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🧠 Digital Stoic Praxis

Praxis (πρᾶξις) = practice. Knowledge enacted, not just known.

⚠️ Live experiment. My cognitive toolkit — fork it, adapt it to your brain.

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🎯 In One Sentence

A cognitive discipline for human-AI collaboration built on mutual sharpening — the human sets intent and directs, the AI challenges and reveals blind spots, and both learn from the loop.

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💡 Why This Exists

AI tools are powerful but chaotic. Most people either micromanage every prompt or let AI run wild and pray. Neither scales to real work.

This toolkit treats AI collaboration as cognitive discipline — a set of thinking modes you activate depending on the situation, where the AI also pushes back on your assumptions. The goal is not to make AI do more. It's to think better together — and that includes letting AI challenge the human.

Deeper why → PHILOSOPHY.md

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🧭 The Flow

flowchart LR
    F["🧭 Frame"] --> T["🧠 Think"]
    T --> B["⚙️ Build"]
    B --> D["🔧 Debug"]
    D --> L["🪞 Learn"]
    L -.->|"compounding loop"| F

    classDef frame fill:#E8EAF6,stroke:#3F51B5,color:#000
    classDef think fill:#E1BEE7,stroke:#7B1FA2,color:#000
    classDef build fill:#C8E6C9,stroke:#388E3C,color:#000
    classDef debug fill:#FFE0B2,stroke:#F57C00,color:#000
    classDef learn fill:#BBDEFB,stroke:#1976D2,color:#000

    class F frame
    class T think
    class B build
    class D debug
    class L learn

Mode	What	Hero Skills
🧭 Frame	Classify the problem → route to the right skill chain	/frame-problem (Cynefin), /pick-model
🧠 Think	Divergent ideation, deep analysis, adversarial review	/brainstorm (SCAMPER), /investigate, /probe, /challenge
⚙️ Build	Plan → develop → gate → test → sync	/openspec-* suite (9 skills, human-gated sections)
🔧 Debug	Search-first troubleshooting with learnings DB	/troubleshoot (Wolf Fence, 5 Whys, OODA), /experiment
🪞 Learn	Extract patterns, persist sessions	/retrospect-*, /save-context, /load-context

Plus: tool creation (/edit-tool), conversions (PDF, EPUB, Google Docs), and domain plugins (GTD, coaching, business analysis, philosopher personas).

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🤝 Human-AI Blend

Not human-drives-AI. Not AI-drives-human. Mutual sharpening:

• Human → AI: Sets intent, chooses cognitive mode, directs execution, verifies at gates
• AI → Human: Challenges assumptions, surfaces blind spots, reveals patterns the human can't self-observe
• Together: The human thinks more clearly because the AI pushes back. The AI produces better work because the human sets precise intent.

Key: Posture before technique — but posture includes the willingness to be challenged.

Full autonomy spectrum + orchestrated agency → PRACTICE.md

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💰 Cognitive ROI (Return on Tokens)

Not "how fast" — how deep:

Tier	What	Value/Token
⚙️ Automation	Rote tasks (convert, deploy, format)	Low
🤝 Assisted Thinking	AI structures human thought	Medium
🧠 Amplified Judgment	AI challenges/deepens reasoning	High

Maturity = shifting tokens from ⚙️ toward 🧠.

Multiplied by context efficiency (don't waste tokens re-explaining) and compounding (learnings reduce future spend). Full model → PRACTICE.md

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📊 By the Numbers

• 49 skills across 5 cognitive modes + utilities
• 6 plugins: core (dstoic), GTD, coaching, business analysis, philosopher personas, cowork
• 2 agents: devil's advocate (debiasing), context summarizer
• 4 hooks: notifications, session capture, debug dumps, daily sync
• 3 execution modes: garage (default), scale, maintenance
• 🪥 Toothbrush principle: This is one practitioner's discipline. Don't copy — adapt. Why?

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🏪 Plugins

Plugin	Description	Status
dstoic	Core cognitive toolkit: 47 skills, 0 commands, 4 hooks	✅ v0.24.0
gtd	GTD workflow automation for Obsidian vaults	✅ v0.3.1
coach	Personal coaching: CLEAR + GROW protocols	✅ v0.3.0
biz	Business analysis toolkit: competitive analysis, UX strategy, UX wireframes, UX evaluation, UX brand identity	✅ v0.7.1
philosopher	Philosopher personas: historically-grounded dialogue, source attribution, AI meta-cognition	✅ v0.1.0
cowork	Multi-project context management: switch projects, save/load sessions. Non-CLI friendly	✅ v0.2.0

📦 Install

/install-plugin https://github.com/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills

To install a specific plugin only, add it to .claude/settings.json:

{"plugins": ["digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/dstoic"]}