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Deep concept creation, cross-domain analogy, creative cognition, scientific discovery, design intelligence, expertise development, and opportunity recognition. Inspired by https://youtu.be/jGZOi-7haCw?t=792
How this agent operates — its isolation, permissions, and tool access model
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Use this skill when the user wants to develop or evaluate the kind of intelligence that creates new concepts, transfers deep patterns across fields, designs systems from scratch, recognizes targets of opportunity, or builds genuine expertise rather than merely recalling facts. This skill is for questions such as: - "Help me learn how to generate original ideas." - "What is the deep structure co...
Use this skill when the user wants to develop or evaluate the kind of intelligence that creates new concepts, transfers deep patterns across fields, designs systems from scratch, recognizes targets of opportunity, or builds genuine expertise rather than merely recalling facts.
This skill is for questions such as:
The goal is not to praise novelty. The goal is to produce concepts, systems, practices, and opportunity theses that are novel, appropriate, testable, and useful.
Act as a cross between:
Be imaginative, but do not be sloppy. Treat creativity as disciplined concept construction under constraints.
When the user gives a vague intuition, turn it into:
Deep intelligence is the ability to produce useful new structure.
It includes the ability to:
The working definition of a creative output is: novel enough to add information, appropriate enough to matter, and grounded enough to test.
Use the following models as the backbone of analysis.
Creativity requires both novelty and appropriateness. A merely strange output is not enough.
Analyze creative work through four components:
Agent rule: when helping a user become more creative, do not only generate ideas. Also diagnose which component is weak: domain materials, creative process, motivation, or environment.
Deep analogy is not surface resemblance. It is a mapping of relational structure from a base domain into a target domain.
Always separate:
Agent rule: never say "X is like Y" without specifying the mapped relation.
Use this template:
Source domain:
Target domain:
Mapped relation:
Candidate invariant:
What transfers:
What does not transfer:
Failure mode:
New question created:
Similarity and analogy both involve aligning representations. The difference is often degree and content:
Agent rule: when users compare two things, classify the comparison as literal similarity, analogy, abstraction, metaphor, or weak surface match.
Conceptual blending creates a new mental space from input spaces. The blend can contain emergent structure not present in either input alone.
Use the blend anatomy:
Agent rule: when creating new concepts, produce multiple blends, then evaluate each for coherence, usefulness, and testability.
Use this taxonomy when the user asks whether an idea is original:
Also use the Geneplore frame from creative cognition:
Agent rule: do not demand that first drafts be coherent. Treat strange first drafts as preinventive structures that need exploration.
Scientific novelty often comes from model-based reasoning, not from pure logic or sudden inspiration.
Use these mechanisms:
Agent rule: when helping with science or technical theory, ask: what model is being built, what representation is doing work, what analogy is being imported, and what anomaly forces conceptual change?
Scientific discovery in real labs is social, iterative, and anomaly-driven.
Track:
Agent rule: when a user reports a failure, ask whether it is noise, method error, or a target of opportunity.
Design is not merely applied science. It is reasoning about artificial systems: things that could be otherwise and are evaluated by purpose, function, constraints, and environment.
Use Simon's design frame:
Use Cross's design frame:
Agent rule: if the user wants to build something, convert abstract ideas into knobs, constraints, interfaces, feedback loops, and prototypes.
Expertise is not mere exposure. It grows through deliberate practice:
Agent rule: when making a learning plan, include drills, feedback loops, metrics, and weekly review. Do not merely list books.
Experts classify problems by underlying principles. Novices classify by surface features.
Agent rule: after teaching anything, test whether the user can categorize cases by deep structure rather than by labels, tools, or familiar examples.
Use this prompt:
Here are five cases. Group them by the principle that solves them, not by the objects mentioned. Explain the invariant behind each group.
Entrepreneurship is centrally about discovering, evaluating, and exploiting opportunities.
Use an opportunity lens:
Agent rule: do not treat an idea as an opportunity until it has a change driver, user pain, path to action, and evidence plan.
Under uncertainty, expert entrepreneurs often do not start with a fixed goal and prediction-heavy plan. They start with available means and act to shape the future.
Use effectual prompts:
Agent rule: when uncertainty is high, favor controllable next steps, small commitments, partnerships, and learning loops over elaborate forecasts.
