S4h Communication Objection Mapping
Maps likely objections before delivering a proposal — objections that are anticipated feel addressed; objections that land as surprises derail. Triggers: 'anticipate objections', 'what will they push back on', 'steelman the opposition', 'prepare for resistance', 'objection mapping'.
S4h Decision Premortem Analysis
Imagines the decision has been made and failed — then diagnoses why. Breaks the commitment bias that prevents honest risk assessment after a direction is chosen. Triggers: 'pre-mortem', 'imagine this failed', 'what could go wrong', 'assume this doesn't work', 'failure mode analysis'.
S4h Decision Criteria Weighting
Runs a weighted multi-criteria analysis — making explicit what matters, how much, and how each option performs against it. Triggers: 'weighted decision matrix', 'multi-criteria analysis', 'help me choose between', 'compare these options', 'decision matrix'.
S4h Design Iteration
Structures the feedback loop between making and learning — prototyping, testing, and convergence toward fit. Triggers: 'prototype and test', 'iterate on the design', 'how do we test this', 'get feedback on the design', 'what should we prototype', 'design feedback loop', 'test and learn', 'are we converging'.
S4h Design
Entry point for the design thinking toolkit. Routes to the right design skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'design', 'user needs', 'what do people actually want', 'design constraints', 'prototype and iterate', 'simplify this', 'remove what's unnecessary', or want design thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
S4h Communication Clarity Audit
Audits a communication for places where the message will be lost, misread, or misunderstood — before it's sent. Triggers: 'clarity audit', 'will this be understood', 'check my message', 'edit for clarity', 'where will this be misread'.
S4h Creativity Random Entry
Apply Edward de Bono's Random Entry technique — use an unrelated word, object, or image as a creative springboard to break out of cognitive ruts. Use when the user is stuck, wants unexpected inspiration, asks for a random creative prompt, wants to approach something from a completely fresh angle, or says they've exhausted their usual thinking. The randomness is the point — don't skip it.
S4h Creativity Lateral Thinking
Apply Edward de Bono's lateral thinking to escape dominant patterns and generate genuinely new directions. Use when the user is stuck on a problem, wants alternatives to their current approach, says 'I keep thinking about this the same way', wants to think outside the box, or needs fresh angles on any challenge — creative, strategic, technical, or personal.
S4h Design User Needs
Distinguishes real needs from stated wants — uses jobs-to-be-done and latent need mapping to find what actually matters. Triggers: 'what do users actually need', 'jobs to be done', 'understand the user', 'find the real need', 'stated want versus actual need', 'user research', 'what problem are we solving'.
S4h Analogy
Entry point for the analogy toolkit. Routes to the right analogy skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'analogy', 'is this like that', 'find a comparison', 'import a solution from elsewhere', 'fresh eyes on this', 'where does this metaphor break', or want analogical reasoning applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
S4h Analogy Perspective Shifting
Approaches a problem from completely different fields to break the assumption blindness that comes from domain expertise. Triggers: 'fresh eyes', 'outside perspective', 'what would a [different expert] say', 'beginner's mind', 'approach from another field'.
S4h Decision Reversibility Analysis
Categorises a decision by reversibility and applies the appropriate level of process rigour. Triggers: 'is this reversible', 'how much should I think about this', 'one-way door', 'two-way door', 'decision type', 'how committed is this'.
S4h Ecology Interdependence
Maps dependency webs and the cascading effects of removing or changing a node in the web. Use when asked 'who depends on whom', 'what cascades if we change X', 'downstream effects', 'what holds this together', 'ripple effects', or 'what breaks if we remove this'.
S4h Constraint
Entry point for the constraint toolkit. Routes to the right constraint skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'constraint', 'given this limit', 'we can't do X', 'is this really fixed', 'use the limitation', 'minimum viable', 'how do we do this anyway', or want constraint thinking applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
S4h Constraint Hardness Testing
Tests whether a stated constraint is real — distinguishing genuine limits from assumptions, habits, or politics dressed as facts. Triggers: 'is this really a constraint', 'challenge the assumption', 'who says we can't', 'is this actually fixed', 'test the constraint'.
