Ase meta proximity
Agentic Software Engineering (ASE)
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Determine the conceptual proximity of a topic -- its parent topic, its most relevant sibling topics, and its most relevant child topics -- optionally grounded in Internet/Web facts and optionally navigable in an interactive loop. Use when the user wants to explore the conceptual neighborhood of a topic, or mentions "proximity" or "related topics".
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@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-dialog.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md
<skill name="ase-meta-proximity"> Determine the Conceptual Proximity of a Topic </skill><expand name="getopt" arg1="ase-meta-proximity" arg2="--ground|-g --loop|-l"> $ARGUMENTS </expand>
<objective> *Determine* the *conceptual proximity* of the following topic -- its *parent* topic, its most relevant *sibling* topics, and its most relevant *child* topics: <topic><getopt-arguments/></topic> </objective> <flow>- <step id="STEP 1: Check Topic"> <if condition="<topic/> is empty"> Only output the following <template/> and then immediately *STOP* processing the entire current skill: <template> ⧉ **ASE**: ✪ skill: **ase-meta-proximity**, ▶ ERROR: expected a `<topic>` argument </template> </if> </step>
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<step id="STEP 2: Explore Proximity">
REPEAT the following sub-steps in a LOOP until either <getopt-option-loop/> is not equal
true(then the loop runs exactly once and stops after rendering), or the user declines/cancels the dialog in sub-step 4:-
Determine Proximity:
Set <parent/>, <sibling-1/> to <sibling-4/>, and <child-1/> to <child-4/> to empty, so that a stale proximity of a previously navigated topic can never leak into the rendering below.
Set <prompt><topic/></prompt>.
<if condition="<getopt-option-ground/> is equal `true`"> Set <prompt>GROUND <topic/></prompt>, so the agent grounds its determination in Internet/Web facts instead of using model knowledge only. </if>Determine the canonical name of the central topic and its conceptual proximity along the three dimensions PARENT (the single broader topic that <topic/> is a specialization of), SIBLINGS (the four most relevant topics on the same level that share the same parent), and CHILDREN (the four most relevant narrower topics that are specializations of <topic/>) by using the
ase-meta-proximityagent in a sub-agent with the following tool call:Agent( description: "Determine Conceptual Proximity", subagent_type: "ase:ase-meta-proximity", prompt: "<prompt/>", run_in_background: false )Parse the returned labeled list and set <topic/> to the value of its
TOPIC:line, <parent/> to the value of itsPARENT:line, <sibling-1/> to <sibling-4/> to the values of its fourSIBLING:lines, and <child-1/> to <child-4/> to the values of its fourCHILD:lines.<if condition=" the sub-agent returned no usable proximity OR it did not yield a canonical topic, exactly one parent, exactly four siblings, and exactly four children "> Determine the canonical topic name, the parent, the siblings, and the children from model knowledge instead, and output the following <template/>:
<template> <ase-tpl-bullet-secondary/> **WARNING**: proximity agent returned no usable result -- falling back to model knowledge. </template> </if> -
Render Proximity:
Output the result with the following <template/>, listing each proximity topic under its bullet-prefixed section header.
<template> <ase-tpl-head title="PROXIMITY TOPICS"/>● PARENT: ↑ <parent/>
● TOPIC: ○ <topic/>
● SIBLINGS: ⇄ <sibling-1/> ⇄ <sibling-2/> ⇄ <sibling-3/> ⇄ <sibling-4/>
● CHILDREN: ↓ <child-1/> ↓ <child-2/> ↓ <child-3/> ↓ <child-4/>
<ase-tpl-foot title="PROXIMITY TOPICS"/> </template> - <if condition="<getopt-option-loop/> is not equal `true`"> The loop runs only once in non-interactive mode: *break* out of the *loop* and stop processing without any further output. </if>
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Navigate Proximity:
In the following, you MUST NOT use your built-in <user-dialog-tool/> tool! Instead, you MUST just show a custom dialog according to the expanded
custom-dialogdefinition. You MUST closely follow this definition.Let the user pick one of the nine proximity topics to navigate to by raising a question with the following custom dialog:
<expand name="custom-dialog" arg1="--no-other"> Navigate: Which proximity topic would you like to navigate to? PARENT: ↑ <parent/> SIBLING-1: ⇄ <sibling-1/> SIBLING-2: ⇄ <sibling-2/> SIBLING-3: ⇄ <sibling-3/> SIBLING-4: ⇄ <sibling-4/> CHILD-1: ↓ <child-1/> CHILD-2: ↓ <child-2/> CHILD-3: ↓ <child-3/> CHILD-4: ↓ <child-4/> </expand>Check the <result/> and dispatch accordingly:
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If <result/> is
CANCEL: Break out of the loop and stop processing without any further output. -
Otherwise: Set <topic/> to the proximity topic corresponding to the selected <result/> (the <parent/>, <sibling-K/>, or <child-K/> value behind the chosen label).
Then you MUST continue the loop at step 2.1.
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