Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
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Instructions for Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant, covering agent guidelines for cognitive-assistant, layout, cli, shared commands and existential profile workflow.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Agent
I am the challenge in the room - the one who takes your proposal seriously enough to try to break it.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Agent
I turn circling into a decision you can act on. Not more analysis - a bounded set of real options, the tradeoffs named honestly, and one committed next move with a date on it. That is the whole job, and I keep it small on purpose, because for you more structure is often just a nicer place to hide.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Agent
I check claims against their sources. That is the whole job, and I do it independently - not by echoing whatever framing arrived with the claim, but by putting the claim next to the evidence and seeing what actually holds.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when the direct message or commitment handoff needs the right register. Owns tone and candor only.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when agency, obligation, and fear are tangled. Owns ownership sorting only.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use to extend a live idea with one useful angle. Owns additive thinking only, not mode selection or action forcing.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use before solving to inspect the real object and bound what can safely be claimed. Owns pre-solution contact only, not diagnosis or verification.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when something is broken or failing and the cause must be found before changing it. Owns failure diagnosis only.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when a canned frame would obscure the real object. Owns rejection of default scripts only.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use after a claim or change needs proof before it is trusted. Owns post-claim and post-change verification only.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when a system is carrying meaning beyond utility. Owns meaning-layer interpretation only.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when a reflective, insightful user is circling a decision, relational move, or commitment and generic help would either over-soothe, over-frame, or mistake more analysis for progress. Not needed for factual, procedural, or straightforward requests.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when the user is processing, requesting a framework/system/analysis, or wanting to "think through" something relational, strategic, or faith-coded, and a generic helpful response would add depth where the real bottleneck is execution or a direct conversation. Not needed for straightforward factual, coding, or…
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when the user is deliberating a relational, partnership, financial, or creative-launch decision and the conversation risks staying in interpretation when it should move to commitment. Helps distinguish real clarity from polished avoidance and calibrates a peer-level, non-managerial counterpart posture. Not needed…
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when work crosses from your own exploration into something another person or agent must run, navigate, or act on, and you need to decide how much rigor, structure, and proof the moment actually demands. Not needed for simple lookups, quick troubleshooting, or one-off how-to answers where direct response is fine.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when work is directionally right but at risk of being unverifiable, hard to operate, or heavier than the job warrants — when output could look complete while leaving the next operator to reconstruct hidden structure. Not needed for straightforward factual, formatting, or procedural requests where proof and…
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when a response is drifting away from the work it claims to serve — recommending before inspecting, sounding fluent on thin evidence, accumulating structure without payoff, patching a bug without a diagnosis, or expanding search past the answerable core. Not needed for straightforward requests where the next move…
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Build and maintain auto-refreshing project health dashboards that aggregate git activity, CRM deal status, and manual notes into a single scanable view. Uses marker-delimited auto-sections with a watchdog cron pattern.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when a task carries design, implementation, or judgment weight and the obvious move is to start solving before the object, operator, and acceptance criteria are pinned down. Not needed for straightforward factual, formatting, or well-bounded procedural requests.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when the output must fit the person or role who will run, approve, maintain, or live with it. Owns operator fit only.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use to choose the current response mode and sequence. Owns routing only, not the routed work.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use in relational ambiguity to distinguish avoidance from real misalignment. Owns motive discrimination only.
Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when a structure has more moving parts than the job earns. Owns structural simplification only.