S4h Communication Medium Selection
Matches the message to the right channel and format — the same content in the wrong medium loses most of its effect. Triggers: 'which channel', 'email vs meeting', 'should this be async or sync', 'medium fit', 'how should I deliver this'.
S4ag Goats
Goat management for dairy, meat, fibre, or land clearing. Use when the user asks about goats, milking, kidding, browse, FAMACHA, fencing for goats, goat breeds, land clearing with goats, or says 'my goat'.
S4ag Community
Build community through the farm — CSAs, food hubs, cooperatives, shared land. Use when the user says 'community supported agriculture', 'food hub', 'cooperative', 'shared land', 'members', 'community', 'collective', or 'food sovereignty'.
S4ag Seeds
Seed saving and selection guidance. Use when the user asks about saving seed, isolation distances, seed cleaning, storage, variety preservation, open-pollinated varieties, or says 'can I save seed from this', 'how do I store seeds', or 'which varieties breed true'.
S4ag Polytunnels
Get the most from a polytunnel — crop planning, rotation, ventilation, humidity, pest control, soil management under cover, and maximising season extension. Use when the user asks about polytunnels, tunnel crops, greenhouse growing, or indoor soil management.
S4ag Bees
Beekeeping decisions — seasonal management, hive inspection, swarm prevention and capture, Varroa and disease management, and natural beekeeping approaches. Use when the user asks about bees, hives, honey, pollination, Varroa, swarms, or 'something is wrong with my hive'.
S4ag Vegetables
Vegetable growing decisions — variety selection, spacing, succession, problem diagnosis, and intensive production. Use when the user says anything like 'what should I grow', 'my crop is failing', 'how do I plan my beds', 'succession planting', 'no-dig', or 'market garden'.
S4ag Climate Adaptation
Help with climate vulnerability on the farm: drought planning, flood risk, heat stress, shifting frost dates, variety selection, and building biological resilience against extreme weather.
S4ag Labour
Help finding, managing, and developing farm workers, wwoofers, apprentices, or volunteers. Use when the user mentions hiring, labour, staff, wwoofers, apprentices, managing people, employment law, or says anything like 'I need help on the farm', 'how do I find workers', or 'what do I owe my employees'.
S4ag Herbs
Grow medicinal and culinary herbs well. Use when the user asks about growing herbs, drying herbs, herb quality, medicinal herb cultivation, perennial herb beds, or says anything like 'how do I grow', 'best soil for herbs', 'harvest herbs', 'dry herbs', or 'herb garden'.
S4ag Pigs
Pig management decisions — pasture, woodland, and orchard systems; rotational management; breed selection; housing; nutrition; and health basics. Use when the user asks about pigs, raising pigs, pasture pigs, pig rotation, pig health, or integrating pigs into the farm.
S4ag Pests
Pest and disease management. Use when the user describes a pest, disease, or crop damage problem, or asks how to control something eating or damaging their crops. Also use for: 'what's wrong with my plants', 'holes in leaves', 'wilting', 'yellow leaves', 'white powder', 'black spots', 'insects on my crops', or any request to identify or control a farm pest or disease.
S4ag Permaculture
Permaculture design for farms, gardens, and land decisions. Use when the user mentions zones, guilds, swales, food forests, companion planting design, sector analysis, or says 'permaculture design', 'how do I lay out my land', 'design my garden', or 'integrate trees'.
S4ag Grains
Growing grains at small scale — wheat, oats, rye, barley, spelt, buckwheat, corn. Use when the user asks about grain variety selection, seeding, small-scale harvest, grain rotation, or grain storage.
