s4h-historical-precedent-analysis

Finds and applies genuinely similar historical situations to inform a current decision — distinguishing true precedents from superficial analogies. TRIGGERS: 'historical precedent', 'has this happened before', 'what does history say', 'find a precedent', 'what did others do in this situation'.

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s4h-information

Entry point for the information theory toolkit. Routes to the right information skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'information', 'signal vs noise', 'what matters here', 'too much data', 'what can be cut', 'redundancy', 'uncertainty', 'surprise', 'how much information does this actually contain', or want information-theoretic thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.

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