Published skills
aesop-cry-wolf
Use when about to emit a warning, flag, or alert for a LOW-confidence issue — the alert-fatigue / signal-credibility discipline. False alarms have an asymmetric cost: after repeated low-confidence warnings, the operator stops reading the channel, and the one true warning gets ignored. Fires on choosing a log level (warn vs info vs error), inflating a PR title/commit to "CRITICAL", marking speculat
aesop-golden-goose
Use when about to extract maximum present value from a RENEWABLE source in a way that degrades the source itself — the kill-the-source / unsustainable-extraction anti-pattern. Fires when about to max out an API rate limit or quota to ship one task faster (risks the access), flood the operator with low-priority pings (burns attention/trust budget), sacrifice maintainability for one task's throughpu
aesop-sour-grapes
Use when, just after abandoning or failing at something, you catch yourself concluding "that wasn't worth reaching anyway" — the post-mortem self-deception / motivated-reasoning anti-pattern. Fires when writing a post-mortem after a failure or rollback, recording a lesson after a retreat, or when an operator/agent's stated reason for quitting smells like comfort rather than analysis. The tell: a g
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