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Delegation Parallelizes work across six patterns — built-in agents, worktree-isolated agents, background agents, custom inline-b…

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Webdesign Design and integrate web interfaces via three paths: DirectDesign (write design inline with Anthropic frontend-design…

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ArXiv Search and retrieve arXiv academic papers by topic, category, or paper ID — with AlphaXiv-enriched AI-generated overv…

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Docx Create, edit, and analyze Word documents — tracked changes, tables, images, complex formatting, and format conversion…

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Pdf Create, merge, split, extract text/tables from PDFs, fill forms, add watermarks, and convert to/from other formats. U…

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SystemsThinking Structural analysis of complex systems — Iceberg model, Causal Loop feedback diagrams, archetype matching, Meadows le…

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RootCauseAnalysis Structured incident investigation using Five Whys, Fishbone, blameless Postmortem, Fault Tree, Kepner-Tregoe, and FME…

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WorldThreatModel Persistent world-model harness that stress-tests ideas, strategies, and investments against 11 time horizons from 6 m…

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ApertureOscillation 3-pass scope oscillation that holds a question constant while shifting zoom — narrow/tactical, wide/strategic, then s…

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BitterPillEngineering Audits any AI instruction set for over-prompting using the core test — would a smarter model make this rule unnecessa…

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Daemon Manage the public daemon profile — a digital representation of what you're working on. DaemonAggregator reads LifeOS …

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Interceptor Real Chrome/Brave + macOS Computer Use from inside the browser — zero CDP fingerprint, real sessions; mandatory for v…

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Pptx Create, edit, and analyze PowerPoint presentations — slide layouts, speaker notes, design elements, and format conver…

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Ideate Evolutionary ideation engine — loop-controlled multi-cycle idea generation through phases of dreaming, cross-domain s…

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Interview Evidence-grounded context refresh: reads constitutional files, TELOS, and CURRENT_STATE/IDEAL_STATE dimension files v…

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ISA Owns the Ideal State Artifact — the primitive holding a project or task's articulated ideal state; scaffolds, intervi…

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Loop Iterative improvement loop — refine a target across multiple Algorithm cycles toward ideal state. USE WHEN loop, iter…

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Optimize Autonomous optimization loop — hill-climb any target. Code with metrics, or skills/prompts/agents with LLM-as-judge. …

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Migrate Intakes external content, classifies chunks against LifeOS taxonomy, commits with provenance. Sources: .md/.txt, stdi…

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Xlsx Create, read, analyze Excel workbooks — formulas, financial models, data analysis, recalculation, and CSV/TSV convers…

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content-analysis Content extraction and analysis for video, podcast, article, and YouTube content. Extracts structured insights, key t…

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ContextSearch Find prior LifeOS work — sessions, ISAs, conversations — by topic or date phrase; searches the work registry, titles,…

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Knowledge Manage the LifeOS Knowledge Archive — a curated, typed graph of People, Companies, Ideas, and Research notes with typ…

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BiasCheck Three-layer bias analysis on any URL, file, or text — auto-fetches the content and any cited study, then audits data-…

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CMUX Drives cmux as an agent cockpit to boot, race, and monitor visible agent teams. Mac-only. USE WHEN cmux, agent cockpi…

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Hardening Hardens LifeOS tests via property/mutation testing. USE WHEN harden, hardening, property test, property based testing…

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HTML Renders the current session's output (analysis, research, red team, report, plan) as an extremely well-designed, self…

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LocalIntelligence Generic civic intelligence aggregator for any US city — daily local digest of construction permits, crime, new busine…

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Trim Reduces an always-on LifeOS context file that has grown too big via a human-gated pass — deterministic GC of stale en…

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Upgrade Improve LifeOS from what the best practitioners are shipping around AI harnesses — Anthropic first (changelogs, docs,…

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DetectAI Detects AI-generated writing four ways — a heuristic audit against a catalog of known AI patterns, deterministic stat…

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ThreatModel Defensive threat modeling and risk management for your own estate — map where sensitive data lives across your asset …

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Tldraw Read, create, and edit tldraw .tldr canvas files deterministically — sketch hand-drawn-register diagrams (boxes, arro…

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Cortex Operate Cortex, the LifeOS memory system — the typed Knowledge Archive (People, Companies, Ideas, Research with typed…

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Novelty Evolutionary explanation-discovery engine for hard-to-vary causal theories of unknown phenomena. USE WHEN develop a n…

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SecurityMarketData Query curated cybersecurity market and company intelligence. USE WHEN security market data OR cybersecurity funding O…

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SuggestSkills Discover WHICH new skills you should create, from your own work history plus your satisfaction/frustration signals. R…

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Teach Interactive voice-narrated tutorial on whatever the current conversation is about — teaches the topic beat by beat wi…

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Vitals macOS system performance diagnostics — see how the machine is running and what's slowing it down: CPU/GPU/memory/ener…

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Harvest Mines a single piece of content (URL, YouTube, article, text, file) for anything useful to LifeOS, ranks the findings…

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