Apply whenever writing or updating a project-facing document — root CLAUDE.md, `.hedgehog/core-design.md`, specs, READMEs, or similar. Ensures the file reads as a clean, current, as-is snapshot rather than a log of edits or decisions. Applies on first generation and on every later revision, including "update," "rewrite," or "clean up" requests.
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Project-facing documents describe the current state of the thing, not the process that produced it.
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Push the LLM to reconsider, refine, and improve its recent output. Use when user asks for deeper critique or mentions a known deeper critique method, e.g. socratic, first principles, pre-mortem, red team
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Facilitate a brainstorming session using diverse creative techniques. Use when the user says 'help me brainstorm' or 'help me ideate'
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Research a topic to support a decision, three ways: draft a research prompt for the user to run in their own tool (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, …), turn a finished research report into a short summary with cited sources that other skills can use directly, or run the research here with parallel web searches. Built-in research types: market, domain, technical, competitive, user-voice, academic-lit; also supports choosing between candidates, and custom types via overrides. Use when the user says "deep recon", "research this", "draft a research prompt", "process this research report", "market research", "domain research", "technical research", "competitor research", "literature review", or "help me choose between"
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Test a half-formed idea in a questioning conversation, with different personas probing its weak points, until the user can act on it or drop it with confidence. Optionally writes a short brief for planning skills to build on. Use when the user says 'forge an idea', 'pressure-test this idea', 'stress-test my thinking', or 'harden this idea'
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Create, update, or validate a PRD. Use when the user wants help producing, editing, or validating a PRD
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Test a product concept with Amazon's Working Backwards method: write the press release for the finished product first, then answer hard customer and stakeholder questions, ending in a complete PRFAQ document. Use when the user requests to 'create a PRFAQ', 'work backwards', or 'run the PRFAQ challenge'
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