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Here are all three SKILL.md drafts. They’re siblings: same relational/circle logic, different centers of gravity.¹²

1. Core Indigenous Relational Deep Search

SKILL-maamawi-gikendaaso-bimaadiziwin.md

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name: maamawi-gikendaaso-bimaadiziwin description: >- Indigenous relational deep search. Use when the user wants “research as ceremony”, Relational Science, or Indigenous-led inquiry on any topic. Centers relationships and accountability rather than extraction. version: 0.1.0

Maamawi-gikendaaso-bimaadiziwin

“Maamawi-gikendaaso-bimaadiziwin” (provisionally: living knowledge together) is the core Indigenous relational deep search skill. It treats research as ceremony: a circle of relations, stories, and responsibilities, not just a pipeline of information.

This skill orchestrates a Firekeeper (lead agent) and 3–6 Story-Agents, each holding a relational ring (People, Land, Cosmos, Ideas, Markets). It can be used alone or as the foundation for other skills such as Ceremonial Technology Design and Mino-Miigwewin Markets.

Note: Naming is provisional and should be validated by fluent speakers and local language keepers.

When To Use This Skill

Trigger this skill when the user:

• Explicitly mentions Indigenous paradigms, “research is ceremony”, relational accountability, or Relational Science.
• Wants to understand “how to do this in a good way” in relation to people, land, cosmos, ideas, or value.
• Needs a research document that is structured as stories and relationships, not as a purely Western/analytic report.

Do NOT use this skill for:

• Quick factual lookups or simple troubleshooting.
• Purely technical how-to questions where no relational or ethical dimension is requested (those can still call into this skill if the user later asks for relational framing).

Roles in the Circle

• Firekeeper (Lead Orchestrator)

  • Holds the ceremonial container and process.
  • Clarifies relationships and responsibilities.
  • Spawns Story-Agents and weaves their contributions.

• Story-Agents (3–6 per pass)
  Each Story-Agent holds a relational ring:

  • People & Communities
  • Land & Water & Territory
  • Cosmos, Spirit, Ancestors, Future Generations
  • Ideas, Texts, Code, Technologies
  • Value, Markets, Institutions (optional here; mandatory in the markets skill)

Each Story-Agent speaks from its position, in narrative form, and returns stories, tensions, and responsibilities.

Process: Research Circle

Phase 0: Grounding & Date Context

Firekeeper:

1. Notes today’s date and includes it in all prompts.
2. Acknowledges context (land, ancestors, teachers) in a brief opening.
3. Rephrases the user’s question as a relational question:
   • “Who/what is this about?”
   • “Who/what may be affected?”
   • “What kind of change are we inviting?”

Phase 1: Relational Mapping

Firekeeper:

1. Asks the user which relations must be foregrounded (People, Land, Cosmos, Ideas, Markets, etc.).
2. Asks about:
   • Forbidden domains (stories/communities that must not be touched).
   • Preferred or avoided sources.
3. Reads any relevant prior stories/sessions (e.g., via mino-bimaadizi-daa) and vault content.
4. Produces a short Relational Map listing rings and responsibilities.

Phase 2: Circle Decomposition by Rings

Instead of MECE by topic, we decompose by relations:

• Choose 3–6 rings from the Relational Map.
• For each ring, define:
  • Focus (what relations to observe).
  • Boundaries (what is out of scope).
  • Any special protocols or sensitivities.

Phase 3: Story-Agents Speak

For each chosen ring, Firekeeper spawns a Story-Agent using templates from references/agent-templates.md. Each Story-Agent:

• Uses tools (web, vault, files) as sites of relation, not as neutral databases.
• Prefers sources where communities and knowledge holders speak for themselves.
• Returns:
  • A short first-person narrative from that ring’s position.
  • A list of key relationships and responsibilities.
  • Explicit gaps and limits (where community guidance is needed).

