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Found 7 Skills
Master metaphysics and ontology - the study of being, existence, and fundamental reality. Use for: existence, being, substance, identity, causation, modality, time, universals. Triggers: 'ontological', 'metaphysical', 'what exists', 'substance', 'essence', 'existence', 'being', 'identity', 'persistence', 'causation', 'modality', 'possible worlds', 'universals', 'particulars', 'properties', 'abstract objects', 'time', 'change', 'composition'.
Analyzes events through historical lens using source analysis, comparative history, periodization, causation, continuity/change, and contextualization frameworks. Provides insights on historical patterns, precedents, path dependency, and long-term trends. Use when: Understanding historical context, identifying precedents, analyzing change over time, comparative history. Evaluates: Causation, continuity, change, context, historical parallels, long-term patterns.
Apply causal inference methods — counterfactual framework, instrumental variables, propensity score matching, and difference-in-differences — to estimate causal effects from observational data. Use this skill when the user needs to determine if X caused Y from non-experimental data, evaluate program/policy impact without a randomized trial, or control for confounders — even if they say 'did this change cause the improvement', 'how do we measure the impact without an experiment', or 'is this correlation or causation'.
Analyzes events through physics lens using fundamental laws (thermodynamics, conservation, relativity), quantitative modeling, systems dynamics, and energy principles to understand causation, constraints, and feasibility. Provides insights on energy systems, physical limits, technological feasibility, and complex systems behavior. Use when: Energy decisions, technology assessment, systems analysis, physical constraints, feasibility evaluation. Evaluates: Energy flows, conservation laws, efficiency limits, physical feasibility, scaling behavior, emergent properties.
Explore consciousness, mental states, and mind-body relations. Use for: hard problem of consciousness, qualia, intentionality, mental causation, personal identity, free will phenomenology, predictive processing, Free Energy Principle. Triggers: 'consciousness', 'qualia', 'mind', 'subjective experience', 'what it is like', 'hard problem', 'explanatory gap', 'zombie', 'Mary's room', 'Nagel', 'Chalmers', 'Dennett', 'Friston', 'Seth', 'Metzinger', 'phenomenal', 'access consciousness', 'self-model', 'interoception', 'predictive processing', 'active inference', 'Markov blanket'.
Search across all timelines in an Antithesis test run to find events, correlate property failures, and answer temporal questions about ordering and causation (e.g., did event A always precede failure B? do failures occur even without a preceding fault?).
Use when investigating why something happened and need to distinguish correlation from causation, identify root causes vs symptoms, test competing hypotheses, control for confounding variables, or design experiments to validate causal claims. Invoke when debugging systems, analyzing failures, researching health outcomes, evaluating policy impacts, or when user mentions root cause, causal chain, confounding, spurious correlation, or asks "why did this really happen?"