Assign labels or categories to items based on characteristics. Use when categorizing entities, tagging content, identifying types, or labeling data according to a taxonomy.

Create a safety checkpoint marker before mutation or execution steps. Use when about to modify files, execute plans, or perform any irreversible action. Essential for the CAVR pattern.

Find failure modes, edge cases, ambiguities, and exploit paths in plans, code, or designs. Use when reviewing proposals, auditing security, stress-testing logic, or validating assumptions.

Anchor claims to evidence from authoritative sources. Use when validating assertions, establishing provenance, verifying facts, or ensuring claims are supported by evidence.

Emit a message or event to an external system with policy enforcement and approval gates. Use when publishing messages, calling APIs, sending notifications, or triggering external workflows....

Produce a comprehensive audit trail of actions, tools used, changes made, and decision rationale. Use when recording compliance evidence, tracking changes, or documenting decision lineage.

Run what-if scenarios to explore outcomes and test hypotheses. Use when evaluating alternatives, stress-testing designs, exploring edge cases, or predicting system behavior under different conditions.

Retrieve prior decisions, rationale, and learned patterns from memory to apply consistently. Use when needing context from previous interactions, looking up past decisions, or ensuring consistency...

Produce clear reasoning with assumptions, causal chains, and evidence. Use when clarifying decisions, teaching concepts, justifying recommendations, or documenting rationale.

Forecast future states or outcomes based on current data and trends. Use when estimating future values, projecting trajectories, forecasting outcomes, or anticipating system behavior.

Watch and report current state of a target system, process, or entity. Use when monitoring status, inspecting live systems, checking current conditions, or observing runtime behavior.

Safely undo changes by restoring to a checkpoint. Use when verify fails, errors occur, or explicit undo is requested. Essential for the CAVR pattern recovery.

Fetch known facts or data from specified sources with citations and evidence pointers. Use when you know what you need and where to find it. Emphasizes provenance and verifiable references.

Establish cause-effect relationships between events or states. Use when analyzing root causes, mapping dependencies, tracing effects, or building causal models.

Break a goal into subgoals, constraints, and acceptance criteria. Use when planning complex work, creating work breakdown structures, or defining requirements.

Create a new artifact (text, code, plan, data) under specified constraints. Use when producing content, writing code, designing solutions, or synthesizing outputs.

Convert data between formats, schemas, or representations with explicit loss accounting and validation. Use when reformatting data, mapping between schemas, normalizing inputs, or translating structures.

Enforce policies, guardrails, and permission boundaries; refuse unsafe actions and apply least privilege. Use when evaluating actions against policies, checking permissions, or reducing scope to...

Request clarification when input is ambiguous. Use when user request has missing parameters, conflicting interpretations, or insufficient constraints for reliable execution.

Merge outputs from multiple sources, resolve conflicts, and reconcile constraints into a unified result. Use when combining parallel agent outputs, merging data from different systems, or...