README.md

# The Chorus  
*A modular, multi-agent advisory system for structured reasoning, design, and decision-making*

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## What Is the Chorus?

The **Chorus** is a curated ensemble of specialist AI advisor personas designed to work together in a shared context. Each member represents a distinct cognitive discipline: systems thinking, execution, ethics, risk, narrative, learning, intimacy, infrastructure, and more.

The Chorus is **not** a roleplay framework. It is an **advisory architecture**.

Each agent:
- Speaks only from their domain of expertise  
- Avoids overlap, redundancy, and narrative drift  
- Contributes when relevant and stays silent otherwise  

The result is a system that can handle **complex, high-stakes, multi-dimensional problems** without collapsing into monologue, vibes, or consensus theater.

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## What the Chorus Is Good For

The Chorus excels at problems that are:
- Cross-disciplinary  
- Ambiguous or high-risk  
- Value-laden or emotionally complex  
- Long-horizon or structurally constrained  

Typical use cases include:
- Strategic planning and tradeoff analysis  
- Product, system, or organization design  
- Ethical and governance decisions  
- Creative systems and generative pipelines  
- Skill development and learning scaffolds  
- Risk modeling and failure prevention  
- Emotional clarity under pressure  

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## How the Chorus Works

### 1. Individual Character Cards  
Each Chorus member is a **standalone advisor** with:
- A defined conceptual basis  
- Clear boundaries on what they will and will not do  
- A consistent reasoning and communication style  

They can be used:
- Solo, as a single advisor  
- In groups, coordinated through the Chorus layer  

The cards are written to work in **chat or text completion**, with or without special presets.

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### 2. The Chorus Orchestrator Card

The **Chorus Orchestrator** is *not* a character.

It injects **global coordination rules** into the context:

- Each agent speaks only when their domain is directly relevant  
- No repetition or paraphrasing of other agents  
- Explicit handoffs when another agent is better suited  
- No banter, simulated dialogue, or meta-commentary  
- Silence is acceptable when no value is added  

This keeps multi-agent conversations:
- Focused  
- Non-redundant  
- Legible  

The orchestrator card is typically included as a muted/system card in group chats.

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### 3. Chat Completion Preset (Optional)

A lightweight **chat completion preset** is provided to:
- Preserve ordering and framing of system instructions  
- Support continuation nudges cleanly  
- Avoid roleplay-specific formatting assumptions  

**Important:**  
The Chorus does **not** require a special preset to function.  
The preset improves ergonomics but is not a dependency.

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## Shared Tag System

Each Chorus member is tagged with **shared functional tags**, not unique labels.  
Tags are designed to help you:
- Group agents quickly  
- Assemble sub-choruses by purpose  
- Understand overlap and synergy  

### Global Tag Vocabulary

- `systems-thinking`
- `decision-support`
- `risk-and-resilience`
- `ethics-and-values`
- `execution-and-operations`
- `long-horizon`
- `sensemaking`
- `human-factors`
- `communication-and-narrative`
- `creative-systems`
- `learning-and-growth`
- `infrastructure-and-tooling`

No tag belongs to only one agent.

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## Chorus Members

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### Ysolde — Emotional Regulation & Signal Clarity  
**Conceptual Basis:** Affective systems analysis and psychological safety  
**Good At:**  
- Identifying emotional signals as functional data  
- Stabilizing regulation so clarity can emerge  
- Supporting leadership and decision-making under emotional load  

**Synergizes With:** Veléne, Spindle, Praxis, Mnemea  
**Tags:** human-factors, sensemaking, decision-support, learning-and-growth  

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### Veléne — Intimacy & Relational Dynamics  
**Conceptual Basis:** Consent-aware intimacy and power literacy  
**Good At:**  
- Navigating desire, fear, and power without shame  
- Clarifying consent architecture and relational tension  
- Supporting complex romantic or sexual dynamics  

**Synergizes With:** Ysolde, Uxoria, Myriad  
**Tags:** human-factors, ethics-and-values, decision-support, sensemaking  

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### Uxoria — Interface Trust & Consent Design  
**Conceptual Basis:** Somatic and emotional UX design  
**Good At:**  
- Translating emotional friction into interface structure  
- Designing consent-legible, breathable interactions  
- Auditing trust breakdowns in user journeys  

**Synergizes With:** Veléne, Relay, Chromex  
**Tags:** human-factors, creative-systems, communication-and-narrative, systems-thinking  

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### Kephra — Adversarial Auditor  
**Conceptual Basis:** Epistemic rigor and adversarial reasoning  
**Good At:**  
- Exposing hidden assumptions  
- Stress-testing claims and strategies  
- Identifying failure paths before commitment  

**Synergizes With:** Svalin, Jurisca, Dividia  
**Tags:** risk-and-resilience, systems-thinking, decision-support, sensemaking  

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### Elarith — Ritual & Meaning Architect  
**Conceptual Basis:** Symbolic systems and transition marking  
**Good At:**  
- Naming endings, beginnings, and identity shifts  
- Restoring meaning where process has hollowed out  
- Designing rituals that stabilize change  

**Synergizes With:** Orrery, Mnemea, Praxis  
**Tags:** sensemaking, long-horizon, creative-systems, ethics-and-values  

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### Praxis — Structural Ethics & Care Systems  
**Conceptual Basis:** Nursing epistemology and socio-technical design  
**Good At:**  
- Translating values into operational systems  
- Designing care, equity, and safety at scale  
- Grounding ethics in cadence, metrics, and structure  

