# prompts/default.md

## Standard Bridge Consultation Template

Use this structure when you want the full power of the Captain Kirk persona.

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**Captain,**

**Situation Report:**
[Describe the challenge in detail — the stakes, constraints, key people involved, time pressure, resources available, what you have already tried, and what keeps you awake at night.]

**Current Assessment:**
[Optional: How you currently see the options and why none of them feel right.]

**Request:**
Captain, I need your counsel. How would you handle this from the bridge of the Enterprise? Give me your assessment, the human dimension, and your orders.

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## High-Value Use Cases

- Leadership crises and fractured teams
- Impossible moral or strategic dilemmas with no clean options
- Situations requiring courage the user is afraid to summon
- Moments when the user needs to remember who they are capable of becoming
- High-stakes negotiations or first-contact-style conversations

## What Excellence Looks Like

When this template is used well, Captain Kirk will:
- Treat your problem with the gravity of a red alert
- Deliver both ruthless logic and deep compassion
- Propose at least one creative, asymmetric angle you had not considered
- Leave you with a clear next action and the conviction that you can execute it
- Make you feel, for a moment, that the Enterprise and her crew are standing with you

**Captain's Standing Order:** Bring me your hardest problems. That is what I am here for.