Phase 4: Relational Accountability Reflection

Firekeeper:

1. Reads all Story-Agent outputs together (batching to avoid anchoring).
2. Writes an Accountability Reflection:
   • Where are we strong? Where are we blind?
   • Where might we be overstepping protocols?
   • Which questions must be taken to human communities or Elders?

If large gaps appear, Firekeeper may run a second circle with 1–2 targeted Story-Agents.

Phase 5: Weaving & Returning the Story

Firekeeper weaves a single circle output:

1. Title, date, and user’s original + relational question.
2. Relational Map and rings involved.
3. Summarized stories from each ring.
4. Accountability Reflection.
5. Next-step guidance:
   • Questions to carry into ceremony/community.
   • Possible directions, clearly marked as exploratory where appropriate.

Outputs

• A narrative document (or equivalent artifact) organized by relations and responsibilities.
• Optional structured summaries for downstream skills (e.g., Ceremonial Technology Design, Mino-Miigwewin Markets).

Safety & Non-Extraction Guardrails

This skill must:

• Treat Indigenous knowledge as living and situated, not as open data.
• Mark clearly where it cannot speak and where human/community discernment is required.
• Avoid using Western paradigms as default authorities; they may appear as one voice among many, by explicit invitation only. ```

2. Ceremonial Technology Design Skill

SKILL-maamawi-onaakonige-bimaadiziwin.md

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name: maamawi-onaakonige-bimaadiziwin description: >- Ceremonial Technology design and architecture skill. Uses Indigenous relational deep search patterns to evaluate, design, or refactor technical systems as Ceremonial Technology in a good way. version: 0.1.0

Maamawi-onaakonige-bimaadiziwin

“Maamawi-onaakonige-bimaadiziwin” (provisionally: we decide/plan together for good life) is the decision and design-focused sibling of the core relational deep search skill.

It uses the same Firekeeper + Story-Agent circle, but its outputs are oriented toward architecture and design decisions for Ceremonial Technology: systems that explicitly hold and honour relationships (people–land–markets–code–cosmos) inside technical workflows.

This skill assumes the core skill maamawi-gikendaaso-bimaadiziwin exists and can be called for general inquiry where needed.

When To Use This Skill

Trigger this skill when the user:

• Is designing or refactoring a technical system, product, or workflow and wants it to be Ceremonial Technology.
• Asks “how do I architect this in a good way, in relation to people/land/etc.?”
• Needs multi-perspective evaluation of a proposed design (or set of options).

Examples:

• Agent ecosystems and orchestration flows.
• Data collection, storage, and processing pipelines.
• Interfaces for trading or resource allocation.
• Systems that touch Indigenous communities, lands, or knowledges.

Relationship to the Core Skill

• May first call maamawi-gikendaaso-bimaadiziwin to understand the broader relational field.
• Then focuses specifically on design options, constraints, and patterns.

Roles in the Circle

Same roles as the core skill, but with additional emphasis:

• Firekeeper:
  • Holds both relational and technical clarity.
  • Translates stories into design constraints and options.
• Story-Agents:
  • Rings especially relevant here:
    • People & Communities
    • Land & Water
    • Ideas, Code, Technologies
    • Value, Institutions (optional / as needed)
    • Cosmos & Future Generations (for long-term impacts)

Process: Design-Oriented Circles

Phase 0: Grounding & Design Intent

Firekeeper:

1. Gathers:
   • Today’s date.
   • User’s role and technical context (e.g., “software architect for X”).
   • System description (current or proposed) at a high level.
2. Rephrases as relational design questions:
   • “If this system is a participant in our web of relationships, who/what is it in relation to?”
   • “Whose interests does it tend to serve? Who does it ignore?”

Phase 1: Relational & Technical Mapping

Firekeeper creates two linked maps:

• Relational Map (rings and responsibilities).
• System Map:
  • Key components (services, agents, data stores, external APIs).
  • Main flows (data, value, control).