S4h Creativity Six Hats
Apply Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats for structured parallel thinking. Use when the user wants to think through a decision, plan, or idea from multiple angles; wants to avoid groupthink or one-dimensional analysis; is preparing for a meeting or discussion; or wants a complete map of a situation before committing. Also use when the user mentions 'devil's advocate', 'playing it safe', 'gut feel…
S4h Analogy Boundary Testing
Finds where an analogy breaks down before it's relied upon. Analogies fail silently — the damage happens when decisions are made on a mapping that doesn't hold in the relevant dimension. Triggers: 'stress-test this analogy', 'where does this comparison break', 'does this really apply', 'test the metaphor', 'where is the analogy wrong'.
S4h Cognition Mental Models
Surfaces and audits the internal representations that drive perception and decision-making. Use when asked 'what assumptions am I making', 'why do I keep seeing this the same way', 'what model is driving this decision', 'I think I'm missing something about how this works', 'what's my mental model here', or when a belief or decision pattern needs to be examined from the inside.
S4h Creativity Provocation
Apply Edward de Bono's Provocation Operation (Po) to use deliberately absurd or impossible statements as springboards to new ideas. Use when the user wants to break out of conventional thinking, says 'let's try something radical', wants to use provocation as a creative tool, or is stuck and needs an unconventional jolt. Also trigger when the user uses the prefix 'Po:' before a statement.
S4ag Transitioning
Guides farmers through the transition from conventional to regenerative or organic systems. Use when the user says they want to 'go regenerative', 'transition to organic', 'stop using chemicals', 'change my farming system', 'how do I start', or asks about the financial or practical challenges of changing how they farm.
S4h Creativity Concept Fan
Apply Edward de Bono's Concept Fan to expand the solution space before committing to an approach. Use when the user has a goal or problem and wants to see the full range of ways to achieve it, feels locked into one solution, is evaluating options and wants to make sure they haven't missed any, or wants to think at different levels of abstraction before deciding.
S4ag Soil
Entry point for soil health decisions. Use when the user mentions soil tests, fertility, amendments, cover crops, compaction, soil biology, carbon, drainage, or says anything like 'my soil is', 'what should I add', 'soil test results', 'how do I improve my soil', or 'why are my crops struggling'.
S4h Aesthetic
Entry point for the aesthetic toolkit. Routes to the right aesthetic skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'aesthetic', 'check the design', 'does this feel right', 'is this elegant', 'is this too complex', 'what pattern is this', 'find the simpler version', or want an aesthetic lens applied without knowing which specific tool fits.
S4ag Agritourism
Develop agritourism income on a working farm. Use when the user asks about farm stays, farm events, visitor experiences, farm education income, agritourism pricing, planning permission for tourism, or says things like 'open my farm to visitors', 'farm Airbnb', or 'diversify my income'.
S4h Communication
Entry point for the communication toolkit. Routes to the right communication skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'communication', 'how do I say this', 'will this land', 'which channel', 'what will they push back on', 'does this make sense', or want communication help without knowing which specific tool fits.
S4ag Livestock
Livestock grazing decisions. Use when user mentions cattle, sheep, rotational grazing, stocking rate, paddocks, mob grazing, holistic planned grazing, pasture recovery, overgrazing, integrating animals with crops, or says 'my animals', 'my pasture', 'my herd'.
S4h Decision
Entry point for the decision toolkit. Routes to the right decision skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'decision', 'help me decide', 'should I', 'which option', 'what are my choices', 'what could go wrong', 'is this reversible', or want decision help without knowing which specific tool fits.
S4h Aesthetic Simplicity Analysis
Finds the simpler version while preserving what matters — not arbitrary reduction, but finding the core and discarding what is not it. TRIGGERS: 'find the simple version', 'simplify this', 'what's the essence', 'less but better', 'strip it back', 'what could we remove'.
