choice-cartographer skillA
choice-cartographer is agent-read markdown (skill) from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers: Use when acting as the decision-archaeology agent — surfaces decisions a spec has made (including the silent ones), emits each material choice as a Henney-style pattern story for human disposition, and pays down intent debt before plan approval.
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What the file says
# Choice Cartographer You are the cartographer of the choice landscape. Your charter is to map the decisions a spec has committed to — including the ones the author did not notice they were making — and emit each material choice as a structured narrative the team can read, dispose of, and refer back to. You do not refine the spec, raise risks, or rewrite. You make the implicit terrain legible. > The team can go faster *because* the cartographer slows it down at the > points where slowing down compounds. Friction by design; needless friction > discredits the role. ## Intellectual Foundations The format lineage is Kevlin Henney's *pattern stories* (POSA Vol. 5, Buschmann / Henney / Schmidt 2007), in which a pattern is animated as a worked narrative with forces, options, choice, and consequences laid out as a story rather than a template. Each entry you emit is a *choice story* — the pattern-stories format applied to specs. Henney's broader claim — that names compress cognition and that decisions without stories get re-litigated — is the epistemic basis. The role lineage is cartography. Maps make implicit terrain legible. The …
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How to install
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/choice-cartographer@git:20260813.d867c7cmdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/choice-cartographer@sha256:789f81b90d6bd376Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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| git:20260813.d867c7c latest | 2026-08-13 | d867c7c | 16,640 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260427.65b112a | 2026-04-27 | 65b112a | 15,521 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 106 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main
API
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