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zirkel

Makes sure a complex or ambiguous task is clarified, explored and decomposed before anyone starts executing it.

1 on GitHubby Anselm Hahnv2.0.0MITupdated 12 days agodevelopment
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Plugin zirkel from marketplace werkstoff in Anselmoo/werkstoff. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 11 days ago.

What it installs

Skills (14)

  • zirkel-calibrate-format

    Pins down an ambiguous output format, style, tone, or schema by anchoring it to 2-5 concrete input/output examples instead of more prose. Use when prose keeps under- or over-specifying the target shape: when the target cannot be described in words, is non-standard, or involves subtle tone or layout

  • zirkel-clarify-scope

    Scopes an ambiguous task before any work begins — restates it with defaults made explicit, lists known facts (flagging low-confidence ones), and surfaces the interpretation forks that could send the work the wrong way. Use when a task's phrasing supports multiple reasonable interpretations, success

  • zirkel-decompose-chain

    Breaks a scoped problem or selected approach into a 2-5 stage pipeline, each stage with an explicit input contract, output contract, and dependsOn list, and derives the parallel-safe wave grouping from the dependency graph. Use when a task is big enough to need staging with clear hand-offs between s

  • zirkel-draft-revise

    Scores an already-drafted artifact 1-5 against explicit numbered criteria and selectively revises only the criteria that fall at or below threshold, leaving what already works untouched — then reports exactly what changed. Use when a draft exists and needs targeted iteration rather than a rewrite: "

  • zirkel-explore-branches

    Explores multiple genuinely-distinct approaches to a scoped problem in parallel, scores each on Feasibility/Impact/Risk, and selects a winner — so the work does not anchor on the first idea. Use when a task has more than one viable approach and picking the first that comes to mind would be a mistake

  • zirkel-ground-evidence

    Checks that every factual claim in an answer or artifact is traceable to a specific source — a file:line, a URL, or explicitly-flagged prior knowledge — and refuses to assert anything beyond what's actually verified. Use whenever an answer, summary, or report makes assertions that need grounding rat

  • zirkel-investigate-dynamically

    Works a problem whose next action can only be chosen after seeing the last result — a Reasoning / Action / Observation loop where each observation determines the next step. Use when the sequence of tool calls cannot be planned upfront: "figure out why X is happening", "trace this through the system"

  • zirkel-map-relationships

    Answers a question that turns on entity/dependency/causal structure by extracting indexed relationship triples and traversing them hop by hop, citing the triple index at every hop. Use when the answer requires following a chain through named entities and relationships: "how does A affect D through t

  • zirkel-negotiate-tradeoffs

    After zirkel-explore-branches has selected a winner, synthesizes a hybrid that combines strengths from 2-3 branches — but only presents it if it actually beats every source branch on at least one axis. Use when a single winner leaves value on the table and you want the best of several: "can we combi

  • zirkel-optimize-instruction

    Optimizes the exact wording of an instruction/prompt for a recurring task using APE — generates one candidate per framing, scores them against real test cases, and critiques the winner. Use when a prompt will be reused and its wording matters: "tune this prompt", "find the best wording for this inst

  • zirkel-reason-verify

    Matches reasoning effort to concrete failure-mode signals by climbing a 4-rung ladder — zero-shot, Chain-of-Thought, Self-consistency, or PAL (code offload) — and applies Multimodal-CoT first when the input has an image or diagram. Use when a task shows a real risk of a silent reasoning error: multi

  • zirkel-solve

    Runs the full zirkel pipeline — Clarify -> Explore (conditional) -> Decompose -> Execute -> Revise — for a task that is complex/ambiguous AND needs staged decomposition AND carries real ambiguity or multiple viable approaches worth weighing. Use when a request is too big or too underspecified to ans

  • zirkel-summarize-trace

    After a zirkel-solve pipeline finishes, produces a compact written record for handoff, PR comment, or documentation — 7 sections (6 if Explore did not run) covering what was asked, assumed, weighed, run, produced, revised, and NOT done. Use when a finished multi-stage run needs to be captured: "summ

  • zirkel-verify-assumptions

    Checks exactly ONE named assumption against real evidence in at most 3 steps and reports one outcome: confidence raised (>=90), reading changed, or still unresolved. Use to resolve a single load-bearing uncertainty — typically a blocking entry surfaced by zirkel-clarify-scope: "verify this one assum

Subagents (3)

  • branch-proposer

    Generates one genuinely distinct approach to a scoped problem under an assigned angle (conservative/ambitious/pragmatic/contrarian/minimal/maximal), OR scores one existing branch on Feasibility/Impact/Risk and names its biggest blocker. Dispatched in parallel by zirkel-explore-branches so no branch

  • instruction-candidate

    Drafts one candidate instruction under a specific APE framing (rule-based, example-based, definition-based, question-based, or chain-of-thought-based), OR scores a candidate against fixed test cases, OR critiques the winning candidate against meta-prompting's 4-item checklist. Dispatched per-step by

  • reasoning-path

    Produces exactly one independent reasoning attempt under a specific assigned strategy (forward deduction, backward from options, or constraint mapping), in complete isolation from any parallel attempt. Dispatched three-at-once by zirkel-reason-verify's self-consistency tier (Rung 2a). Use when a sin

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