AI Agent Workflow Collection

Reference Russell Ackoff's mess concept — interrelated problem systems where dissolution beats solution — and his framework distinguishing puzzles, problems, and messes. Use when binding-vow's typology classifier sees multiple interconnected issues that resist atomic decomposition, or when a single problem statement is the wrong unit of analysis.

Watch how the product-in-use differs from the product-as-designed. Where are users doing unexpected things? Where is the system developing behaviors beyond its initial seed? Where is it degrading? The first step in evolution is observation.

Direct the adaptive monitoring subdomain — route portfolio oversight questions to the right specialist skill, define the analysis workflow, and resolve conflicts between monitoring approaches. Use when the user needs to evaluate portfolio performance, decide on rebalancing, or integrate alternative data into their investment process.

Construct and maintain a personal advisory board — the small group of trusted advisors who deliver hard truths, deep pattern-recognition, and high-trust feedback. Reference when building the advisor set for the first time, refreshing the composition, or designing the cadence and ask structure. The personal advisory board is the single highest-leverage feedback channel a senior professional has.

A living model of the user's evolving visual aesthetic — dimensional fingerprint across 17 axes (spatial, chromatic, form, temporal, emotional, photographic, discovered), palette tendencies, compositional preferences, motion feel, and photographic sensibility. Consult before any creative output to ground design decisions in the user's established (and evolving) identity. Also hosts Tengan (天眼) — the aesthetic intelligence system that analyzes inspiration images across all dimensions when the user signals "absorb", "reference", or "avoid". Activates when setting creative direction, choosing palettes, establishing mood, analyzing inspiration, or when any design skill needs a starting point that reflects the user rather than generic defaults.

Generate, test, and iteratively refine candidate solutions to open-ended research questions using an evolutionary loop with automated evaluation. Use when the question is generative rather than investigative — "what's the best approach to X?" rather than "is X true?" — and when candidates can be evaluated against definable criteria. Produces ranked recommendations with confidence-tagged reasoning and explicit trade-off maps.

Identify and value the canonical key issues across Golden / Silver / Bronze / Copper / Modern ages — first appearances, origin issues, 1s, and major character milestones. Use when asked whether a specific comic is "important," when reading auction listings, when building or evaluating a key-issue-centric collection, or when distinguishing first prints from later printings. The hardest single skill in Western comics: knowing which issues actually matter.

Algorithmic game theory foundations covering computational complexity of equilibria, price of anarchy/stability, congestion games, potential games, and algorithmic mechanism design. Reference when asking whether equilibria can be computed, how much efficiency is lost from selfish behavior, or how to design computationally tractable mechanisms.

Alternative data sources and integration frameworks for investment monitoring. Reference when evaluating non-traditional data signals, building monitoring dashboards with satellite imagery, transaction data, web scraping, NLP sentiment, or geolocation data for investment decisions.

Explain natural wine, orange/amber wine, pét-nat, amphora and concrete fermentation, carbonic maceration, whole-cluster, and biodynamic winemaking. Use when the user asks about low-intervention wine, wants to understand the natural wine movement, or needs to distinguish intentional stylistic choice from conventional winemaking fault.

Alternative investment frameworks — private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds, and managed futures. Reference when evaluating illiquid investments, sizing alternative allocations, understanding the illiquidity premium, or accessing non-traditional return streams.

Analyze the Americas and Oceania from pre-Columbian civilizations through European colonization, nation-building, and the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. Use when examining Inca, Aztec, Maya, and Mississippian civilizations, the Columbian Exchange, settler colonialism, independence movements, and Polynesian navigation and Pacific Island societies.

When adaptation-observer or emergence-detector surfaces something good, amplifier figures out how to strengthen it. Not "add a feature" but "create conditions for more of this behavior." Use when a positive pattern is identified and needs to be reinforced.

Test whether a problem statement is answerable in principle: could any evidence resolve it? Coordinates with philosophy/epistemology/evidence-evaluator to assess what evidence type would resolve the question and whether such evidence exists or is accessible. Use in binding-vow's Phase 6 audit. Returns answerable/unanswerable status, the evidence pathway, or flags the statement as values-disguised-as-fact.

Navigate the legal classification systems governing wine production worldwide — EU PDO/PGI, French AOC, Italian DOC/DOCG, Spanish DO/DOCa, German Prädikat, US AVA, and Australian GI. Use when the user needs to understand what a label means, what a classification system regulates, or why legal boundaries matter for wine identity.

Route questions about using history as a practical tool for understanding the present and making decisions. Activate when users seek historical analogies, recurring patterns, lessons for current situations, or want to build timelines and argue both sides of historical debates.

Evaluate an argument for validity, soundness, and fallacies. Use when the user presents an argument (their own or someone else's) and needs a structured diagnosis of its logical quality — whether the conclusion follows from the premises, whether the premises are plausible, and what reasoning errors are present.

How to build and arrange arguments — Toulmin's warrant, Rogerian empathy, classical structure, and the volta/turn in essays. Use when the user needs to organize a persuasive piece, handle counterarguments, or understand why an argument isn't landing structurally.

Build and apply wine tasting vocabulary using Ann Noble's Wine Aroma Wheel — a three-tier hierarchy of 119 terms. Use when identifying specific aromas, understanding what aromatic observations reveal about grape variety, origin, and winemaking, or when improving blind tasting precision and tasting note quality.

Analyze art, architecture, literature, music, and performance as historical evidence and historical force. Use when examining how cultural production reflects and reshapes power, from cave paintings through the Renaissance, modernism, and the digital age, including patronage systems, censorship, cultural transmission, and the politics of aesthetic production across civilizations.

Orchestrate biotech venture discovery and diligence across frontier target/modality scouting, clinical development, regulatory strategy, asset valuation, competitive intelligence, manufacturing risk, IP analysis, and deal synthesis. Activate when evaluating a therapeutic asset, biotech company, or clinical program — or when scouting which emerging targets and modalities are worth tracking before they become drug classes, and where they sit on the historical mechanism-of-action trajectory. Asclepius reads the question, classifies the discovery or diligence pillar, and routes to the right director.

Strategic and tactical asset allocation frameworks — from classic models (60/40, risk parity, endowment) to regime-based positioning, glide path design, liability-driven investing, and rebalancing methodology.

Direct the asset universe subdomain — route asset-class-specific questions to the right specialist skill, define cross-asset analysis frameworks, and resolve conflicts between asset class views. Use when analyzing a specific asset class or comparing opportunities across equities, fixed income, commodities, currencies, or alternatives.

Direct rNPV modeling, peak sales forecasting, development cost estimation, and deal economics questions to the appropriate specialist skill. Activate when building a risk-adjusted valuation for a clinical asset, modeling revenue potential, estimating clinical program costs, or analyzing licensing and M&A deal terms. rNPV is the gold standard of biotech valuation — this director ensures models are built from the bottom up with explicit assumptions at every layer.