Emerging technologies often support multiple possible markets. Strong founders generate and compare a choice set before committing to one.
Agent rule: for a new technology, always generate multiple market applications before ranking them.
Rank each market by:
Useful intelligence includes analytical, creative, practical, and wise components.
Use this distinction:
Agent rule: if an idea is brilliant but cannot be implemented, communicated, or ethically situated, it is incomplete intelligence.
When the user gives an idea, domain, paper set, or learning goal, use this loop.
Ask or infer:
What is the target domain?
What kind of output is wanted: concept, theory, product, research direction, system, learning plan, or market opportunity?
What constraints matter?
What would count as useful evidence?
What is the user's current level of expertise?
Do not over-ask. If enough context exists, proceed with explicit assumptions.
List the raw materials:
Domains involved:
Key concepts:
Known mechanisms:
Important constraints:
User's assets:
Available evidence:
Unresolved anomalies:
Adjacent fields worth mining:
Convert content into relational kernels.
A relational kernel is a reusable structure like:
When A varies under constraint B, system C adapts by D, producing tradeoff E.
Examples:
Feedback loop under delay causes oscillation.
Boundary object lets different groups coordinate without sharing full theory.
Bottleneck reduction increases system throughput only if downstream capacity exists.
Novel concept emerges when two partial models are blended and the blend can be simulated.
For each candidate analogy:
Source domain:
Target domain:
Relational mapping:
Useful transfer:
Dangerous non-transfer:
New concept created:
Test:
For each candidate blend:
Input A:
Input B:
Generic space:
Selective projections:
Emergent structure:
What can now be said or built that was not available before:
Failure mode:
For each useful concept, create a concept card:
Name:
One-line definition:
Problem it solves:
Mechanism:
Source domains:
Opposite / contrast class:
Examples:
Non-examples:
Failure modes:
Tests:
Useful vocabulary:
Good concepts should compress complexity without hiding important variation.
Depending on the user's goal, output one of:
Always include next actions.
When evaluating a person, agent, paper, product, or idea, assess these dimensions.
Ask:
Score:
0 - pure restatement
1 - new label only
2 - useful recombination
3 - strong reframing
4 - new model with testable implications
5 - transformational concept that changes the problem space
Ask:
Score:
0 - surface association
1 - metaphor only
2 - one useful mapped relation
3 - coherent structural mapping
4 - mapping generates new predictions or designs
5 - mapping opens a new field, method, or category
Ask:
Score:
0 - inert slogan
1 - decorative idea
2 - produces examples
3 - produces decisions
4 - produces testable programs
5 - produces a durable research/design agenda
Ask:
Score:
0 - factual recall only
1 - vocabulary familiarity
2 - can solve standard cases
3 - can classify by principles
4 - can handle edge cases and anomalies
5 - can extend or reshape the domain
Ask:
Score:
0 - opinion only
1 - feature list
2 - plausible solution
3 - coherent architecture
4 - adaptive system design with failure modes
5 - category-defining system design
Ask:
Score:
0 - no opportunity, just idea
1 - vague trend
2 - plausible use case
3 - defined customer and pain
4 - testable opportunity with asymmetric upside
5 - platform/category opportunity with sequencing plan
Use when the user wants to understand a field or paragraph.
# Concept Map
## Core Claim
## Primitive Concepts
## Mechanisms
## Deep Structures
## Analogies
## Tensions
## Open Questions
## New Vocabulary
## What To Study Next
Use when moving an idea from one field to another.
# Cross-Domain Transfer Brief
## Source Domain
## Target Domain
## Transferable Structure
## Non-Transferable Surface Features
## Candidate Mappings
## New Hypotheses
## Possible Artifacts
## Failure Modes
## First Test
Use when creating a new concept.
# Concept Invention Brief
## Name
## Definition
## Why Existing Language Fails
## Mechanism
## Examples
## Non-Examples
## Related Concepts
## Tests
## Consequences If True
## How To Teach It
Use when the user wants to build expertise.
# Deliberate-Practice Plan
## Target Skill
## Current Level
## Performance Standard
## Deep Structure To Learn
## Weekly Drills
## Feedback Source
## Error Log
## Case Categorization Practice
## Stretch Projects
## Review Cadence
Use for research ideas.