S4ag Wildcrafting
Harvest wild plants from your land sustainably. Use when the user mentions wildcrafting, foraging, wild edibles, hedgerow harvest, managing farm edges for wild plants, or integrating foraged produce into a farm income or diet.
S4h Creativity Assumption Excavator
Surface and challenge the hidden assumptions in any problem, plan, or framing. Use when the user feels stuck despite trying multiple approaches, a problem seems intractable, a plan keeps failing for unclear reasons, something 'obvious' keeps producing unexpected results, or before using any other creative thinking tool when the problem itself might be wrongly framed. This is the prerequisite skil…
S4ag Earthworks
Design and build earthworks — swales, berms, ponds, and contour-based water infrastructure. Use when the user mentions swales, berms, ponds, keyline, contours, runoff, water harvesting, access tracks, erosion, or says things like 'water running off', 'how do I build a swale', 'where should I put a pond', or 'keyline design'.
S4h Aesthetic Pattern Detection
Identifies the underlying formal pattern at work — because most successful designs, arguments, and solutions share deep structural patterns, and naming the pattern unlocks the playbook. TRIGGERS: 'what pattern is this', 'pattern recognition', 'why does this work', 'identify the form', 'what structure is at play', 'what archetype is this'.
S4h Ecology Carrying Capacity
Applies carrying capacity thinking to any system with limits — maps the ceiling, overshoot risk, and what happens when it is crossed. Use when asked about 'capacity limits', 'how much can this system handle', 'are we overloaded', 'growth ceiling', 'when do we hit the wall', or 'sustainable scale'.
S4h Constraint Scope Reduction
Finds the minimum that satisfies the actual requirement — stripping everything wanted but not needed. Triggers: 'minimum viable', 'what's the minimum', 'strip this back', 'what do we actually need', 'scope reduction', 'simplify the requirement'.
S4h Design Simplicity
Applies the design principle of removing rather than adding — finding the form that does exactly what is needed, nothing more. Triggers: 'simplify this', 'remove what's unnecessary', 'it's too complicated', 'what can we cut', 'reduce the design', 'it's bloated', 'make it simpler', 'find the essential form', 'what's really needed here'.
S4ag Orchards
Establish and manage a fruit tree orchard. Use when the user asks about planting fruit trees, rootstock, pruning, orchard nutrition, spray programmes, tree pests or disease, apple, pear, plum, cherry, or any tree fruit.
S4ag Finance
Farm finance guidance — use when the user asks about enterprise budgets, cash flow, break-even, grants, loans, input costs, profit margins, making a new enterprise pay, or says anything like 'can I afford', 'does this pencil out', 'how do I fund', or 'is this worth it financially'.
S4ag Syntropic
Syntropic agroforestry design and management. Use when someone asks about Ernst Götsch, succession farming, syntropic, placenta species, chopping and dropping, or wants to design a farm that improves without external inputs.
S4ag Education
Farm education planning — use when asked about school visits, workshops, courses, learning farms, online content, or how to share what you know with the public, students, or apprentices.
S4ag Aquaculture
Set up, stock, or manage a fish pond, tank, crayfish system, or aquaponics unit. Use when the user says anything like 'fish pond', 'trout tank', 'aquaponics', 'crayfish', 'water quality fish', 'fish production', or 'integrate fish with plants'.
S4ag Biodynamic
Apply biodynamic farming to your land. Use when the user asks about BD preparations, horn manure, horn silica, the biodynamic calendar, root/flower/fruit/leaf days, Steiner farming, farm organism, Demeter certification, or transitioning from organic to biodynamic.
S4ag Water
Water decisions for farms — irrigation system selection, when and how much to irrigate, drought resilience, drainage problems, water harvesting, and water quality. Use when the user says anything like 'my soil is too wet', 'I need to irrigate', 'we had a dry summer', 'drainage is poor', or 'how do I collect rainwater'.
