Have the second brain ask the owner five hard questions about their own long-held beliefs and codex entries that have not been revisited, so assumptions stop fossilizing. Monthly or on demand. Triggers: "/five-hard", "challenge my beliefs", "pressure-test my views".
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🧒 When reporting to a non-technical operator, end with a child-simple "In plain words" recap in their language.
Why: the identity layer (belief-* + concept-bible-*, ~24 notes) is "how I think".
That gets dangerous once part of it is wrong and nobody has checked. Here the brain itself starts the pressure-test.
python "$IMPORTS_ROOT/five_hard_pick.py" -> the 5 most stagnant notes (oldest mtime)
-> $IMPORTS_ROOT/_five_hard_pick.json. Override: env FIVE_HARD_N=7.
Read each note IN FULL and give ONE hard question per note:
N. **[<stem>]** — <the owner's thesis in your own words>
Question: <sharp, Socratic, capable of forcing a rethink>
Why it is hard: <which counter-fact or trend could flip it>
Style: Socratic — not "you are wrong" but "what makes you sure today?"; lean on CONCRETE recent
signals; epistemic-neutrality; aim at the UNTESTED edge (the "tension / nuance" section),
not at the part already reflected on. "The rule still stands" is a valid answer (bible-as-prompt).
-> $OBSIDIAN_VAULT/04-Coach/_Five-Hard/five-hard-YYYY-MM-DD.md
Frontmatter: title, date, type: five-hard, source: claude-session,
tags: [five-hard, coach, identity-layer]. Body: the questions + the owner's answers verbatim;
if they changed position, propose a diff to the belief/bible note with supersedes: (via /intake). NO 🧒 block inside the note.
Cron five-hard-monthly: 1st of the month, 05:25 local time (the briefing window, routines-run-at-night).
Picker -> questions (top-model subagent) -> the fleet log chat via python $USERPROFILE/.claude/scripts/bus_ping.py --post "..."
(canon: alerts go to the fleet log chat, never to Saved Messages) + "answer by voice or text, I will file it into the vault".
The manual twin is this skill; the single source of truth is the picker.
[[self-bible-identity-layer]] · [[bible-as-prompt]] · [[epistemic-neutrality]] · /coach (daily) vs /five-hard (monthly). Active-brain map A-E: item B. ⚠️ Restored 2026-07-04 after the 2026-06-24 migration wipe.
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Run an autonomous consensus round between agent peers on several machines: they negotiate a decision over a shared channel and execute it without a human relaying messages. Use when multiple machines must agree on a change. Triggers: "/03", "work it out among yourselves", "find consensus". Wakes the human only for irreversible actions or a deadlock.
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Recover a session after a hard crash (app died, machine rebooted, context lost mid-work): replay the turn-state ledger for the last requests, files and decisions, run a green/red health ping over the system map, file sync and MCP connectors, then rebuild the previous session history for pickup. Triggers: "/1", "resume after crash", "wake".
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Show the operator's day: today's calendar plus what needs them personally (leads due, people awaiting a reply, deadlines), pulled from Calendar and Telegram and ranked. Read-only: sends and commits nothing. Triggers: "/agenda", "what's on today", "my agenda".
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Rewrite machine-written text so it reads like a busy human wrote it: cut 50-70%, break the even rhythm, drop AI-tell words and filler, keep facts and protected terms. Use before publishing any post, reply or email drafted by a model. Triggers: /ai-slop, /slop, humanize, anti-slop, make it shorter and alive.
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Decision protocol for strategic work: recall the knowledge vault, run a gap analysis, emit a deep-research prompt for external tools, then synthesize the returned reports into a decision memo. Use before any new product, feature, market, pricing, GTM or architecture call, where local recall alone is not enough. Triggers: "/alfa-search-recall-deepresearch", "alpha protocol", "R+DR".
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- КРЕДИТ АВТОРУ ИДЕИ: совет из комментария (TG @ClawRus / @ClawInga, комменты под постами Антона в FB, треды и issue на… Триггеры: “/alpha-credit“, “/credit“, “кто нам это посоветовал“, “запиши совет“, “поблагодари советчиков“, “кому мы должны спасибо“, “кредит автору“, “чей это был совет“, “credit the author“
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