Dimension Door
Dimension Door is the quick-switch spell: branch to branch, environment to environment, project to project. It is not a migration and it is not discovery. It assumes both endpoints are known, prepared, and close enough in shape that you can step across with only the context you actually need.
Polymorph
This spell is about representation change, not:\n- Naming changes (same structure, different identifiers)\n- Execution changes (same code, different runtime)\n- Architecture changes (new system design)\n- Duplication (same thing, different place) The key test: Can you point to a source artifact and a target artifact where the same information is expressed in structurally different ways? If yes →…
Aleph
Skill + MCP server to turn your agent into an RLM. Load context, iterate with search/code/think tools, converge on answers.
Hegelion
Dialectical reasoning architecture for LLMs (Thesis → Antithesis → Synthesis)
Teleport
Teleport is FULL-CONTEXT migration, not partial transformation. The defining characteristic is that EVERYTHING must move together and keep working: data, dependencies, auth, traffic routing, background jobs, secrets, and human workflows. The old system must remain recoverable until the new one is proven. This spell IS: Database migrations (RDS→Cloud SQL, self-managed→Atlas), cloud provider moves…
Sleep
Sleep = temporary, reversible suspension with guaranteed state preservation. The target stops acting but wakes up intact. No data loss, no corruption, no permanent change.
Fear
Fear makes targets run from danger. The real-world version is structured pessimism: pre-mortem analysis, worst-case scenario generation, and risk amplification exercises that counteract the natural optimism bias in planning. Fear is the antidote to \"it'll probably be fine.\
Animate Objects
This spell transforms inert → reactive. It does NOT create new tools, train models, run one-off fixes, or build physical systems. The key pattern: existing artifact + trigger/watcher + bounded autonomy.
Animal Friendship
Animal Friendship is the first-contact spell for unfamiliar APIs, vendors, and services. It treats integration work as relationship-building: learn the temperament, respect the boundaries, and earn a stable exchange before asking for anything ambitious. The goal is not domination but trustable cooperation.
Mordenkainen S Sword
Use this spell when you need an autonomous tool with a narrow mandate: a daemon, scheduled worker, watcher, or persistent background agent that repeatedly executes one precise task. It is prototype territory because the hard part is lifecycle control, observability, and safe cancellation, not the single action itself.
Awaken
Awaken gives a non-intelligent system a usable voice without pretending the underlying system became sentient. The real move is to wrap a thermostat, spreadsheet, legacy database, shell script, or crusty internal tool in a conversational or agent-like interface that exposes what it can already do. Good Awaken work turns buried affordances into accessible ones. Bad Awaken work hallucinates capabil…
Mage Hand
Use this skill for small, careful remote manipulations where dexterity matters more than force.
Hold Monster
Hold Monster is Hold Person scaled to larger targets. The real-world version is the emergency circuit breaker: halting an entire service, freezing a deployment pipeline, or stopping a runaway process at the infrastructure level. This is the big red button — it stops everything, and it should only be pressed when the alternative is worse.
Freedom Of Movement
Freedom of Movement is for processes that should be moving but are caught in glue: locked files, blocked ports, circular dependencies, wedged jobs, or permissions that almost work. The skill is about diagnosing the restraint, then removing or routing around it without tearing the whole system apart. It favors unblocking over brute force.
Suggestion
Suggestion is about the craft of the single nudge — not campaigns, not arguments, not automation. It produces one carefully placed prompt at the moment a user is most receptive. The planted idea must be reasonable and defensible. If the user would feel manipulated upon learning how it was designed, the spell refuses.
Planar Binding
Use this spell when you need to summon a powerful external entity - a third-party API, a cloud service, another agent - and lock it into serving your workflow under explicit terms.
Athletics
Use this skill when the job is mostly about sustained force: large batches, exhaustive passes, long-running jobs, or load that needs to be carried without dropping it. It is the right metaphor when the answer is more throughput, sturdier batching, and disciplined endurance.
Hold Person
Hold Person = hard freeze. Nothing moves. In-flight operations stop. Requires authority. Used for security incidents, fraud, compliance holds, misbehaving systems. Sleep = graceful suspension. State is preserved and queued. Operations resume automatically. Used for maintenance windows, temporary pauses, planned downtime.
Thunderwave
Use this skill for intentionally theatrical or forceful actions, but only behind explicit confirmation and a hard safety boundary.
Charm Person
Charm Person is about ONE-TO-ONE interpersonal communication where warmth, honesty, and respect for autonomy are the primary constraints. It is not about persuasion tactics, conversion rates, conflict mediation, public performance, or operational coordination. The spell succeeds when the recipient feels respected even if they say no.