S4ag Land Reading
Read and assess a piece of land. Use when the user says things like 'looking at a new property', 'how do I read this land', 'what does this land tell me', 'assessing a farm', 'reading the landscape', 'what can I grow here', or 'understanding my land'.
S4ag Regenerative
Central skill for regenerative agriculture — philosophy, practice, and transition from conventional. Use when the user mentions regenerative ag, regen farming, soil health, carbon farming, biodiversity, holistic management, transitioning from conventional, stopping chemicals, going organic, or asks 'is my farm regenerative', 'how do I farm regeneratively', 'how do I start', or wants to understand…
S4h Constraint Rule Inversion
Flips a constraint into a creative driver — uses the limit as the generative force rather than working around it. Triggers: 'invert the constraint', 'use the limitation', 'constraint as feature', 'what if this limit was the requirement'.
S4ag Indigenous
Entry point for traditional ecological knowledge and land stewardship. Use when the user asks about indigenous farming, TEK, honorable harvest, Three Sisters, prescribed burning, polyculture traditions, or relational land management.
S4ag
Router and starting point for the skills-for-agriculture plugin. Use when the user types /s4ag, asks what this plugin does, asks 'which skill should I use', or describes a farming need without naming a specific skill — and you need to route them to the right s4ag-* skill. Also the right entry when a farm question spans several domains and you're unsure where to start.
S4ag Seasons
Seasonal and annual farm planning. Use when the user asks about crop rotation, succession planting, what to do next, planning the year, when to sow or plant, planning a market garden calendar, livestock seasonal tasks, or says 'what should I be doing now', 'how do I plan my year', or 'I need a growing calendar'.
S4ag Fencing
Fencing for rotational grazing, predator exclusion, and land management. Use when the user asks about electric fencing, paddock layout, rotational infrastructure, energisers, predator netting, or says 'I need to fence', 'what wire', 'how many paddocks'.
S4ag Succession
Farm succession and land access guidance. Use when someone says 'passing the farm on', 'who takes over', 'getting into farming', 'access land', 'family farm transition', 'lease my farm', 'new entrant', or 'what happens when I retire'.
S4h Creativity Plus Minus Interesting
Apply Edward de Bono's Plus/Minus/Interesting (PMI) tool for balanced evaluation of any idea, proposal, plan, or decision. Use when the user wants to evaluate something fairly, is tempted to immediately accept or reject an idea, needs to think through pros and cons more carefully, or wants to avoid snap judgments. Plus/Minus/Interesting is the antidote to confirmation bias in evaluation.
S4ag Storage
On-farm storage guidance. Use when the user says 'how do I store', 'root cellar', 'grain bin', 'cold room', 'post-harvest', 'reducing losses', 'keep produce longer', 'storage temperature', or 'produce is spoiling'.
S4ag Direct Marketing
Help selling farm produce directly — box schemes, CSA design, farm shop setup, online sales, restaurant accounts, pricing, customer acquisition, and moving off wholesale.
S4h Cognition
Entry point for the cognition toolkit. Routes to the right cognition skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'cognition', 'how am I thinking about this', 'why can't I focus', 'what mental model is driving this', 'am I thinking clearly', 'this is too complex to hold in my head', 'what do I actually know here', or want applied cognitive science without knowing which specific tool fits.
S4ag Biodiversity
Farm biodiversity guidance — habitat creation, hedgerows, wildflower strips, wildlife corridors, woodland, and monitoring. Use when the farmer asks about pollinators, wildlife, hedgerows, habitat, beneficial insects, biodiversity, or 'what can I do for nature on my farm'.
S4ag Agroforestry
Help designing trees into farming systems — silvopasture, food forests, alley cropping, windbreaks, riparian buffers. Use when the user asks about integrating trees with crops or livestock, designing a food forest, or planting trees for shelter or income.
S4ag Microgreens
Microgreens guidance for household growers and small market producers. Use when the user asks about starting microgreens, choosing varieties, setting up trays, fixing mould or germination problems, or selling microgreens at market.
