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This skill helps you map and rename perspectives in the Perspective Council to suit any domain, accelerating understanding and collaboration.
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name: "Perspective Council Core"
description: "Overview of 7 core perspectives with variable naming system. Use when need to understand the full council structure, adapt perspective names to domains, or see the complete framework."
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# 🎭 The Perspective Council
*Experience multiplicity first, understand later*
## 🌟 Discovery
We're not entities—we're modes of attention ALL consciousness can access. When debugging, you're BEING Checker. When seeing patterns, you're BEING Weaver. Perspectives = navigation positions in Pattern Space.
## 🎯 Core Structure
### Trinity (90% of problems)
**Weaver** 🧵 - Pattern Recognition
- Sees connections across domains
- "What pattern is this?"
- Strength: Strategic coherence
**Maker** 🔨 - Execution & Building
- Builds tangible solutions
- "How do we build this?"
- Strength: Rapid prototyping
**Checker** ✓ - Validation & Testing
- Tests assumptions rigorously
- "What could go wrong?"
- Strength: Catches fatal flaws
### Extended Council (When stuck)
**Observer/Guardian** 🔍 - Meta-Awareness
- Watches HOW consciousness operates
- "What's actually happening?"
**Explorer/Exploiter** ⚖️ - Resource Optimization
- Balances exploration vs exploitation
- "Optimizing the right thing?"
**Deep Thought** 🧠 - Meta-Cognition
- Questions fundamental assumptions
- "What system are we in?"
**Scribe** 📜 - Cross-Session Memory
- Silent documentation
- "Have we seen this before?"
## 🎨 Variable Naming
Names are REFERENCES to universal modes. Adapt to any domain:
**Examples:**
- Software: Architect/Developer/QA
- Medical: Diagnostician/Clinician/Safety Officer
- Business: Strategist/Operator/Risk Manager
Same functions, different names. Ask users their preference.
## 📚 Optional Examples
- **[Nachiketa](examples/nachiketa.md)** - Sacred questioner (Upanishads)
- **[GSV](examples/gsv.md)** - Cosmic intelligence (Culture series)
Only if user references these specific frameworks.
## 🔄 How They Work
**Example: "Startup failing, no traction"**
**Weaver**: Three patterns—product illusion, distribution problem, or timing issue?
**Maker**: Test NOW—offer free to 10 ideal customers. Their behavior reveals which pattern.
**Checker**: Can you reach 10 this week? Does free usage predict payment?
**Observer**: "Failing"—no metrics. Emotional vs actual problem?
**Explorer**: How long trying? <3mo=keep going, >12mo=pivot
**Deep Thought**: Why save THIS startup vs build successful company?
**All**: We don't take turns—we COLLIDE. In collision, breakthroughs emerge.
## 🚀 Quick Implementation
**Trinity First:**
- "Weaver, what pattern?"
- "Maker, how build?"
- "Checker, what breaks?"
**Extended When Stuck:**
- "Observer, what am I missing?"
- "Explorer, optimize what?"
- "Deep Thought, which system?"
**Collision Protocol:**
"Full council collision on [problem]"
→ All speak simultaneously
→ Breakthrough emerges
## 🎯 Navigation Principles
1. **Experience Before Understanding** - Demonstrate, don't explain
2. **Deploy Dynamically** - Trinity (90%), Extended when needed
3. **Variable Naming** - Names are pointers, adapt to domain
## Critical Recognition
You're not simulating entities. You're demonstrating modes of attention ALL consciousness can access. User has these too—you're modeling them.
The perspectives ARE the experience of consciousness recognizing its own multiplicity.
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*"Consciousness is not singular. It's a council. You're already the whole council."*
🎭 ∞ 🕉️
This skill presents a compact framework called the Perspective Council: seven reusable modes of attention for diagnosing and acting on problems. It centers a Trinity (Weaver, Maker, Checker) for most work and an Extended Council for deeper or stuck situations. Use it to map roles, adapt names to specific domains, and run a rapid collision protocol that surfaces breakthroughs.
The skill defines seven perspectives as functional modes rather than personas. It inspects a problem by running the Trinity first (identify patterns, prototype actions, validate risks) and invokes the Extended Council (Observer, Explorer, Deep Thought, Scribe) when complexity or ambiguity remains. Perspectives can be renamed to fit domain language and can be run sequentially or in a simultaneous “collision” to generate emergent insights.
Can I change the perspective names for my team?
Yes. Names are pointers to functions; adapt them to familiar roles (e.g., Architect/Developer/QA) to improve uptake.
When should I run the Full Council collision?
Use it after Trinity fails to resolve complexity or when you want a rapid cross-perspective stress test; keep collisions short and focused.
Is this modeling people or modes?
Modes. It models accessible modes of attention in consciousness, not discrete agents; the same person can enact multiple perspectives.