AI Engineering

Aesthetic routes aesthetic questions to the right reasoning tool for coherence, elegance, pattern, or simplicity. Use it when an artifact feels off, overcomplicated, or you want to understand the underlying structure.

Aesthetic Pattern Detection identifies the underlying formal pattern in a design, argument, or solution. Use it when you want to name the structure that makes something work or feel coherent.

Analogy routes analogy requests to the right tool for stress-testing metaphors, importing solutions from other domains, shifting perspective, or checking structural similarity. Use it when comparing one situation to another or asking where a comparison breaks down.

Analogy Boundary Testing finds where a comparison stops holding before a decision depends on it. Use it when you need to stress-test a metaphor, identify relevant differences, and state the safe scope of the analogy.

Analogy Domain Transfer helps you strip a problem to its structural pattern, then look for solutions in other domains. Use it when you want to borrow a mechanism from biology, logistics, medicine, or other fields.

Analogy Perspective Shifting examines a problem through unrelated fields to surface hidden assumptions and blind spots. Use it when you need fresh eyes, a beginner's mind, or a different expert's first questions.

Analogy Structure Mapping compares two situations by their actors, relationships, dynamics, constraints, and goals. Use it when you need to test whether an analogy is structurally valid or only superficially similar.

Claude Db Scan maps a codebase into project memory by building a code graph of symbols and relationships, then writing a profile of stack, layout, conventions, workflows, and architecture. Use it when onboarding a project or refreshing stale memory after changes.

Cognition routes a situation to the right cognitive tool for attention, mental models, metacognition, or cognitive load. Use it when you want applied cognitive science but are not sure which specific tool fits.

Cognition Attention maps what captures attention, what depletes it, and how to protect it. Use it when focus keeps getting pulled away or when designing environments and workflows that need to preserve cognitive bandwidth.

Cognitive Load helps manage working memory limits by chunking, offloading, and removing unnecessary complexity. Use it when a task, explanation, or interface is too hard to hold in mind at once.

Constraint routes a situation to the right constraint-thinking tool when a limit is blocking progress. Use it to test whether a constraint is real, reduce scope, invert the rule, or map a workaround.