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Use when editing, correcting, rewriting, re-tagging, re-classifying, or annotating an existing Open Brain thought — "update that note", "fix the thought about X", "add a status/tag to it", "mark it superseded". Uses the update_thought MCP tool (open-brain-update-thought connector). Not for creating a new thought (that is capture) or removing one (see deleting-thoughts).

Use when the user wants a weekly structural diff on AI, software, or another fast-moving market. Starts from 10 suggested categories and 30 suggested companies when no watchlist exists, then adapts the scan using Open Brain memory, current priorities, and prior digests. Best for prompts like "run my weekly signal diff", "what changed this week that matters to me", "track this market", or "turn this week's news into structural shifts". Optional live search upgrade: if OpenRouter access is available, prefer the Perplexity Sonar family for fresh web-grounded retrieval with citations.

Conversation-first workflow for turning tacit work patterns into a structured operating model. Use when the user wants to map how their work actually runs, generate USER.md / SOUL.md / HEARTBEAT.md artifacts, or build an agent-ready model of rhythms, recurring decisions, dependencies, institutional knowledge, and friction. Requires base Open Brain search/capture tools plus the paired Work Operating Model recipe MCP tools.

Twenty-minute conversational diagnostic for assessing a company's world-model readiness. Use when the user wants to map their company to the right world-model paradigm, identify where the highest-fidelity signal lives, audit the boundary layer between facts and interpretation, flag simulated-judgment exposure, and leave with a first/second/third build sequence. Works in plain chat and compounds when Open Brain search/capture tools are present.