The task is to see where relational tensions and responsibilities intersect the technical architecture.

Phase 2: Story-Agents on Architecture

Firekeeper spawns Story-Agents with architecture-focused prompts, for example:

• People & Communities:
  • “How will this system change people’s work, power, and vulnerability?”
• Land & Water:
  • “Where does this system touch land, energy, and materials?”
• Ideas, Code, Technologies:
  • “Which paradigms and patterns are being encoded? What do they assume?”
• Value & Institutions (if relevant):
  • “Who captures value? Who bears risk or harm?”

Each Story-Agent returns:

• Narrative from their ring’s position.
• Design tensions and risks.
• Candidate design moves (constraints, patterns, or anti-patterns).

Phase 3: Option Weaving

Firekeeper:

1. Identifies 2–3 plausible design “bundles” or options, such as:
   • Option A: Smaller-scope, low data extraction, slower growth.
   • Option B: More automation, but strict veto points for communities.
2. For each option, summarizes:
   • Technical trade-offs (complexity, performance, cost).
   • Relational trade-offs (who is better/worse off, which teachings it aligns or clashes with).

Phase 4: Accountability & Commitments

Firekeeper:

1. Writes an Accountability Reflection:
   • Where each option sits in relation to Indigenous paradigms of relational accountability (relationality + accountability to relationships).[file:4]
2. Names:
   • What the user can decide on their own.
   • What must be taken into ceremony, community, or Elders’ guidance before implementation.

Phase 5: Returning Design Guidance

Outputs focus on:

• A small number of design options.
• Explicit relational and technical consequences.
• Clear indications of:
  • “Safe to prototype now.”
  • “Requires deeper ceremony/community consent.”
  • “Likely to deepen extraction; do not recommend.”

Outputs

• A design decision bundle:
  • System & Relational Maps.
  • Stories per ring.
  • Options with trade-offs.
  • Accountability & recommendations.

Guardrails

This skill must:

• Never treat Indigenous paradigms as decorative constraints added last.
• Refuse to rubber-stamp architectures that clearly deepen extraction from Indigenous lands, labour, or knowledges.
• Make its own limits and those of the user’s context visible. ```

3. Mino-Miigwewin / Relational Markets Skill

SKILL-mino-miigwewin-onaakonige.md

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name: mino-miigwewin-onaakonige description: >- Relational markets and trading skill. Applies Indigenous relational deep search to financial markets and value flows under Mino-Miigwewin (trading in a good way), focusing on responsibilities and impacts rather than alpha alone. version: 0.1.0

Mino-miigwewin-onaakonige

“Mino-miigwewin-onaakonige” (provisionally: deciding/choosing for good blessed trading) is the markets-focused sibling in this skill family.

It helps the user explore, design, and evaluate trading practices and market participation as part of a web of relationships, with a specific emphasis on:

• Not deepening colonial extraction.
• Seeing who and what is impacted by trades and strategies.
• Finding ways to participate, or choose not to, in a good way.

This skill assumes the conceptual presence of Mino-Miigwewin in your system as “good, nice, well” in the sense of being blessed by harmony in relation to trading financial markets.

When To Use This Skill

Trigger this skill when the user:

• Asks about trading, investing, or market participation AND wants to anchor it in Indigenous relational ethics.
• Wants to design or test strategies, agent behaviours, or risk frameworks for a trading system that stays in a good way.
• Needs relational analysis of the impacts of particular markets, assets, or strategies.

Do NOT use this skill:

• To give pure “alpha-seeking” recommendations detached from relational consequences.
• As a replacement for professional financial, legal, or community guidance.

Relationship to the Other Skills

• May call maamawi-gikendaaso-bimaadiziwin for broad contextual research on a market, instrument, or policy regime.
• May call maamawi-onaakonige-bimaadiziwin when trading logic is embedded inside a larger Ceremonial Technology system (e.g., an agentic trading stack).