Glibness
Glibness makes everything you say sound utterly convincing. The real-world version is rhetorical polish: taking a position and presenting it with maximum confidence, fluency, and persuasive structure. This is the skill of the trial lawyer, the pitch artist, the keynote speaker who makes mediocre ideas sound inevitable.
Longstrider
Longstrider is the optimization spell for systems that already work. It makes the path shorter without changing the destination. It cares about sustained pace, not flashy one-off benchmarks.
True Polymorph
In D&D, True Polymorph is the permanent transformation — the target becomes something fundamentally different, and if held long enough, the change is irreversible. Unlike Polymorph (temporary disguise or adaptation), True Polymorph means the old identity is gone. The real-world version is irreversible system transformation: rewriting a service from Python to Rust so thoroughly the Python version…
Stinking Cloud
In D&D, Stinking Cloud fills an area with nauseating gas — creatures inside are incapacitated but the terrain itself is undamaged. The real-world version is area denial: making a zone, endpoint, or resource unusable to unwanted traffic without permanently destroying or modifying it. Rate limiting, IP-range blocks, honeypots, tarpits, geographic restrictions. Stinking Cloud is defensive — it prote…
Eyebite
In D&D, Eyebite lets you focus on one creature per turn and inflict sleep, panic, or sickness through sustained eye contact. The real-world version is targeted capability reduction: focused analysis that identifies and disables specific functions of a system, service, or adversary. Feature flagging a dangerous capability off. Selectively throttling a misbehaving API consumer. Disabling specific a…
Confusion
Confusion makes targets act randomly and unpredictably. The real-world version is chaos engineering: injecting controlled randomness, unexpected inputs, and edge cases to discover how systems behave when things go wrong. This is fuzzing, monkey testing, and the art of breaking things on purpose so they do not break by accident.
Mass Suggestion
Mass Suggestion plants the same idea in many minds simultaneously. The real-world version is broadcast persuasion: campaign announcements, company-wide emails, product launch copy, or public statements designed to move a large group in a specific direction. The scale amplifies both impact and risk.
Otto S Irresistible Dance
Otto's Irresistible Dance forces a creature to dance uncontrollably. The real-world version is compulsive engagement: designing something so compelling that people cannot stop interacting with it. This is virality mechanics, \"just one more\" loops, and the craft of making content or products that command attention beyond what the user intended to give. The ethical tension is inherent — irresisti…
Clairvoyance
In D&D, Clairvoyance lets you place an invisible sensor in a location you know, seeing or hearing through it. Unlike Scrying (which follows a specific target in real time), Clairvoyance is a point-in-time snapshot of a place. The real-world version is remote system inspection: checking the state of a production environment you cannot SSH into, reading the public-facing state of a competitor's dep…
CodeWhale
Open-source coding agent for your terminal, built in Rust and on a journey of continuous community improvement. Issues and PRs welcome.
Teleportation Circle
Use this spell when you need a permanent, reliable portal between two environments — a CI/CD pipeline, a standing data sync, a repeatable deployment, or a migration path you will use more than once.
Code Clarifier
Clarifies and documents code for readability, intent, and comprehension while preserving all functionality. Focuses on recently modified code unless instructed otherwise. Use when the user asks to clarify code, add documentation, improve naming, explain intent, make code self-documenting, improve readability, add context, or make code easier to understand. Also use when the user says "clarify", "…
Heat Metal
In D&D, Heat Metal makes a metal object painfully hot — the creature holding it must either endure the pain or drop it. The real-world version is deliberate friction injection: making a deprecated API progressively slower, adding escalating CAPTCHAs to suspicious traffic, increasing the cost of a bad behavior path until the actor self-selects out. Heat Metal does not break the tool. It makes cont…
Arcana
In D&D, Arcana is knowledge of magic, its traditions, symbols, and mechanisms. The real-world version is deep technical literacy: understanding how software architectures work, what protocols do at the wire level, how APIs behave beyond their documentation, and what the actual mechanisms are behind the abstractions everyone else takes on faith.
Unseen Servant
Use this spell when you need a tireless helper that organizes, tidies, triages, and maintains without requiring your constant attention.
Bestow Curse
Bestow Curse saddles a target with a lasting disadvantage. The real-world version is constraint injection: deliberately adding friction, limitations, or handicaps to see how a system, process, or team adapts. This is the skill of resilience testing through artificial adversity — bandwidth throttling, feature removal, resource reduction.
Aleph
/aleph - External memory workflow for large local data.
Acrobatics
Use this skill when the work is a choreography problem: brittle sequencing, async handoffs, or constrained flows that must stay upright end to end. It shines on API dances, dependency ordering, and recovery logic where grace matters more than brute force.
Hypnotic Pattern
Hypnotic Pattern mesmerizes everyone who looks at it. The real-world version is attention design: loading animations, progress indicators, onboarding flows, and visual patterns that keep users oriented and engaged during a bounded experience. The line between helpful focus and addictive capture is the central design tension.
