curses

Curses

Discover the structural costs hidden in your strengths.

Every strength casts a shadow. The shadow is not a flaw — it is the structural cost of a capability. Understanding the cost transforms a curse into a conscious trade-off.

When to Use

Invoke this skill when:

• Discovering structural costs hidden in your strengths
• Analyzing behavioral patterns for self-improvement recommendations
• Generating attitude principles and practice matrix
• Reflective questions about working patterns and their trade-offs

Skip when:

• Exploring philosophical tradition match (use /sophia instead)
• Quick single-protocol question (answer directly)
• No session history exists and user prefers manual exploration

Pipeline

Phase	What	Mode
1. Collect	Gather behavioral data	dimension-profiler agent
2. Analyze	Strength-Shadow extraction	AI + user dialogue
3. Recommend	Attitude principles + practice matrix	AI proposes
4. Report	Generate HTML report	Automated

If the user provides a specific question (e.g., "What are my curses?"), orient the analysis toward that question.

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Phase 1: Data Collection

Same-session reuse: If dimension-profiler output is already available in this conversation (from a prior /sophia or /curses run), skip Phase 1 entirely and reuse that output. Both skills produce identical profiler results.

Two-step delegation (same pipeline as /sophia):

Step 1: Run coverage-scanner agent (see agents/coverage-scanner.md) to get pre-aggregated session data (protocol counts, friction, session types, tools).

Step 2: Pass coverage output to dimension-profiler agent (see agents/dimension-profiler.md):

Analyze this user's behavioral dimensions from their session data.

coverage_data: [paste coverage-scanner output here]

data_sources:
  rules_dir: {config_dir}/rules/
  claude_md: {config_dir}/CLAUDE.md
  settings_json: {config_dir}/settings.json

data_context: session-enriched

Return the dimension profile table with scores, confidence, and raw signals.