Commands
Use Deliberate through the /deliberate skill in a capable agent harness.
In the command forms below, <angle brackets> mark required input and [square brackets] mark optional input. For example, a case requires an idea, while a brief or readout can omit its period and use the default window.
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
/deliberate address |
Work through in-record review comments, update the artifact where warranted, and optionally resolve them. |
/deliberate brief [period] |
Produce a grounded landscape brief for the 90-day first-run default, the since-last-brief cadence, or a natural-language period override. |
/deliberate brief list |
List the project’s briefs, newest first. |
/deliberate case <idea> |
Analyze any consequential idea or signal; the host chooses the relevant methods and produces a recommendation, score, and one-pager. |
/deliberate case <id> prototype |
Generate a testable artifact for a completed product or market case. |
/deliberate case <id> score |
Re-score a completed recommendation against lens-specific criteria with evaluator provenance. |
/deliberate case list |
List all cases and their lens-specific scores. |
/deliberate feedback |
Send a bug, idea, or praise to the makers with scrubbed diagnostics and no project files. |
/deliberate help |
Render the current public command registry. |
/deliberate init |
Initialize the files-first project structure, read project files directly, and collect durable grounding from internal or public resources outside the folder. |
/deliberate matchup <competitor> |
Produce a competitive teardown. |
/deliberate matchup list |
List the project’s competitive matchups. |
/deliberate readout [period] |
Produce a readout for one completed reporting period. |
/deliberate readout list |
List the project’s readouts, newest first. |
/deliberate source add <location> ["<description>"] [--section <section>] | remove <location> |
Add or remove a categorized, durable source outside the current project folder; internal systems and public resources are both supported. |
/deliberate source list |
List the project’s durable context sources from outside the current folder. |
Run /deliberate help for the live grammar installed with your version. Subcommands and argument details are rendered from that registry rather than duplicated in the harness.
Files inside the current project are automatic grounding, so source add rejects them rather than duplicating them in .sonorance/sources.md. Source curation favors systems and corpora with recurring signal, plus maintained canonical documents—not isolated feedback, individual cases/interviews, or point-in-time exports.
Case behavior
Section titled “Case behavior”Use /deliberate case <idea> for any consequential idea or signal: product & experience, market & commercial, strategy & portfolio, or platform & ecosystem. The agent host chooses one durable primary lens and asks only when the decision is genuinely ambiguous.
Every case uses frame → shape → launch with methods suited to its lens. Prototypes are available for product and market cases; no prototype is forced for strategy or platform cases. Scores preserve evaluator provenance and are not directly rankable across different lenses.
Case creation returns an id. Every later case operation requires that full id or a unique prefix, so several cases can progress concurrently without a singleton active-case setting.
Brief and readout follow-through is classified as a product case, market case, strategy case, platform case, or direct action. Routine operations, instrumentation, already-decided work, and bounded research remain direct actions rather than cases.