think-about-it

Think About It

Free-form counterpart to the incubation loop. No hypotheses, no confidence tracking, no fixed move rotation - just the same topic viewed through a different KB lens each pass, until the perspectives weave into something worth keeping.

Purpose

Put Cornelius in open thinking mode on a topic. Where /incubation-loop converges on an answer to a question, /think-about-it circles a topic - each pass looks through one distinct perspective drawn from the knowledge base and writes down what that lens reveals, distorts, or contradicts. The exploration ends with a Weave: a synthesis of the threads and candidate permanent-note seeds.

Loop Compatibility Contract

This skill is designed to be driven by a loop (/loop, /trinity:loop, or manual re-invocation):

• One perspective pass per invocation (single-task rule; each pass completes in well under 10 minutes)
• All state lives in the topic file - safe across separate context windows; no in-session memory assumed
• Fixed reply format (Step 7) so {{previous_response}} chaining and Until-mode sentinels work
• [[DONE]] appears in the reply if and only if the topic file's status is woven - tied to verifiable file state, not self-assessment
• Idempotent on woven topics - re-invoking a finished topic re-reports the Weave and [[DONE]] without writing anything

State Dependencies

Deliberately NOT in THINKING-REGISTRY.md - freeform topics are invisible to the incubation loop. The two engines never touch each other's state. If a Weave concludes the topic deserves rigorous treatment, promote it manually via /manage-thinking-topics.