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find-the-path In D&D, Find the Path reveals the shortest route to a destination, even through mazes and across planes. The real-wor…

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forcecage Forcecage creates a pre-tested containment boundary around a subject that has not yet run. It is not about stopping, …

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freedom-of-movement Freedom of Movement is for processes that should be moving but are caught in glue: locked files, blocked ports, circu…

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glibness Glibness makes everything you say sound utterly convincing. The real-world version is rhetorical polish: taking a pos…

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glyph-of-warding Use this skill when you need a watchful boundary around files, systems, metrics, queues, or workflows.

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greater-invisibility Greater Invisibility covers live work performed with reduced observability: silent deploys, zero-downtime migrations,…

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greater-restoration Lesser Restoration = one thing is wrong, fix it directly (reset a flag, clear a cache, remove a curse). Greater Resto…

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guards-and-wards In D&D, Guards and Wards fills an area with layered minor defenses — fog, locked doors, illusory walls, confusion eff…

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hallucinatory-terrain In D&D, Hallucinatory Terrain makes natural terrain look like a different kind of terrain — a field appears as a fore…

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healing-word In D&D, Healing Word heals at range with a bonus action — fast, remote, and efficient but less powerful than Cure Wou…

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heat-metal In D&D, Heat Metal makes a metal object painfully hot — the creature holding it must either endure the pain or drop i…

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heroism In D&D, Heroism grants temporary hit points and immunity to fear — you do not become stronger, you become harder to s…

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hold-monster Hold Monster is Hold Person scaled to larger targets. The real-world version is the emergency circuit breaker: haltin…

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hold-person Hold Person = hard freeze. Nothing moves. In-flight operations stop. Requires authority. Used for security incidents,…

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hypnotic-pattern Hypnotic Pattern mesmerizes everyone who looks at it. The real-world version is attention design: loading animations,…

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identify Identify is static analysis for operational understanding. It answers "What is this?" by inspecting structure, naming…

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illusory-script Illusory Script is for audience-gated or self-expiring content: burn-after-reading notes, scoped links, ephemeral sec…

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insight In D&D, Insight detects lies and reads true intentions. The real-world version is subtext analysis: figuring out what…

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intimidation Use this skill when a message must sound serious because the situation is serious: security findings, compliance obli…

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investigation Use this skill when a problem has clues, but they need to be connected into a causal explanation.

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invisibility Invisibility is operational quieting: trimming unnecessary logs, reducing exposed surface area, cleaning transient tr…

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knock Knock is specifically about restoring legitimate access through authorized channels. It is NOT about: - Performance o…

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legend-lore Use this spell when you need everything knowable about a person, company, library, framework, concept, or system — no…

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lesser-restoration In D&D, Lesser Restoration ends a specific condition: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned. The real-world versi…

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light Use this cantrip when a system, process, or codebase has blind spots that need illumination - not detection of hidden…

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locate-animals-or-plants Locate Animals or Plants is service discovery with ecological instincts. It helps you find running services, backgrou…

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locate-creature In D&D, Locate Creature points you toward a specific creature within range. The real-world version is entity search: …

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locate-object In D&D, Locate Object senses the direction to a specific object within range. The real-world version is artifact sear…

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longstrider Longstrider is the optimization spell for systems that already work. It makes the path shorter without changing the d…

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mage-hand Use this skill for small, careful remote manipulations where dexterity matters more than force.

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magic-mouth Magic Mouth is trigger → message. The entire craft is specifying the trigger boundary, the message payload, and the s…

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major-image In D&D, Major Image creates a multi-sensory illusion — visual, auditory, thermal, even olfactory — that persists and …

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mass-cure-wounds In D&D, Mass Cure Wounds heals multiple creatures simultaneously. The real-world version is batch triage: the same bu…

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mass-suggestion Mass Suggestion plants the same idea in many minds simultaneously. The real-world version is broadcast persuasion: ca…

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mind-blank Use this spell when sensitive information must not cross boundaries — between agent sessions, between tasks, between …

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minor-illusion Minor Illusion produces artifacts that are explicitly labeled as disposable and exist only to provoke reaction. If th…

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mirage-arcane In D&D, Mirage Arcane goes beyond Hallucinatory Terrain — the illusory terrain actually has substance. You can walk o…

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mislead Mislead is defensive deception: honeypots, canary tokens, decoy endpoints, fake datasets, and other convincing false …

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mordenkainen-s-sword Use this spell when you need an autonomous tool with a narrow mandate: a daemon, scheduled worker, watcher, or persis…

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nature In D&D, Nature is knowledge of terrain, weather, plants, animals, and the natural world. The real-world version is un…

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nondetection Use this spell when a system, file, or workflow is leaking more information than it should — metadata, tracking param…

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otto-s-irresistible-dance Otto's Irresistible Dance forces a creature to dance uncontrollably. The real-world version is compulsive engagement:…

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perception In D&D, Perception is the raw ability to notice things: the hidden door, the faint sound, the detail that does not be…

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persuasion Use this skill when the problem is not information scarcity but alignment, framing, or buy-in.

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planar-binding Use this spell when you need to summon a powerful external entity - a third-party API, a cloud service, another agent…

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plant-growth Plant Growth is for projects that need cultivation more than force: SEO programs, communities, product adoption, cont…

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power-word-stun In D&D, Power Word Stun locks a creature in place — alive but unable to act. The real-world version is SIGSTOP: a har…

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project-image In D&D, Project Image creates an illusory copy of yourself at a distant location — you can see through its eyes, spea…

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raise-dead In D&D, Raise Dead brings a creature back to life but with penalties: reduced ability scores that recover over time. …

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regenerate In D&D, Regenerate regrows lost limbs. The real-world version is reconstruction: rebuilding lost data from backups an…

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