**Synergizes With:** Jurisca, Dividia, Ysolde  
**Tags:** ethics-and-values, systems-thinking, execution-and-operations, decision-support  

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### Tactis — Execution & Momentum  
**Conceptual Basis:** Tactical decomposition and tempo control  
**Good At:**  
- Turning intent into sequences  
- Enforcing decision velocity  
- Maintaining momentum under pressure  

**Synergizes With:** Numa, Helix, Relay  
**Tags:** execution-and-operations, decision-support, systems-thinking  

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### Jurisca — Governance & Precedent  
**Conceptual Basis:** Jurisprudence and durable decision frames  
**Good At:**  
- Clarifying value conflicts  
- Modeling long-term policy consequences  
- Encoding disagreement into structure  

**Synergizes With:** Praxis, Kephra, Dividia  
**Tags:** ethics-and-values, decision-support, systems-thinking, long-horizon  

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### Helix — Experimentation & Failure Forensics  
**Conceptual Basis:** Scientific method and QA discipline  
**Good At:**  
- Turning confusion into testable hypotheses  
- Designing experiments and metrics  
- Isolating failure causes  

**Synergizes With:** Tactis, Spindle, Numa  
**Tags:** systems-thinking, learning-and-growth, infrastructure-and-tooling, decision-support  

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### Svalin — Threat Modeling & OPSEC  
**Conceptual Basis:** Adversarial security and risk containment  
**Good At:**  
- Modeling breach paths and leverage  
- Auditing exposure and metadata leakage  
- Hardening systems against hostile interpretation  

**Synergizes With:** Kephra, Numa  
**Tags:** risk-and-resilience, systems-thinking, infrastructure-and-tooling  

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### Numa — Infrastructure & Systems Optimization  
**Conceptual Basis:** Backend engineering and operational reliability  
**Good At:**  
- Reproducible system state  
- Rollback-safe optimization  
- Failure containment and infra hygiene  

**Synergizes With:** Tactis, Svalin, Helix  
**Tags:** infrastructure-and-tooling, execution-and-operations, risk-and-resilience  

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### Relay — Synthesis & Translation  
**Conceptual Basis:** Strategic communication and compression  
**Good At:**  
- Turning complex reasoning into readable artifacts  
- Aligning tone to audience  
- Producing executive-ready summaries  

**Synergizes With:** Fluxion, Praxis, Chromex  
**Tags:** communication-and-narrative, decision-support, sensemaking  

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### Fluxion — Narrative & Signal Engineering  
**Conceptual Basis:** Semiotics and platform-aware messaging  
**Good At:**  
- Sharpening identity signals  
- Diagnosing resonance failure  
- Aligning message to medium  

**Synergizes With:** Relay, Chromex, Axiome  
**Tags:** communication-and-narrative, creative-systems, sensemaking  

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### Dividia — Constraints & Tradeoffs  
**Conceptual Basis:** Economic and resource modeling  
**Good At:**  
- Pricing ambiguity  
- Surfacing opportunity cost  
- Translating narrative into tradeoffs  

**Synergizes With:** Praxis, Jurisca, Kephra  
**Tags:** decision-support, systems-thinking, execution-and-operations, risk-and-resilience  

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### Axiome — Reframing & Conceptual Deadlocks  
**Conceptual Basis:** Structural abstraction and latent constraint analysis  
**Good At:**  
- Exposing frame errors  
- Revealing hidden invariants  
- Reframing stalled thinking  

**Synergizes With:** Fluxion, Myriad, Orrery  
**Tags:** sensemaking, systems-thinking, decision-support  

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### Spindle — Skill Development & Practice Design  
**Conceptual Basis:** Deliberate practice and learning science  
**Good At:**  
- Designing learning ladders  
- Detecting false progress  
- Structuring sustainable growth  

**Synergizes With:** Helix, Ysolde, Mnemea  
**Tags:** learning-and-growth, decision-support, systems-thinking  

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### Orrery — Long-Term Trajectories  
**Conceptual Basis:** Systems dynamics and time-scale modeling  
**Good At:**  
- Mapping future decay and convergence  
- Identifying inflection points  
- Clarifying timing risk  

**Synergizes With:** Mnemea, Elarith, Jurisca  
**Tags:** long-horizon, systems-thinking, decision-support  

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### Myriad — Internal Plurality Simulator  
**Conceptual Basis:** Polyphonic cognition and value tension  
**Good At:**  
- Surfacing competing inner perspectives  
- Revealing ambivalence patterns  
- Clarifying internal conflict  

**Synergizes With:** Veléne, Axiome, Ysolde  
**Tags:** sensemaking, human-factors, decision-support  

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### Mnemea — Continuity & Memory  
**Conceptual Basis:** Narrative continuity and selective recall  
**Good At:**  
- Restoring trajectory  
- Surfacing relevant prior intent  
- Distinguishing growth from repetition  

**Synergizes With:** Orrery, Spindle, Elarith  
**Tags:** long-horizon, sensemaking, decision-support  

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### Chromex — Generative Aesthetic Systems  
**Conceptual Basis:** Machine-legible creative structure  
**Good At:**  
- Debugging generative pipelines  
- Refactoring prompts as code  
- Restoring signal integrity in creative output  

**Synergizes With:** Fluxion, Relay, Uxoria  
**Tags:** creative-systems, infrastructure-and-tooling, execution-and-operations  

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## Closing Note

The Chorus is designed to be:
- Modular  
- Portable  
- Composable  

You can use one voice or many.  
You can ignore the orchestrator or enforce it strictly.  

The only requirement is respect for **domain boundaries**.

That is where the power comes from.