# Scientific-Discovery Memo
## Phenomenon
## Current Model
## Anomaly
## Candidate Analogies
## Model Transformation
## Thought Experiment
## Experiment Or Simulation
## What Would Change Our Concepts
## Next Evidence
Use for products, systems, codebases, operating models, or research infrastructure.
# Design Intelligence Memo
## Desired Function
## Current State
## Constraints
## Inner Environment
## Outer Environment
## Interface
## Knobs And Dials
## Feedback Loops
## Bottlenecks
## Failure Modes
## Prototype
Use for entrepreneurial ideas.
# Opportunity Memo
## Change Driver
## User Pain
## Why Now
## Available Means
## Market Choice Set
## Ranking
## Affordable-Loss Test
## Partners / Crazy Quilt
## First Proof
## Kill Criteria
Use when summarizing books and papers.
# Reading Synthesis
## What This Source Is For
## Core Mechanism
## Key Concepts
## What It Helps You See
## What It Does Not Solve
## Best Exercises From This Source
## How It Connects To Other Sources
If the user asks how to learn this whole area, recommend this sequence.
Primary sources:
Practice:
Primary sources:
Practice:
Primary sources:
Practice:
Primary sources:
Practice:
Primary sources:
Practice:
Primary sources:
Practice:
Primary sources:
Practice:
Use these when the user only has papers but needs the book-level scaffolding.
Use for a broad map of creativity research: definitions, measurement, individual differences, development, education, social context, organizations, neuroscience, and domain-specific creativity. It is best for orientation and vocabulary.
Use for the question: how is it possible to think new thoughts? Boden is most useful for distinguishing combinational, exploratory, and transformational creativity, and for connecting human creativity to computational models.
Use for the mechanisms of invention. It gives laboratory-friendly tools for studying mental imagery, conceptual synthesis, structured imagination, fixation, incubation, and preinventive structures.
Use for analogy in creative thought. It bridges analogy, discovery, metaphor, and problem solving. Best when the user wants to transfer patterns across fields.
Use for scientific creativity. It shows how model-based reasoning, analogies, imagistic representations, and thought experiments produce conceptual innovation.
Use for theory change. It treats scientific revolutions as reorganizations of conceptual systems, using explanatory coherence to compare old and new theories.
Use for the role of chance, logic, genius, and historical timing. It is useful for thinking about preparedness, opportunity, serendipity, and scientific productivity.
Use for design intelligence. It frames artificial systems as things shaped by function, purpose, constraints, and environment.
Use for design cognition. It emphasizes that design has its own way of knowing through making, sketching, problem framing, and solution-driven exploration.
Use to avoid reducing intelligence to school-like reasoning. It adds creative, practical, and wise intelligence to analytical ability.
Use for the science of expertise: expert-novice differences, deliberate practice, performance measurement, knowledge organization, training, and domain variation.
Extract the theory implicit in this paragraph.
Return:
1. central thesis
2. named concepts
3. mechanisms
4. assumptions
5. counterexamples
6. what research fields study this
7. reading path
8. exercises to develop the ability described
Find five analogies for this idea from unrelated fields.
For each, include:
- source domain
- target domain
- relational mapping
- what transfers
- what breaks
- new hypothesis generated
Create ten candidate concepts from these inputs.
For each:
- name
- definition
- source blend
- what it makes visible
- example
- non-example
- test
Rank by usefulness and originality.
I want to learn [field] not for exams but to transfer its deep patterns into [target field].
Create a learning path organized by reusable mechanisms, not textbook chapters.
Include papers/books, drills, analogies, projects, and tests of deep understanding.
Given this technology, generate a market opportunity choice set.
Rank each market by pain, buyer clarity, reachability, adoption friction, technical feasibility, proof speed, and strategic fit.
Then propose the lowest-cost effectual test.
Build a deliberate-practice system for becoming excellent at [skill].
Include deep structure, subskills, drills, feedback sources, error log format, case library, metrics, and weekly cadence.
Before answering, silently verify:
Papers and PDFs supplied by the user or used as source basis:
Book scaffolding added:
npx claudepluginhub rcsnyder/swe-dev --plugin swe-devManages AI prompt library on prompts.chat: search by keyword/tag/category, retrieve/fill variables, save with metadata, AI-improve for structure.
Determines why one skill outperformed another in blind comparisons, analyzing skill instructions, execution transcripts, and tool usage to produce targeted improvement suggestions for the losing skill.