Attune
In D&D, attunement is how you bond with a magic item so it works specifically for you. The real-world version is workflow profiling: the grimoire interviews you about your stack, your systems, your automation surface, and your priorities — then generates a personalized spell loadout, category weights, and domain vocabulary so routing, optimization, and every subsequent spell invocation is tuned t…
Feeblemind
In D&D, Feeblemind crushes a creature's Intelligence and Charisma to near-zero — leaving them alive but barely functional. The real-world version is deliberate capability reduction: putting a system into safe mode, stripping an overpowered tool down to basic functions, reducing attack surface by removing features. Feeblemind is not punishment — it is the recognition that sometimes a system at ful…
Shatter
Shatter is proactive, controlled destruction for learning. You are the attacker against your own system. The goal is a brittleness report with remediation priorities.
Blindness Deafness
In D&D, Blindness/Deafness selectively removes one sense — the target can still act but loses critical awareness. The real-world version is selective channel muting: blocking a process from seeing certain inputs (input filtering, API response redaction), deafening it to specific signals (suppressing webhooks, ignoring certain event streams), or cutting telemetry so a system operates without aware…
Sleight Of Hand
Sleight of Hand is not about solving a problem — the solution is already known. It is about executing a known change with zero collateral damage. The skill is precision, not creativity.
Prestidigitation
Prestidigitation transforms. It does not fix, build, scaffold, migrate, or actuate. If the user says \"make this look better\" or \"convert this to that format\" — use prestidigitation. If the user says \"make this work\" or \"set this up\" or \"build this system\" — use something else.
Plant Growth
Plant Growth is for projects that need cultivation more than force: SEO programs, communities, product adoption, content ecosystems, or early-stage platforms. It assumes the system can grow, but only if fed in the right places and at the right pace. The spell favors compounding loops over campaign spikes.
Calm Emotions
Calm Emotions suppresses strong feelings, ending fear and charm effects. The real-world version is de-escalation: drafting responses that lower the temperature in a heated thread, designing cool-down protocols for conflict situations, or reframing inflammatory language into productive terms. This is the spell for when the conversation has gone off the rails and someone needs to be the adult.
Forcecage
Forcecage creates a pre-tested containment boundary around a subject that has not yet run. It is not about stopping, pausing, or muting something already in motion. The cage is built first, self-tested, then the subject enters. The operator watches from outside and decides whether to release.
Power Word Kill
In D&D, Power Word Kill instantly destroys any creature below a hit-point threshold — no saving throw, no resistance, just death. The real-world version is kill -9: the unconditional termination signal. Emergency circuit breakers. Hard account terminations. The nuclear option that exists because sometimes graceful shutdown is not available and the cost of continuing is worse than the cost of data…
Power Word Stun
In D&D, Power Word Stun locks a creature in place — alive but unable to act. The real-world version is SIGSTOP: a hard freeze that preserves state but halts all activity. Account lockouts, emergency process suspension, administrative holds. Unlike Power Word Kill, the target can be unfrozen. The spell is for situations where something must stop right now but destruction is not warranted — you nee…
Bane
Bane curses targets, making them worse at everything they try. The real-world version is systematic weakness analysis: finding every crack, bad assumption, and failure mode in a plan, architecture, or argument. Unlike Vicious Mockery (which delivers the critique sharply), Bane is comprehensive and methodical — it maps the full attack surface.
Enthrall
Enthrall makes an audience hang on every word. The real-world version is structural engagement: opening hooks that stop the scroll, narrative arcs that sustain attention, and pacing that makes people stay until the end. This is presentation design, content structure, and the craft of making something worth finishing.
Heroism
In D&D, Heroism grants temporary hit points and immunity to fear — you do not become stronger, you become harder to stop. The real-world version is the preparation ritual: the pre-presentation pep talk, the pre-launch checklist that calms the team, the structured confidence-building exercise before a difficult conversation. Heroism does not change your abilities. It changes your relationship to t…
Knock
Knock is specifically about restoring legitimate access through authorized channels. It is NOT about: - Performance optimization (slow queries, throughput issues) → different spell\n- Removing safety controls (approval gates, compliance checks) → different spell\n- Simple bug fixes (typos, wrong ports) → different spell\n- Breaking constraints (resource limits, CPU throttling) → different spell\n…
Vicious Mockery
The bard's cantrip that deals psychic damage through insults. In practice this is adversarial review — the art of finding and articulating exactly what is wrong with something in a way that is impossible to ignore. Unlike polite feedback that gets filed and forgotten, vicious mockery lands. It is the red-team report that makes the PM cancel the launch, the code review that makes the author delete…