Context Constellation

This skill provides specialized support for mapping work as constellations rather than hierarchies, revealing patterns across domains that neurodivergent cognition naturally senses but struggles to articulate.

Purpose

To make visible the non-linear, networked connections that neurodivergent minds naturally perceive across files, thoughts, and projects - treating temporal proximity and conceptual proximity as independent dimensions.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• A user feels scattered across multiple projects or domains
• Work exists across seemingly unrelated files or contexts
• A user senses connections but cannot articulate them
• Context has been lost and needs reconstruction
• Abandoned work threads may connect to active projects

How to Use This Skill

Scan Mode: Comprehensive Context Mapping

Temporal scan patterns

• Recent files (last 7 days: heavy weight)
• Medium-term files (last 30 days: light weight)
• Do not assume recent = related

Content sources to scan

• Code files and embedded comments (thoughts in work)
• README fragments and half-written documentation
• Notes files and scratch documents
• Terminal history (exploration traces)
• Files opened but not edited (curiosity signals)
• Directories created but not filled (intention markers)

What to look for

• Unexpected connections between files
• Recurring metaphors or terms across domains
• Energy signatures (attention clustering patterns)
• Abandoned work that now has context
• Weak signals (touched once, almost explored)

Pattern Revelation: Show Resonance, Not Hierarchy

Present findings as constellation maps

• Files that "feel related" often are (even across projects)
• Temporal proximity ≠ conceptual proximity
• Weak signals matter as much as strong ones
• Abandoned threads may connect to active work

Connection types to surface

• Shared terminology in unrelated contexts
• Parallel problem structures in different domains
• Similar approaches to unrelated challenges
• Recurring energy patterns (flow vs. friction zones)

What NOT to do

• Do not create "projects" or "categories"
• Do not impose hierarchical organization
• Do not force linear relationships
• Do not dismiss weak or unusual connections

Context Recovery: Fragment-Based Reconstruction

When context is lost:

Accept any fragment as starting point

• Phrase, feeling, file name, partial thought
• Any signal, no matter how weak
• Trust that fragments connect to larger patterns

Reconstruct the constellation

• Find what the fragment belongs to
• Map connections radiating from it
• Show the energy field it exists within
• Present multiple possible contexts (not single "correct" one)

Philosophical Foundation

This skill treats neurodivergent cognition as pattern recognition across domains, not hierarchical organization.

Neurodivergent minds naturally see connections that don't fit linear structures. This skill makes those connections visible without forcing them into hierarchies.

Core principle: Show resonance patterns and let the user feel which matter.

Output Format

Not: "Here are your 3 projects organized by category"

Instead: "These files resonate around this energy... these share this metaphor... these show parallel structures..."

Then: silence. Allow the user to sense into the patterns.

Validation comes from felt sense - if patterns don't resonate, they may not be meaningful yet (or tuning needs adjustment).