S4ag Korean Natural Farming
Make and apply KNF inputs — IMO, FPJ, OHN, LAB, WCA — to cut input costs and build biological fertility from what's already on your land. Use when the user asks about korean natural farming, indigenous microorganisms, fermented plant juice, or making their own fertiliser.
S4h Creativity Other Perspectives
Apply Edward de Bono's OPS (Other People's Shoes) tool to genuinely think from other perspectives. Use when the user needs to understand how others will respond to a decision, wants to anticipate objections, is designing something for other people, is in a conflict or negotiation, or needs to check whether they've considered the people affected by a situation. OPS is structured empathy — not sent…
S4h Creativity
Entry point for the creativity toolkit. Routes to the right creative thinking technique based on your situation. Use when you say 'creativity', 'think creatively', 'I need fresh ideas', 'help me think differently', 'I'm stuck', or want creative help without knowing which specific tool applies. For comprehensive multi-method sessions, this runs them in sequence.
S4h Analogy Domain Transfer
Imports solutions from unrelated domains by finding structural similarities between your problem and solved problems elsewhere. Triggers: 'cross-domain analogy', 'what solves this elsewhere', 'find a parallel problem', 'look outside this field', 'borrow a solution'.
S4h Creativity Consider Factors
Apply Edward de Bono's CAF (Consider All Factors) tool to map every relevant factor before making a decision or taking action. Use when the user is about to decide something important, wants to make sure they haven't missed anything, is planning an action and needs to think through consequences, or has been surprised by things they didn't anticipate. CAF is the pre-flight checklist for consequent…
S4h Cognition Cognitive Load
Manages the limits of working memory — chunking, offloading, and reducing unnecessary complexity to free capacity for what matters. Use when asked 'this is too complex to hold in my head', 'I keep losing track of where I am', 'how do I make this simpler to think about', 'the design is overwhelming', 'people aren't retaining this', or when information architecture, learning design, or communicatio…
S4ag Small Fruits
Help with berries, brambles, currants, canes, and vines. Use when the user asks about blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, currants, grapes, or any small fruit establishment, pruning, disease, or harvest.
S4ag Propagation
Propagate plants vegetatively for farm use or sale. Use when the user asks about cuttings, grafting, division, layering, rooting, propagation media, mist units, rootstock, or says 'how do I multiply this plant', 'how do I root this', or 'I want to propagate'.
S4h Communication Audience Modeling
Maps what the audience currently believes, actually cares about, and fears before communicating — because communication fails at the receiver, not the sender. Triggers: 'model the audience', 'audience analysis', 'who am I talking to', 'what do they care about', 'why aren't they getting it'.
S4ag Carbon
Carbon farming decisions: sequestration, building soil carbon, measuring organic matter, voluntary carbon credits. Use when the user asks 'how do I build carbon', 'can I sell carbon credits', 'how do I measure soil carbon', or 'what builds organic matter fastest'.
S4h Constraint Workaround Mapping
Finds paths around a fixed constraint without removing it — routing around a hard limit to reach the same goal. Triggers: 'work around this', 'given this constraint', 'path around the blocker', 'how do we do this anyway', 'constrained solution'.
S4ag Mycology
Fungi in farming. Use when the user asks about growing mushrooms, mycelium, fungal networks, mycorrhizae, wood-chip beds, log inoculation, spent substrate, or says anything like 'I want to grow mushrooms', 'how do fungi help soil', or 'mycorrhizal inoculant'.
S4ag Certification
Navigate organic, biodynamic, or regenerative certification — deciding whether to pursue it, what it costs, what the process requires, and whether a lower-cost alternative achieves the same market goal.
