crucible
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Invent and reshape research mechanisms through analogy, inversion, and recombination. Use while the idea is unsettled; no mandatory tournament, novelty certificate, or convergence.
10 other projects use a version of this.
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- luci-efe/skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- jkitchin/crucibletheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- gpanakkal/crucibletheir own version, first seen Oct 15, 2026
- Creeperprol/crucibletheir own version, first seen Sep 19, 2026
- AdityaVasireddy/agent-skillstheir own version, first seen Sep 8, 2026
- raymassie/crucibletheir own version, first seen Sep 7, 2026
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- jkitchin/crucible★ 12same name
- damionrashford/Adversaria★ 9same name
- ryanelian/crucible-agent-skill★ 4same name
- gpanakkal/crucible★ 3same name
- AdityaVasireddy/agent-skills★ 2same name
- Creeperprol/crucible★ 1same name
- luci-efe/skills★ 0same name
- lukecala/crucible★ 0same name
- raymassie/crucible★ 0same name
- shreyasssk/foundry★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 10 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 32
If a method assumes perfect information, abundant compute, or stationary data, imagine the opposite.
- Distinctive: line 46
If an idea is chosen for a test, ledger specifies the comparison.
- Distinctive: line 50
Read selectively when a thread needs another perspective or a concrete technique.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 10 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Invent and reshape research mechanisms through analogy, inversion, and recombination. Use while the idea is unsettled; no mandatory tournament, novelty certificate, or convergence.
Starting point
A mechanism is a story about how one change could produce another. Keep several incompatible stories alive long enough to learn what each lets you notice.
Bring a question, fragment, reference, or tension. Follow whichever association becomes useful; these invitations are not a sequence to complete. Speculation should remain distinguishable from an observed fact.
Thought experiments
Transfer a mechanism, not its costume
Borrow feedback, competition, memory, or conservation from another domain. Name the relation being transferred and where the analogy would break.
Invert the expensive assumption
If a method assumes perfect information, abundant compute, or stationary data, imagine the opposite. Does the objective change, or can the mechanism exploit the apparent weakness?
Recombine at the seam
Take the representation of one idea and the update rule of another. Sketch the simplest interesting case before adding machinery. A deliberately awkward hybrid can reveal a third option.
A possible turn
A search procedure repeatedly restarts after failure. A memory analogy suggests retaining forbidden regions; a market analogy suggests reallocating effort by opportunity cost; a developmental analogy suggests changing the representation over time. The aim is distinct causal stories, not renamed parameter settings.
Leave the space open
Offer a few genuinely different possibilities, a sketch, an analogy, or a sharper question when useful. Do not turn every prompt into a scored diagnostic, a completion gate, or a demand for an action plan. The human may choose a direction, combine them, or leave the question open.
If an idea is chosen for a test, ledger specifies the comparison; forge executes it. A speculative diagram or an unanswered mechanism question is also a legitimate stopping point.
Optional references
Read selectively when a thread needs another perspective or a concrete technique. The notes supply possibilities, examples, and limits; none is a prerequisite or a requirement to close the exploration.
- Removing pieces to discover what an idea means
- A mechanism sketch and its possible limits
- Theory as a source of mechanisms and questions
- Variants as different causal stories
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