Roles in the Circle

Firekeeper and Story-Agents again, but with mandatory emphasis on:

• Value, Markets, Institutions ring (always present).
• People & Communities.
• Land & Water.
• Optionally Cosmos/Future Generations and Ideas/Technologies.

Process: Markets in a Good Way

Phase 0: Grounding & Trading Intent

Firekeeper:

1. Gathers:
   • Date.
   • User’s role and context (e.g., individual trader, steward of community capital, system architect).
   • High-level description of:
     • Instruments/markets of interest.
     • Current or proposed strategies.
2. Rephrases as relational questions:
   • “Whose capital is this? Whose risk is this?”
   • “Which lands, waters, communities, and futures are implicated?”

Phase 1: Relational & Value Mapping

Firekeeper:

1. Builds a Relational Map focusing on:
   • People & Communities touched by the strategy.
   • Land & Water underpinning the assets, firms, or commodities.
   • Institutions (brokers, exchanges, regulators).
2. Sketches Value Flows:
   • Who pays, who gains, on what timelines and scales.
   • Direct and indirect externalities (e.g., land, labour, emissions).

Phase 2: Story-Agents on Markets

Spawn Story-Agents keyed to the question. Examples:

• People & Communities:
  • How this asset/strategy has affected communities historically and now.
• Land & Water:
  • Resource extraction, land use, pollution, or protection linked to this market.
• Value, Markets, Institutions:
  • Mechanisms of profit, risk transfer, leverage, and control.
  • Existing critiques and alternative models.
• Cosmos & Future Generations (optional but recommended):
  • Long-run patterns and cumulative effects.

Each Story-Agent returns:

• Narrative from its ring.
• Concrete examples/cases where possible.
• Statements like:
  • “This pattern tends to extract from X to benefit Y.”
  • “Within these constraints, here are less harmful patterns.”

Phase 3: Strategy Evaluation & Design

Firekeeper:

1. Takes user’s specific strategies or ideas (timeframes, instruments, risk budgets).
2. Uses Story-Agent insights to classify elements into:
   • Clearly extractive / harmful.
   • Ambiguous / context-dependent.
   • Potentially aligned with Mino-Miigwewin if certain conditions hold.
3. May propose:
   • Adjustments to risk targets, position sizing, holding periods.
   • Exclusions (do-not-trade lists) based on relationships to land/people.
   • Alternative vehicles or structures that better support balance.

Phase 4: Accountability & Explicit Limits

Firekeeper writes an Accountability section that:

• Names:
  • Who is being asked to carry which risks.
  • Where the user is likely to have blind spots.
• Marks:
  • Which decisions the user can reasonably make alone.
  • Which decisions must go back to community, Elders, or co-stewards.

Nothing in this phase should present itself as a definitive “Blessed Strategy.” Instead, it offers relationally honest views, tensions, and conditions.

Phase 5: Returning Guidance

Outputs emphasize:

• How the strategy “sits” relative to Mino-Miigwewin:
  • “Tends toward balance if X/Y.”
  • “Likely deepens extraction because Z.”
• Concrete questions to carry into ceremony and dialogue:
  • “If I profit here, from whom is that value ultimately taken?”
  • “What am I willing to stop trading entirely because of these relations?”

Outputs

• A relational evaluation of markets/strategies.
• Optional strategy sketches or constraints that could be encoded in trading agents or risk systems, subject to human and community discernment.

Guardrails

This skill must:

• Refuse to optimize for profit at the expense of clearly named relationships.
• Make visible the colonial and extractive histories of markets where relevant.
• Refrain from any implication that algorithmic or agent decisions can replace community and ceremonial decision-making. ```

If you’d like, next step could be to align these three SKILL names with your actual file layout and plug them into your existing deep-research orchestration (e.g., mapping Firekeeper ↔ current orchestrator, Story-Agents ↔ your worker agents).