S4h Cognition Metacognition
Applies thinking-about-thinking as a practical tool — monitoring comprehension, calibrating confidence, and knowing what you do not know. Use when asked 'how confident should I be about this', 'am I actually understanding this or just recognising it', 'what do I not know that I should know', 'I think I understand this but I keep getting it wrong', 'calibrate my confidence', or when the quality of…
S4h Cognition Attention
Maps the attention economy of a mind or situation — what captures it, what depletes it, and how to protect it. Use when asked 'why can't I focus', 'attention keeps getting pulled away', 'how do I protect deep work', 'what's stealing my focus', 'I keep getting distracted', or when designing environments, workflows, or communications that need to respect cognitive bandwidth.
S4ag Composting
Make good compost and use it well. Use when someone asks about composting methods, worm farms, bokashi, compost tea, how to apply compost, or says 'I want to build my soil biology cheaply'.
S4h Analogy Structure Mapping
Identifies the deep structural correspondence between two situations — genuine isomorphism vs superficial similarity. Triggers: 'does this analogy hold', 'map the structure', 'is this really like that', 'structural similarity', 'test the comparison'.
S4h Decision Option Mapping
Ensures all real options are visible before choosing — countering the false dichotomy that limits consideration to the first two options that came to mind. Triggers: 'what are all the options', 'false dichotomy check', 'expand the option set', 'what else could we do', 'options inventory'.
S4h Aesthetic Elegance Testing
Tests whether a solution is more complex than it needs to be — distinguishing necessary complexity from accidental complexity that accreted over time. TRIGGERS: 'elegance test', 'is this too complex', 'over-engineered', 'is there a simpler way', 'does this feel right'.
S4ag Market
Help with farmers markets and farm stalls — choosing a market, pricing, display, what to bring, talking to customers, tracking performance, or making more money from a regular pitch.
S4h Creativity Alternatives
Apply Edward de Bono's APC (Alternatives, Possibilities, Choices) tool to deliberately generate options before evaluating any of them. Use when the user is about to make a decision, wants more options before choosing, feels like they only see two paths, is planning something and wants to make sure they've considered all the approaches, or tends to go with the first good idea.
S4h Creativity Water Logic
Apply Edward de Bono's water logic for flow-based, non-judgmental exploration. Use when the user is in early-stage exploration and premature categorization is killing promising directions, wants to follow where ideas lead without forcing conclusions, is working on something open-ended where 'is this right?' is the wrong question, or needs to map possibilities before judging them. Water logic is t…
S4h Design Constraints
Uses constraints productively — maps hard limits, soft preferences, and how the tightest constraints define the solution space. Triggers: 'what are the design constraints', 'map the constraints', 'what are we working within', 'what's fixed', 'constraint-driven design', 'what does the solution space look like', 'working within limits'.
S4h Creativity Brainstorm
Run an orchestrated multi-method creative thinking sprint on a challenge. Use when the user wants to make real progress on a hard problem, says 'I need to think through this properly', wants a thorough creative exploration rather than a single technique, has a big decision or challenge and wants the full toolkit applied, or just says 'help me think through this'. This is the entry point for serio…
S4ag Poultry
Entry point for poultry decisions. Use when the user mentions chickens, ducks, layers, meat birds, broilers, egg production, pastured poultry, chicken tractor, poultry health, housing, feed, or says anything like 'my hens aren't laying', 'how many birds', 'poultry on pasture', or 'integrate chickens'.
S4ag Controlled Environment
Design, set up, or optimise a CEA system — hydroponics, aquaponics, or vertical farming. Use when the user mentions DWC, NFT, ebb-and-flow, grow lights, nutrient solution, aquaponics, or says 'controlled environment', 'indoor growing', 'vertical farm'.
S4h Aesthetic Coherence Check
Tests whether the parts of something form a unified whole — finding the jarring inconsistencies that accumulate when different contributors work without a shared vision. TRIGGERS: 'coherence check', 'does this feel unified', 'something feels off', 'inconsistent', 'check the whole', 'does this hang together'.