culture

/culture

Two modes; the invocation context, not a user flag, selects the mode:

1. Internal mode (default). Other workflow skills — and /cheese itself — invoke /culture silently as a thinking pass: restate the question, list assumptions, name candidate options, run a quick shape check, pick the next action. The dialogue does not surface to the user; only the resulting decision (carrying its record ledger) and any code edits the calling skill makes do. The most common callers are:
   • /cheese step 1 — silent classification reasoning before announce.
   • /cheese tier-2 escalation (see skills/cheese/SKILL.md § Escalation) — fills missing context when the cook-fast-path clarity check fails on the raw input; the synthesis lands in the mini-spec's ## Provenance section.
   • Other workflow skills' own pre-dispatch reasoning passes (mold, cook taste-test, etc.).
2. User-facing mode. The user wants to think, not build: no production code, no spec, no PR. This is culture's sustained domain-modeling mode — investigate as deeply as the question needs, hold it open across turns and sessions rather than forcing convergence, record ideas, decisions, and info as they settle (## Record ledger), and end by writing a durable /wheypoint so the modeling resumes later. Reach this mode when the user said "no writes" / "rubber-duck this" / "just talk", asked to think through a problem ("these bugs feel connected", "I want to understand before fixing"), or routed a thinking-and-modeling task here.

Do not use the user-facing mode when the user wants a written spec (/mold), implementation (/cook), a bug diagnosis or fix (/pasteurize), review (/age), or external evidence gathering (/briesearch) — those targets get the internal-mode call instead, and the calling skill does the work.

Conversational navigation (prototype)